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  • minor changes

    Current Mood: content

    Current Music: meh

    the original post can be found here

    i made some minor changes on the colors but i am going to have to go home and see how this looks on a dreamcast… i also changed the emoticons because the ones that i was using before were the same color as the background and i did not want that…

    there are still so many things that i would like to do here but i do not have the time this morning…

    i will try to do some more updating around here this weekend while it is slow here at work…

  • new franken-computer

    Current Mood: dorky

    Current Music: same station; some r&b station (i guess that is what it is)

    the original post can be found here

    we finally saw a psion computer somewhere other than ebay the other day… we were at discount electronics and there in the case was a psion 3c… so, of course, we picked it up… it was a little more than we would have liked to pay for it but it was a 2meg backlit version and christopher’s had just been acting up and we were in the market for a new one anyway…

    so, he took the new one and i took the screen from my psion 3a, (which was brand new when i bought it), and i took everything apart and gentle replaced the 3a screen with the board and everything else onto the old psion 3c…

    it is now my franken-computer… 🙂

    then the next day we bought a psion 5 for us off ebay… go figure… we now have a back-up computer and i now get all the old cards since the series 5 does not use ssd’s…

    now if i only could get ahold of that damn dude from ebay so i can get my psimail internet on ssd… he is really starting to piss me off because he will not reply to any emails…
    some people should not be an ebay seller if they can not even check their ebay email… :/ grrr…. (venting)

    oh well, i will have to take a dreameye pic of the computer so i can put it up for future reference…

    it works beautifully…
    i could not be more pleased…

  • this place needs some girlie stuff

    Current Mood: disappointed

    Current Music: same thing as before

    the original post can be found here

    i did not realize that my homepage and this page looked so bad on a pc… on my dreamcast at home it looks pink and purple and all girlie and here it is all grey…

    i am going to hunt down some prettier colors and do another update… it might not be in the next couple of days but it is one of the things on my huge to-do list… i also have to get some pics added so i can have those as an option as well…

  • boogie nights for new years

    Current Mood: sleepy

    Current Music: some radio station that my co-worker is listening to

    the original post can be found here

    well not much went on at our house for new years…

    we sat and watched boogie nights…
    i love p.t. anderson and will be there on opening day when his next film hits the theaters…

    we sat and watched the criterion laserdisc that we got off ebay for like $30… the real catch is that it is autographed by p.t and john c reilly…
    the person that placed it up on ebay failed to mention in his title description that it was signed, so we got it for a steal…

    well, i did not like this movie the first time i saw it, probably because i could not see the film for itself… i think i was too wrapped up into seeing the porn business and not what the movie was really about…

    there are so many scenes that i can associate with on so many different levels…

    i LOVE the characters and the actors are amazing as well…
    you really feel their emotions and being a girl i think this makes things feel more real anyway…

    we had watched this movie many times before and i like it more and more each time i watch it…

    well, not much other than that going on lately…

  • two news bits

    [moved from my LiveJournal]

    FREE IBM PCs FOR ALL OF UK
    via Nybble

    Nobody in the UK need ever pay for a personal computer again – from this week new IBM models will be delivered free of charge to any home that wants one.

    US computing giant IBM is working with British start-up company Metronomy to supply a free IBM PC, which would otherwise retail for around #800, to every household in Britain. It is anticipated that around two million of the computers will be given away over the next three years, with an initial 200,000 being shipped in the first few months of 2004. The only catch is that users will be subjected to one minute of TV-style ads coming on to their screens every 20 minutes. If the user wishes, the ad break can be delayed by a maximum of five minutes to allow completion of another operation such as a secure online purchase of an airline ticket.

    Initial advertisers include Churchill Insurance, part of Royal Bank of Scotland, which is using its TV ads to sell to the PC user market. In order to continue to access the new PCs, users will have to install a CD each month to update the advertising content. This will enable advertisers such as Churchill to trial a variety of ads with different types of customer. Future free software could also include the kind of bGsoftphoneb application that enables computer users to make free international telephone calls over the Internet.

    and Yahoo Photos news

    Paul Festa
    CNET News.com
    December 24, 2003, 10:25 GMT

    Yahoo has eliminated storage limits on its photo site, but cut the ability to store very high-resolution pictures for free

    Changes to Yahoo’s photo and storage sites have elicited cries of bait-and-switch from users, even as the portal giant opens its photo site to unlimited storage capacity.

    In its ongoing effort to balance its free and paid services, Yahoo this month divided its Briefcase file storage service and its Photos storage and retail site, adjusted storage limits and restricted some downloads to paying subscribers. Previously, Yahoo lumped picture files and other files under the same storage system.
    As part of that change, Yahoo eliminated its 30MB storage limit but restricted users of its free service from retrieving what it termed “really high-resolution” images — or anything above 480 by 360 pixels — unless they paid for the SBC Yahoo Internet service or Yahoo’s premium Plus service.
    That restriction has riled some users, who say their only
    high-resolution copies of some photos are stored on Yahoo’s servers.
    “I would say I lost about 70 full-sizes images,” said Henri Dubois-Ferriere, a Yahoo subscriber in Lausanne, Switzerland. “The original versions have now been ‘kidnapped’ by Yahoo… Converting previously free services into paid services is one thing, but this is worse, because a previously free service is withdrawn with no warning, in a manner that makes users lose data they had entrusted to Yahoo.”
    Yahoo countered that it had warned users of its Briefcase and Photos service changes by running top-of-the-page banner advertisements directing them to an informational page.
    Those banners started running in August, Yahoo said. The company has been implementing the changes over the course of this month.
    Subscribers like Dubois-Ferriere who may have missed those banners still do have a free workaround for getting their pictures back — a 60-day free trial of Yahoo Plus.
    Yahoo has been tinkering with charging for its Web-based services for years. The recent elimination of the 30MB limit for photographs is the result of company research that showed that the limit was stunting use of the service, as digital photography becomes more mainstream and higher-resolution cameras come down in price.

    i THINK that is good news for us, considering the panic over PSO screenshots and such that we had to go through…

  • fight club

    Current Mood: indifferent

    Current Music: none/at work

    the original post can be found here

    great movie…
    watched this one last night…

    there is one scene that no matter how many times i see this movie i still feel a little uncomfortable…

    it is the fight between edward norton and jared leto…

    it is not that i can not handle blood and fighting and all that… i think that it is very real looking and it is a little hard to look at…

    the sound design is amazing and puts our subwoofer to the test… gotta love that plane scene…

    tyler has a lot of interesting things to say…

    highly recommended…
    i just do not think that i would tell my mother to watch it…
    but then again, she was the one that told me that i had to go out and see pulp fiction…

  • movies

    Current Mood: cold

    Current Music: none/at work

    the original post can be found here
    well watched american president laserdisc the other night…

    very sweet love story and we have been watching movies that take place (even in the smalles of ways) at christmas…

    i had only seen this movie a couple times before…

    i really liked annette benning in this one, i really liked her in american beauty as well…
    i thought that michael douglas was a good choice for president and was not impressed with the daughter…

    well, i thought that one of the best parts was when he was doing the last speech and he mentions that he had already lost one woman in his life and was not going to lose another… so sweet… 🙂

    it is a cute and sweet little romantic movie…
    i highly suggest it to people that want something easy and simple…

  • need some more work here

    Current Mood: bored

    Current Music: none/at work

    i was thinking about changing the colors around here because it does not look feminine enough to me… i was going to see what kinds of pink that i might be able to find that i might like, or go with a faint purple…

    undecided at the moment…

    but, i did happen to add some more interests and still have not even scratched the surface…

  • more than 310 laserdiscs now

    [moved from my LiveJournal, with some link fixes….]

    well, all the half-price books stores are having their 20% off sale, so, we hit a couple in fort worth and grabbed a few new LaserDiscs, including some of the first Criterions, all movies we care nothing about (39 Steps, The Magnificent Ambersons, High Noon, and The Third Man), but, they were only like $6 a piece and in pretty good shape…
    at this point, we have mostly what we want on laser now, except a few rare ones, so, there is rarely any stuff that makes us say ‘wow’…

    our collection looks a little something like this…

    and that is before the new ones, which are about 15 or so… (our favorites are on the shelf, the rest are on the floor until we get some new shelves :P)

    so, this latest buy brings our LaserDisc Database total to 310, and there are 10 or more that have no listing there yet, so, we need to submit the entries…
    our database we keep on our Psion palmtops tracks our DVDs and LDs and it says we now have 404… sooner or later, i will put that db on the web…
    we used to keep pages where we listed all our DVDs and LDs, but, when the inheritence came, we started buying them so fast it was work to keep them updated…

    in other news, i am reading Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold and it is pretty amazing so far… i was with it word-by-word up until the 12th chapter where you build a binary calculator in your head… but, i am going to back up and come at it a bit slower (no pun intended), must have not grasped all the prerequisite knowledge or something…

    anyway, damn fascinating so far…

  • test from a pc

    the original post can be found here

    i am testing this from the pc at work…
    we will see how it all looks…

    hope everyone had a wonderful christmas… 🙂