I still need at least 5 more people to sign up to receive their Free Flat Screen from FreeFlatScreens.com. Its really easy and relatively cheap and the reward is great. Isn’t it worth a couple bucks to get a FREE flat screen. I think it is.
My offer still stands, as well. Any of those who help me get my Free Flat Screen, will get my help to get theirs.
P.S. — Those of you who have signed up, I thank you. But, remember, you need to complete one of the offers for it to count.
Well I’ve set up a TeamSpeak server so I can more easily communicate while I am dropping some artillery on my opponents. Setup was very simple and it works great. If you haven’t tried TeamSpeak out yet, I highly recommend you do. It is a great tool for voice-communication over the web.
Go download the client and then connect to my server. You can get details on how over at A Random Act of Gaming, which is my personal gaming site. Just register and then browse the forums for info on my TeamSpeak server.
From JibJab, the creators of the Internet phenomenon “This Land,” comes another epic political parody. As the election approaches and the people are divided, George W. and John Kerry break out all the stops (and break into song). Featuring appearances by John Edwards, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein and John McCain.
via Atom Films
This is an excellent time-waster. Choose your President and see what kind of approval rating you can score by being shot out of a cannon.
Pure Genious!!
The official (well, I think official) pricing scheme for Half-Life 2 (on Steam) has been released.
1. Bronze — $49.95
– Half-Life 2
– Counter-Strike: Source2. Silver — $59.95
– Half-Life 2*
– Counter-Strike: Source
– Half-Life 1: Source
– Day of Defeat: Source
– Valve’s back catalog currently available on Steam3. Gold — $89.95
– Half-Life 2
– Counter-Strike: Source
– Half-Life 1: Source
– Day of Defeat: Source
– Valve’s back catalog currently available on Steam
– Complete Half-Life 2 Strategy Guide from Prima Games
– 3 different Half-Life 2 posters
– Half-Life Collector’s box
– Half-Life 2 hat
– Half-Life 2 postcard
– Half-Life 2 stickers
– Half-Life 2 Soundtrack CD
– Chance to win a trip to Valve! (1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased).
via Forever Geek
WordPress impresses me more and more each day. I just upgraded to their latest stable release (1.2.1) and it took me about 34 seconds to do it. If you are wondering what to use for blogging software, I can’t recommend WordPress enough.
Whew… after 2 days of suffering through work on only a single monitor at 1024×768, I am back in the game. I received my new video card today courtesy of CDW. Its nothing special, just an off-brand with a Nvidia GeForce FX-5200 chipset. I went for it because of price and the dual-monitor outputs.
Well back to being productive again. 
My RSS feed is now being massaged through FeedBurner. For those of you who already subscribe (if there is anyone) nothing will change for you, but any newcomer will be getting my FeedBurner RSS. What does this mean? Well basically with FeedBurner I can keep track of who views my feed, plus they have a cool way of integrating links from my newly activated ClipBlog from Bloglines. So we’ll see if this thing works out. The only drawback that I see so far is that my RSS goes through a third party now, but I’m not sure that it matters much.
Wanna see what is happening at our local volcano? Check it out, thanks to the VolcanoCam
Well I got into work today and booted up my machine only to discover my video freaking out on me… then the screen went black. I could only think to myself… “Boy, this can’t be good.” I shut down my machine (by “shut down, I mean unplugged) and cracked open the case. I found that the fan on my video card was frozen solid. Crap!
So, right now I am writing this on my backup video card which is only allowing me to use one monitor at 1024X768. Let me tell you, this sucks. You may think I’m spoiled, but when you’re used to two monitors at 1280X960, this tends to be a drastic reduction in productivity.
So I talked it over with my boss and he is letting me get another video card. In fact, he asked me to get two because he want’s to have the dual-monitor option also, because, he agrees, it is worth it. So, thanks to David (my boss), I should be back in working order in a couple of days. For now I guess I’ll just drudge along on this old thing. Ughh!