Fighting Reality

Category: Pining for Tech

  • Nintendo DS

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    This is the tax-free holiday weekend in Massachusetts. I didn’t realize this until about Thursday and on Friday, I had a brilliant idea! Its time for a Nintendo DS. I’m not much of a gamer. In fact, the last system I got was a Gameboy Advance circa 2002 on ebay. I have an SP, but…

  • Gateway drugged

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    Shortly after upgrading WordPress to 2.0.3, I had a number of entries I wanted to write, but first I decided to reload my main desktop computer because it was periodically freezing on me. I wasn’t able to leave it on during the day to download files or leave a scheduled job to run because I…

  • Nerd Welfare

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    [15:52] Brendan: i think ultimates proves that its getting too expensive to be a nerd nowadays [15:53] Brendan: or atleast a nerd with varied interests [15:53] Me: how do you figure? [15:54] Brendan: i cant afford comics, anime, toys, science fitcion to level that i would really like to be at [15:54] Me: that just…

  • The Penalty of Stability Part 4

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    5 installs of Windows XP and service pack 2 later, I have returned the victor! To make a long story short, it was the graphics card driver. I uninstalled it in safe mode restarted and it went right into Windows without so much as a pause. I’ve loaded up some of my applications including those…

  • The Penalty of Stability Part 2

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    To better the chance of success with the reload of my system, I am writing a ‘script’ of procedures for myself to follow. I have started with a fairly extensive list of the applications I use now that I would like to re-install in addition to a few other apps I am using to replace…

  • The Penalty of Stability Part 1

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    My big birthday/holidays gift for 2005 was a Creative Zen Vision. First, I would just like to say that this thing is one kick ass video player. Now that I have said that, I must now say that I only know this from watching the default videos on the player. Here’s why. At first I…

  • Zen Sleek creeping closer

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    Creative has put up a page for their new Zen Sleek offering on their website. Check it out here. I’ve mentioned the Zen Sleek before.

  • Amazon Wishlist

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    In my quest to make my wishlist more dynamic and easier to update, I had an epiphany in the middle of the day today at work. Amazon has a lot of extra features that many people don’t even realize. My thought was that they may offer as RSS/XML style version of their wishlist. If this…

  • XAMPP

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    I had mentioned to one of the guys at work how I was trying to setup a testing region for this blog on my server at home last Thursday. I also said how I was having trouble getting everything setup properly. Right away he told me to check out XAMPP. Here’s a brief description from…

  • Creative's New Contender

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    Ah Creative. Just as I am starting to write a blog entry that completely slams you and your ineffective ability to market your products, you show us another nugget of gadget goodness. I will share my complaints before I go into their latest offering. Creative has some top notch, quality products in the portable audio…