10/8/04

So I haven't posted in awhile... Combination of “The Sims 2” and moving to bellvue.
Sims 2. Same As First. Better Graphics. If you liked the first you'll like this one. Thats all I'm going to say about it. That and Roosterteeth is making their next series using the engine.

R.O.D. TV Vol. 2 appears to be out. You might remember I raved about Vol 1. I'm going to buy it in a week or two when Suncoast goes to triple points sale on the weekend of the 16th.

I downloaded OpenOffice.Org before we left and I like it a lot right now. The auto spell checker is pretty useful to. As it happens I'm righting this post from it right now. Anywho it looks a lot like Microsoft Wordpad and also can do Microsoft Excel files (.xls) among other files.

In other news I bought Battlefield 1942 a couple weeks ago. Its also really fun.

Music wise I've been listening to the Sub-Motive CD and a bunch of Anime music I found on the net. “Losing myself” By “Day After Tomorrow” is pretty good. I recommend finding the song. AllOfMP3 had some Monty Python records so I downloaded those. I am now a Monty Python Fan.
“Raivin of the Beaches” had three songs on download.com. I plan seeing if I can find anymore at some time in the future.

My P.C. has seemed a bit sluggish on loading stuff. Mostly on startup and loading programs. It started when I installed Norton Antivirus on it. I'm pretty sure thats the biggest culprit. I haven't installed XP service pack 2 and i don't really plan to, mostly because of what I've read about it on slashdot and other computer magazines. I do have Zone Alarm Installed so I have a firewall on. Firefox is also my browser of choice so I don't have to worry about the activex hacks that are popular with IE.
Back to the point though I plan to clean out my registry and defrag my hardrive when I get some time.

I've been looking into building my own computer for some time. I plan on building a 500$ Internet browsing computer. I don't know when I'll have time to do this but it will happen if not this year then sometime in 05.

I also have relatives visiting in November who are bringing their spyware infested computer with for me fix. I'm not even sure how old it is... My basic plan is to try and salvage it without wiping the drive and reinstalling everything. But I'll probably have to Nuke it anyway. Then I'll install some Open Source Goodness and firewall fun. Then they will bow down to me in amazement at my computer know how. Or something to that effect. The biggest problem is going to be educating them not to return the computer back to its Virusy state within six months.

Well that should hopefully make up for my absence.

Blue Nile