Archive for May, 2007
Tonight, for the first time in my Guitar Hero 2-playing career, I finished “Freebird” on Expert. Rawk[ READ MORE ]
With the advent of modern technology, I’m thinking that I’m going to have a lot more photos that I want to organize and publish, so I’m reassessing my self-hosted Gallery2 setup that I’ve been using for a year or two. About the only things I can say that I genuinely like about the current situation [ READ MORE ]
So it turns out that the hard drive I was trying to mount in the enclosure I’d bought was being sneaky: it behaved normally just long enough for me to write a post about the enclosure being broken, mount the drive internally, and return the enclosure to the store. Then it stopped working entirely. I [ READ MORE ]
I swear I’ve got some supernatural effect on computer hardware that causes it to want to make things as difficult as possible for me. Since we upgraded to digital cable, our PVR box has been sitting unloved and unused in the spare bedroom because we don’t really have the space or the inclination to set [ READ MORE ]
Cressa and I have been regular shopaholics this weekend. I got some new golf shoes yesterday and Cressa bought not one but two pairs of Crocs (which encouraged me to get a pair as well), but our big purchase came today: with the wedding and honeymoon (St. Lucia!) coming up, we decided it was time [ READ MORE ]
I just finished up The Children of Húrin. I’d recommend it to Tolkien fans, but it’s a little harder to recommend more broadly. The book is written in a style much like that in The Silmarillion – like a legend from the past being retold thousands of years later – and so it lacks the [ READ MORE ]
Cressa and I saw Spiderman 3 last night at the Imax theatre in Mississauga with some friends. Compared to all of the movies in the superhero genre it was pretty good, but it doesn’t quite live up to the expectations set by the first two movies in the franchise, or other recent franchise “reboots” like [ READ MORE ]