Back from Ohayocon. A very fun time was had. Now a very tired me has to sleep... *grin*

Back and intact from Katsucon. Good times were had, and more details will come once I'm not cutting into my sleep time for work tomorrow. Tired, and will likely miss salient details from your posts. Filtered responses, so drop me a line if there's stuff you want me to see, or if I met you at the con and you'd like to keep tabs via lj.

...and let me say, with absolute certainty though it pains me so, if my next computer can't be packaged with WinXP, I'm buying a Mac ( Read more... )

I'm sure there will be a locked election-post at some point in time, but for now, how about a fluffy review post...

Guitar Hero 2:I had harassed my local game shop mercilessly until they stocked the first one, and this time, I snagged the second-last copy they had of this one; it's a hot seller for sure. GH1 was great, evidenced by the fact I ( Read more... )

...but it might be, I don't know.

Anyway, I just got back from the musical version of Lord of the Rings. Got tickets last year and went out tonight with friends and caught the show, shiny warts and all ( Read more... )

Microsoft has released patches to the critical vulnerability previously mentioned. I haven't gotten it via auto-update yet, so if you haven't either ( Read more... )

Okay, this one's pretty important. As of a few weeks ago, there's been a very public hole in Windows that pretty much hits all versions. It deals with some part of the image viewer native to Windows, so it's pretty ubiquitous. Viruses disguised as a attachments are nothing new - in this case, it an disguise itself as an image, so watch yourself. ( Read more... )

For some of you this link is pretty redundant, but if you want a good source of security information in general, not to mention important info on where the government starts crossing the line in the pursuit of security at the expense of peoples' privacy, may I recommend the Bruce Schneier lj syndication of his blog. Normally I don't plug, but given ( Read more... )

Last night I saw the movie adaptation of the musical RentThe quick review is that I really liked the movie, and this is coming from someone who's not a huge fan of movie musicals. Other than the end which heaped two of my pet-peeves of musical theatre together into a voltron of cheese, I thouroughly enjoyed it. I'll recommend it with the caveat ( Read more... )

Tonight I had the chance to finally see the film Ryan in its entirety of 15 minutes; previously I'd seen bits of it in a class way back in pre-production (including a talk by the director and narrator of the story), so I was really itching to see it ( Read more... )