I’ve noticed that I’m becoming much more critical of writing. In the last few years, books that I thought were brilliantly written have lost some of their lustre and are now only mediocre. Books I’d loved and re-read dozens of times are now nearly unreadable. I used to like almost everything I read. Now, I [...]
Greg’s Adventures
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VML patch out
Get the VML patch at WIndows/Microsoft update now. Don’t wait. Do it now. (NOTE: if you unregistered vgx.dll, be sure to register it again before applying the patch.)
wow
For some reason, I’ve been feeling the urge to give World of Warcraft another try. As I still have the game installed on the Windows PC, it tempts me from time to time.
I’ve quit twice after playing a short time each instance. I just couldn’t get into it. But with Jerry Pournelle mentioning it all [...]
IE vulnerability
The bug is old news, but folks have started to actively exploit it. http://secunia.com/advisories/21989 You really should unregister that DLL or switch to Opera or Firefox. Or just get a Mac. It isn’t panic time yet, but this could get really nasty.
Long day
Monday. Oh, how I hate thee. Rotten to the crunchy center art thou. For some reason, I feel like I didn’t get any sleep last night. I know I did though. I even had some bizarre dreams. I don’t usually get those on weekdays. My theory is that I don’t sleep long enough to allow REM [...]
Lineage 2 Music
Geez, I love this music. One of these days I really ought to try the game. (Well okay, I tried the beta, and it wasn’t all that much fun.) EDIT: If you are interested, there are very high quality samples on Bill Brown’s website. If you have any love for orchestral game music, you really must [...]
Birthday
So tomorrow I’ll be 28. I’ve been out of school and in the workforce for TEN YEARS. When I was young, I was told to expect time to go faster as I aged. I couldn’t believe it was possible. A month was a very long time. A year, nearly forever. A decade? Unfathomable. And here my [...]
Jericho
I’m always game for a good serial, and I had high hopes for Jericho. The previews looked pretty good, and the premise was intriguing and looked as though it would make for a good developing plot arc thingie.
Alas, it was crap. The writing was soapy and featured truly horrendous dialog, littered with cliches and stupid [...]
ugg
Crazy day so far, including a nice whack on the head while replacing a UPS battery at o-way-too-early. At least nearly everything worked after replacing the battery. Except the tape drive in the big important SQL server. Rebooting seems to have helped, for now. I hate to see anything backup related become unreliable.