Straight from the presses of TVGuide.com:

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled weekend activities to bring you this urgent public service announcement: She'll be back!

Allthough Fox declined comment, multiple sources confirm to me exclusively that Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles has been renewed for a second season.

You may now resume your regularly-scheduled weekend activities.

This is GOOD!

Gotta love it when you spend hours and hours troubleshooting a program... One machine works absolutely perfectly, the other machine works absolutely not at all, and the differences are negligible. One person works and works and works... You work and work and work... You start delving deep into the program's code and underlying functions, tweaking and debugging and dumping variables to see what's wrong... Nothing seems to work! There is nothing different! Nothing you can think of... Nothing, that is, until one of you gets the brilliant idea to copy one file... One single little file? Copy it from the working system to the broken system... And then it all works perfectly.

One file. One minute of transferring? After hours and hours of work... One file fixes it all.

I feel really stupid now. I really should have seen it sooner.

Let this be a warning...

I do not approve of people asking me to do something for them when I haven't spoken to them in weeks or month (or sometimes even years). There's just something that really bugs me when someone I haven't seen for a while , whether by choice or otherwise, suddenly pops up and wants something. They're not interested in talking, they just want me to do something for them. It's especially bothersome when these people are those who claim they care about my well-being, but haven't seemed to notice that I don't visit the usual gathering spots anymore, and then show up with one thing in mind: Not to ask me how I'm doing or what I've been up to, but to get me to do something for them.

I'm not trying to put the guilt trip on anyone. I really don't care that some people don't talk to me anymore. Sometimes, I choose not to talk to them anymore, either. To be frank, a lot of these people haven't proven themselves to be good friends, either. More like acquaintances... Just random people I know online with next to no background on them. Really, that's fine... But don't pretend to care about my friendship just so you can use my skills or connections. I really, REALLY don't appreciate it, and I really, REALLY don't appreciate it when you ask me how I'm doing and then roll into a "say, can you..." before I can answer.

Why, yes... That's happened before.

And then there's the people who repeatedly don't do anything but ask me to contact someone.

Bottom line? If you haven't seen me for a long time, and the only time you thought of me was when you remembered I could do something? Do not start the conversation by asking for a favor. I will tell you right now that my answer will be a flat out "no", unless you're a really good friend of mine who I trust completely to not be a fair-weather friend. And please, don't try to mask your wish for a favor by asking me how things are going, and then dumping a prepared speech about what you want done. And I'm going to say right now that anyone I don't consider a best friend and hasn't spoken to me for that long is going to be treated very suspiciously. I'm sorry, but them's the breaks!

To be even more blunt, let's put it this way: Anyone who hasn't talked to me more than once or twice in a month (as can be easily determined by instant messenger logs)? Don't ask me to do anything. At least, not straight-away. That's just tacky and disappointing. The people I care about, and the people who care about me, are going to communicate with me far, far more than once or twice a month? Don't you dare consider yourself part of this group... I enjoy helping my friends. I hope those I consider a friend know I consider them a friend, and know that they're excluded. I guess if you have any doubt, then you can ask me... And I'll tell you. Ohhh, yes. I'll tell you. When have I ever been one to disguise the truth, even if it hurts? (As evidenced with the whole Uru debacle... My, my, look at all the people listing off things that should have been different after they flamed me to Kingdom Come when Uru actually mattered.)