Archive for July, 2004

The Friday to end all Fridays

Man… what a Friday. By now it’s very early Saturday morning, but I’m really sick and can’t sleep. Not really sick, but sick enough that I can’t sleep.

Today (yesterday) has been one of the most amusing Friday’s of all time. It’s a long weekend here in Canada this weekend, and it just so happened that every department boss was away from work today. And it just so happened that today was our scheduled “The Union” Elimination day. So at any given moment at work today you could have seen the tall and short chasing each other relentlessly across parking lots, jumping More >

Sexy beast.

Hit this. A little gameplay video from Halo 2. I can’t wait. In fact, I’m buying the game next week.

Windows NT

I formatted the computer in my bedroom yesterday. It’s a P2 (I think) 333, with 240 MB of RAM. I was running Windows 2k on it before.

For a change, I decided to install Windows NT 4.  I’ve never spent a lot of time on NT, and I’ve discovered that that’s not such a bad thing.

Listed here are the apparent problems with using Windows NT, at this point in time.

- It ships with IE 3. Or maybe even 2. Either way, it’s so pitiful, that while it did detect my ICS automatically, it could only load certain websites. More >

Meat coming.

There’ll be some interesting posts coming, I just wanted to point you to this article in the meantime.

Interesting.

Pound your Senses

The title of a record of mine that I’m listening to right now.

Anyway, my grandparents arrived last night from New Zealand. They’ll be staying for a month, so we’re all quite excited and glad to have them here. I haven’t seen them in almost 2 years.

I’m hoping to see The Bourne Supremacy tonight.

CBC News: Sgro rapped for stand on church sanctuaries

Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Bad Filmmaker

The title for Star Wars Episode 3 is now out… click it.

This one is ok. It’s not nearly as bad as Attack of the Clones. That’s one of the worst film titles in history. Anyway… it will be interesting to see.

After today

I’ll dream a bigger dream for, a bigger dream for, today.

Trying to anyway. Right now I’m getting ready to dream some sleepy dreams. Just got in from work, almost 2am. Last of another conference. The Party is Here. Or the Puddy is Here, as some were inclined to joke. What an exhausting night. Made worse by the fact that I was looking forward to seeing Maija, but she could not make it. She faithfully left a message on my work phone to let me know, but my bastard phone couldn’t extend the same kindness to let me know that More >

New tings.

Just bought myselfa copy of the Freshwind ’04 CD today. Pretty cool thus far. The two short tracks featuring a little of the Zeo (rave) are kinda cool, but only 2 minutes in total. Oh well.

Also, there’s a new Halo 2 trailer out. Doesn’t show you much you haven’t seen already, but is cool nonetheless. I can’t wait.

About time.

Good news though for Cecilia Zhang’s family… I suppose.

Link.

I’m so glad that I wasn’t the person who caught this guy… and anyone who perpetrates these crimes. I’d be up for murder too.

Oh man…

Father, please help these people.

Link.

Scary.

Changes.

My dad moves(d) out today. The parents are doing the “separating” thing. I’ve known about it for a while, but it was still pretty strange today, carrying Dad’s bags out to the car. He’ll still be around, but not living with us.

I’m doing pretty good. Pray for Damien and Elliot (the brothers) and Mummy. They’re doing ok as well, but it will affect them the hardest.

XP SP 2

I’m trying out XP Service Pack 2. It’s interesting. Improved security and firewall. I quite like the firewall. It messed up my Rogers High-Speed at first, but I figured it out. No big deal, some of the security defaults were too high.