oopsie...

In case you tuned in to the blog yesterday and noticed that i found the thing on Sealand and the fishbowls so interesting that I posted the links for a total of six times... That was a glitch. Page wouldn't load where it says "your blog has been published" when i clicked submit button. After 6 trys I finally just said bugger it I'll fix it tomorrow. I don't bother to check the blog itself since I haven't posted anything.
Then today when I reposted the post and checked the blog there were six posts of the same thing.
What I think happened was that i had a firefox extension that allows you to allow cookies by just hitting Ctrl + C while on that site. I forgot I had just installed that for some reason. Anywho after I disabled it today blogger is working fine.

I'm not sure who I'm angrier with Dell or Corel
So we got a new Dell laptop for "the business" last year with the whole office productivity thing, Where they install quicken and wordperfect and a couple other things. Anywho we finally got around to transferring all the files from the old computer (which was running windows 95 and wordperfect 6) to the inspirion 8500 which was running XP Pro and wordperfect 10 (supposedly). Little known fact, when a business is around for awhile you get a bunch of text files that get saved in one giant mess. But that's not a problem since wordperfect 6 had a nice handy-dandy search button.
So the first time the owner goes to look for a word document she looks for the search button. No search Button.
I try looking around.
No bloody search button.
They're a crapload of other buttons that do useless things like linking to Corel's website among other crap but no search.
I figure they just hid it under a menu. But I can't find it anywhere. Try using open file and using search button there. (search button was also located there in ver 6 and it well designed and had other nice features) Nope.
Instead I get a crappy IE file view with no search function and no helpfulness. It takes me five minutes just to get the preview pane to work properly.
Finally I go into help topics and type "search" and it tells me the search button is a completely different program. So okay I think that's stupid but whatever. I navigate to start/programfiles/ wordperfect office 2002 but there's no search program.
NONE!
apparently Dell doesn't install a full version of its programs. Because they did the same thing with quicken. Pre-Installed is only for NEW Quicken users. Old ones have to buy it again. But that's another story for another time.
Finally we just hook up the old win 95 computer and use the search function on wordperfect 6 to find the file.
I'm going to test out OpenOffice.Org tomorrow.

8/24/04

I want one of these...
Of course aquariums in strange places are always cool.

Browsing Wikipedia and found this really interesting artice about Sealand...

Incompetence

How Incompetent can security get? We have a new low.

It was hanging on the wall with no bells or anything. I'm not saying they should super glue it to the wall, just put it under something heavy and bulletproof.
Madonna Scream

Well the yearly reunion was fun. My feet hurt at the moment. I only had sandals to wear which really sucks when you have to chase the younger cousins around. I didn't get to do much tubing cause the river was to rough. We were getting five foot waves by the time we came in. It was pretty funny watching the 11 year old try to ride the waves. Granted I was in the tube beside him so I got the exact same beating from the waves.

So Mandrake ;ooks pretty interesting. I figure since I'm already using firefox, I might as well just cut Microsoft out of the loop all together.

Extensions...

I'll be gone till Monday for family reunion so nothing is guaranteed. Here's a Pic from Montana during our travel to Minnesota.

Anywho here are a list of Firefox extensions that I have found useful and you will to. All are downloadable at mozilla.org

Download Manager Tweak
It tweaks it and it looks better

IE View
for those sites that just won't work.

Jumplink
So hotmail won't mess with my e-mail links.

Bandwidth Tester
Self Explanatory

Sage
Nice little RSS feed aggregator

Allow Right-Click
For sites that try to disable it

Image Zoom
So I don't have to save then zoom

StumbleUpon
I've talked about them in the past. Highly Useful. Highly Addictive

User Agent Switcher To change your User Agent, so that you can get around some IE only sites. That and its useful for annoying Webmasters buy doing something like "Mozilla/4.8 [en] (TRS-80 Model I; U)" You can get access to some sites by using "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

Well that's all. Hope they help

Colors

So I'm trying to figure out which color I like better for the case for the Zen Xtra.
Heres the finalists...
1
2
3
4
5

I'm Mostly leaning toward 1 at the moment
anyway comment on which one you like best.

Some Stuff...

Vaja Cases
Just featured in Pop Sci and others they look really cool and I will be getting one for my Zen Xtra in the near future and my cell-phone when they get a version for the model.

RPG Cliches

The site has been around forever but they have added new stuff and its all funny.

Jawbone Microphone
Sorta looks like the guy has a mini ipod mini strapped to his ear. Aesthetics wise it flunks but the techiness behind it looks cool. Granted the Jabra BlueTooth one looks cooler and its wireless so it gets cool points also.



So in other news my dog is spending the night at the vet. He has to have a growth removed from his gums. Either way he wasn't to thrilled about it.

From the reviews I've read Sudeki is a bust. Which sorta sucks, I was looking forward to it and hoping it would be good but alas it sucks.
As it happens the only games out for the X-box that I want to get are...
Mech Assault
Crazy Taxi 3
Fable (if its good)
Spider Man 2
Now of course the playing of these games necessitates that I actually buy a X-Box, and I just don't want to buy one for the price its at right now. Maybe on the next price drop or when they get some more exclusives that i want to play...

Tis all for now I'll talk when find something to talk about or when my deadline pops up.

Blue_Nile

And the world turns

So that rio Chroma is sounding pretty cool...

Mostly the driverless/software is the thing that interests me the most. Now if it had a larger hardrive. Acording to the blogger spellcheck i should replace hardrive with wardrobe.

Embedded Entertainment with Smart Projectors
A projector i could use on any wall. Impromptu SSBM Tourneys at any location with a wall. Fun


except for the voluntary dental surgery part and the small size its a cool idea.

Metal Rubber

You have no idea how many RGB cables I've gone through for my ps2 and cube... Countless other uses but that's one that stands out to me for some reason.

Stop IE
pretty self explanatory

heh...

ick...

I'd like to talk about something happening gadget wise but, nothing catches my interest at the moment.

The four weeks I spent at digipen went by really fast. The half week I spent in MN went by fast. Now its slow again. I liked going fast, it was interesting and different.

Gadget

Cordless Collector
I've been waiting for this thing to get a windows OS version for the last 3-4 months.
They actually just featured it in Popular Science this month along with allofmp3.com which is cool because I used to go to them and other mags for interesting links and now I'm ahead by a couple months.

Google recommends...

Firefox!!! Original Message as follows...

Hi there,

Upgrading your web browser to a newer version will probably solve the
problems you're seeing in the new Blogger. We recommend using Mozilla
Firefox however, available here:
http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Thanks, Steve
Blogger Support Team

In other news...

I finished taping the reunion yesterday. I have a hour and forty minutes worth of footage to sit through. Yay. But I'm getting paid so any pain is worth enough money. So I get to start on that once we get back home.

Those two blog registries still haven't replied yet. But the first one did take over a month to put me up.

So I guess The N is releasing another colored GB. A Pink one this time... On OCTOBER 29TH!

FoxTrot greatest paper comic... I stopped reading it when we stopped getting the paper. Now I can store it on my computer and have it to read ANYTIME!!!

CAPITALIZE!!!

Capitalization is the difference between "Helping your uncle Jack off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse".

strange....

i have 3 or 4 posts I made from my cellphone that the blog is showing as being created... however they're not showing up on the main page and when i directly go to them they're not there. Maybe posting regular wil fix the prob...

40 Mile W of MN.

40 Mile W of MN. Lots of grass.

Still moving.

Still moving.

I surprisingly still have cell.The

I surprisingly still have cell.The thunder & rain are pretty bad at the moment. Battery is on edge. Hopefully the picture worked. Blue

I feel older. My parents

I feel older. My parents are older. I don't know how to feel about that.

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The lightning is pretty interesting.

The lightning is pretty interesting. Its starting to get big. Press send before i lose cell. Blue_nile

I have a leg cramp.

I have a leg cramp. Somewhere in montana

I need to go to bed...

The only reason I'm posting this is because the battery on my gba just went out. I've been playing fire emblem for the last 8 or so hours. Not continually mind you. There was 45 minute "Rush Hour" break, and I had a haircut appointment before that. But for the rest of the day I was playing.

I think I'll steal Fargo's line by saying "Fire Emblem Owns My Pepe". The game is excellent. It is liquid gold and it excellent. I just finished the first part of the quest and finished the side quest to save the merchant. (This isn't a spoiler. It talks about it in the manual...)

The game is complete and unadulterated fun. Buy The Game! Buy It Now!
Chibi Kasumi commands you!

P.S. This thing looks pretty cool. To bad i don't have a X-box... I'd like to get one but with fable getting a m-rating there's no chance in hell of me being able to get it... Edit: Kasumi Broke My Blog

cool stuff...

Really Cool, to bad i don't like halo...

8/1/04

So I spent most of the day looking for my cat who I thought had gotten outside at some point... And then shows up at 7:30 pm. So today was fun... Not that I spent the whole day just a couple hours and a whole lot of mental worry...

I'm not sure if I feel any different after going to the digipen stuff for the 4 weeks. I'm not sure, although it's really annoying seeing all the back-to-school ads already.
I think I feel older but then I could just be wrong... One thing should be noted however if you go to one of the workshops... Don't get the cafeteria food it sucks major...

So on another note I didn't get to talk to the cute girl again. But I'll hopefully see her at sakura-con 2005.

So anybody going to PAX?
It looks like it will be pretty fun and I signed up for the SSBM, MKDD and Soul Caliber torn.

I also picked up the Azumanga DVD Vol 3 on Saturday. Its funny and all but I like the manga a lot better. I just like the way it jumps around more.

So out of the three gba games I've been playing I like fire emblem the best. Super Mario ? is fun but it doesn't work very well in a car. At least if you live in a area with potholes and/or dirt roads. Just as your about to hit a button... BA-BUMP!!! Pothole = Dead Mario
Sword Of Mana Suffers from that same problem. That and its just not that fun. Hit monster with sword. Walk awhile. Hit another guy with arrow. Walk. unkown new guy is invincible to first to weapons try blunt attack. Crap that doesn't work. Try first elemental magic attack. Crap that doesn't work. Try different. Nope. Try again. Nope try aga... Dead
Rinse wash repeat... The story isn't that great at least to me. I'm at the part where
you...
SPOILER
after you fight medusa and I'm stuck in the puzzle mansion thing.

End Spoiler

that's the other thing Everything looks the same and its really hard to dodge stuff.
Don't forget you can only save at certain spots. That just sucks. Why cant they just have healing stations at certain areas and a save anywhere system? Granted this isn't a big problem since the GBA Battery life is bloody long. Usually I just turn off the light and close the shell.

That's why I like fire emblem. Its turnbased so no pothole death, Save anywhere, Its pretty fun and it has a pretty good story. Now if they would just release the one with Marth in it I'd be happy. The one complaint I have is that your characters can die. At least I think they "Die". I accidentally let the Pegasus knight girl get gang-banged by 4 swordsmen on the stage where your defending that castle in the beginning. My approximate words were " YOUR ON A BLOODY PEGASUS!!! FLY IN THE SKY IF YOUR HURT!!!" Anywho she didn't listen and was removed. So I figure well there is a learning experience don't do that again. So I save and go on to the next where she whines about a broken arm and gets to walk around with main gal. It's really annoying because you see her in the cinema things beforehand but she doesn't show up on the playfield. Its just that "SHE'S A KNIGHT! SUCK IT UP AND DO SOME SCOUTING FOR ME OR SOMETHING!" so that's why I don't let any other characters die. Auto restart of level and all that. But the game is surprisingly fun.

Interesting glitch with the blogger spellchecker:
when you scroll through the suggested words and reach the bottom the thing doesn't stop it just puts in the word it recommended.