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Wiped out all my blog templates on accident. Think I got 'em mostly back to where they were. Put pics of some of my paintings and sketches here, or see paintings, etc. under "links". I should do back-ups.

I love it when an old celebrity dies. The Game Show Network will dig up all the old programs the newly deceased appeared on. Today GSN is showing everything they've got with Johnny Carson. They did the same thing when Bob Hope passed away.

Just stumbled upon the css zen garden. Thanks alot slashdot! Now I'm probably going to spend the whole weekend messing around with css on my stupid super site that doesn't get any many visitors.

There's some purty css in that garden.

update: if I got a nickel for every time I hit refresh...I'd have a bunch of nickels to be sure

Gonna learn me some Cascading Style Sheets over at the w3school. Why is a non profit using a ".com" domain? Or does the website have nothing to do with The World Wide Web Consortium? I don't care, time to learn.

The processor in the Linkstation is slooooowww. Takes forever to rescan the music directory, right now I've only got around 12 gigs of mp3s on it, hate to think how long a rescan will take once the 120 gig capacity of the drive is reached. I had ripped all of my cds as aac, but Slimserver doesn't support that format natively. Luckily I didn't need to re-rip, I made iTunes convert them to mp3 overnight. Here's a link to the yahoo group where I found the instructions to hack the Linkstation. A neat project if you happen to have a Linkstation.

Damn damn damn, sometimes you need Windows. I need it now to flash the firmware on my Linkstation. Hopefully Virtual PC, my old copy of ME, and a boot image of a floppy I found online will be enough for what I'm trying to do. All of this effort so I can telnet into a god damn network attached storage device. Need a nap.

update: Success! I now have telnet access to my Linkstation. Next step is to install Slimserver on it.

update: After much consternation I was able to use vi to change the root password on the Linkstation. People who write how-to's should try to follow their own instructions, sheesh! BTW, if you CHMOD your passwd file to 666, good idea to CHMOD it back to read only, the how-to didn't mention that. Or at the very least delete the script that changes the passwd file to writeable.

Neat site with user submitted/rated news and deals. Filing my taxes for free thanks to this post. And here's a post about hi-jacking the boot process of a PS2 without buying HD Loader or HD Advance. And my favorite one so far, 10% off the Mac mini from Target.com, deal expires 1/31/05.

Guy at work had one of these yesterday. He busted it within 5 minutes of taking it out of the box. Should've read the instructions, if you have the battery plugged in on the helicopter, don't turn off the remote control, because if you do, the copter will go nuts and end up smashed to bits.

He's ordering two more off eBay and I'm going to pay him for one of 'em. I've always wanted a helicopter. This is a dream come true.

A generous soul has posted a video demonstrating how to open up the new Mac mini. Save some money by upgrading the ram and hard drive yourself. Linkage to site that has a link to the video. Now where did I put my putty knife?

I have a feeling this man has something in common with a certain NFL kicker. See more pics of this award winner at The Rubber Boy . com. Buy the lunchbox, I bet he can fit inside it!

Dropped my discontinued EPSON PhotoPC 750z camera, it's busted. Young folk might not even know that EPSON made digital cameras. They don't anymore, probably for good reason. So, thinking I want to get the Canon PowerShot S70. It's a bit more than I'd like to spend, but it's black and I like that about it. The camera received a favorable review from Digital Photography Review, those guys test the heck out of stuff!

Yes! Finally a sub (barely) 500 dollar Mac. I can't wait to see one of the new mini's in person. The thing's not really much more powerful than my iBook, in fact I reckon it is an iBook in a box, pretty much. I read on Slashdot that the dimensions of the mini are almost the same as the standard opening for a car stereo...hmm an in dash mini...I'd need a better car, maybe a Mini Cooper...

Probably won't be buying either mini. But will absolutely be buying (maybe) the iPod shuttle for under (barely) 100 dollars. That should be shuffle, duh.

Here's a tip for those who want to sit on the toilet every couple of hours. Eat a whole bunch of pistachio nuts and wait for the magic to begin. I recommend it, great way to spend an evening.

Heard a heartworming story on Paul Harvey this morning. Using puppies to smuggle heroin.

Everybody loves puppies! Everybody loves heroin! Sounds like another match made in heaven. "Hey, you got your heroin in my puppy!", "Your puppy agreed to be my mule!" Two great tastes, that taste great together.

Disappointed The Gimp in OS X doesn't seem to support the pressure sensitivity of the tablet. It came with Photoshop Elements 2, Corel Painter Essentials 2 (that's the program used to create the masterful sketch featured above), and some other program I didn't install. Why Elements 2? Why not Elements 3?

It's a shame SuprNova.org doesn't offer torrents anymore, should've grabbed Photoshop CS when I had a chance, then purchased it after I evaluated it. Think I prefer Painter anyway for drawing. Gimp 2.2 is very sluggish and almost unusable with the tablet.

Need to try it out in World of Warcraft, but so far ... I like it!

Do pugs ever stop shedding? Sheesh, hair everywhere. Staying at my folks place for who knows how long and they've got a couple of pugs. I would think that in the cold weather they'd keep as much hair as possible. Maybe when it gets colder.

iPhone glass replacement kit showed up today. The glass in the kit was broken. Shoot.

Dummy at work told me that today. He voted, but didn't vote for president, just local elections. All because of the electoral college system we have, his lame state of Idaho only has 4. He claims that he hates the electoral college system and would rather that the popular vote would prevail. Hey dummy, you didn't vote for president, so yours didn't count period. Obama won the popular vote as well.

The movie still sucks, but it looks a lot better in Blu-Ray. I will say that you can sort of tell the bad guys from the good guys in the higher def version. Viewing the DVD version I couldn't really follow the action, or tell which robot was which. To be honest I was catching up on email and stuff during the heavy CGI scenes. Just wanted to see what's her name in a belly shirt and short skirt in high def.

I've seen that people take credit for my work. Not difficult work, took me 15 minutes or less to do it, squeezed it out before I left on Friday. Emailed the result of my work to the coworker that requested it. Subsequently read an email where that coworker claimed that they created it, they may have edited it, but don't take full credit. Just gives me more reason to hate on folk. This particular coworker couldn't have created it ever. Best to move on if able. Will be with some folk this weekend that might have some options.

It's obvious. Why even debate it? If you look at Kristen Wiig's nose in "Walk Hard" and how it looks on the most recent episodes of SNL, it's clear that she had a nose job. I personally think she looks better.

WTF does "opposed defending marriage" mean? Does that mean he or she thinks homos should be able to get married? Fucking christians need to learn that America isn't a theocracy yet. Are there any non-religious congresspersons or senators?

I just bought a new glass screen and tools to replace it off eBay. Shit is coming from Hong Kong. Why do they call it 2G? That 2G stuff confuses me. Anyway, even if it's the wrong size it was only around 14 bucks. Isn't the 3G iPhone the second generation? They claim it fits a 4 gig iPhone, so that would be a first generation iPhone.

A local company can replace the busted glass screen on my iPhone for "... $65 (parts), $10.88 Shipping, and $35 labor...", so hmm, math, let's see 110.88. Cheaper than sending it back to Apple. Too bad I don't have some other phone lying around I could put the sim card into during the repair time. They say 5-10 days turnaround. Would they need to have my iPhone the whole time? Need to find out what it would cost to get out of my ATT contract. Then go T-Mobile and G1, depending on what it costs to dump ATT. Although, I'm liking an App on the iPhone called GasHog that helps you track how many miles per gallon you get, and what the fuel costs per mile.

That G1 looks goofy, has no standard headphone jack, doesn't play video, not truly open thanks to T-Mobile, has a 2 year contract like ATT.

Fuck it, I'm stuck. Maybe I'll get the 3G iPhone instead and sell the busted one to help offset the cost. I'll have to make sure to take blurry pictures of it.

It was very easy to setup the first 3 times. Why 3 times? Well, I'm trying to use Boxee on it and that requires some work, not really, but I tried it over again when samba wasn't working. Still need some work to get samba shares to load. All the iTunes stuff works great, I can stream any media in my iTunes library fine, movies I've bought, podcasts, music I've bought. What I really want is samba shares to work. That will involve some ssh and ftp work. NitoTV may be the answer. Not a novice to ssh or ftp so I'm not scared about it, just too late in the day to tackle it tonight.

BTW: Never knew I could boot from a USB card reader.

BTW 2: The 2.2 Apple TV update included 1080p.