archive for the 'misc' Category

back into the slack

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I’d been doing most of my work on my laptop. I wanted to play the most recent Half-Life episode on the desktop, which meant installing Windows. It was a huge hassle installing Windows XP, much worse than any Linux install this century, and part of it was to destroy everything on the [...]

Why do I have a blog?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

I thought I would use this blog at least to document the details of installing Gentoo on my laptop and anything interesting that comes up on the desktop. I suck at documenting things, and I thought the convenience of the blog would get me to make this stuff available in case anyone faces the [...]

this just in — Béla Lugosi is still dead

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Overheard conversation snippet: “He has a will-not-play list with songs like ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead‘ by Bauhaus that are so overplayed.”
Now I don’t know whether to be happy it’s on the will-not-play list or unhappy that it’s overplayed enough to get on such a list.

why I hate web forums

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

I was just about to go on a rant about why I hate web forums. There are more than one reason, but, but:

‘Nuff said.

nothing here yet

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Freshly installed WordPress, but my old database has been lost. just checking now to see if my theme more or less works.
Including whether or not blockquotes work. I have to go through the entire theme again, bit by bit, because I don’t know what I did exactly. Maybe I should blog about [...]