snipe — verb [intrans.] — make a sly or petty verbal attack
This weekend I finally decided to throw my vote in to the next-generation console fight when I went and bought a PlayStation 3 (PS3). I picked up a pre-owned 40GB model from a local GameStop along with Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Burnout Paradise. I’d been thinking a while over which console interested me most, and which one offered the most compelling games, and here’s what it all boiled down to.
First off, apologies for this post’s title. It had to be done, though. On Monday, LiveJournal was sold to a Russian company. When I first read about it, one eyebrow raised slightly, but I didn’t think much of it. Then I started noticing comments coming in from my friends and colleagues talking about how they felt about it.
I don’t usually just post links, but these are too great to not share.
I got a new Dell Latitude D630 recently, and I wanted to try using Windows Vista to see if I could get my work done with it. The short story is, I can, and it’s actually pretty nice. But there’s more to it than that.
Earlier today — well, yesterday as of the time I’m writing this — I went to my Friendly Local Game Store and participated in the Gold Tier tournament they were running for Magic: The Gathering. I was running a rather inexpensive Sliver deck and didn’t expect to do so well but to have some fun anyway. I took first place, and had lots of fun. The big prize was a box of booster packs of the forthcoming Lorwyn set, but I also got three packs of Tenth Edition, a rather decent duffel bag, a nice plastic deck box, and a Magic: The Gathering toboggan hat.
I’ve been playing Magic on and off for over ten years, and I’ve only ever made it past the second round of a tournament once or twice in my life. I love the game, but I’ve never considered myself to be a top player, even amongst the local player base. Maybe I need to reconsider my position on that.
I just wanted to thank Sci-Fi Genre for hosting the tournament, Wizards for continuing to make the game so engaging and entertaining long after people thought the fad would die, and mostly to the other players in the tournament for throwing their best games and best decks at me. It was an exhilarating blast, folks, and I look forward to seeing what Lorwyn has in store for us.
Like lots of people I got a new phone yesterday. It’s sleek, high-tech, and has lots of cool features. It’s also not an iPhone. No, I got myself a Cingular 3125, running Windows Mobile 5.0. In fact, I don’t even want an iPhone. I’ll tell you why, by way of talking about what I’ve been doing with my phone.
A friend of mine asked about the benefits of software RAID versus hardware RAID in Linux, and I proceeded to voice my support for the former. It was then brought up that online resizing was one of her concerns, and I set about to figure out how to do just that. These instructions were crafted in a CentOS 5 virtual machine, and come with no warranty or guarantee of any sort; I put them here on the off chance that they might help someone.
Since we’ll be moving soon, and I’ll be closer to work and able to traverse somewhat safer neighborhoods to get there, I’m thinking of getting a motor scooter. The gas mileage of some of these guys is nuts — 60+ MPG — and they’re safe, cool, and just downright fun. I realized that Durham is laid out such that one can get around to the major districts — ATC, Ninth Street, Downtown, New Hope Commons, Der Ãœbertarget — on surface streets, most of which have 35-45 MPH speed limits. If it worked out I’d sell my car, and that alone would cut down on my expenses just in insurance and taxes, not to mention fuel. There are a whole lot of options to choose from, though, and that’s where the trouble begins.
I’m going to be pushing a software project I’ve been working on out into the open source world sometime in the near future, so I’ve been considering what I want to use to keep track of the software’s development. I initially started by creating a RubyForge project for it, because the tool is written in Ruby and that’s just what you do with Ruby projects, but I’ve also been thinking about Trac and Launchpad.
Just a quick post to test whether or not my upgrade to WordPress 2.2 was successful.