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May 9

I never really was one for using tools to help me manage my site. It always felt like cheating for some unknown reason. However, hindsight, it’s probably a good idea to use some soft of 3rd party tool to get me rolling.

Weblob Tools Collection has a few links in Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done that give bloggers nice tools to get things rolling.

Right now I’m using Windows Live Writer. Trying it out. There are some nice features, but I’m not sure if I really .. LIKE it or not.

People area also talking up ScribeFire … which I may look into after this. We’ll see what works the best for me. Really, in the end, use what works the best for you.

For instance, I use a lot of WordPress Plugins. 28 to be exact. Not all are for functionality, but all are used.

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Date May 9th, 2008 Filed in WordPress 2 Comments »
May 7

A few years ago there was a band called ‘Three Years Chasing’. They where my friends and they released an EP of their music. I offered to do the cover art for it for free - since they are my friends.

This is the culmination of that release. While the band is no longer around, the art work can still be enjoyed.

Three Years Chasing - 1280×1024 (1.15 MB)
Three Years Chasing - 1680×1050 (1.58 MB)

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Date May 7th, 2008 Filed in Wallpapers No Comments »
May 7

That’s right! By the grace of God my new computer is now running nice, smoothly and HOLY SNOT FAST! It’s amazing what a really good (yet girly looking) fan and heatsink will do for an overheating computer. My system is now staying at a 28 degree Celsius even while gaming … so I’m extremely happy about that!

So, here are the specs:

Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs)
Memory:
4096 MB RAM
Hard Drive:
750 GB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Monitor:
SONY CPD-G400/G400J
Sound Card:
Realtek HD Audio output
M-Audio Audiophile 2496
Speakers/Headphones:
Sony MDR-V600
Keyboard:
Logitech G15
Mouse:
Logitech USB Wheel Mouse
Mouse Surface: A mouse pad
Operating System:
Windows XP Pro

Heck .. yes .. it’s awesome.

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Date May 7th, 2008 Filed in General 2 Comments »
May 6

They screw over the little guy in hopes no one will notice that they’re stark, raving mad (and possibly mentally retarded - no offense to mentally retarded people). As of August 2008 they’re shutting down their music service which will effectively screw over anyone who bought music via their PlayForSure services .. which obviously isn’t going to play for sure.

Goodness Bill .. what are you thinking in your multi-million dollar breeches?! Obviously it is about how many billions you’re worth to the industry …

Here is a snippet from a good article:

It was the Dark Ages, around 2004 or so. The iTunes Store was new and booming. Microsoft, in its bid to be the center of everything without having to deal with pesky “end users”, decided that the way to fight Apple was to create a developer platform. This developer platform would handle all the technical details of ensuring that people could “purchase” music files from a variety of online vendors, and play these music files on their (Windows) PC or on a variety of handheld music players. This developer platform would also ensure that such “purchased” music files could not be copied. This involves a lot of fancy math (encryption) which Microsoft was happy to license to companies running online music stores and companies making handheld music players, as well as including by default in all modern versions of Windows.

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Date May 6th, 2008 Filed in General No Comments »
May 4

Ok, so I bought a new computer. Well, let me clarify - I bought several pieces that when put together will make a computer.

I’m no stranger to building computers. I’ve done it for years and I’ve generally enjoyed it. However, this system is presenting me with continual problems.

Let’s start with the worst. it’s a Quad Core Q6600 processor with an nForce 650i Ultra main board. I installed it all nicely, threw on a new GeForce 9600GT 512mb video card - sounds like it should scream, right? Well, it would if the processor didn’t keep over heating and shutting down the system. Going out and shelling $20 for some heavy duty thermal paste HELPED but the only thing that successfully allowed the system to run was setting the voltage to the processor to 1.05 rather than letting it automatically chose (which was usually about 1.27). No problem, got that fixed. Now I can’t find my copy of Windows XP Pro (I have the product code!) so I downloaded it from a torrent (like I said, I have the product code) and naturally it won’t work.

So I installed Ubuntu 8.04. Got it running no problem - only thing is they don’t make Linux drivers for my main board or video card.

I’m quite disappointed on what should be an awesome computer. Luckily I didn’t thrash the old system totally so I can use this to do some things - but dang it … this should be cake!!!

So, my faithful readers … any ideas?

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Date May 4th, 2008 Filed in General No Comments »

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