musings from the sleep deprived

If you’re not addicted to this inside of 3 minutes, you’re not into puzzles. Check this out.

So the northbridge fan on my motherboard pretty much failed right out of the box. The chip does put off a fair bit of heat, and I found that extended use of high graphics stuff would basically render the system unstable. Read more

So I now have a couple different friends who are swearing by liquid cooling systems for PC cooling needs. I decided to go and do the research for whats available, how much it all costs, and what the options are. Read more

And so in accordance with integrating the Gallery thing cleanly, I’ve decided to drop theme switching and just come up with the theme I like the best and leave it there. I still like the dark color scheme I originally had in the ‘Dark Fire’ theme, and then the layout elements/fonts from Stucco. So this is a mix of the two. Hopefully, I won’t get bored of this and change it every 2 months. We’ll see.

Something that has been fairly elusive so far is a clean way to integrate WP and Gallery together. With Gallery2, this was apparently made a whole lot easier. Read more

Yeah, you might think, sure … you work 7 days on, and then you have 7 off. How could you possibly turn your ‘off’ week into something busy? Well, I did. Yeah, fine … you might say that I filled it chock full of what would otherwise be considered liesure activities, that is true. But hey, I think that is what I earned having worked 85 hours the previous week. Is it not? Read more

I got the bug again. Time to have some serious conversations with the experts to figure out just what I want to do with this hobby, what it will cost me, and how to get where I want it to go. I doubt there will be any changes in gear until at least November, or so.we’ll see. more to come.

So thanks to Troy I took a look at the next version of the Gallery software. Man, that conversion took about 10 minutes, and its already a whole lot easier to deal with than the old version. Read more

If you know what that acronym stands for, then perhaps you will simply chuckle a bit a what follows. If not, please allow me to elucidate. Read more

Whenever a tragedy on the scale of what happened (and continues to develop) down in New Orleans occurs, there are liable to be alot of differing opinions on how best to deal with the situation. Read more

It has actually been many years since I’ve been GM in a campaign. Yes, its quite a good amount of work to come up with all the right information to keep things flowing smoothly, but its worth it. I had forgotten how much fun it was, this world creating. Read more