Symbolic Forest

The previous post in this series is here.

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Keyword noise: computers, coding, programming, history, chewing gum, slide rule, mathematics, calculations, Newton's Method, Newton-Raphson Method.

I seem to have got the stupid thing working sort-of reliably now, by unplugging the old Windows hard disk completely. Well, I hardly ever used it. It’s not crashed at all since I did that.

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Keyword noise: computers, television, Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest.

Well, it’s still broken. Sort of. I managed to get it running again most of the time—I’m not sure really how—but every so often the disk drive starts making nasty clonking noises and the whole thing just freezes. Actually, it did The Noises just then, but for some reason kept on working.

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Keyword noise: Edinburgh, computers, television, Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest.

So, the computer has broken. The bastard. I won’t be writing much until I manage to get it fixed, which will probably take a couple of weeks at least. I managed this by persuading a friend to let me use his machine.

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Keyword noise: computers.