January 2008 - Posts
XKCD is a comic that I really like. Just read it, it's great. Anyway, this one in particular stands out to me as oh so true. (Note: yes, wetriffs.com does exist now :) In the last 12 hours, it's been proved to me twice. I found this about 10 minutes ago
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Escape From Fnordish Tales on the Path to Squishpoo Chapter 2 - Portentuous Portents Having escaped their prison, Prince Edgarb and Phil the Fish set out across the meadow that was just outside the gates of Castle Fnordish. How’d they escape? Well, you
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Today's been pretty wierd. I share an office with one other person, so we're chatting to each other all the time. Often it's work related chatter. And I'm sure that today is no exception. The thing is that besides all that, I was thinking over some of
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I did some googling. It looks like someone has sorted out the issue! No more bluescreens when trying to play downloaded avis within Media Center! Just download this free plug in for vista media center , and you're away :)
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As I glossed over on my last post, I've been reinstalling my media center pc. So far I've: Formatted C Drive Installed Vista Installed the motherboard, audio, video, tv card, and bluetooth drivers. And that's enough for tonight. I'se tired and sleepy.
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I've just started reinstalling my media center pc (I think that's the cause of my remote control issues). While it's doing it's thing, I thought I'd make a quick note of a problem I remember having (and am about to have again) getting the bluetooth dongle
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I don't mean explain the whole concept of graffiti. I know what it is. Hell, I'm sure I've even done some myself - on my desk at school if no where else (and I'm pretty sure it's nowhere else, now I think about it). Some is stupid, some is rude, some
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Late last year (ish) myself and Kari, a friend of mine, were killing time, and we ended up maing up a story. It's certainly not serious or anything like that (quite the opposite even), but it was fun. It all happened in an IM window, and I believe it
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Strangely, only a day after Mitch wrote a recent entry about Media Center [ I've just become a Media Centre junkie ], I've got something to say roughly on the same topic. I've been running a "Media Center" for 3 or 4 months now. I say "Media Center" rather
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Speaking of returns ...it's time for another stupid quiz! Man, I haven't done one of these in ages (at least, blogged the result anyway. You guys should see my facebook page *whistles innocently*) I saw this one when I was reading Mitch's blog just then
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Public Sub Start() Dim t As New TimeSpan(SomeLargeNumber(), 0, 0, 0) MsgBox( "I'm trying to start blogging again" ) Thread.Sleep(t) Start() End Sub Yes, I know, I've said it many times now. One of these days it's going to stick though. Honest! So how
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