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Archive for May, 2007
This is very cool, but very sad. NSFW!
Since things are back to normal, (finally) I can read up on some interesting stories, and post them here for you all to enjoy:
- Employee gets fired because of his prior work history: Hmmm…I would have to agree that the lawyer’s word of “it depends” would apply here.
- Microsoft makes a tabletop PC (article / pics): Now all we need are two joysticks at either end, some Pong going, and we’re back in the 80s, or so I’m told. If they make a wall version of that, two words: Minority Report (one of my all-time favorite movies).
- Kromofons: making the alphabet into colors (article / pics): I think this is interesting, but as a peron who has a visual impairment, I wonder how colorblind people would deal with this? I’m not colorblind mind you, but I don’t think this would catch on in the real world. It could be used as a secret code for now. I noticed how the creator of it thought about backgrounds, and avoided using the colors white or black for letters. Spam like this would be interesting! Spam could become a work of art, much like this.
- Nintendo is kicking ass in regards to the worldwide gaming market (Neowin / Wired) as well as thwarting pirates (Neowin / DailyTech). Let’s hope both of these areas keep getting better!
- Halo 2 for the PC gets delayed because of nude content (Neowin / DailyTech). I agree with the people at Neowin: oh no boobies, but let’s go blow the heads off of people. So, we can get a game that promotes violence, but a game that doesn’t portray the natural human anatomy virtually? WTH? Which is worse? Although, from a business standpoint, I guess they would have to get the game re-rated by the ESRB and other places like that, but hey c’mon Microsoft! Spend some extra billions on your flagship title…you’re not gonna miss ‘em! Heh…tit-le….
- Bonus!: Opposable Thumbs is about to go on a magical Hentai adventure: Oh man, I hope this blog/post doesn’t get blammed for words like hentai and tit.
- NOTE: News on Apple’s new DRM free music/opinions of it from me are coming later today. I need sleep damnit!
OK, I don’t even touch my site for 5 hours, and my sister IMs me and tells me that the flickr plugin is working again. I log on to the site, and find that mine is working as well. NO IDEA what’s going on around here, but I think things are finally back to normal…whew.
UPDATE: My Feedburner animated counter seems to be working again now as well! Seems like something triggered at midnight…hmmm….
This made me lol a couple times. C64 and Wii FTW!
Thoros went down yesterday…the bad kind of down. Thoros is the server that this website (along with my sister’s website Design Milk) is hosted on. I only lost one post and a couple of plugin updates. The post I lost has been remade below with the correct posting date so Google links won’t break. Also, the WordPress Flickr plugin I use (and that my sister also uses) is b0rked for now…ugh. Such is the way of owning a wesbite…at least everything isn’t gone for good! Thanks for the restore LunarPages!
My goal yesterday was to convert my wireless network from WEP to WPA2. Geeky I know, but I found a very valuable tool in the process. Since I already have one D-Link DGL-4300 setup for my house as WPA2, I figured it’s time to convert the one I use for school/shore use to WPA2 as well. In the process of updating drivers, etc., I started using Intel’s wireless utility, instead of relying on Windows to connect to networks, as Windows’ built-in utility doesn’t support WPA or WPA2. So, I installed the Intel PROSet software and everything was good. I was able to setup my WPA2 network with no issues, except one: WEP keys!
I setup a WEP network for my friend at his house, and I don’t have his WEP key memorized (I don’t memorize those things…how can you? If you come up with an easy way, tell me!). This left me with two options: ask his Dad to input the router password again so I can painstakingly type the WEP key into the Intel PROSet utility, or find it in the registry somehow. A little poking on Google revealed a free program that does just that! It finds WEP keys that are stored in the Windows registry when you use Windows’ built-in wireless support. The author’s website even states that it works on Vista. Good to know!
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