From the “We are all Animals” Dept. Jen and I had a great time at the zoo. If we had gone earlier, the animals would have been more active. Jen was impressed, as was I. We really liked the prarie dogs. Two were sleeping on top of each other, much like Jen and I do…

From the “Computer woes” Dept. The anticipation is killing me. I picked up my new video card (Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Ultimate). The neat thing about this card is that the board is completely fankless; thus, no noise. An added bonus is that the card is highly overclockable. Wicked. Unfortunately, it did no come with…

From the “sad and blue—no dualie” Dept. I knew it was too good to last. At 8:45 pm this evening, my computer refused to boot – right after installing a new sound card (an Audigy2). The power supply seems fine. The mobo is DOA though. Man, first a fried CPU and now a fried mobo.…

From the “Information Visualization” Dept. I was chatting with some designers today and we started talking about next generation interfaces. One designer was thinking about 3D User Interfaces and how that would be a cool way of abstracting information display. I disagreed. My argument goes like this: Humans don’t see in 3D, but rather something…

From the “I hate Noise” Dept. Goodness: So my dual cpu computer is up and running. I feel the love. It seems stable. I ran Prime95 (prime number search) for 9 hours yesterday, stressing both my CPUs to 100%. No problems. Left MemTest86 running on my comp when I left this morning…i takes about 5…

From the “tired like a old prize-fighter” Dept. Man. I’ve completely lost it at work. I’m so tired—I can barely think. -T

From the “Freud would have a field day” Dept. So I had this even stranger dream last night. In this dream, I have a dog. So I bring my pet to work, and I start neglecting it. By the end of the work day, I realise that I haven’t fed it nor have I taken…

From the “Too busy to blog” Dept. Work has been running me down recently. Jen has also been working hard—although it’s funny that I can’t really give her any sympathy. As I continue to grow in my chosen profession (Website Builder, I think it is called) I’ve come to realise several things: It’s okay to…

From the “Dept of Computerdom” Dept. My CPU should be arriving today or tomorrow. Let’s hope all goes well. I have chosen WinXP Pro and Gentoo Linux to be the two Operating Systems that I want to use. I would normally run Debian, but the Kernel compile scares the bejezus out of me. I am…

From the “Trogdor the Burninator Says” Dept. Damn. I just fried one of my new cpus. Well, that’s what you get for trying to mod a cpu. I was aware of the risks, and I did screw up the paint job—too careless. I wasn’t paying attention. Man, it sucks when you can smell something burning…