January 26, 2007
Interesting video
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/6/index.php?id=2#
January 24, 2007
World's fastest street legal car?
Check it out. Who knows if it's actually the fastest, but with 2000 friggin' horsepower (fhp's ;) it's got some believability. I bet it can't turn worth a damn though...unlike this car...ok, well maybe the driver has something to do with it...
January 23, 2007
January 17, 2007
Regimental Sergeant-Major
After a lot of googling, I managed to figure out Canada has records filed for everyone who served in World War One and that you can send away for a copy. After 3 months of waiting I recieved the service records for my great-grandfather, Regimental Sergeant-Major George Emery.
Pretty cool, although some of the handwriting is frackin' hard to read.
He served in England, 1 month on the front-line in France, and serveral months in Siberia after the war ended.
January 11, 2007
BetaMax 2.0
Well, it seems that Sony has done it again! Blu-ray is walking down the road to failure...
http://www.sgknox.com/2007/01/11/no-porn-on-blu-ray/
January 08, 2007
Un-Crashed
OK, computer geek post coming up.
For the last few months my computer had been crashing like crazy. They were the hardcore crashes where everything gets frozen and your speakers play the last sound sample that was in the buffer. We ain't talking about no blue screen or anything. Definately a hardware problem.
Anyway, I had figured it was an overheating problem and my processor was shutting down, but I installed a temperature monitor, and the temp during a crash was always different. After that I figured it might be a bad processor or bad RAM. However, I caught a break a couple days ago when I smelled burnt toast and realized my power supply had just fried it's fan.
On a hunch I googled "power supply" and "crashes" and found a guy who solved his crashing problems by getting rid of his crappy power supply.
Anyway, the bottom line is I installed a nice new 500W power supply last night and it hasn't had a crash yet.
Me Happy!