The Weekend
Another week of work has gone by and it’s the weekend. Of note are the NFL playoffs and all the TV shows that I need to catch up that were missed during the week.
Did another geekfest this weekend with some people. We used the new strategy again which is going to someone’s place and bringing over an xbox with a ton of games, ordering in pizza and drinking as much beer as we want. This offers numerous advantages – stay as late as you want (if host doesn’t mind), save a fair bit of money as you are looking at maybe $20 per person at most for an all you can eat, all you can drink fest. Also, no worries about a kitchen closing in a pub or bar and the scarce selection of food. Invite only works very well too so you don’t need to censor anything said or done. All in all, a much better stategy.
Forum News (not much): Another smiley theme was added.
Home Climate: I’m considering putting back in my air conditioners and at times, wondering why I took them out in the first place. We haven’t had very cold weather this winter in Ontario, Canada at all. Even with no heat on and my window open, there have been nights where I wished I had my a/c back in. It probably won’t be long.
Geek Stuff Online: I checked out Pandora.com today. It seemed really cool at first, but then when they start playing crappy songs, you are only permitted to skip so many in one hour for ‘licensing reasons’. Yet another licensing restriction of some kind that contributes to ruining a good idea. This rather defeats the purpose as you will be subjected to listening to whatver unsavoury tune being played until you are permitted to get to the next song. Overall, it’s a good idea though, just needs to take the restrictions off is all.
To add on to a previous post about the firefox extensions.. I am really enjoying AdBlock but would like to see them add a feature that allows the selection of multiple links at once for a site instead of clicking on each one individually. DownThemAll has worked like a champ and seems to do an excellent job at its intention.
Somewhat complacent with my own computer stuff right now — no reason to upgrade anything, all systems working fine as usual. I would consider getting another 19″ lcd or larger but the res on these things are only 1280×1024 still which is ridiculous considering what current video cards are capable of doing.
Side note — What the hades is going on with Azureus and torrents lately? Speeds have been garbage in most cases and if I leave Azureus running for hours, it crashes my net and I need to reboot my router. Never had this problem before. Maybe it’s the new kernel? Odd though, same config being used. Who knows.
For anyone who wants to use an msn messenger service but doesn’t have a hotmail account, you don’t need to get one, you can use your own!
That’s it for now!