The new crystal method cd is a total next level effort, which is saying something considering how good their last effort was. With the purchase of the cd, you also get access to a special area of their site with additional audio, wallpaper, and photos.
Microsoft MechCommander 2 is really well done. Now if I could just find some cheats for the single player levels, anyone know of any?
Bad start for internet bench Ummm, they forgot to turn the long distance off?
shhh I should add that a server on our network at work, which was not being used for anything at the moment this was discovered, managed to get infected, and it caused more havoc(it was strain 2) than I expected.
Things ended up working out quite smoothly today. I closed in about an hour and a half, and then went over to the house and changed the locks myself, which is quite a bit easier than I thought it would be. In the process, I mastered the art of locking myself out of my new house and was forced to break into it. The closing itself was sort of anticlimatic after all of the hard work it took to get there. Just a lot of paper signing and some joking around, nothing more. What’s up next? Lots of work, and then moving.
Arrrrgh. Last minute complications with homeowners insurance have me scratching my head and crossing my fingers.
This Convergence thing from Stardock looks like it has a lot of potential to make things in the skinning department easier on all flavors of Windows.
Was Gates - forced out - of top job? If you are interested in all these doings with MSFT, this is a must read article. (via Scripting News)
I think I would like this shirt. (via Elegant Hack)
So I finally close on my house tomorrow. I don’t think I had any conception prior to this how tedious buying a house is. There’s this feeling in the pit of my stomach that something is going to go wrong at the last minute, so I keep checking and rechecking things to make sure that nothing goes wrong. It’s not the house I linked to from here a few weeks ago, but another house that I discovered later.
O’Reilly Network: Building a Simple Java Application in Mac OS X
Holding up the rear is a Salon piece that equates dot-com failure with the amount of Aeron chairs a company owned. This may be a symptom of a larger problem: cash management.
People who have been reading Bump for a while might remember my trying to quit smoking at least twice. One time, I even made it a whole year without smoking before regressing. Well, this time I am calling in the heavy artillery. I started taking ZYBAN this morning, which means I will be quitting ten days from now. Wish me luck.
Bob Patterson helped me, and maybe he can help you too. Bob Patterson Online
I took a couple of hours this morning when I woke up and read How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity). I really liked this book. It’s full of witty observational humor, some of which I’m sure was lost on me as it is set in Britain, and I don’t pretend to be familiar with the nuances of British life. It also asks some tough questions through the wit, and I will be thinking about those for the next few days. I’d say, without reservation, that it’s worth picking up and reading.
The narrator in the book is a woman, and I've always been amazed by authors who can switch sexes in narration believably. Her husband is sort of the main character, however, and he begins the book as a consumate angry guy, something I can relate to quite easily. I'll leave the plot of the book to your reading of it, but the transitions that he goes through struck a very personal chord with me.
I love the design feel of Fischler.org.
I’ve done some of the much needed housekeeping this site required. There are now permalinks from every entry, and I added archives for all of the content that is stored with Blogger. For the years of content before that, I haven’t decided what to do yet.
When great magazines have god awful Web sites: The Oxford American
BetaNews: Internet Explorer 6 in Final Stretches. The build they are talking about in the article is only four builds later than the one shipping with Windows XP RC2.