æ å–œ 發 財! Happy Chinese New Year! Today begins the year of the dog and boy are the kids dog tired after a day of celebrating my youngest daughter’s birthday at the bowling alley! And quite by coincidence, the birthday girl wanted a dog themed party to boot! Arf!
* BTW, I apologize in advance for my probably incorrect transliteration of the Chinese. I felt that this choice made it easier for an English speaker to pronounce the Cantonese version of the expression.
If you use a computer regularly, then you know that there are few things more fearful than the sound of nearly constant hard drive access, even when nothing else is being done on the computer. To make a long story short, Norton GoBack was the culprit. After I removed it from my wife’s computer, the constant hard drive access (and the noise of it) were gone. This is actually the second time I’ve been burned by GoBack, I won’t be burned again!
After wrestling with my daughter’s laptop wireless access today and having had long battles with the TiVo network access and the other kid PC, I’ve come to the conclusion that my Linksys WAP11 sucks! It seems to be locking up randomly requiring a reset or power cycle. It’s about 3 years old, but has really only been getting real use the last year. This is really sad, Linksys used to be a brand you could depend on, but clearly this has changed. And it would seem that I’m not the only one who thinks this.
Linksys WAP11: Worst Access Point Ever
I also had trouble with a Linksys wireless PCI card fresh out of the box a few months ago. I ended up returning it and getting some noname brand from a Taiwanese company which worked without a single hiccup. I wonder if they make access points too?
I don’t usually pay much attention to Slashdot on Sundays, but a documentary (or mockumentary) film on D&D players caught my eye today. After watching it and having a good laugh, I thought, “there but for the grace of God go I!” I was never into the D&D scene in highschool, Starfleet Battles was more my thing, but these games were played by the same crowd in my school. None of us had girlfriends at the time.
Fortunately, the 20-sided die of life rolled in my favor and I found the woman of my dreams (and sometimes nightmares). I think though, that the guys in the film are in a bit of denial. They’d be a lot happier if they just accepted who they are and just forget about girls. Of course I don’t think anyone should take this too seriously. Anyway, here’s a link to the video on Google.