I’ve upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.2. Apparently K2 (the theme I use) doesn’t work with 2.2 yet, because of the new widget system. I had to disable the cool new widgets to maintain the blog’s look (which I really like), but yeah. The solution is here:
Forum topic on K2+WP2.2
A Series of Tubes
An archive of old posts.
Optical Speaker Recommendations?
I’m looking into purchasing an item which has optical speaker ports and no analog out, so to use sound I’d have to get optical speakers. Does anyone know of a good speaker set for under or around $50 which has optical input? I really don’t care if it’s surround sound or anything, I’d actually rather just have a stereo set, it just has to have optical input.
Two Projects
I have many projects going at any given moment, but currently there are two that occupy most of my weekends. The first, and more important, I can’t say much about at this point, but there will be a lot of info about it when I finish in a few weeks.
The second project involves the iMac I recently acquired from my grandmother. It’s a Snow G3 600mhz slot-loading, with 256mb of ram. I have pretty much no use for it, since it’s running OS X 10.2 (10.3 is really the cut-off point for modern application compatibility), but rather than let the perfectly good 40gb hard drive go to waste, I’m looking for a way to use it for backups. I know I can use Intego Personal Backup X4 to periodically back up my stuff to it over my network, but I was also thinking about possibly attaching my external drive to it so I can access it from anywhere in the house. I haven’t decided on this yet though, I need to see if it suffers much of a speed hit first (or if it’s even possible). I’ve named the iMac Hestia, after the Greek Goddess of the hearth. It was the only name that really fit 🙂
Sorry for the lack of posts
I’ve been pretty busy lately with school and various projects and whatnot, so I haven’t been able to post lately. I’ll try to catch up tonight. 🙂
Eve, Post-Op
Well, I’m happy to report that my computer’s surgical operation went through without a hitch. Well, there was a tiny little problem taking off one of the brackets from the disc drive, so one of the screws on it has been basically stripped of the teeth on its head, but it doesn’t matter.
What does matter is that I successfully extracted the foreign object from the disc drive:
A small, crumpled, ball of paper. It must have slipped in when the computer was in my bag. Well, what’s important is that it’s out now and Eve runs without any problems once again. Yay!
Connecticut
I’m in Connecticut today for mother’s day (with my grandparents), so happy mother’s day, everyone!
Why the registrations?
I’ve noticed that people have been registering on my blog. I’m not sure why, since registration is not required to comment, and registered users cannot do anything non-registered users can’t. Perhaps people are clicking the register link thinking it’s to register for wordpress? I don’t know…
Well, I’m not going to stop you 🙂 Maybe I’ll add some benefit to being a registered user.
Digital voice recorder?
Does anyone know of any digital voice recorders that can record somewhat high quality (meaning higher quality than a cell phone) audio files, and preferably cost less than $30? I’m making a podcast with one of my friends, and recording with my KRZR isn’t really cutting it anymore. The podcast is actually already on iTunes, check it out over here. The content is somewhat explicit, so no childs listening please.
So anyway, if you send us a link to a good recorder which meets the criteria above, and we decide to get that one, you get a free account to our (future) full quality, full access podcast (hooray!) 😀 For more information on this upcoming service, check out the episode entitled “Special The Second”. It explains our plans for the future in some amount of detail.
Oh, and keep in mind that we’re always joking. About basically everything.
Busted Superdrive
Somehow a small piece of paper has slipped inside my computer’s Superdrive (that’s what Apple calls their optical disk drives, no idea why), and it no longer accepts disks. When I put one in, it slides in like it should, then the drive hesitates and spits it back out. Luckily there’s no visible damage to the disk, but the drive is basically out of commission for the time being. I’m planning on dismantling the computer on saturday to retrieve the paper from the drive (I would use tweezers, but i can’t really fit them in there…Plus I want to open my computer :P). I would be doing the dismantling tonight, but apparently we don’t own a Torx screwdriver of the right size to open up a MacBook Pro, so it will have to wait. Oh well, I rarely use the optical drive anyway.
Spiderman 3 Released
Spiderman 3 was a great movie. One of the most anticipated movies of the year, and it’s only May (reminds me of 1999, 2002, and 2005 and their respective star wars releases). I really loved the action sequences and the sandman discovery scene. They were…magical. And the scenes where Peter Parker is an emo had me laughing and cringing at the same time. He rocks the emo look so well it’s crazy. He should have kept his glasses though, they would have perfected it.
Without giving away too much, let’s just say that some main characters die in the end, and there’s an awesome battle involving basically everyone, though I’m not saying who’s on who’s side. It’s an awesome scene, and Venom is done perfectly. I’d like to see Carnage (not Carthage, Cutter…) in a future movie, but they’ve stated that 3 is the last one. Riiiiiiight.