Archive for October, 2007
Weebl’s stuff
Weebl has a new toon involving the Weighted Companion Cube from VALVe’s Portal, released as part of the Orange Box. The Weighted Companion Cube has become something of an internet phenomena since it’s introduction in Portal.
Check out this cute flash toon. Thanks to Kotaktu for finding this little gem.
The great thing about rediscovery of the [...]
Downtime
I changed the config.php for the vengeance forums and I’m sharing the username/password with them for the phpbb-wordpress integration, so naturally when I forgot to change the config.php for the blog I broke it.
Now fixed (obviously), just thought you’d like an explanation. Wheee.
Star Trek prelude movie?
“Star Trek” Movie News: Sulu, Scotty, Captain Kirk(!) Cast found on Amazon Daily.
Daylight Savings (Nov 4), is your computer ready?
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7441765
Microsoft has a nice guided support wizard that helps you find the correct DST patch for your version of Windows.
Valve update sporks Windows Vista users, Mal affected
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6796779&posted=1#post6796779
“First Valve update that has sporked my installation. Bad Valve, no gibs.” – Malanthazon
Serenity 2 (Firefly spin-off)
Serenity 2 May Happen
and
Serenity Sequal on the Horizon …
Good stuff if Joss Whedon can make it happen.
Windows Vista: Truth in Advertising (humor)
Vista Sucks!
I actually have it installed and there are some nice feature “ideas.” Not always sure about the execution of those ideas, and the number of programs that are not backward compatible is staggering. Not exactly a “bold step forward” for microsoft, and it seems to be giving them some backlash in the [...]
Future landscape of Internet worms
Wired: Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets, by Bruce Schneier.
Thanks to Digg for finding this.
I’ve read some of Bruce’s work from time to time for over 8 years and have always been impressed with his work in cryptography and security. The interesting points in this article include things like
“Not that we really [...]
Project X nearing completion
For the last 8 years I’ve sought the motivation to migrate all of my CDs to MP3 so that I could take them wheverever I wanted (and make MP3 CDs that are playable in my car stereo)…
Then along came iPod and changed the landscape for me. Overnight, I discovered a way to take all of [...]
Blogging is stupid
You don’t have to convince me.
