I built my new computer on Monday. The build went smoothly and this things is real quick. It puts my old machine to shame several times over. The only problem is I can't get XP to install to a SATA drive. It has something to do with XP not having proper drivers for many SATA controllers. I could pop in a floppy during install to manually provide ( Read more... )

I finally decided to order a new computer last week. I had been debating what to get for some time now, at one point leaned towards a Macbook, at other times towards a regular laptop that I could put Linux on, and at other times towards upgrading my desktop ( Read more... )

Tony - I got an interesting memory today while driving down Rainbow...Do you remember back when we worked at Sonic and I had that incident during check cashing? Sonic used to Bank through Bank of the West, and since I had no bank account back then, I'd just go there to cash my check. Then, Sonic changed from Bank of the West to Bank West, and I ( Read more... )

My room is starting to have some sense of cleanliness again. It fell into disrepair during a time period when my vacuum had shredded itself and I stopped taking a lot of dishes downstairs. I'm now down to just a handful of remaining cups, and I bought a new vacuum ( Read more... )

I often wish I wasn't a failure of a programmer ( Read more... )

Earlier tonight, I wanted to update my journal with some rants on a recent lawsuit, but now I've drank too much to be coherent on it, but I'll try to do a little bit ( Read more... )

The Electronic Entertainment Exposition is currently underway, but for the most part, the three main press conferences are over with. Microsoft spoke on Monday morning, Nintendo spoke earlier this morning, and Sony spoke shortly thereafter. The focus wasn't on new game announcements, as I had hoped, but rather on updated details on non-games and ( Read more... )

As of 3 days ago, I now have no more credit card debt. I am down to only owing on my car, but I only owe around $1,600 more on that, which will be completed by next March, quite possibly even sooner than that ( Read more... )

Java, not to be confused with JavaScript (DEVIL!), is the next language I want to learn...but I'm having a hell of a time even getting started. I've found a few basic tutorials, but they bore the hell out of me. They bore me because they go to the super basic principles of programming, which is stuff I moved beyond over a year ago with PHP. Java ( Read more... )

This past week has been enjoyable. After work on Wednesday, I went over to Autumn's to celebrate our one year anniversary. Our celebration consisted of eating Chipotle's and watching Friends. We're boring, but I'm okay with that. Then after work on Thursday, I went to her place again for the weekend, since I had Friday off for the Fourth of July ( Read more... )