Oh man the Annual Myspace Stupid Haircut “competition” is hilarious. Be sure to check out the Second Annual one as well
Archive for April, 2006
28
Apr
Suphero Haircuts
It’s “Wii”, pronounced “We”. I immediately realized this had to be done:
Canadian musicians create consumer-friendly coalition is very encouraging. Seems a group of Canadian musicians understands that suing music fans who share music for non-commercial purposes is a bad thing.
The problem is that the RIAA understands that it’s bad, but it’s bad for both them and the musicians, while P2P(Peer To Peer) is only bad for the RIAA. P2P allows musicians to spread their music globally without requiring a global conglomerate to take over a large percentage of the rights to it. P2P won’t kill music, it will just kill the leeches who are making money off of other peoples’ music.
Once again I got the latest Doctor Who thanks to the wonders of the Internet. In case anybody thinks I’m such a Who fan (or “Whovian”, I guess) that they can do no wrong, I didn’t really care for this episode. It’s not that it was bad, it was just pretty standard fare. Some cool stuff, some chasing, heroics, and weird leaps of logic for The Doctor to figure it all out. And then the attempted cleverness with the royal family at the end. A good try, but after it was all done, I just went “Eh.” I’d give it 3 TARDISes out of 5.
19
Apr
Doctor Who - New Earth
How about that new Doctor, eh? I loved the first new series Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor and I’m already incredibly fond of David Tennant in the same role. “Series 1″ is now available on DVD, though I’ll admit it’s fairly expensive at $90. It has a ton of great extras though, and the series is excellent for kids and adults.
You’ve got to love Doctor Who with an actual effects budget. Hooray for CGI prices coming down to the point where TV shows can have cool scenes like that.
Some day soon we’re going to have to do a truly Canadian sci-fi show. Sure there are sci-fi shows shot in Canada like Battlestar Galactica and Stargate, but they’re all quite American, much like Doctor Who and Red Dwarf are British.
Anyone else up for it? We can make it ourselves, like a modern day Our Gang putting on a show. I don’t have an old barn, but I do have a web server and BitTorrent can supply the means of distribution.
14
Apr
Computer Problems Update
I’m working my way through reinstalling everything. I tried reconnecting the old broken drive so I could use some recovery utilities on it but any time it’s connected my computer bluescreensw with an ntfs.sys error, even if I’m already in windows and try plugging it in live (it’s SATA so it should theoretically work).
Warning, geekery follows:
I then tried rebooting to my XP CD so I could run a chkdsk on it to repair the broken ntfs.sys, but it actually freezes up when “inspecting your computer’s configuration”. I get the same kind of freezeup when I boot to my utilities CD. I was going to get it to wipe the MBR — my recovery utility doesn’t need that and it should bypass the ntfs.sys problems.
It looks like if I want the data from this drive I’m going to have to bring it to one of those professional drive recovery places and that’s going to cost me money I simply don’t have (eyes clients who are still late with payments…)
The thing is, though I had a lot of that drive backed up, a lot of things weren’t. My email, my huge collection of Fonts (dating back from Corel 4.0 and a ton of favorites I’ve collected from the freeware versions on the web) as well as my iTunes music preferences. I had almost two thousand songs rated, which makes it easier to make playlists, now that’ll be blank — the songs themselves were on a diferrent drive, however.
And then there’s the recent client data, mIRC scripts and logs, base artwork for several personal projects, some saved scripting code… ugh, it’s a mess. Looks like debt is coming up soon.
12
Apr
Hard Drive Failure
My computer was being a little weird today, with a few odd errors popping up. I chalked it up to general Windows weirdness but then when installing new video drivers it just crapped out halfway through. When it rebooted it was very slow and many of my startup programs crashed. Not good. I planned on a rollback but couldn’t even get System Restore back up. I decided to reboot again to Safe Mode and that was the last I was in Windows. Apparently my windows\system32\config\system folder is corrupt - that’s where the registry is kept.
I pulled out a bootable diagnostic CD and ran the Maxtor Hard Drive test on it and it failed almost immediately. It reported the error code Y3JS57 and told me to plug it in to http://www.maxtor.com/ – I did that (on Mel’s computer, where I’m posting now) and got no results. Thanks Maxtor!
Of course it waited until after NCIX was closed to do this so while I could have spent the night installing and formatting a replacement drive and then getting Windows (and all my software!) back on it, I’m out of luck until tomorrow.
I’ve got some really kick-butt hard drive recovery programs so I’m fairly confident I can get all my data back. Most of it is on the other drives anyway. It’s just going to be a pain in the ass to reinstall everything.
Update: I have a new drive and it’s formatting now. I’m not looking forward to getting everything reinstalled and working. It’ll take until after that before I can try to get my old data back. I had a lot backed up, but not all of it, including regularly updated things like my email file.
All Episodes: Saturday 7.15pm, BBC One & Sunday 7.05pm, BBC Three
2006 EPISODE GUIDE
Saturday 15 April - NEW EARTH
Saturday 22 April - TOOTH AND CLAW
Saturday 29 April - SCHOOL REUNION
Saturday 6 May - THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
Saturday 13 May - RISE OF THE CYBERMEN
Saturday 20 May - THE AGE OF STEEL
Saturday 27 May - THE IDIOT’S LANTERN
Saturday 3 June - THE IMPOSSIBLE PLANET
Saturday 10 June - THE SATAN PIT
Saturday 17 June - LOVE & MONSTERS
Saturday 24 June - FEAR HER
Saturday 1 July - ARMY OF GHOSTS
Saturday 8 July - DOOMSDAY
Whee!
09
Apr
Karaoke Party
Went to Fatrick’s place for a get-together. The entertainment-du-jour was my Karaoke Revolution Party which had most of the guests sitting around taking turns singing duets.
I convinced Toren to come along and he and I managed to get the first ever “Diamond Duet” singing Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” together. I’ve come a long way since destroying the background vocals on “Diggin’ Up The World” at one embarrassing show at Greg’s Place. I told Toren I’d be taking over the Thickets soon, but only if I could get a display to show me if I’m singing the note right so I can adjust… and if the audience can be set on “Easy Judging”.
06
Apr
The Pain!
Played the first road hockey of the season yesterday. I tried to take it easy. Not only am I low on energy because of Medifast but it’s the first time back after months of doing very little physical activity.
Despite that: ouch. My shoulders hurt from the (wimply) slap shots I was taking, my right knee really hurts from the pavement impact travelling up from my foot. I’m hobbling up and down the stairs. The rest of my body just has a general “Ow fuck what did we do yesterday?” feel to it.
It hurts, but it’s a good hurt. It reminds me that though I may have lost weight, I’m not actually in shape again. So if the weather’s good I’ll be there next week, and the week after, and so on. Once I’m done Medifast I’ll be exercising more often.
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