Archive for January, 2007

iBlinds

The following YouTube video doesn’t seem to get many nice comments. I have to say, it’s creative, whether or not anyone thinks it is stupid or impossible. But, is anything really impossible these days?

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iBlinds

The following YouTube video is a response to the iBlinds video. Just thought I would share it for laughs.

Re: iBlinds

iPod

I received a 30GB iPod (black) from my dad for Christmas. I’m not someone who goes crazy over iPod products, but I do like mp3 players and the iPod is really nice. It’s not just an audio player, but also a video player. I haven’t tried it yet, but it allows you to view photos, too.

When I found out it could play games, I thought, “Wow, that’s neat.” But, I’m not really impressed because moving through menus was even hard for me at first; taking me about 10 minutes to figure out (I didn’t read the instructions first). So, I probably won’t use it to really play games. I have a Nintendo DS for that anyway. The other features include a calendar, clock, notes, and a stopwatch. I wanted to use the calendar, but for some reason it’s not syncing right with Outlook. I’m not sure why that is, yet.


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Blog Last Updated

I finally added “Blog last updated on X.” so everyone visiting the main home page knows without having to visit the blog every time just to check.

Someone on the Nucleus forum helped me out with this and I am very grateful!

I didn’t think I would be able to do it, but it’s up there. If you just want to come straight to the blog, that’s fine too. The date is just there for people who happen to visit the home page first, rather than the blog.

Santa Claus

Since Christmas was just here, it’s only fair to add something here. I recently noticed a visitor from a town in Indiana named Santa Claus. I thought it had to be joke since Christmas was only less than a month ago. I checked it out on MapQuest and sure enough, there the town was. I decided that I should check out the history for the town and came across this page. I am going to tell you a summary of the story; leaving it up to you to read the whole story yourself. It’s worth it.


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MSN? Wireless? Client?

Ever since I put openSUSE 10.2 on this laptop, as far as I can remember, I am constantly being disconnected from MSN. I know people who have me on their list find this annoying, but the only solution is to disconnect and not use it. Not a very good solution, unless you’re lazy and don’t care about figuring out what’s causing it.

Yahoo doesn’t seem to be affected, so I would think that cancels out the wireless, or does it? Maybe the Yahoo server doesn’t detect this if I haven’t been offline for long. MSN might detect it right away. I’ve tried as many clients as I can find and it doesn’t matter which one I use, it still happens. So, that cancels out the clients. Or does it? Did Microsoft change something in their code?

I do know that when browsing, sometimes my wireless connection does go out and I have to wait just a little bit (one minute at the most) before I can continue. But I am never disconnected from Yahoo or MSN as far as I can see. But maybe there is a slight lag so the messenger doesn’t detect this right away. My signal is perfect, so that isn’t what is causing it.


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