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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed  |
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Inkblot Test I took an online "Inkblot Test" the other day. This was my result: Dino, your subconscious mind is driven most by Self-protection Whether you know it or not, your unconscious mind is defending your internal emotional experiences. It acts like an emotional dam that helps you keep things in check. One reason for this could be that you have a deeply-rooted fear of being flooded by emotions. In response, your unconscious acts in the opposite manner, by protecting you from unpredictable, emotional tidal waves. While this tendency might be useful in some circumstances, it may also at times make your emotions hard to articulate or grasp. And that can lead to some frustration. Since you tend to appear level-headed to others, they feel they can count on you for sound opinions and advice. Another benefit of your unconscious drive is that it allows you to remain calm in the toughest of situations. This can be a real benefit for you during business negotiations or personal arguments because you're not apt to say damaging things that you'll have to apologize for later. The only hazard with this drive towards self-protection, is you might filter out good emotions as well as the bad. That can leave you feeling like something is missing, something you can't quite place. But ultimately, your unconscious is wise and will know if there is a time in the future where it would be beneficial to be different. Though your unconscious mind is driven most strongly by Self-protection, there is much more to who you are at your core. posted by Dino at 9:03 AM (permanent link) (0) comments Sunday, June 20, 2004
Sterling Heights Public Library The SHPL is an excellent source for DVD movies, as well as CD's. What I find extremely useful is the unlimited resource of instrumental CD's. I've been on the lookout for instrumental music (mostly classical genre) for background music for my homemade DVD family movie archives. The library is the perfect place to find just about anything. It's almost unbelievable. Kudos to the guys that invented the mp3 format, as well as the founder of DVDXCopy. My heroes! posted by Dino at 5:53 PM (permanent link) (0) comments Friday, June 18, 2004
I'm a professional DVD Archiver I backup DVD movies all day and all night. posted by Dino at 12:53 AM (permanent link) (0) comments Monday, June 14, 2004
Plextor 712A (Scanned @ Decoma)Plextor PX-712A DVD Burner On NewEgg.com, the top-o-the line DVD burner from Plextor is the PX-712A for $189.99. I just bought one retail from Best Buy (only one) for $159.00 ($109.00 with my $50 gift certificate). Damn it for not having my 10% off coupon with me! This is definitely an error, since Best Buy sells the PX-708A for $179.99. The Madison Heights store had only one (the sales guy said it shouldn't even be on the shelf yet). I suggest if anybody is looking for a DVD burner to check their local Best Buy for the PX-712A. This is a steal, as it's definitely an error! The burner has 8MB of cache (as opposed to 2MB) and burns at 12X (as opposed to 8X). Unfortunately, they are just coming out with 8X DVD+R media. However, I've been burning at 8X on 4X Memorex DVD+R media for six months with no problem. I just picked up some 8X media to see if it will burn at 12X.  posted by Dino at 1:55 PM (permanent link) (1) comments Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Walk-a-thon Danielle and I decided to WALK to the library yesterday evening. Even at 8:00 PM, the temperature was still 90F. We ended up walking a four mile loop. I felt like we were walking for weeks. I'm hurting right now. posted by Dino at 9:27 AM (permanent link) (1) comments Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Budwieser Real American Heroes I also took the liberty to download all of these because Budwieser doesn't like these audio clips being distributed for free (they like to sell them). It'll be a matter of time before this link doesn't work. posted by Dino at 2:31 PM (permanent link) (0) comments First Flight: FirstFlight is a virtual flight school providing online flying lessons and information about private pilot training. FirstFlight online flight lessons fully prepare you to take to the skies with a local flight instructor. Complete access to FirstFlight lessons and features is available on a subscription basis. For $49.95, subscribers are provided with six months of unlimited access to the FirstFlight online private pilot course. Take a look at the complimentary lessons and features to see why FirstFlight is your most cost-effective flight training resource. posted by Dino at 12:48 PM (permanent link) (0) comments Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource: Ask Ars: Internet Explorer saving all images as .BMP Today's problem sent in by Ben is as old as the hills, and while many people know of the fix, many don't (at Ars we have a rule: if more than 10 people ask, answer it). So without further ado, let's nip that annoying problem where right-clicking on an image brings up the option in Internet Explorer to (only) save that image as a Bitmap file, aka .bmp. The symptoms are rather obvious: Internet Explorer, even with all of the most recent updates, may sometimes refuse to let you save images in any format other than Bitmap. The problem is caused when a 'damaged' or 'unknown' program is sitting in your '%systemroot%\Downloaded Program Files' folder (usually C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files). The fix is simple. First, empty your Temporary Internet Files to clear the cache (In IE, go to Tools: Internet Options, and chose 'Delete Files' in the 'Temporary Internet Files' section of the first tab). This can take several minutes to complete if you have allocated a lot of space. Next, browse to your 'Downloaded Program Files' folder, and delete any program that is listed as either 'unknown' or 'damaged.' That should do it. Some users have found that other applications downloaded into that folder can cause the problem. If the above fix does not work, you may need to start removing those applications one by one to find the offender. Once the offending program is deleted, you should be able to save as the appropriate image type again. posted by Dino at 11:13 AM (permanent link) (0) comments Monday, June 07, 2004
Hacked! On Friday, June 4, 2002, our server got hacked! From Peter's Blog: I hate hackers who have nothing better to do than to make your life hell. Friday sucked. All day, the server was down, and we were facing losing TONS of data, email, etc. Finally, CI Host re-imaged the server and copied over our data. At first, they wanted to just give me the server back, like a clean slate, and keep my original data on a slave drive. Something like: "Your server's back up, good luck." This morning, I think I found one way the server got hacked. In a certain directory, someone installed PHPSHell by Macker. This shell allows you to run commands at the server level. This could be very detrimental, depending on what rights the user (webserver) running the commands had. I'm hoping that the exploit has been corrected. PHEW! posted by Dino at 3:02 PM (permanent link) (0) comments Sunday, June 06, 2004
The Infinite Cat Project - Cats watching cats watching cats. Hey! It's a concept! posted by Dino at 1:21 AM (permanent link) (0) comments Friday, June 04, 2004
Jeep: Routine Maintenance My Jeep has over 120K on the odo, with probably another 30K that was never registered. My accessory drive belt (drives the water pump, power steering pump, alternator, etc) was in dire need of replacement. Today was the day! It's just a drive belt... can't be too hard to replace... Variables working against me: 1) Jeep is over 10 years old-- there are welds on my Jeep that aren't as strong as my rusted-on bolts 2) Tool selection-- unfortunately, I don't own a 13mm open-ended wrench that's 4' long 3) Jeep is lifted almost 4"-- I needed a F#*@'ing step ladder to just SEE my engine compartment 4) Absence of light-- my F$#*@'ing garage lights (commercial fluorescent fixtures) don't work. Murphy likes to @ss-F*$% me: when I NEED light, it just happens to get dark really fast. 5) Anatomy-- the derelict Jeep engineers that designed the power-steering pump and pulley system forgot to take Remedial Design for Serviceablity 011 for Idiots. I had to remove the mother-f$#&@'ing power steering pump in order to remove the mother-f$#&@'ing accessory belt. Removing the pump required me to pay a 3-year old Ethiopian to stick his hand between the pump and the intake manifold in order to remove the pump bolts. Note: My new quest in life is to find out WHO designed the Jeep this way so I can punch the dude in the head and knock the cock out of his mouth. Well, a 15-minute job ended up taking me 4-hours to complete. And the sad thing is that this was just routine maintenance-- I'm not going to notice ANY improvement to my Jeep's performance. Lesson learned: Next time, I pay a monkey $150 to change my belt. posted by Dino at 12:06 AM (permanent link) (0) comments Thursday, June 03, 2004
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