Well, it’s all over except for the new years eve bash (read: sitting around watching a movie or something). Christmas was great, had the double action dinners, one here with everyone and one with my family, Boxing Day was good as well, hit up some good deals at the various boxing day sales. Other than […]
Oh my. This pic has to be the cutest ever. Seriously. Ever.
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Argh, I hate it when I do this. I was playing some BF2142, my latest current gaming addiction and decided that I needed something to do while waiting in between dying and coming back to life. I figured I’d make sure that the UFies box was all up to date, so I did an update
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Weird, MT just ate my post about being sick 🙁 Anyway, yea, been sick since Monday night, I’ll leave the details light, as you really don’t want to know what was going on internally. Needless today I haven’t slept “normally” since then, though today I feel mostly human again, though the tummy is still rumbling
Theory #2 My second theory is even better, dual tin-foil I think. I think that the Zune might have been nothing more than an experiment to see how pervasive you could make <acronym title=”Digital Rights ‘Management’””>DRM in peoples lives. When the first few proof of concept applications for Microsoft Vista came out the concept of
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Microsoft released their iPod competitor the Zune, or at least that’s what everything things it is. I have two theories (conspiracy theories of course, full tin-foil hat engaged) about what the nefarious plans for the Zune really are however, and they both include the fact that the Zune was never meant to be a serious
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I did this a couple of years ago and got most of the stuff on the list…. well, mostly bought it myself years after the fact, but hey, here’s a snapshot of the materialistic side of me, Alan’s Christmas Wish List 2006! Second (or third) 20.1″ LG LCD monitor for the desk. I have one
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Sometimes I really forget we live in the world of tomorrow. I watched this video of the launch of Discovery, Mission STS-116 on YouTube and it hit me after the fact that I was watching an immense space vehicle blast into space. Sure, they’ve been doing this since I was in elementary school, and hell,
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So the laptop I was working on the last couple of days is done. I never got it done “in place” and without blowing away the system… a fter messing with the stupid thing for another hour last night I gave up. Running spyware doctor, then AdAware, then AVG, followed by all the same again
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Somewhere in a conversation today at work about someone’s friend who had a sex change operation (female to male), when asking why you wouldn’t just use a strap on the following was said: If have a female end and you want a male end, you get a gender-bender, you don’t re-crimp the cable! Possibly the
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