Well I’m prepping for my vacation tomorrow. Cleaning up after the explosion of Christmas in my house. I made out alright. Got pretty much what I was hoping for: Some movies (LOTR:RotK, Star Wars Trilogy, and Spiderman 2), some poker chips (500 pieces, aluminum case, 11.5 grams… sweet), and a game (Star Wars: Battlefront). All and all it was a good score.
Now I’m headed off to Prineville Resevoir for 3 nights. We’re looking for snow, but I’m not sure if we’ll find any. It’s been pretty sparce so far this season. Anyway… gotta get back to packing and getting ready.
See ya’ll next year.
Personal
Anarchy Online is free of charge for a year. I’ve never tried out any of these MMORPG’s (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games — for those of you who didn’t know) mainly because I don’t want to pay a monthly charge for them. Well now I have the chance to see what all the excitement is about and it won’t cost me a dime. You don’t get any of the expansion packs, but what do you expect for FREE.
Now we’ll see if I can rustle up any FREE time to actually sit down and play the game.
Computing
games
Anyone need a Gmail account??? I have 10 9 8 invites to give out. It seems that the number of people actually wanting these accounts are dwindling. So I’m pretty much offering these up to anyone who wants them. Just send me an email to: snarfblatt REMOVE ME at gmail dot com. Obvioulsly remove the “REMOVE ME” part and use symbols instead of words for “at” and “dot”. I’ll kick ya an invite while supplies last.
Update: Well, I just gave out my first one. Only 9 left.
Update: There goes another one. 8 to go.
General
I’ve started using Flickr to upload the pictures from my camera phone. Its a pretty cool little site actually. Really easy to use and manage your images. Now I just need to upgrade php on my server so I can use the FlickIt plugin for this site.
Personal, blogging
blogging
Arrived at work today to find this on my desk. A big ‘ole basket of fruit.
In the card is a gift certificate to LL Bean… way cool. Thanks.
Personal
Got me a new phone on Saturday. I’m now more of a geek than I was already. It has a camera, voice dialing, and even bluetooth. I rushed out and bought a bluetooth adapter for my computer so I can now upload and download pictures and audio.
Here is a picture of my new Motorola V551
Look for some more pictures now that I have a camera. I’m such a dork… I know.
Personal
I almost died lauging about this one.
Humor, News
So last night I got Subversion running on my machine here at home.
What is Subversion? You may ask.
Well it is the successor to CVS which, to the lay-men(spelling??) out there, is used for “Version Control”. Basically the deal is, as some of you know, I design websites on the side (shameless plug– visit SliverNet for all of your web hosting and design needs). But I’m not the lone designer, so in an effort to keep track of all of the pages that we are working with, I started thinking about version control software.
Well it just so happens that our “guru” at my real job was looking into alternates to CVS and had decided on Subversion, so I thought I would take a look at it.
Setup was extremely easy, first I installed the latest Apache 2 webserver so I could access this repository from anywhere. Then I installed Subversion, which then configured Apache for me. Pretty simple so far. I also installed TortoiseSVN which is the Win32 GUI (yes, I am on a Windows machine).
Next came the more complex stuff, which turned out not to be very complex at all because… I read the documentation. (Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but reading the documentation helps.) And BAM.. I’m Subversed!
Yeah, I know, how big of a geek am I to get excited about getting version control setup. Oh well, just be thankful you don’t have to live with me like my wife and kids do. Anyway, enough for now.
Computing
Mozilla’s Thunderbird Mail program has been officially released. Rush out and grab a copy.
Computing
