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Today has not been my day for technology.

1. I am still trying to get Chromium OS to work on my Eee. I haven't given up still, but I have decided that the next thing to try is compiling it by hand, and I want to use my real computer (which is at school) to do that. I determined which drivers/firmware I need by scouring the internet, and compiled/copied (resp.) them, but chrome refuses to recognize them no matter what I do.
2. Noah's Eee was out of disk space, so I guided him through uninstalling a few things in Synaptic. Then I upgraded, which hadn't happened in a long time (due to the full disk), so took forever. There were some error messages that I couldn't decipher, and then programs wouldn't open, so I advised that he reboot. Now every time he tries to boot he gets a kernel panic. I'm going to have to reinstall Ubuntu I guess.
3. I downloaded Inglourious Basterds and decided, as I perennially do, that I wanted to watch it on the television, with the Windows Media Center Extender that we have. The extender has like no codecs except a WMV codec that only works for this one video. I decided to transcode Inglourious Basterds with VLC to WMV format. It took painfully long and I had to do it twice (first time aspect ratio was way off), all the while checking on it every fifteen minutes or so so I could postpone the Windows Update reboot thing (I was doing this on Dad's computer because the file was already there and it only has USB 1.0, so takes forever to copy to a flash drive) (also this is XP, so there's no "tell me again tomorrow" option). Still won't play on the extender. I've given up.
4. Google's fancy new navigation system is available for my phone now, supposedly, and I was excited about this, so I tried to download it yesterday. It failed with some cryptic error message about it being an unsigned package. I scoured the internet for solutions, and tried nearly everything. Everything I've tried has failed for one reason or another (I'll spare y'all the details). And now the un-upgraded and un-uninstallable Google Maps application keeps locking up the entire phone, making it (the phone) basically unusable.

Let's not even talk about the saga of pain and frustration that has resulted from my trying to convert Matthew Kaney to Google Apps email. It's involved complex interactions between four different Google/Google Apps accounts.

I sure hope I haven't lost The Knack.