Monthly Archive for November, 2004
I would normally seperate something like this onto the sidebar, however since I am very very much looking forward to this DVD set, I figured it could do with some primetime.
There is a new 6 minute preview of the Return of the King Extended Edition up.
I don’t think it had really hit home with me, just how much I really am looking forward to this, the final reunion and goodbye with the greatest trilogy of all time. As I was watching the preview, I could feel it welling up in me once again.
My fingers will be numb for a week when I am done penning my homage…
PS: I have finally flickrized the best of the photos from the Return of the King Premiere, here in Copenhagen last christmas.
The Firewire bus on my Powerbook is dead. Most annoying. But wait, because the story is longer and more complex than you might think…
Last week, I had brought my Powerbook into work, as I often do. At work I have a 800Mbps Firewire HDD that I use for ‘home burns down’ kind of backups. I usually plug it in when I arrive and have the scheduler take care of business around lunch time.
Meanwhile in another part of the building, Thor was having problems with his iPod. That in itself is a long and convoluted story, but suffice to say that his iPod was refusing to mount on his Powerbook, and thus he hauled it down to our floor. First Jeremy, who also has a Powerbook (we are legion), gave it a go, no dice. And then Thor came hoppin’ along to me. I tried various combinations, but I couldn’t mount it either. At one point I also rebooted, and when OS X came back up, I noticed that Tron (that’s my external HDD) was missing. Launching System Profiler, I could suddenly see that the Firewire Bus was acting weird…
And it was about that time I found out Jeremy’s Firewire bus was gone…
So. What’ve we got then? Three Powerbooks, all with dead firewire ports. Bugger. And after jumping through a couple of hoops (resetting the PRAM, leaving the battery out over night and so on), it seemed evident that it was beyond the brink.
Fitting as it is, that we’re a few days from my little titanium-clad baby’s birthday…
So barring any revolutionary solutions popping up in the next day, I’m going to give Apple a little call and have them send the nice UPS man to pick it up. Thor got his back in 3 days flat, and that is if nothing else, a slight comfort.
PS: Did I mention that my iPod also decided to die on me recently? Yep.
One of the new features I talked about in Freya Dissection, was that of ‘noteworthy’ entries, or ‘favorites’. As you may recall, I sent out a call for someone to help me take an idea from concept to plugin. Jamie stepped up and offered his services free of charge, and earlier today I installed the latest version of the plugin, which works pretty much as I had hoped.
So if I can just draw your attention to the Halo 2 entry that preceeds this entry. Notice the heart? That’s an icon denoting that said entry is tagged as noteworthy. What this allows me to do, is to create a small list of noteworthy entries within a certain category. So if you go to the Games category archive, you’ll find a small list on the sidebar…
I chose to finish this, my Halo 2 review, even though I havn’t actually finished the game yet. Unorthodox, I know, but also I might add, very telling of the game.
You see, when I played Halo, the first Halo that is, I really really liked it. Bungie had crafted exactly the kind of sci-fi story that boys like me used to dream of when the lights went out and we were tugged in our beds (this was before puberty). Lumbering spaceships, alien civilizations, fullscale warfare on a distant planet (or better yet, a ring), mysterious structures and gameplay that would knock your teeth clean out of your mouth. On top of that, they even threw in some nice AI and vehicles that kicked every other first person shooters ass up and down.
So to call me psyched about Halo 2 would be an understatement. And yet I haven’t played it for a few weeks now, but I would wager that I was about 85 – 90% done, when I last threw down my controller in frustration.
This is what Halo 2 promised, from its very first showing at E3: You’re the Master Chief and you’re going to defend Earth from an alien invasion by kicking some serious bee-hind. And this is exactly what Halo 2 doesn’t deliver!
From here on in, this review is full of spoilers.
We have, at work, what I can only refer to as a ‘somewhat paranoid’ IT department. And God bless them, we wouldn’t want another Half-Life 2 like sourcecode leak or anything. But it does lay out a couple of bumps in the road from time to time. Take my mail for instance. I can’t communicate with external mailservers. So whenever I lug my Powerbook to work, I’m unable to send or receive mail from it, which is most annoying, as it pretty much serves as my communication nexus to the world!
Currently I have a number of active and semi-active mail accounts. Mostly I use my Binary Bonsai account, which works great. But with Gmail having now finally been brought into the grown up world of POP3 access, perhaps now is a good time to reassess whether I should be using a webmail solution for my mail. This way, I can send and receive mail from anywhere, as well as through the mail app of choice. And with Google’s notifier app, I can even feel at home while working.
But before I go through the ordeal of letting everyone in the world know that I have changed my address, I want to just send out a ping to see if any of you have any experiences with Gmail you’d like to share?
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