I'm in the market for a PS3. Weighed it out, considered the benefits of a Wii or Xbox 360, but I have settled on a PS3. If you have one that you want to sell or know anyone willing to part with theirs, let me know. I'm open to all reasonable offers ( Read more... )

My digital projector - a Sharp PG-F212X - and 86" matte white screen arrived today. All told, after exchange rates and GST, the cost was roughly a thousand dollars. I'd been saving this money since China for the explicit purpose of buying a projector and it's with a profound sense of having achieved a long-striven-for goal that I received the two ( Read more... )

Mila Kunis loves WoW? Wow. I mean, *I* don't like World of Warcraft, but I love geeky girls and Mila Kunis, and she has just risen to #1 in my books. Not that she wasn't already #1. But now she's #1 with lightning bolts and bad-ass dragons drawn around her name.

On cnn.com tonight, there's a headline - a major headline, in fact - that reads: "Tim and Tom ( Read more... )

I'm starting to lose patience with linux. What's frustrating is that nothing, and I mean nothing, that I have attempted to install, configure or utilise in the past two days has worked properly, even after hours of investigation and fiddling. You come to a point where you realise that you're putting far more time into trying to make something ( Read more... )

As an old-school Neil Gaiman fan, I pride myself on having read just about everything he's written. Naturally, when Coraline, his children's book, came out a few years ago, I enthusiastically picked it up and then let it collect dust on my bookshelf for at least four months, distracted as I was with the demands of school and real life. When I did ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got sick of the endless blind stabs, restarts, and one-step-forward-two-steps-back progress of trying to get rid of the diagonal lines and banding I was getting from the ATI Radeon 9550 video card I had inside my MythTV media box, so I returned some unneeded cables to The Source (nee: Radio Shack) and picked up a cheap GeForcce 6200 ( Read more... )

Oh, and on the subject of projects, may I present to you my awesome desktop theme?

To get the full effect, click on each image for the high-resolution (1280x800) version.


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Life's been a little crazy lately. Tim, his girlfriend Natalie and I moved into an apartment a couple blocks off Broadway and Commercial and we're still in the process of unpacking (their stuff) and finding a place for (all of their) things, a glacially-slow venture which seems to take two steps forward and one step back on a daily basis. Part of ( Read more... )

So I just got home from my week-long jaunt as 4H Boys' Dorm Chaperone in the Agridome at the PNE. It was a relatively positive experience, if you ignore the fact that the day I arrived my wisdom teeth started to kill me, and have only gotten worse over the week. My job description was thus: I had to sit at a desk for 24 hours a day, switching off ( Read more... )