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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Seuss

Oblivion Tops Hot Coffee

Everyone has heard of the Hot Coffee controversy courtesy of a modification to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that allowed you to have "sex" with a pixilated nude woman in the game. It was retarded, as Maddox pointed out, because it is a freaking game where you run around and ...

Escaping Codec Hell

This problem has been nagging my computer for a couple years now. The most frustrating part is that it comes and goes, seemingly on a whim, and my efforts to kill it for good never work. Judging by the large amount of talk on the issue, lots of other people ...

ATI Drops the Ball

I finally decided to get a new video card because I went to play Oblivion (which is a pretty good game incidentally, after I didn't like Morrowind). As has been stated in multiple reviews, Oblivion pretty much is the nail in the coffin for the Radeon 9700 and 9800 pro. ...

June 18th 2007
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Windows Vista – Doing a Clean Install with an Upgrade Version

There is a workaround for the silly way in which Vista checks to make sure that you are actually upgrading a previous version of Windows. I wrote about this previously, where I actually had to install Windows XP to use the 32 bit upgrade of Windows Vista after I had ...
June 9th 2007
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Vista Tips – Customizing the Send To Command

Alright, I went to add notepad and wordpad to my Send To folder like I always have for each of the previous operating systems. Thanks to the "simplified" (and admittedly cleaner) users folder and the disappearance of settings, I could not find the way to customize the Send To command. ...
June 7th 2007
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Windows Vista 64 Bit Downgrade to 32 Bit Woes

An alternate title for this post could be "How I managed to memorize my Vista key in one day." In previous versions of Windows when you purchased the Upgrade version of the new operating system you could always just insert the CD of the previous version during the install to verify ...
May 23rd 2007
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The Heroes Finale (or Fizzle)

This post is obviously a spoiler, I would avoid reading it if you have not seen the show! Then again you can probably predict the ending if you have ever imagine up a semi-happy ending to some kind of hero like possible disaster. Was it just me or was the Heroes ...
May 21st 2007
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Work in Progress

I am in the process of reviving this blog and finishing some kind of easy redesign. WordPress has grown a lot since I started using it, so I am incorporating many things quickly with themes and widgets, but will have to customize everything over time. I am very busy lately since ...

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