A new view of the common story

I just recently came across this website and I thought it was a very interesting use of technology.
I haven't had a chance to really get going with it but from what I gather it takes you through a story but you follow the path of the story via satellite images. I haven't really had a chance to read through a story but I did click through a few pages and it seems to work well.

This idea got me thinking. Maybe someone could do this to a best selling story. Something like the Da Vinci Code comes to mind.

Do you have protection

I'm currently trying to set up securities on my desktop and my laptop but its proving to be kind of a pain in the ass. Lets just say that the programs I got may or may not have fallen off the truck. So since this isn't going so smoothly I only have myself to blame. Hopefully I can get this stuff sorted out tonight because I don't feel like working on it tomorrow.

Where the heck are we

Recently I bought the GPS unit for my PSP. I was around 70 dollars with shipping. Currently the GPS unit is only available in Japan. I had it imported from China cause if its for sale anywhere in teh world then it can be purchased in China.

So anyways I bought it with hopes of finally getting something for my psp that I could be proud of. When I got it I put it on the psp and was prepared to find myself in this great big world. Except there was a problem. Being that this item was only suppose to be used in Japan there was no software to actually use the GPS device in the US DOH!

But never fear where theres a will theres a homebrew. And yes there happens to be a homebrew out there. So I went and loked it up and installed it on my psp ready to start finding myself. Except getting it to actually work has actually been a more doubting task then I could have ever thought.

So for now I have put it aside and hopefully when I come back to it I will have more luck.

Computers and I

A few days ago I received my hard drive that I had ordered online from Newegg. It was quite a step up from the 20 GB IDE drive I was using before. I was excited as I always am when I get something in the mail (bills not included). But this was different.

I was happy for a minute but then I thought about it. I was going to to have to take out my old hard drive with the OS installed and reinstall everything from scratch. Also I'm not much of a wiz with computer hardware. I pretty much know just enough to get by without blowing something up or electrocuting myself. But even knowing the little I do I'm still worried when ever I have to slide open that case and get down in there plugging and unplugging things. I'm always sure that somethings going to go wrong and I'm never going to get it working again.

So last night ago I finally willed myself to unplug the old hard drive and plug in the new one. This process went smoothly even though I had to figure out where to plug the SATA II drive into on the motherboard. Once I got that sorted out I booted the sucker up and it actually worked and detected the drive. SUCCESS well not quite.

For some reason the computer decided not to detect the other drive I already had installed on the motherboard. And it just happen to be the drive where I had all my crap stored on (since my OS drive only had 20GB).

So installed all the drivers and what not and but it still didn't detect it. Finally I just said screw it I'll deal with it later cause I was pretty tired after watching a bunch of progress bars move across my computer screen.

On my motherboard I have 2 SATA drive slots and 1 STAT II slot. I had left the one drive that was attached to the SATA drive slot alone because it was working before why would I change it. But this morning I thought to myself what would happen if I connected the old drive to the other SATA slot. I just changed it to the other slot and low and behold it worked. I'm not exactly sure what the issue was and frankly I don't care as long as it works. It could be a miracle from God for all I care (although thats a pretty small miracle).

I didn't have a chance to actually work on the computer to make sure everything was hunky and also dory but it seemed to work fine so I'll just have to check it out later.

Placebo no longer

Apparently the company that sell the product Airborne has settled a lawsuit for 23.3 million dollars. The lawsuit pretty much says that Airborne isn't the end all be all cold killer they made it out to be.

The problem with this is that the stuff really worked for me. Or at least it made my body think it was working enough to get me though a cold. But now the secret is out and if theres one problem with a placebo its that when the secrets out so is the placebo. Even though it was kind of expensive usually when I took it I felt better. But now I'm just going to have to find something else. And that sucks.

Heres the article : Placebo No More

Zero Punctionation FTW

If you are an avid video game player then I'm sure you have probably read/seen quite a few reviews for what ever the game o the month happens to be. But zero punctuation has got to be one of the most awesome.

Yahtzee lays it all out in his own personable style. His reviews appear every Wednesday on http://www.escapistmagazine.com/. Its something I look forward to every Wednesday because of it. So unless you don't like video games, have an aversion to profanity, or hate people with British accents I would highly suggest you go check it out.

And heres one of the wonderful reviews you will see.

HEY ITS FINALLY FRIDAY (MEH)

I remember a time when Fridays used to be awesome because it was the end of work and the start of a weekend full of fun. Or at the very least not work. Well those wonderful days are gone to the sands of time. Well I may be over dramatizing the situation but it still doesn't bring my weekends back.

Well at least I have one of the two days off so I guess I should be happy about that. When I worked at the Disney Store I pretty much got used to kissing all my weekends goodbye. So I guess the whole happy Friday times ended after I graduated high school. Oh high school how I miss those care free stress inducing times.