A lot of you out there will know what this is all about....but would you explode if you knew that it was some BEHIND the scenes info....?
And thanks again to Verizon for screwing up my internet connection again for a whole week of "DSL Prices, and Dial-Up performance"..
Cheers, you're the best! So I am officially blaming you for these VERY short postings.
One slight contribution to all the shorter postings is a very handy little thingy, from Google. It's an additional browser bar (YES just like those annoying ones, but the opposite of annoying), that does a few things for you during your journey round the net. The handiest being blocking pop-ups (hold CTRL when clicking if you find you NEED that pop-up), and the second fave one is an instant blogging button. Find a page, press the symbol, a window pops up (yes I know it blocks pop-ups too, but it's smart see), all filled in and ready for you to publish, after adding choice comments of your er... choice...
Oh now look, I've gone and made this post all lengthy again, darn it all to botherville (along with Verizon)
Tested the speed using a few of those online speed test thingies... got around 80kbps! So did a big no-no and connected a machine (briefly) to the net by completely ignoring the router all together (thinking this could be a good chance to replace the apparently dying router, maniacally laughing in this manner). I was hoping to replace it with one of these wireless ones you see, now I cannot really spend the cash on something that ain't broke. Yes I KNOW that is 90% of how people shop, but not me chum, ok?
No, it seems the router is working as it should and it's the outside world that's wrong, not me..... I am glad I am unhappy about the result (think about that one for a moment perhaps). And while you do, I shall leave it there..
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Friday, August 01, 2003
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Just try this...
Try listening to this, and when you scoff and say "I say PAH to that bloggers childish ramblings!", remember those words when you are singing this all day long, and CANNOT STOP!!
Cheating Fruit Machines
This shouldn't have been news to those who seemed to have gone to such great lengths to write about it. While looking for emulators of all kinds, I found this, and if you do decide to download any of them you may be impressed with how detailed the emulations are!
I don't really know, except that the boing, boing, boing, and doooiiiing, noises they always seem to make for incomprehensible reasons, is just as annoying as when I was a child. Forced to sit drinking some insipid supposed lemonade, while breathing in the smoke from about three thousand clone miners' (those are the coal getting sort, not the young ones) smoking habits of around 11 thousand a day, endlessly laughing maniacally at something that always eluded me...hmm.... in their 'club'. Just the thought of it brings back memories of loud individuals talking about nothing inparticular, and having to remain rooted to the spot for what seemed hours at a time. Chiming away in the background with a kind of sad cheefulness was that blasted fruit machine!
Where was I..er.. oh yes, the noises of the fruit machine emulators, as well as the subliminal blinking and flashing, was something I could never fathom. I regarded them as a place to put your money, and leave it there. So I was not really what one could call 'up' on all things fruity and spinney.
Mind you, the miners seemed to get a lot out of it... is that what it means to have an addictive or compulsive streak?
What did we do before computers entered the home, I will never know! Perhaps some of the above?? (Shudders while changing mind about biulding that time machine)
Anyway, seems that someone agrees with me on Video Game pricing AT LAST!
I don't really know, except that the boing, boing, boing, and doooiiiing, noises they always seem to make for incomprehensible reasons, is just as annoying as when I was a child. Forced to sit drinking some insipid supposed lemonade, while breathing in the smoke from about three thousand clone miners' (those are the coal getting sort, not the young ones) smoking habits of around 11 thousand a day, endlessly laughing maniacally at something that always eluded me...hmm.... in their 'club'. Just the thought of it brings back memories of loud individuals talking about nothing inparticular, and having to remain rooted to the spot for what seemed hours at a time. Chiming away in the background with a kind of sad cheefulness was that blasted fruit machine!
Where was I..er.. oh yes, the noises of the fruit machine emulators, as well as the subliminal blinking and flashing, was something I could never fathom. I regarded them as a place to put your money, and leave it there. So I was not really what one could call 'up' on all things fruity and spinney.
Mind you, the miners seemed to get a lot out of it... is that what it means to have an addictive or compulsive streak?
What did we do before computers entered the home, I will never know! Perhaps some of the above?? (Shudders while changing mind about biulding that time machine)
Anyway, seems that someone agrees with me on Video Game pricing AT LAST!
Friday, July 25, 2003
Movie Reviews
I keep giving my movie reviews around 8 out of 10. This is similar to when I spent years reading software (that means games to be honest) and every review was always in the top 75%.
So in reality, anything that said over 80% was ok, anything less than that was avoidable. Anything over 95% was worth taking a peek at.
Perhaps it was the nature of the technology. Games were (supposedly) always improving with the next big thing. Some terribly named 'engine' behind something which didn't immediately seem as though it had anything to offer, was what the fuss was always about.
So it wasn't really how GOOD a game was, it was more like a HOW BAD it might be. Most of the new stuff (of the time) was bound to look good, and be different from all the other clones in some way, but by defnition wasn't anything exceptional.
They were missing the point somewhat, in that gameplay is still king. No amount of shiney stuff is going to make up for boring thumb mashing time in front of your PC or TV.
And don't forget kiddies, I'm talking about WAYYY back in time, before Playstation 1 even (gasps all round)!
So in reality, anything that said over 80% was ok, anything less than that was avoidable. Anything over 95% was worth taking a peek at.
Perhaps it was the nature of the technology. Games were (supposedly) always improving with the next big thing. Some terribly named 'engine' behind something which didn't immediately seem as though it had anything to offer, was what the fuss was always about.
So it wasn't really how GOOD a game was, it was more like a HOW BAD it might be. Most of the new stuff (of the time) was bound to look good, and be different from all the other clones in some way, but by defnition wasn't anything exceptional.
They were missing the point somewhat, in that gameplay is still king. No amount of shiney stuff is going to make up for boring thumb mashing time in front of your PC or TV.
And don't forget kiddies, I'm talking about WAYYY back in time, before Playstation 1 even (gasps all round)!
Free stuff!
I had to recreate a tediously tedious, publication for distribution around those cheese and wine, get togethers, where nobody actually drinks any wine, eats any cheese, and never means one single moment of that smile that is permenantly on guard duty.
But to do it I needed some OCR (optical character recognition) software, as I couldn't face endless hours of typing phrases such as, "Embracing from day one..... energizing the entire community... and maybe even.... equalizing belief in the spirit of equally spirited believers of this millenium.
So not having the $500 needed for the latest batch of overpriced software, I went in search of maybe a trial version.. I found a great piece of software which is free and worked wonderfully!! From every crappy thing, a possibly not so crappy thing may emerge. (Sometimes just another piece of crap emerges, but not today)
For anyone wondering what OCR is, it's a way of scanning a page from a book (for instance) and then turning an image of that page, into editable text. So you don't have to type it in again. Most people think that simply retyping would take no time at all, and usually around the 4th page, they see the road ahead get longer, instead of that 'quick' 30 mins they had originally hoped for. Mythological tales of generations of families completing their sections of the text, as they die of boredom and carpal tunnel syndrome, because you can bet that any text you have to re-enter, is not something YOU would have done originally, as you would already have it as a text file. So there is no way the Gods are going to let it be in any way interesting to you.
But to do it I needed some OCR (optical character recognition) software, as I couldn't face endless hours of typing phrases such as, "Embracing from day one..... energizing the entire community... and maybe even.... equalizing belief in the spirit of equally spirited believers of this millenium.
So not having the $500 needed for the latest batch of overpriced software, I went in search of maybe a trial version.. I found a great piece of software which is free and worked wonderfully!! From every crappy thing, a possibly not so crappy thing may emerge. (Sometimes just another piece of crap emerges, but not today)
For anyone wondering what OCR is, it's a way of scanning a page from a book (for instance) and then turning an image of that page, into editable text. So you don't have to type it in again. Most people think that simply retyping would take no time at all, and usually around the 4th page, they see the road ahead get longer, instead of that 'quick' 30 mins they had originally hoped for. Mythological tales of generations of families completing their sections of the text, as they die of boredom and carpal tunnel syndrome, because you can bet that any text you have to re-enter, is not something YOU would have done originally, as you would already have it as a text file. So there is no way the Gods are going to let it be in any way interesting to you.
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Important Government Issues...
Went to see my chums down town today, and as usual they were helpful and to the point (no this time I REALLY mean it). Sorted out a few mysteries as to why things appeared to have stopped completely.
I got to thinking that perhaps this is one reason people just don't bother completing the processes needed. After all, my particular visa stretches out over about 3 or 4 years until everything is completed. All that time it is down to a lottery of if a person that day has put on top, or at the bottom, of often VERY large piles of paper to be processed.
Seeing the form numbers and newsgroups again after such a long time, brought back shuddering memories of piles of papers, acres of research, and buttock clenching (but always needless) worry over how a particular interview may go...
As usual, I worried myself to death, got prepared, only to find them very helpful and in this particular case, willing to lend a hand.
All in all a good day :)
I got to thinking that perhaps this is one reason people just don't bother completing the processes needed. After all, my particular visa stretches out over about 3 or 4 years until everything is completed. All that time it is down to a lottery of if a person that day has put on top, or at the bottom, of often VERY large piles of paper to be processed.
Seeing the form numbers and newsgroups again after such a long time, brought back shuddering memories of piles of papers, acres of research, and buttock clenching (but always needless) worry over how a particular interview may go...
As usual, I worried myself to death, got prepared, only to find them very helpful and in this particular case, willing to lend a hand.
All in all a good day :)
Saturday, July 19, 2003
Friday, July 18, 2003
Is this right or wrong?
Huntingforbambi.com is a site where apparently, big grown up men, run around paintballing women.
That's a little odd in itself, until you discover that the women are in the buff! Yes, that's right, nudie!
This is the deal... they go out sans clothing into the woods. Then if they evade the paintballs, they get a huge wedge of cash. If not, they have to appear as 'trophies' on the website.
Avoiding the screamingly obvious innuendo, what do you think?
That's a little odd in itself, until you discover that the women are in the buff! Yes, that's right, nudie!
This is the deal... they go out sans clothing into the woods. Then if they evade the paintballs, they get a huge wedge of cash. If not, they have to appear as 'trophies' on the website.
Avoiding the screamingly obvious innuendo, what do you think?
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