Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

Text-Link-Ads Updated

Text-Link-Ads is a nice ser­vice which I use to help pay the bills for run­ning this site. They just released a new ver­sion of their Word­Press plu­gin which I use to put their adverts on this site, so I installed it but in doing so it over­wrote a cou­ple of changes I’d made to the […]

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The Xbox is Dead, Long Live the Xbox!

Which is to say, our Xbox died the other night mid-game, tak­ing with it our beloved XBMC. This evening we broke down, bought a replace­ment and I’m set­ting it up right now. Wheee!

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Library Renovations

In the event you notice any irreg­u­lar­i­ties with this site, par­tic­u­larly the library sec­tion do not be alarmed. I am cur­rently ren­o­vat­ing that por­tion of the site.

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Thank you LifeHacker!

Today I was read­ing an arti­cle over at Life­Hacker about XBMC. Basi­cally, they rec­om­mended upgrad­ing from the last, ancient sta­ble ver­sion to the lat­est SVN build; which I did this evening and boy am I ever glad I did. As now, I can play Matroska video files. Wheee! True, I tech­ni­cally could before but they […]

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Too Much Command Line

You know you’ve been spend­ing too much time on the cli when you keep hit­ting tab in Notepad and won­der why the auto­com­ple­tion isn’t kicking in.

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