What Technology I've been sleeping with lately

Everyone who knows me, knows that sometimes I like to sleep with electronic devices. Lately, I've been sleeping with this surge protector. I don't know very much about it. I haven't plugged it in. I imagine it would give me better surge protection than my existing surge protector (Which is about 16 years old)

Sadly, in order to use it. I would have to stop sleeping with it. If I stop sleeping with my surge protector, who will keep me from being lonely at night? :)

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Harder Bodies (Male Single version)

There's something about this video I like. I just can't put my finger on what it is.

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Sick day.....

The author is sick today.  All the expected posts for today have been cancelled.

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Conflicting views

I caught two articles from the Edmonton Journal in my RSS feed reader this morning.  The articles themselves are not very interesting.  I find it amusing that two articles posted at exactly the same time say opposite things about presumably the same event.

The second article has more details, so I'm going to guess that it's the more accurate one.  The first article was likely hastiely made with a catchy headline to grab readers.  Neither article is really worth reading.  Why would they be speculating about the cause of the fire before the police even got a chance to investigate it?  CHECK YOUR FACTS!  No more sensational bullshit.  The news is trying imply that growing pot will make your house light on fire and kill you.

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Content?!

Yes, I do on occassion write things in this blog.  Unfortunately, I have nothing to write about.  It looks like I'm just going to have to fake it.

Nope...


Not going to work.

Read this if you're bored.

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Saturday Link Round up!

Instead of creating some actual content, I'm just going to link to other articles that I thought were cool.  That way I don't need to ever even produce anything.

DirecTV Contractor Demands Tip Before Starting Work, Storms Out When Faced With A Table
Whenever I read this title, I burst out laughing. The story really is that funny. Next time someone comes to your house, make sure to remove all your tables!!

Ticketmaster Charges 168% Of 3 Doors Down Ticket Price In Fees
Ticketmaster Always makes me really angry. It's not like I'm cheap or anything, it's just that I'd prefer it if they'd tell me what exactly the price is. I don't mind paying 3 thousand dollars for a concert ticket. (If that seems like a reasonable price.) Just tell me the price up front! Don't say the ticket is only $5 and then $2995 service fees!

In this case they're complaining that the ticket price is $5 and then the Ticket Master Fees make the ticket much more expensive. A little bit sly, isn't it?

Alone in the Dark Delayed Until June | Game | Life from Wired.com

Sadness. I'm really looking forward to this game, but I realise that delays happen all the time. I'd rather the game was delayed for a very long time. If it meant that the game was very polished. The tech demo looks promising. I look forward Alone in the Dark. It looks very innovative (contrary to most EA titles) June isn't that far away anyway, and it's probably right around the time of year when I'll be looking for something to play.

Doctors never seem to be able to decide on what is and isn't healthy. The common myth that you needed to drink 8 glasses a day and the myth that Coffee is unhealthy for you have both been disproved.  I hope that one day the doctors will be able to decide what is and isn't healthy.


Evangelion is really cool. Wired takes a look back at the trends the series has caused.  They recently released a remake movie in japan.  I can't wait to see it hit state side.

DVICE: Cup PC concept is a bit too high-tech Hi-tech coffee cup. You spill it onto the table to get your display. You pour it into another person's cup to exchange data. I want one. Too bad It's probably impossible with today's technology.

This interview with Ken Levine talks about System Shock 2 and how it was made. Apparently SS2 would have been pretty much exactly the same game without the SS licence. Atleast it wouldn't be a complete and utter rip off of about 7 other games like BioShock is.

That's all I have for today.  Hopefully it can tide everyone over until I find some real content to post.

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic The Sith Lords

I can finally play it.

After the 3 year wait to play it I finally have a computer that will run it.  I've had a computer capable for over 2.5 years, but it's been a bunch of really silly bugs that have been preventing me from playing the game.

The initial problem was that I did not have access to a computer capable of running KOTOR:TSL at a consistent frame rate.  My computer at the time was an aging P4 with an MX440 graphics card, which wasn't really suitable for anything really.  (I did manage to play half-life 2 on it, which amazed me.)  So I just didn't care.  KOTOR didn't exist if I couldn't play it.

Then a few months later, I got a new computer with a graphics card, processor, and the right amount of ram to run Kotor.  I tried to run the game, and I got a frame rate that was even worse than what I got with my old computer.  How peculiar! (I later found out that there was a bug in the NVIDIA drivers that causes this.)

So, once again, KOTOR didn't exist to me.  Now, I have a new computer.  It's much much faster than my old one.  Strangely enough, this one wont' run the game either.  I think the graphics card driver is the culprit again.  Either that or Windows Vista doesn't like it very much.  I think it's a bit of both.  I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, but I believe Auroa Engine which Powers KOTOR and KOTOR2 uses openGL.  I get random corruption all over the screen.  I got sad, because I wouldn't be able to play this ancient game.

Then I had thought.  "Woudln't it run perfectly fine on Linux?"  Since OpenGL works great in linux.  So I decided to fire up WINE and see how it works.  In order to install it I had to download a PlayOnLinux which is a gui for configuring and installing software in wine.  I got everything installed and was about to play to experience KOTOR, until, the game crashed as soon as I started it.  For some reason WINE didn't like my graphics card either.

The Solution to this problem was a lot simpler than I thought it would be.   When I installed my graphics card drivers, I only installed the 64bit drivers.  Wine is a 32bit program, so it could not use the 64 bit drivers.  I installed the 32bit compadability drivers and WINE works perfectly now.

It's ironic when games are more compatible with WINE than Vista isn't it? (Even if the real culprit may actually be NVIDIA)

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With great appologises.....

There is no blog entry today :(

I hope you all send me nasty comments.

I got a Haircut, but I guess since I don't have pictures it never happened.  Damn rules of the internet!

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Tha Intranet!

Internet!

I love this video. It was orginally posted a few years ago on Google Video back before they bought out Youtube. It's hillarious when they explain emoticons. However, I remember when I first started using the internet as a little boy, the concepts of emoticons were completely foreign to me. I had to ask someone what "lol" or "" meant.

$200 seems very cheap! That's less than $10 a month. (Compared to the $40+ that most ISPs charge. I wonder if that fee is just for basic access or it's what the average user actually paid? I remember back in those days, most ISPs would charge per an hour. So you'd be paying like $10 or so a month but you'd only get a few free hours, once you went over that you were screwed and the ISP started gouging you to use their pipe.

So maybe paying over forty dollars for "unlimited" internet is cheaper. I put unlimited in quotations, because although they sell it as unlimited, there are hidden arbitrary limits and hidden throttling. Once you download or upload more than a certain amount of bits, ISPs may charge you extra or drop your service all together. Certain ISPs are starting to slow down traffic that they don't want on their network. Doesn't sound very "unlimited" to me.

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REGULAR CONTENT!!!

Believe it or not, I'm doing more than one update in two days.  Exciting?

I subscribe to about a million feeds.  Quickly glance at everything.  If something is interesting I bookmark it.  Flock automatically uploads it to del.ico.us.  I read all my bookmarks and then I write a, hopefully, interesting blog post for about 1 person to read.  Quite the exciting method.

Supermarket 2.0

This video is really funny. If you get all the web 2.0 humour.  It's funny to take something like the web 2.0 world and apply it to a groccery store, where everything is free, as long as you take the cookie.

Driver fee would help fight warming

This is an intersting article.  I don't really think that making people pay more money to polute is really going to help the environment.  Really it makes things more expensive rather than promoting more environmentally friendly ways.  I imagine it'll help to raise a lot of money so that when the government is willing to actually try and fight environmental damage .

Creepy Meth Video via Queerty

Wow, this video is scary.  Don't do meth.

It's a little bit sad but apparently DDos Packets are 2% of Net Traffic, According to a report by Arbor networks.  The article brings up the idea that unsavory nations may be planning a cyber attack on north america.  I wonder if that would really be possible?

Radiohead wants you to Remix their new single All the stems of their latest single are avaliable to be purchased on itunes. Each stem costs $1 each, meaning remixers will have to pay $5 for the entire song. Users get to vote on what they think the best remix is. I'm not sure what the prize for the best song is. Maybe it's fame on the internet? Who knows. I imagine radiohead will make millions on this single.

Super Smash Bros. Anime

Cute. That's all I have to say for this one.

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Haruhi Videos

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"My fucking cheese won't fit in my ziplock" - Lila Klassen

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Browser Based World

I'm writing this blog within the blog editor built into Flock.  Interesting?  I can upload photos, check facebook, upload blog entries, check RSS feeds, and do all the cool stuff I did before.  Now it's just a few clicks.   Saves me a lot of time.

It's not like using facebook or youtube was that hard to begin with.  Just type in the address.  Hit enter and I'm there.  I can blog just by pressing a button.

I'll see if I can use flock for longer than a week before I make my final decision.

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