Was planning on watching the inauguration at work, but just realised the movers have already taken the Plasma to the new offices. Looks like one of the many streams is the way to go. Lets see how the net melts down this afternoon, since I’m sure people all over the world will be tuning in!
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Just realised that WP doesn’t have a bulk operations feature. I want to toggle the ‘Published’ state of over 80 drafts, thinking I will just do what MT does, but it actually can’t. So I have to visit each post, the expanded view in the post list is a little helpful. In that I don’t have to open the ‘Edit’ post screen for each post, but it will still take a little while to do. Might put that off for another day then!
I just dinged 80, at last. Not amazing feat by any means, especially since I was turned off from playing for about 2 weeks thanks to computer issues. Going to go finish off the remaining instances, then do the heroics. Need gear for PvP also. Should also get my epic flying mount soon.
Just got back from attending Jo an Richard’s wedding had an excellent time. I failed to re-charge my camera so I didn’t take it with me. I’m sure others will post their pics soon enough so I will link them.
Amazingly not all that tired so I think, I’m going to play some Warcraft, not far from 80 now so I think I will have it in an hour or so. Re-speccing has really helped since my DPS has increased a great deal now. I’m not working tomorrow so I might even spend some time do some of the new dailies I can now do.
I just installed the new power supply and started Warcraft in Windows and it hasn’t crashed.
Yipee! At last, it has only taken 3 weeks to get the upgraded system working properly. Going to let it burn in for 24 hours, then switch back to Linux. I think it is probably safe to delete Windows again, though of course I have a Virtual Machine for work VPN access etc.
Another big comedy came out last week Sex Drive, with a bunch of young unknowns plus James Marsden and Seth Green. Actually I think James Marden stole this film by playing the twat older brother role, pretty well. It’s basically the Sure Thing updated into a teenage comedy drive flick. Pretty funny on the whole, worth watching. Having said that there are just too many good films out at the moment. Next up for me is probably Seven Pounds or Defiance which I have avoided so far since they seem quite deep.
Left the first two episodes of 24 downloading before leaving for work. So I should be able to watch them this evening. Also they are on Sky1 tonight, so if they turn out being bad it is not that much of an issue. I can’t wait!!!
Heath Ledger won the Golden Globe for his performance as the Joker in the Dark Knight, which was my best film of 2008. This means that he stands a good chance to win the Oscar as well. We will find out in a months time.
Watched the new comedy Role Models last night, and it was very enjoyable. It was Imran’s birthday last night so after a late dinner we decided on getting in on the late show.
The film is about a pair of anti-drugs spokespeople, played by Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott. After a performance at a local school, they find their truck being towed and in a fit of crazyness they cause havoc.
As their punishment the pair are sentenced to 150 hours community services. Which they end up serving at a big brother like programme, where they are paired up with two equally troubled kids, resulting in some more antics.
You get the setups for the jokes at the end, right from the begining – so don’t miss any of it! Not quite ‘Pineapple Express’ funny but great fun. Besides any film that has Elizabeth Banks is going to be fine as far as I’m concerned.
Well I got the new Nvidia card, installed it as planned, and guess what it’s not working properly either. However it does seem that it is a little more stable since it is not freezing the computer every 10 minutes like the ATI card I took back.
Looks like that the ATI card was not the problem after all. It has got to be a power problem. I also just realised that the power supply I have is a cheap and nasty EZCool 550W psu and not the nice 550W Antec psu, that was originally in the case. (I think is blew a few years back.)
So I have now ordered a nice 600W OCZ power supply. Hopefully this will be last of the problem. At least the fan is not as loud as the ATI card either. I also got 4GB of new RAM to put in, but will hold off until the graphics card issue has been resolved. It’s amazing how a simple graphics card update for £100 has cost me £300+. Ok, I can’t really count the £100 for the new LCD screen but still, it has ended up being an expensive month since I also got a new Xbox as well.
Well I have decided to take the Sapphire card back. Even under windows is crashes after 30 minutes. It is possible it is just a hardware fault, but my confidence in an ATI card has totally deminished. I’m going to get an Nvidia 9800 based card. It might cost me another £20 but it will at least be stable under Linux, and Windows games should fly, should I decide to keep an install.
I have tried a clean Windows install, tried older drivers. But things get worse, a totally corrupted screen to BSOD under Windows. Linux is worse even a 2D desktop without any effects crashes after 10 minutes. Can’t install an older driver since, the older releases don’t support the hardware past Catalyst 8.10. With the current release being 8.12.
This card has had amazing reviews on the web, so it could be hardware. Why can’t PCs be like Mac and just work dammit.
My new 22″ Digimate screen showed up this afternoon, and I have just wired it up. It is excellent, and a steal at £90! The desktop looks great, and the Warcraft character screen looks great too. However the game play only manages about 10fps when in 1680×1050 since my old card can’t handle that resolution at all. Oh well back to playing CoD4 on the XBox!
Well the Apple MacWorld Keynote without Steve went down quite well in the end. However there was nothing amazing announced, which I think has got a bit of a mixed reaction. People have been left wondering if they purposely kept things a little more low key than usual just to justify not doing future shows, and the fact that Steve will not being doing them anymore.
The big news was a 17″ unibody MacBook and iLife. No new Mac netbook or a revised Mac Mini, which is a shame since I really do want an expandable MacMini.
Been using Wordpress for over a year now, and I still haven’t finished tweeking things, or in reality I didn’t really need to change things in the first place. As a new year resolution I should probably go and publish the 60-odd posts I have in draft mode in the next couple of days. I really have become the uber retro-blogger out of being plain lazy. It has also been a year since I switched to Wordpress, however I have a bad feeling that I have lost a couple of post from about a year ago. Need to go comb the archives properly. Also I just upgraded Wordpress and the new Admin interface is a big improvement, the unecessary navigation has been removed, thank god!
UPDATED: as it turns out I have only been using Wordpress since May, so actually it’s only 7 months of use!
Well I got myself a new XBox Elite today. Admittedly the black case is vastly better than the usual white one. However I’m begining to wonder what the extra £70 has got me. The HDMI cable is a nice extra, and the bigger hard disk is great. But £70 does seem like a lot, especially since John Lewis don’t bundle any games. John Lewis didn’t have any regular 60GB units left. Plus £200 worth John Lewis vouchers have been laying around for over a year so I thought what the hell, and just got the Elite. I know I could have ordered online, but I’m impatient what else can I say. Plus with the added downess of having to take my graphics card back today did not help, and I needed to buy something.
I just hooked it up, and ran the updater. Now I just have to renew my Live account, then migrate old Live profile over. Don’t want to screw up my acheivements and save game info.
I’m actually not going to keep this unit any way. Warranties being what they are Mati and me have decided to actually swap units, though I’m keeping the 120GB drive. Our main Xbox360 is like 2+ years old, so it has the hackable kernel and Hitachi DVD-ROM. I can then take that apart and modify the hell out of it.
