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Archive for November, 2005
Heart of the City
Nov 28th
It’s Christmastime friends, and as we all know there are a good number of people in this city who won’t be feeling the good times roll. If there’s anything I like about Christmas, it’s feeling the good times roll.
So, to assist these poor, hungry and generally unloved people, my good friend DJ Shagz is involved in a fundraiser. I believe this is his second fundraiser recently, the last was to raise money for Breast Cancer Research. (I find it funny that people sometimes raise money for Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer doesn’t need our money… it needs to be gotten rid More >
Hands-on with the Xbox 360
Nov 22nd
I visit EB Games last night and took an Xbox 360 for a spin.
First impressions: - It’s big! From the promo material I thought it would be smaller than it is, but it’s not much smaller than the original Xbox. It’s not a big deal, I was just surprised. - It’s shiny and sexy looking. Who wouldn’t want one adorning their living room?
Games I only played King Kong, but it was sweet. I have King Kong on my desktop PC, so I had already played the levels, but it’s better on the 360 than on my PC. Running on the More >
Halo Screens
Nov 20th
Restrospective Perspective
Nov 20th
I just downloaded Free Download Manager. I downloaded it using my current download manager, Download Accelerator Plus, which I have been loyal to for many years ever since I stopped using Getright back in the 90′s. (Hehe, that sounds funny.) I wonder how DAP feels – if it knows that I just used it to download it’s replacement. Given that knowledge, I wonder if it would have behaved differently: downloaded faster, used less advertising. Who knows? Truth be told I just wanted a smaller footprint.
On a vaguely similar note (which is actually what this post is about) my wife and I More >
Send the pain below
Nov 16th
Website all back to normal. I tried installing Frontpage Server Extensions last week, and had difficulty. To the uninitiated, FSE are some files that Microsoft Frontpage uses to interact with your web server. Once installed, you can edit your website live using Frontpage, just like editing a Word document. However, the server extensions can screw with a bunch of files. Specifically, your .htaccess files which control who gets to see what when they type in a web address.
So, I had to make a questionaire for my wife. She’s taking a course at Uni where her and a group of others More >
Fixing it
Nov 16th
Update: Fixed it. I think what happened was that I uninstalled Frontpage Server Extension, which I was told not to do. That’s the part that hurt the website. So I reinstalled them, and then changed one of my access files. Now it all works again, sept I can’t use the Server Extensions. Oh well… I don’t really need them anymore anyway.
(old) I just installed Frontpage Server Extension and destroyed most of my site. If anyone knows anything about FSE or WordPress or both an e-mail or phone call would be appreciated.
Hard trancer
Nov 14th
I started planning a new mix today. It’ll be a darker edgier hard trance mix. I’m thrilled about it. I’m listening to John 00 Fleming, Yoji Biomenahika, a little Paul van Dyk.
Currently in the mix: Astrix – Monster (remix) Yoji Biomehanika – Hardstyle Disco Marco V – Red Blue Purple Rank 1 – Beats at Rank 1 dot com
I’m thinking it will take me a month or so to put this in the can. I don’t own all the tracks yet.
Return of the King
Nov 12th
Proudly and boldy I return to the fray of Halo 2 on Xbox Live. My sexcellent wife picked up a demo for the PC version of Peter Jackson’s King Kong (review to come), and a 2 month subscription to Xbox Live. Let’s see if I can regain all my former glory in a mere two months… with an internet connection one third the man it used to be.
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Life, and death
Nov 9th
Currently I am more happy and more alive than I have ever been my entire life. I feel now like life has been an unopened flower: a rather attractive unopened flower, with but a few thorns, it’s potential still unknown. And now it seems the flower has blossomed into a beautiful rose. It’s petals are still slowly pushing further outward, and it’s getting more beautiful and more fragrant as the hours go by. Or days and weeks in my case. Tomorrow will mark 2 months of being married to the most beautiful woman in the world.
Life, is amazing.
This weekend More >
Spun to zero
Nov 8th
Sorry, work and personal life has been rather busy of late, so I haven’t had much time to devote here. But rest assured, pretty much everything I currently have imagined for this site is in place, so regular posts should be coming very shortly. In addition, my lovely wife Maija may begin to post here also.