Saturday, October 11, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Um...
Well, it's been a while. I registered a new website and I'm going to turn that into my tech and personal blog. So probably no updates here for a while.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
9 Unhealthiest Summer Vacation Destinations
On Newsweeks website they published 9 Unhealthiest Summer Vacation Destinations. Who made the top of the list?
Detroit.
1. Detroit Saddled with some serious problems, Detroit tops our list of vacation destinations to avoid this summer. The last thing you want to worry about on your vacation is your safety, but it would be hard not to in Motor City. According to the FBI, Detroit had 418 murders in 2006 (the most recent year for which data was available), the highest rate of any American city. It also ranks second highest for violent crimes and fourth highest for robberies. Another strike against Detroit? Of all American cities Detroit has the fewest sunny days.
Detroit.
1. Detroit Saddled with some serious problems, Detroit tops our list of vacation destinations to avoid this summer. The last thing you want to worry about on your vacation is your safety, but it would be hard not to in Motor City. According to the FBI, Detroit had 418 murders in 2006 (the most recent year for which data was available), the highest rate of any American city. It also ranks second highest for violent crimes and fourth highest for robberies. Another strike against Detroit? Of all American cities Detroit has the fewest sunny days.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Transparent Desktops
I was looking for something cool to do for my machine that I got Fedora installed on and I found a link to flicker. Ok so they're not really transparent, but it's freaking funny. Check out these images on Flicker.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Only took a couple years...
It only took me a couple years to find out that Dell announced on August 14, 2006 that it was recalling laptop batteries because of a potential fire hazard. If you bought a Dell laptop between April 1, 2004 and July 18, 2006 you may be able to get a replacement battery for free. The link is https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/ to find out if your battery can be replaced. I submitted the form today to get a new one.
Fun game and a fun toy
Dan and I went to Office Depot to get some organizational stuff. They had a couple laser pointers on the clearance shelf. So I got a laser pointer that has a line, circle, dot, hand, and arrow for (I think) $9. It is the ultimate kitty toy. I think he likes the hand the best. hehe. :D
Out of my tech saga for the weekend came this: Cyrkam Airtos. I have been looking for this link for ages. I never knew what the name was and looking it up was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It's a simple addictive game that I might have stumbled upon eventually.
Here is my tech saga for this weekend. Probably pretty boring stuff for the most part. Just FYI, I named my computers after Jupiter and it's moons.
I bought my laptop, Ganymede, in 2006 I think.... just before I graduated. My computer, Io, died about a month after I got the laptop, but the laptop was an upgrade so I just used the laptop for everything and figured I'd go back and look at Io later. That meant Io just sat collecting dust for the past 2 years.
I was mailed Io about two months ago from back home and finally took the opportunity to crack it open. I was going to take out the hard drive and put it into the old external hard drive enclosure I have (very handy thing for troubleshooting and easy extra storage). Unfortunately, one of the screws wouldn't come out and was eventually totally stripped. In an odd twist of fate, the hard drive that was in it was already destroyed by me. I accidentally let it slam on my desk causing the hard drive not to work anymore. Two pieces of hardware are going in the trash. :( At this point though, they aren't worth that much anyway.
So, I got a can of Duster, took my old computer outside and blew away dust bunnies the size of Texas. (As a side note, there was a dead bat on our porch this morning. O_o ) Once everything was pretty clean, I plugged everything in, and booted it up. I thought the hard drive went bad but it appears to just be Windows XP that was corrupted. It could still be from bad sectors, but for the most part the hard drive works.
I was going to install XP over the corrupted version, but I couldn't find the install CD (if I even have one... it came from a special offer from Microsoft through the computer science department at school, but I don't think I got to keep the CD, just the key).
I ended up downloading the Fedora 8 Live CD so I could boot from the CD and just look at the hard drive that way. I forgot a lot of the things I wanted from that pc 2 years ago, and I'm glad I didn't go with Dan's suggestion of just wiping the drive and starting over (since I lived without the stuff for 2 years already).
So now my plan is to have Io as my desktop with either Fedora 8 or Ubuntu, but I haven't been able to decide yet.
I also still have my oldest machine, Jupiter, to figure out what to do with. Jupiter was the first machine I bought with my own money. Back in the day, it was a hoss. Right now it's in a giant 4u case (server rack style case). It could probably do well as a file server, but it's taking up a lot of floor space right now in our tiny computer area.
Anyway, that's the end of my computer saga.
Out of my tech saga for the weekend came this: Cyrkam Airtos. I have been looking for this link for ages. I never knew what the name was and looking it up was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It's a simple addictive game that I might have stumbled upon eventually.
Here is my tech saga for this weekend. Probably pretty boring stuff for the most part. Just FYI, I named my computers after Jupiter and it's moons.
I bought my laptop, Ganymede, in 2006 I think.... just before I graduated. My computer, Io, died about a month after I got the laptop, but the laptop was an upgrade so I just used the laptop for everything and figured I'd go back and look at Io later. That meant Io just sat collecting dust for the past 2 years.
I was mailed Io about two months ago from back home and finally took the opportunity to crack it open. I was going to take out the hard drive and put it into the old external hard drive enclosure I have (very handy thing for troubleshooting and easy extra storage). Unfortunately, one of the screws wouldn't come out and was eventually totally stripped. In an odd twist of fate, the hard drive that was in it was already destroyed by me. I accidentally let it slam on my desk causing the hard drive not to work anymore. Two pieces of hardware are going in the trash. :( At this point though, they aren't worth that much anyway.
So, I got a can of Duster, took my old computer outside and blew away dust bunnies the size of Texas. (As a side note, there was a dead bat on our porch this morning. O_o ) Once everything was pretty clean, I plugged everything in, and booted it up. I thought the hard drive went bad but it appears to just be Windows XP that was corrupted. It could still be from bad sectors, but for the most part the hard drive works.
I was going to install XP over the corrupted version, but I couldn't find the install CD (if I even have one... it came from a special offer from Microsoft through the computer science department at school, but I don't think I got to keep the CD, just the key).
I ended up downloading the Fedora 8 Live CD so I could boot from the CD and just look at the hard drive that way. I forgot a lot of the things I wanted from that pc 2 years ago, and I'm glad I didn't go with Dan's suggestion of just wiping the drive and starting over (since I lived without the stuff for 2 years already).
So now my plan is to have Io as my desktop with either Fedora 8 or Ubuntu, but I haven't been able to decide yet.
I also still have my oldest machine, Jupiter, to figure out what to do with. Jupiter was the first machine I bought with my own money. Back in the day, it was a hoss. Right now it's in a giant 4u case (server rack style case). It could probably do well as a file server, but it's taking up a lot of floor space right now in our tiny computer area.
Anyway, that's the end of my computer saga.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Cool Video
This video is of an elephant painting a self portrait. Very cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE
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