I’ve just re-watched ‘The Producers’ having not seen it for several years. It is as fun now as it was back then. I now have the song stuck in my head. I’ll have to watch something completely different to get the noises back out. Maybe some 8-bit music from Trash 80. Old school feels like a Spectrum feelings back again. I feel like getting nostalgic with some original Jet Pack.
The more we build
The more things stay the same. I am a 100% pass person. Any deviation from that is considered failure.
This is the end….
Sorry, that’s about as good a title as I could put on this post. Seriously, what do you expect after a bank holiday weekend. It’s Monday, and if you didn’t have to work on Saturday then you don’t have to work today either – I love the official statement on this, it makes my hungover head spin.
Well, I could not make it to Kerry this weekend. I have my reasons. Rolling exhaustion is the most reasonable item on the list – I could not make it out of the office before 6.30, which makes traveling on the Friday a little difficult. Then I got drunk. Repeatedly. For the entire weekend. Some of you know why.
I am feeling seriously self destructive at the moment. I put on the smiles, and I tell the folks that everything is all right, but the reality is that I am not a happy camper. It’s been coming for a long time, I’m just a tad slow on the uptake.
Evil steam keeping the prices jacked up
Steam is a great idea. You get to download your games and you can play anywhere that you can log in to steam. The problem is that the prices of the games are a bit on the high side. For example today Eidos have announced a load of their games are now on steam. Hitman: blood money is $35.95. It’s cheaper to walk into your local game store and get it there.
For some reason the re-release on steam pumps the price up over what you can get in the stores. And then it stays there. You get the occasional reduction in price, but overall the price of each game remains reasonably static for it’s life on the system. Which is frustrating.
Unicorntastic
This is the unicorn of blame. Whenever you break the build he gets to live on your desk. I think it could be quite motivating to keep the build working.
Unless it gets to one of the girls’ desks. I’m sure that they would not be motivated to get it removed from the desk.
it’s a tomato
Well, having had enough of the dd-wrt firmware for the linksys router. It was annoying, slow and irritating and every time we enabled QOS it lost the connection to the WAN I upgraded to the tomato firmware. So far it works. It successfully QOSes the p2p stuff down to the lowest category. It has pretty graphs! Whoopee!
Stealing someone else’s tag line
Apparently the PS3 has this new thing called ‘home’. It’s basically second life for all those people who bought a PS3. Or there, or something equally as silly. The benefit of it is that sony don’t have to program for every GPU on the planet – they only need to get it working for the PS3 and they’re golden. Everyone on the site has at least one thing in common, and they don’t need to congratulate each other again and again. Based on the sweet graphics, I’m presuming that just about everything on it is small-c configurable, rather than big-c configurable (involving lots of downloading).
It took me months to rip my CD collection
It was in my last full-time job. I brought the CD collection into the office. It occupied an entire large box in the office. I was ripping the disc on my desktop and parallelizing the mp3 encoding to a bunch of machines in the lab. It was easy. Honestly. God what a nerd. I even had the automated rip then eject so I would put the next CD from a stack of them into the drive. It still took over a month… and then there was the great hard disk crash of ’05 – I had to re-rip them all and some of them got frelled from jitter.
Foo!
The thin strip of HD
Until they occupy more than a 3-row strip of DVDs in the local shop I’m going to skip on them (more of acceptable quantity of titles!)
The keyboard on my little baby laptop isn’t good
Someone is bound to rat me out for this one. I’ve resorted to using a sun type 6 USB keyboard when typing on the small laptop. For those times when I couldn’t be bothered dragging the XPS out of the backpack I just need to reach over to the keyboard and plug it in. Dayamm, but it makes a huge difference. The response is just right. The laptop’s keys are just that little bit too wussy.