Blog Is Under Construction… Well Sort Of

Added on April 24th, 2007

Just a quick note. Over the next few days I’ll be doing various things to the blog that most people probably wouldn’t. So if you see anything strange going on, or get weird error messages, don’t worry. That’s actually a good sign, as it tells you that I’m busy working(read: breaking) the blog to improve it.

One thing that I need to properly re-do are the google adsense ads, still not too sure about their placement so I’ll be experimenting with that over the next few days. And of course the usual, upgrading and adding new plugins that should make the blog more enjoyable.

Oh Mr. T, What Have You Done?

Added on April 23rd, 2007

Well well, SGN certainly can be a gold mine from time to time, and I’d like to thank Thot Gor from SGN for finding this clip. It would seem that Mr. T has made a come back, sadly it’s only for an ad campaign for Snickers, so nothing too big, but it’s still great to see him in action.

They have even created a full site for the ad campaign where you can download all sorts of goodies, and it looks like there will be a “Ask Mr. T” section soon. Check it out at Get Some Nuts. And no I’m not being paid for this, just informing the world about the latest happenings of the bestest person ever.

Windows Vista

Added on April 22nd, 2007

I remember saying on SGN that I won’t try Vista out until Microsoft, nvidia, or the makers of STALKER and Gothic 3 release fixes that make those games compatible with Vista. But then I realised that I haven’t played either of them in quite a while, especially Gothic 3.

So I thought to myself, hey why not try out Windows Vista, you have an hour or two to spare today to install it, and have been looking for an excuse to re-install your main OS for quite a while on your gaming rig anyway. So I did, and my first impressions of Vista can be summed up by the following two words, flashy and annoying.

Windows Vista - Also known as Windows Hen

Flashy is quite straightforward, Vista’s Aero interface is very flashy, and shiny. It reminds me a lot of Mac OS X, basically a very cute/pretty pastel(in Mac OS X’s case it’s white) coloured interface with lots of round corners and transparency. At first it seems quite the overkill but one gets used to it quite quickly and then it seems nice. I just wonder how much longer it will be till I start finding it to be annoying and useless.

Now to the annoying bit. I’m a power user, emphasis on the power bit, I like to turn things upside down in my main gaming OS. I use shell commands, clean up services, edit the registry by hand, and a lot other things, and this is where Vista really gets in the way. “Do you want to continue” pops up just about every step that I make, luckily that can be turned off somewhat, but even after turning it off I run into it.

Overall, I think that Microsoft is actually going into the right direction with Vista, making it even more accessible and usable for the average Joe user. Not to say that there aren’t enough improvements for the power users.

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