Apparantly there is a recall on Xbox Power adapters. You can read all about it at news.com. It seems to effect US consoles sold before Oct ‘03. Go get yourself a new cord!
Sharepoint
Michael brought up a great point the other day. As he puts it, “there’s way to much shit i know.” Now, granted, this usually isn’t that big of a problem. However, it’s when you haven’t been using that knowledge and you want to attempt to remember it in a timely fashion, that things begin to breakdown. Personally, I’d hate to think of all the stuff I have forgotten about just because I haven’t used them. Well, now I may have a personal solution. Windows Sharepoint Services.
Hopefully this will help me clean out my bookmarks, since that’s where I have a tendency to keep all this stuff. Usually, I have a problem, find the solution, and then have to redo all the previous steps when said problem comes up again. It’d be nice if I had a personal place where I could just copy things into, and be able to edit them as I need to also.
Case in point, just today, my brother needed help with something, and I needed to do a remote assistance session with him. Now, he’s behind a router that doesn’t support uPNP, so I had to manually edit the remote assistance file that he sent me. Granted, I’ve had to do this before, but hell if I remembered. So I had to waste a good 10-20 minutes figuring out why I was having such a hard time connecting to him (plus the fact he had xp home, which I didn’t remember, so I couldn’t just TS in).
Hopefully this will make everything better. You can view my personal knowledge base at it’s new location.
Valentine’s Day
Just throwing out a happy valentines day to everyone. Erin received her gift in the mail today, and I think she enjoyed it đŸ™‚
Oh, and for those of you that forgot, or whatever, just print out some of these coupons. I’m sure your significant other will love them.
Girlfriend
It was brought to my attention on Friday, that I hadn’t really posted much about about her. In fact, after looking through the website, the only time I’ve even really mentioned her was in passing.
Well, since that entry about a month ago, she is now my girlfriend. Actually this weekend she actually came down to visit me (every weekend previous to this, I had gone up to see her). As I mentioned before, Bree was the setup person behind this. She is going to school at Midwestern to become a physical therapist, and became friends with Erin.
Yes, I know what you’re thinking now. “Her name is the same!” Blah, blah, blah. It happens, whatever, it’s just a name. At first it was weird, but it didn’t take much to get over it. She and I have a lot of the same interests, being outdoors, biking, camping, etc. I just need to get her into climbing and I think we’re all set :).
This weekend we didn’t really do much, but we did celebrate Valentine’s Day on Saturday since we wouldn’t be seeing each other on Monday. I brought her out to Silvercreek for dinner, and then we went out with some of her friends to a bar downtown Champaign. It was a good time, and the food was awesome. I had the lamb chops, which were fabulous, and she had Beef Tenderloin, which was also great.
All in all, a good weekend.
Getting a Dell
Today, until the 14th (I think), there is an awesome deal on Dell’s Dimension 4700. For $499 (after $100 rebate), you get a 2.8GHz 800MHz FSB HT P4, 256MB DDR2 400MHz RAM, 40GB SATA Harddrive, 2 Year Warranty, FREE 17” LCD Monitor, and free shipping.
Just today, I was trying to transcode some Divx files to MPEG to burn to a DVD for my Mom (yes Mom, I’m still working on it), and I realized how dumb of an idea that was going to be on my tablet. I started thinking that I needed to actually get a workstation for home, to do some of the things the tablet just isn’t very good at. Of course, this deal just happened to start today, so, instead of getting a watch with my tax refund, I’ll be getting a new machine. I did, however, upgrade the ram to 512MB and a 80GB harddrive.
Hopefully I’ll have it soon so that I can give my Mom her bday gift.
IPass part 2
This weekend was the first real test of the IPass holder. It worked flawlessly as expected. I stuck it on my car Thursday morning, and I’m happy to report that it’s still in the same spot. The suction cup doesn’t even look like it’s straining.
However, if I were to do it again, there would be a slight design modification. Instead of wrapping the wire around the nipple, I would heat the wire with a lighter, and just stick it right through the nipple. This would solve all of the current minor design flaws. But, like I said, it works just fine the way it is, so I can’t really see myself doing that, unless I get really bored.
Oh yeah. I also forgot to mention that the Skyway’s toll hasn’t gone up to $4 as was thought in a previous entry. Instead, it is currently set at $2.50 (for the just the bridge that is). Those rates went into effect on the 2nd of February. I just took that way to head to MI this weekend, so I thought I’d share the info.
The Week Was Going Quite Well
After lunch today, I went to put a bag into my trunk, when I was greeted with a nice “FL” engraved into it. Talk about a quick way to put me in bad spirits. I mean, talk about a low thing to do, go around keying cars. What’s really frustrating about it, is that this person actually took the time to write something in.
I swear, I never had any problems with the truck like this, and it definitely wouldn’t have bothered me nearly this much. It was either some student walking back to their dorms (as I work right next to them), or someone where I live. Honestly, I think it was someone where I live because that’s how my windshield was broken, and the kids that live there have a tendency to do a lot of crap like that. The other day they were throwing rocks not 5ft away from the parked cars, etc. Plus, there aren’t nearly as many people walking around.
I’m tempted to talk to my landlords about this, but again, I have no proof. I just need to figure out the best way to fix it now. I could use touch up paint on it, but then there’s the huge bulge which is almost always just as bad as the original mark. Apparently there is goo stuff that can get rid of the bulge, but I haven’t tried it yet. It was something I read on TDI Club.
Arg.
I am teh funnah
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Affixing the IPass
The IPass comes with tape to affix it to the windshield to the car. Actually, the tape is on the back of some heavy duty Velcro that’s then attached to the IPass. Now, I don’t really want to get tape “goo” all over my window, so I figured I’d attempt to approach this problem differently; suction cups.
Yes, I know (now) that you can get a holder for the IPass that uses suction cups at Jewel. However, I’d hate to think how much they’d actually charge for that, and I don’t have a Jewel near me. Also, it’s a good engineering exercise.
Last night, I swung by Hobby Lobby and picked up 2 50mm suction cups for $1. I brought them home and started brainstorming with them and the IPass. It turns out the industrial Velcro will actually grip on to a piece of wire that is run through it. Well, this little exercise turned out to only take two minutes. Now, all I need to do is swing by the hardware store and get some wire, wrap it around the suction cups nipple, and Velcro it into place.
All in all, the project will probably cost me $2, which is probably the same, or less than the IPass accessory at Jewel would’ve set me back. Plus, I can say that “I did it” and I have enough materials left over for another one (two cups in a package).
Friday in Chicago
For those of you in Chicago, and don’t have anything else to do Friday (tomorrow) night, you should come see Adam and the Go Comets with me and friends. They’ll be at the Elbow Room and start around 11ish.
So yeah, come out, and have a good time.