Based on a true story
I was home for the holidays recently.
While I was getting dressed, my mother walked in on me. I covered myself up and cried out, “Mom!” She came back with that stereotypical line, “Oh come on, when you were a baby, I changed your diaper!” I came back, deadpan, “When I was a baby, we showered together. Want another go?”
I tried out PMachine.com blogging software tonight. Last week I had tried Wordpress. There were a few key reasons I didn’t want to use it; the one that stands out most notably is that there was no solid way to keep comment spam at bay. So I ran PMachine through it’s paces and liked it. Then I realized that there is no facility to import old entries (like this one) into Pmachine or Expression Engine. That erked me a bit, knowing that my old entries would sit outside the new system. Then I realized that there would be no way to EXPORT my blog out of PMachine if I ever decided to switch. Damn lack of standards. This blog is currently maintained by hand… and I’m thinking it will continue that way. :-(
I’ll never be this good at anything: Mr. Woo bouncing a soccer ball off every part of his body for almost seven minutes without a single miss.
Firefox 1.0 Tweaks
Lots of tweaks at http://windowssecrets.com/041202/
Fixing a memory leak-ish issue in Firefox 1.0
Firefox tends to use more memory than maybe it should. Here’s how to fix the issue. From forums.mozillazine.org
Type about:config into the location bar, press enter, right click any line, choose “new”>”integer”, paste this into the dialogue that appears:
“browser.cache.memory.capacity”. Click OK, specify the amount in kb in the next dialogue that appears, restart firefox.
Yes, it seems to help performance.
Windows XP Tweak: Prefetch
Windows automatically preloads programs it thinks you use a lot. But many programs shove their way into this folder, sucking up your RAM. Once every couple months or so do the following:
del c:\Windows\Prefetch
Your computer will boot faster and use less RAM. The worst that can happen is some programs will load slower the first time you start them after doing the fix.
Credits: tweakxp.com, techrepublic.com.com
Make Firefox Prefetch
I use Firefox all the time, so I do this:
You can speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows XP by adding it to the programs that XP “prefetches.”
To do this, right-click the Start Menu item for Firefox, or any icon you use to start Firefox, and open the Properties dialog box. Add a space plus /Prefetch:1 to the command line and click OK. The resulting line might look as follows:
“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” /Prefetch:1
A detailed explanation of XP’s prefetch feature is provided by TechRepublic.
Windows XP Tweak: Defrag
An oldie but a goodie. Run:
defrag c:
Every couple months
I’ve been playing Half Life 2 for a couple weeks now. Maybe I have 15 hrs of play time into the game and 5 hours into Counterstrike. I love marveling at the countryside I’m riding through, knowing that although my character can walk through it and manipulate it to a great extent, it is a completely fictitious universe. That’s cool. Remember what I was saying about special effects winning me over in The Matrix? Well I just got to see “Dog” this robot in Half Life. Wowie Zowie, I marvel at it.. and doubly so knowing that it doesn’t even exist!
VC and I went skydiving on new year’s day. What a way to start it all off! It was fantastic!
I saw Matrix Reloaded with Tara and Ross last year. My comments back then were that there really was only one movie, just stretched out into 4 hours. After seeing the first 30 minutes of Revolutions, I am reminded again how there is still only one. And the parts that are new… just aren’t that good.
Ok, the big Zion fight scene was pretty exciting, even though we all knew before it started that the humans didn’t stand a chance. Special effects can still sometimes win me over.
