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Archive for January, 2006

6 weeks left!

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Hot diggedy damn! Less than 6 weeks until our new little baby starts crying and pooping away! Seriously, time flies. So many things need to change, the cool Mazda 6 we have? Gotta go (later though, not right now! :) ) Our 1 bedroom which was already too small, will definitely be too small with another baby. But, all of this will have to happen sometime this summer, there's only so much you can pile on your plate and still keep your sanity... Although I think I lost that a long while ago. My lovely wife Claudette has a bundle of punching and kicking energy in her belly, we can't wait to meet him or ...

Sometimes, technology sucks

Saturday, January 21st, 2006
So this past year has been pretty horrible for me with anything tech related. After years of having virtually no problems with hardware, everything now seems to want to fail. Hard drives? Failing left and right. Camcorder? Decides to stop ejecting tapes. Computer? Bios chip failure, motherboard toast... Or so I thought, after a bit of googling, I found out that you can have new Bios's flashed for a fee, and then it's up to you to swap chips (which was an interesting story of it's own). I tried that instead of opting to buy a new motherboard and now my computer lives again! Muhuhahaha! If anyone cares where I bought my chip, I got it from a place in Italy, ...