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DOOM's 13th Birthday

Ignoring the rather pathetic movie featuring "The Rock", DOOM's 13th Birthday was yesterday (11-Dec-2006). Honestly I'll admit I was never hooked on DOOM, rather QUAKE was my first addiction to FPS games. Quake, Quake CTF, and Quake II wasted many a day during my college career (though I'm no worse of for having played till my hands went pins-and-needles on a few occasions....at least not that I know of so far). Related linkage: DOOM 13th BDay on theRegister Doom @ IDSoftware.com

Great BOFH Episode

I don't know if any of you out there are regular reads of theRegister but I their BOFH column is priceless for anyone working in IT. Their most recent Episode really made me laugh this morning. Canadian Site

Do you have an accent?

Darin lead me to this: What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. The Inland North   Philadelphia   The South   The West   The Northeast   Boston   North Central   What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz I've always told people I don't have an accent (not that accents are bad things), I just always thought I was pretty neutral. (I can't believe the quiz doesn't ask about milk [Milk, Melk, Malk......people really manage to mangle that word].

Keyboard Shortcuts (Part II)

Continuing from my previous post on Keyboard Shortcuts : Windows Desktop/Explorer Window: F1 > Open Windows Help (Or active application help if you aren't on the desktop or in windows explorer) F2 > When you have a file selected F2 will take you into Rename mode F3 or WinKey + F > Open the find file or folder applet F5 > Refresh Window WinKey + M > Minimize All Windows WinKey + shift + M > Restore All Minimized Windows WinKey + D > Show Desktop WinKey + L > Lock Windows (Not available before WinXP) WinKey + E > Launch Windows Explorer WinKey + B > Set Focus to the TaskBar (dunno why you'd want to do this) WinKey + ctrl + F > Open the find computer applet shift + delete > Permanently remove a file (same as delete followed by empty trash) alt + tab > Cycles through your program list alt + shift + tab > Cycles backwards through your program list alt + space > Activate the window control menu (same as right clicking the icon in the top l

Going Pink for October

Just caught this over on /. and thought I'd add my support. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/01/1923237 Go Pink? Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. Over the month I'll try to post some info on the latest/greatest developments in the fight against breast cancer.

Cartoons / Comics

Cartoons are great, I have a couple that I read every morning. What got me thinking about this was a few more recent User Friendly (UFies) cartoons from the weekend: User Friendly - 2006-09-23 . User Friendly - 2006-09-25 . I'll add a list of my daily cartoon's to the leftnav.

The Gatineau Cougar

Live in or near Ottawa/Gatineau? You'll probably appreciate this (especially if you've experienced frosh week here). A friend passed it along to me and I couldn't help but link to it for others. Way too funny! Gatineau Cougar (Hinterland Who's Who spoof) Update 20131001 : Seems the link above is dead, here's an updated one: Gatineau Cougar (Hinterland Who's Who spoof)

Keyboard Shortcuts (Part I)

People often notice that I don't use the mouse as much as most people. Personally I find it much quicker to do a lot of tasks using the keyboard. Therefore I've decided to post a list of keyboard shortcuts from time to time. Hopefully you'll enjoy them and and find them useful like I do. When editing text: ctrl + arrow (Left or Right) > Move the insertion point left or right entire words. ctrl + shift + arrow (Left or Right) > Highlight entire words (left or right of the insertion point). double click > Highlight an entire word. triple click > Highlight an entire line (not sentence). shift + home > Highlight from the insertion point to the start of the line. shift + end > Highlight from the insertion point to the end of the line.

Gimmicks Annoy Me

Checkout this article: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/07/lacie_safe_drive_range_expanded/ Note the last line: "LaCie has also announced two SAFE Mobile drives with built-in encryption, which should reassure the more paranoid user. In the US the 80GB costs $219.99, which is a premium of $50 over the non-encryption SAFE, while the 120GB costs $299.99 - a premium of $20." Does anyone else see a problem there? If you pay a premium for encryption "over the non-encryption SAFE" doesn't that kinda suggest that their regular "SAFE" drives are just a pretty enclosure with a thumb print scanner that interfaces with software to do basically zero? If the data isn't encrypted then what prevents someone from stealing the device, ripping the drive out, and plopping it in any system or enclosure? Now I'll admit, I have't bothered to read LaCie's site so maybe I'm missing something but this seems like a complete Gimmick to me......give the con

Getting Started

So I keep getting told to fire up a blog by the friends and collegues so here goes. Over the next little while you'll start to see a theme. Without a doubt the pages will fill up with rants, tech info, camping stories, etc.... More Soon!