Oh boy - if you've been reading my writing for a while, you're going to be saying to yourself "oh god, not again..." But - too bad - you don't have to read. ;) I know I sound like a broken record on this subject, but seriously: in the MMO world, fantas… more »

So at some point over the weekend, I'm planning to backup a few apps, and install Ubuntu 9.04 as the only operating system on my computer. Why? Well, it's kind of a long-ish story. I've been running Linux for years as a dual-boot setup. First Slack… more »

So, I did another (small) computer upgrade. Well, it was supposed to be small, anyway... I got a new monitor (22" widescreen Gateway). And a new video card -- a Sapphire X1950XT card. Should have been easy, right? Ha, no. First was my power su… more »

I finally, due to my wife's machine dying, got to upgrade my machine. I had been running an Athlon 64 3500 with a geForce 6800 card and 1 GB of RAM. That is now my wife's machine. I now have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200 dual-core CPU, running on an MSI… more »

I was thinking to myself, wondering why I'm so adamant about keeping my blog self-hosted rather than going with a community site like Xanga. I came to the conclusion that the main reason is control. There's a quote, and I don't know the exact wording… more »