Hurricane Juan Damage
Posted by on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 in - 25 comments
Living on Prince Edward Island I have a sense of security when it comes to natural disasters. Most don't think of Twisters or Earthquakes every coming close to us to be scared of it. This past weekend we were hit by Hurricane Juan (down graded to a Tropical Storm) and the damage it left behind has …
Maybe Next Year
Posted by on Monday, September 29, 2003 in - 1 comment
As the 2003 election comes to a close here on PEI, the New Democrats party again fails to gain a seat. I would love to see all 3 political parties represented but it won't be happening this year.
Multiple LCD Displays
Posted by on Sunday, September 14, 2003 in - 4 comments
Half Life 2 is just around the corner and it has many pricing up new systems to get the best quality from what looks to be the best shooter game ever. • I plan on only buying a new tower to replace my 800mhz and keeping my current 19 inch display but a recent post over at The JAFT Journal got me …
the Death of 2Pac, 7 years later
Posted by on Saturday, September 13, 2003 in
7 years ago today on Friday, September 13th, 1996 Tupac Amour Shakur was pronounced dead after a drive by shooting 6 days earlier. After his death, I have been baffled by controversy with the question "Is Tupac Alive?" and amazed with the amount of facts/myths that argue both sides of the story.
Font Management
Posted by on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 in
Time to do some late spring cleaning and get rid of more then half the fonts I have installed. Over the past year I have managed to gather 1,022 fonts from installing software, buying font packages, from the web etc. Way too many and Windows still does not provide an easy way to manage them …
Powerless
Posted by on Sunday, September 7, 2003 in
The power just went out and I'm sitting here in complete darkness only with the glow of my laptop screen. Not sure what's going on yet, but it seems my neighbors are all in black too. • Since moving from a desktop to a laptop last December, this has happened twice. Everytime seems cool but the …
More ASCII Art
Posted by on Thursday, September 4, 2003 in
Even considering the fact that theres software for generating ASCII art, romanm.ch is still impressive with a collection of videos and images. • link via boing boing
Upgrading Miranda IM
Posted by on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 in
Comparing Individual colors XP 1.0 • to amicons 2.4.1. • Time to update once again with some important bug fixes. Especially the bug in 0.3 that sucks up 100% of your CPU during certain operations and stays that way. • Some key updates. • Removed some memory leaks • Many bug fixes …
I Hate This Key
Posted by on Monday, September 1, 2003 in
How many times are you playing games and you hit the Windows key instead of Ctrl or Shift? One is more then enough, especially with games like Counter-strike that make you restart the game. • I hate this Key will allow you to disable this key during full screen gaming. • “The only right …