GearWERKZ TechBlog

Well, it has been a long time but I am actually drafting this blog post
in a local file (for tonight). After the last several months of finally giving myself over to the cloud, a set of circumstances has led me to going back to
writing to a local file. My LINUX boot on the Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T
is the most secure system I run. One of the configuration items I have
set is a refusal to take cookies from any site in my browser. As a
result, certain things do not work in my browser. Like my login to
iGoogle, through which I typically go to my Google Docs folders and
draft blog posts there. I also can not log into my Blog anyway, so
either way I am, right now, left to draft this locally and then post it
via some other means. So I am drafting this one in Tomboy Notes, a neat
little sticky app for Ubuntu.

Follow up:

Given the intro, it is obvious what machine I am working on this week.
After being on the Fujitsu U820 this weekend, it is nice to be back on
the spacious keyboard of the Acer. While I am still figuring out how to
do certain things in LINUX that I already know how to do in Windows, the
Acer is still a tidy little machine in LINUX mode. While I am working
from the Acer this week, my playtime is on the XBox 360. I am trudging
through the single-player campaign of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. I
honestly do not know why this mode even exists. Infinity Ward would have
been better off devoting all of their project resources to a
multi-player only mode. In that way, they may have been able to code out
some of the egregious glitch-bugs that permit so-inclined players to
cheat their way to ridiculous scores online. So forgettable was the
single-player campaign of the game's predecessor that, until the
flashbacks rolled in the MW2 intro, I had completely forgotten that I
actually finished the campaign in Modern Warfare.

My NetFlix movies for the weekend were Timeline and Wall-E. The former
gets 2 stars, the latter 4. I am not a huge Disney-PIXAR fan, but Wall-E
works. Timeline, which I expected to like more, was a muddled mess of
screaming protagonists, none of whom seemed to be able to keep their
head. It is a wonder that they survived the misadventure. Of course, it
was sci-fi, and the circumstances were extraordinary, but shouldn't at
least one of the characters have been likable? They were not.

Other than that, I really did not do much over the weekend computer
project-wise. We did record the first Casual Adult Gamers Podcast of the
year. If you want to see my rig for that recording, you can check it out
here. The setup is powered by my 15" MacBook Pro (February 2008 edition), an Inspire 1394 Firewire Audio Interface, M-Audio iControl Mixer, headphones (this last time I used the Bose In-Ear Headphones that are my daily phones), and a gold-plated condenser mike. Oh, and GarageBand and Skype.

So that's it from the 'Werkz. Regrets for the short post. On the rest of
the project agenda for this week is watching some of my recorded DVDs
(TV-to-DVR-to-DVD files), trying out the Same GNOME game in Ubuntu, and
burning some more of my DVR files off to DVD. So, until next time, keep
your beer frosty and your PC free of dust-bunnies. I'm out.
-Vr/Zeux..>>