>I think I neglected posting F.E.A.R. Multiplayer for FREE due to issues with the site. It doesn’t get past step 2 (sends you in an endless loop) but they’re aware of the issue and it doesn’t seem to hamper getting the CD Key.Download the game while you’re waiting for the CD key. I’m downloading it via Bit Torrent and show 1 day 7 hours remaining.
>Rachel Friedman-Siddiqui
>Jay came over last week – we hung out played video games (what I mentioned in the previous post) then we went out to the Salty Dog. It was a really slow night, and we got there early to boot so it was completely empty. It filled up and then Jay saw someone he recognized. We popped over to say hi, got introduced and wouldn’t ya know it… Rachel Friedman-Siddiqui, right there in Springfield, right there at the Salty Dog. I thought the girl was dead. She stopped calling me, she moved, she disappeared, all after getting some serious chemo…
>Play
> I really want to go home and play games. I play online, so it’s not exactly by myself but it’s so much better when there’s someone else there. Last week was so much fun, hanging out and playing video games, just like old times. I wish I could do it all the time. Going up a level, executing an extraordinary crash, laying the smack down, or winning that new car just means so much more when there’s someone else to see it.
>Quicklinks v1.1
>I’m not sure why the version doesn’t appear to change in Help=>About.I didn’t care, because I just wanted to share. It will download .NET framework 2.0 unless you already have it. Apparently I was too anxious and overlooked something. It doesn’t want to work on this machine.I’ll figure out what it’s doing tomorrow. *update* I didn’t actually get any chance to see why this might not be working on other people’s PCs. I was afraid I grabbed the wrong version. I may have published a version previously that didn’t have this stuff in it. However it seems to recognize that…
>Odd Link & QuickLinks
>Nick Mangold’s 16 y/o sister is following in his footsteps. I found this while wanting to post that I had an idea, and I’ll be adding it to QuickLink soon. I’m hoping I’ll get everything done in my extra time at lunch. I’ve still got some major projects in Access and VB6 prior to .NET time but I’ll get some. I’m planning on adding drag and drop capability to QuickLink. I’m hoping for a much smaller app. Drag, drop, then the text window appears with the applicable code. I’ve still got to target it at my specific HTML code (available…
>I’m sitting here pathetically waiting for the UPS man. I’m actually on the front porch, for fear that I won’t be able to reach the ground floor in time with only a doorbell separating me from my new monitor. Everything looks ok in the system, delivery date is on time, and they often come late around here.It’s normally 5:30 or so, sometimes as late as 6:00. I guess I should just go back upstairs and get the office ready. I’m just anxious. I’m waiting for Santa to arrive. Every diesel I hear makes my ear perk. I check around, but…
>SLi – Double Chip, Times 2 (QuadSLi)
>If you’re not a geek you have not heard about SLi. Even if you are a geek you may not have heard about QuadSLi. BFG fit 2 graphics cards on 1 PCIEx interface, allowing those who don’t have SLi to get SLi performance, and those that do have SLi to get QuadSLi performance. In order to take advantage of the image quality these cards allow, you need a big frikken monitor, but you will be gaming like never before if you have the money. Quad SLi – Where it Stands
>FlatOUT 2 Review
>I know there are those out there who don’t really like the whole “smash up” car games such as Destruction Derby and Flatout, but I love them.I loved FlatOUT but thought it could use something. FlatOUT 2 synches all those shortcomings and blasts them *KABOOOM!*. It’s really fun. I give it a 5 out of 5. You have to do the demoltion derby (trashy cars) before you can get to race mode, and you have to complete the race mode before you can get to Street Mode. The cars are really powerful and the graphics are unbelievable. I was able…
>I hate CDs!
>FlatOUT2 – Brand New GameNumber of CDs – 5! Fuck you! Give me DVDs!Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck motherfucker. (Nicole says I’m swearing too much tonight – Fuck THAT!)
>In The News
>Apparently there was a big hubub with Travelers in the news. Some agents were giving kickbacks to those that pointed their customers in the direction of Travelers instead of the competition. Whereas many businesses and individuals were paid more money then they would have paid otherwise if the insurance agent did their job and fit the individual to the company / plan. Travelers apologized but did not accept any wrongdoing, in that they did not condone the unacceptible behavior of these representatives.
>Whats Going Down?
> Friday night Jay came out with Heather.Nicole was at the Dave Matthew’s concert in Hartford, so it was just us 3. We went out to Boston Billiards for a while. I beat Jay quite a few times, which is unusual. I guess he hasn’t played in a while, which means we need to play pool more often! We then had 1 last drink then went back to the crib and chilled well into the night. We played some G-Cube, Chess, listened to music, and had some bonding time with Heather, filling her in on the background of our highschool…
>Anarchy Online Goes Free
>Anarchy online, a scifi MMORPG is now free until January 07.Download the client, free.Sign up, free.Play, free. Check out Anarchy Online! You’ll need BitTorrent to download it. It’s going well over 300k+ right now, 1 hour of download remaining. You may wonder what the catch is. They want more people on their servers. You don’t have to pay for the game, or pay a subscription, but they’re hoping people will have fun, and get into it, so they’ll buy the expansion packs. Those are all on special right now, like only a subscription fee for the first one, and no…
>Noooooooooooooo! My initial thoughts:Why would AMD do this? ATI makes some major crap! Their drivers and inefficiencies alone make me shake my head. I marveled at nVidia when they came on the scene. They picked up the slack that 3DFX left. I’m very sad and I hope they’ll be able to continue their products. With their purchase of 5 million worth of technology from RAMBUS in June AMD is up to something. They have everything they need to remove all bottlenecks. Further deliberation / reasoning:AMD makes processors, and can make bus recommendations to optimize performance.RAMBUS technology is RAM, memory controllers,…
>PC Additions
>Looking to add some retro flair to your PC? How about the (promised) increased sound quality of running your PC audio through a Vacuume Tube?Check out the Musketeer III from CoolerMaster. Not anxious about liquid cooling? Considering converting a mini fridge into a PC case? For the cost of said fridge, and the hours of labor involved, you can get a case with built in A/C.A/C case from SyTrin
>Someone went searching for Rachel Friedman-Siddiqi the other day. I hope they’ll leave a comment if they do another search. The post they found was from April 2004 but it didn’t have a comment. I’m wondering if there is anyone out there who knows where she went, or at least if anyone knew where she was prior to 2004, when she just disappeared one day after saying an unusual goodbye.
>Happy Quadcore
>I posted a link to a news story in the links above and it stirred thoughts on Moore’s Law. I ran accross something a year or so ago that said Moore’s Law would be disproved soon, that the evolution of chips were slowing down. It was harder and harder to get twice the speed out of chips. Since 1950 it’s been the computer industry’s goal to prove Moore right. They were getting nervous, then someone came up with the idea of doubling up on chip cores. They’ve managed to keep up with it by doing this. Dual core chips have…
>Correction: Alex Trebek is Not a Robot
>Since when is someone’s post on a blog front page news?Front page on Verizon brings you MSN, but front page.The guy from Jeopardy who won a gazillion billion dollars had a few things to say about Jeopardy. I think it’s really funny, thus the linkage.