Archive for January, 2006

DVD Plans

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

I’m still researching all of the intricate details of the Media Center PC that I’m building. I originally planned on getting the DVD Decoder from Sonic. However, I’ve been trying some different software solutions out and I’ve hit the winner. I didn’t realize that Nvidia had PureVideo Decoder. The Platinum edition […]

Evil Empire or Limp Penguin?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I’m really into the idea of having some sort of media box to put stuff I like onto my nice Samsung HLR-6178. So, I’m basically down to whether I’ll be using some flavor of Linux with mythTV or give in to the dark side and go with Microsoft Media Center.

Everyone Else Is Doing It

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

So, I’ve decided to go poking around for some new WordPress themes. I actually found one that I really liked and then later found out that it was a 2.0 theme. So, I found this one and messed with it a bit to get it just right. I still have a little […]

World of Byecraft

Friday, January 6th, 2006

I put the final stake in the heart of World of Warcraft. I’ve been ignoring it over the past month since I started mucking with EVE Online. I thought it was going to be more difficult to cancel my account. Not technically, but emotionally :-P. However, WoW made it easy for […]

Wow, That Sucked

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I use Gentoo Linux since I run this on a small machine. Today, I decided it was upgrade day. I wanted to just upgrade a few things like Apache and PHP. I figured the upgrade would go similar to some of the other components I’ve upgraded in that it would just unpack […]