http://www.hackerstavern.com I came, I saw, I fudged myself silly... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:07:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, my mom wanted me to go help her around the neighborhood this morning since she decided she wanted to go for a walk at 4am; I figure it's a good sign during Kemo if she actually wants to be active and excersize, so I said what the hell, I'd ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/06/28/asbestos-in-milwaukie/ Ok, so I've been palying around on myspace for once... The new apps are amusing me, it's a virtual slave trade on the "my pets" appication... You can buy your friends, their friends, etc; and earn in game funds... Basically you won't care, that's not the rant ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/05/17/id-rather-be-some-jerk-and-have-some-fun-than-be-some-tightwad/ Ok, so I do a lot of free support at communities, and it makes me wonder sometimes if people even try to help themselves before running in for a hand holding session...  Usually I'm fine with it, but after a while I have to just think they're just being lazy... So, ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/05/17/were-not-being-paid-for-this/ Ok, so I spent several days going through reviews on the Nokia 6555 cellphone, listening to people whine and whine about how the battery only lasts a day when they don't run anything special...  Well, news to you, you are... Cellphones are delivered to you with every feature enabled...  All of ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/05/17/tips-to-extend-your-cellular-battery-life/ Initially I figured that I'd take and make this pretty much tech oriented; but I get bored just talking about tech stuff and not deviating, so I've all but made this just random musings...  I'm sure most o you will get more enjoyment of it that way ;)... I tend to ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/05/17/goal-of-this-blog/ Trey is absolutely astonishing me lately...  I can actually lead him to talk in a conversation... He's like my ventriloquism puppet! lol...  He's gotten really good at spewing words out and he will ultimately try to say anything you ask him to say. So here we are, 1am... I pick him ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/04/11/walkin-talkin-tbird/ Ok, so with my DVR I have the Hauppauge 350 card; it's not a dual tuner card like the 500, but I specifically wanted the radio, a hardware decoder, and the IR remote receiver (Even though I also bought the "White Box" Firefly remote from BeyondTV)... So, what do you ask ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/04/11/the-dvr-mission-pt2-the-future-and-beyond/ Ok, so on my previous posting I talked about getting Windows Media Connect working on my Windows Media Center PC (DVR), but I also wanted to get the same software running on my desktop that I had been using as a media dump for the last 2 years... Well, I did ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/04/11/wmc-for-wxp-the-mission-that-finally-was/ Ok, so a while ago I bought all of the equipment for a DVR, and I got fed up with it... I took everything apart and put the disk on Sam's desktop and just said the hell with it and left everything in a big pile of expensive parts... Well, ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/04/11/the-dvr-mission-pt1/ So, Bungie is releasing their Legendary Map Pack for Halo3 on April 15th...  I can't wait, in fact, this weekend I'll be going and buying some Marketplace Points for the XBox360 so I can be sure I'm one of the first Halo addicts with the new maps... However, I'm not one ... http://www.hackerstavern.com/2008/04/11/halo3-legendary-map-pack-april-15th/