So last week Comcast moved Cartoon Network (and, more importantly, Adult Swim) to digital-only. I discovered this when CN started showing football games. This is one of three channels I watch, and it’s been replaced by “Sports South.” I contacted their tech support in a vain attempt to get some sort of satisfaction, and was [...]
While eating dinner at Sal’s, with a bare minimum of Googling (forgot how to assign to arrays during initialization, and minor inspiration for non-blocking getchar() — oh, yeah, use curses!) I wrote my first C program in years. Life! I think I’ve coded Life in every programming language I’ve ever learned. Feels good, but I [...]
Been playing with new computer for the last week. The improvement is dramatic. Previous PC couldn’t play Left 4 Dead at all–this one, smooth as silk at 1600×1200. No system lag at all in WoW, in Dalaran or Wintergrasp. I’m very happy with it. However, I’m all on edge and irritable right now… so I’m [...]
I feel bad that it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve posted anything, but it’s after midnight and I really should get to bed, so… I’ll try to keep this quick. Had ups, had downs. The usual kind of thing. Good couple of weeks. Been learning about drinking with Chad while we finish off season [...]
Summary: I have a slow PC, and will get a new one soon. If the LAN party weren’t enough encouragement, World of Warcraft has thrown its vote into the “upgrade the damn thing already” box. Usually when I’m in Dalaran, the game’s slow. Not unplayably slow, but bothersome. I can accomplish tasks, but generally want [...]
I went all crazy-go-nuts on the pocket schedule, trying to find a tasteful way to break it into usable chunks. They’ve transposed the axes of the grid, so that each page is a full day and the location/track spans pages. It’s a hell of an improvement over last year, but still a thick wad of [...]
Two tools I’ve finally gotten around to learning about: Synergy Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Synergy’s a hoot. [...]
I picked up a printer for my dad a couple weeks ago. Last week I finally got around to getting it set up on my MythTV box to be sure I could do it before taking it all the way out to his place. As part of this procedure, I reset the root password to [...]
I bought a MacBook Pro. I’ve been thinking about it off and on for the last couple years. (Oh, crap. Two years? Really?) It’s a tax-free weekend in Tennessee for things that could be considered “school supplies,” and MacAuthority was running a sale to coincide with it… it’s still a lot more than I’ve ever [...]
The Ice-2 entry from the end of January has drawn, I believe, more spam comments than all of the other posts combined.