This here song is in the key of minor.

The 25th annual Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Festival is a-going on this weekend.

And, The Foghorn String Band is making an appearance. I know "Sammy" Lind. And, I tell you, these guys are great. If you can find their first album, I definitely recommend picking it up. I wish I could get up there to see them play (haven't yet seen them live) but I don't think it will happen.

Without out it, I'd be a zombie in the mornings. A. Really. Cranky. Zombie.

I love this mug! I'm almost tempted to buy one. Now, if they only had the graphics on a travel mug... I'd be all over it.

Tentative list of titles for Nintendo DS

GamePro.com has posted an early list of games that are under development for the Nintendo DS.

Just throw it on that pile of other stuff I'm already supposed to be doing...

phpBB.com's forum software is another in a long list of projects that I'm supposedly working on at work. I'm always willing to try something new, I suppose.

Currently listening to: DJ Krush "Jaku" (German import).

[H]ard|OCP - The Official DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide

[H]ard|OCP - The Official DOOM 3 [H]ardware Guide. Get on it. What are you waiting for? Next week, you!

Now that thar is a sexy phone!

Motorola touts 'razor thin' metal mobile. Rrrrowrrr...

Nintendo DS redesigned...

According to The Register, the Nintendo DS (next-gen handheld) has been redesigned from what was seen at E3. Looks nice. I want!

Yes, I am a babo!

I recently became the owner of babo. He's cute, eh?

[H]ard|OCP - id Software's Official DOOM3 Benchmarks

[H]ard|OCP - id Software's Official DOOM3 Benchmarks

There you have it. I'm pretty sure the game will be playable with my Radeon 9700 Pro on a 2.4 GHz with 1GB of RAM. Besides, I rarely play at a resolution higher than 1024x768 and I'd happily play it at 800x640 (or whatever) if need be. Now, if only my RMA'd card would come back to me!

In the meantime, I'm enjoying the heck out of Champions of Norrath right now. I picked it up soley because Best Buy had it on sale for $19.99 this week. I'm a dark elf shadowknight. My character's name is "yö mämä"!

Futurama, Vol. 4 on DVD

Futurama, Vol. 4 is the last set. That's some sad stuff right there.

Doom 3 release date!!!!!!!1111111!!!!!

Doom 3's (PC) release date has been set. 03 Aug., 2004. Wow!

w00t!

Byte and Switch has mentioned the company I work for in a list of 10 storage firms that are making it successfully without the aid of venture capital funding.

The Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro

A review of the retail version of the Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro. w00t!

dream machine...

A story about a machine that induces dreams of your choice.

A tiny leap of faith...

Well, I've made the switch, though maybe not as drastic a switch as you might think. I've gone from using the Mozilla suite of tools (web browser, email, etc.) to using Firefox and Thunderbird. Like I said, not as great a leap as switching from IE to Firefox or Mozilla might be.

One of the unintended benefits in making this move to Firefox is that I can now browse The Sporting News' Fantasy Source Baseball site. It was something that I could not do with Mozilla.

The downside is that I now have to leave Thunderbird running all the time to check my primary personal e-mail account. I wonder if there's an extension to Firefox that can handle that...

Ay carumba!

What sucks is that my Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro graphics card has decided to go on the blink. So, now I need to RMA the thing and wait for a refurbished one or a replacement. In the meantime, I'm running with a similar card but a slightly older hardware revision.

What would be nifty is if Hercules would replace it with one of their 9800 Pro cards. But, I'm not holding out much hope for that.

I finished Full Spectrum Warrior over the last weekend. I was playing it on the easier difficulty setting though. So, I've started it again on the harder difficulty setting. However, I also enabled a few cheats. I'm not too far in so I'm contemplating ending it all and trying the US Army version that's included instead.

Another MPR pledge drive. I already gave so this feels like torture. But, they probably need the money since federal and state funding keeps getting reduced.

Long time, no posts (again)

It's because I've become much busier at work but you'll have noticed that I haven't been updating this much as of late.

The game getting most of my free time as of late has been Full Spectrum Warrior on the Xbox. Though, it hasn't been without it's hassles. (I apparently received a bad copy of the game. I could barely play it because of the constant stuttering of the video and audio. I was worried it might be the dreaded problem with the varying DVD-ROM devices used in various revisions of the Xbox. But, I exchanged my first copy of the game and everything is peachy keen!) This game rocks. Much fun.

At work, I've been busy getting up to speed on our HyperIP product. I'm hoping it goes flying out the door and I can retire at 40. Hey! I'm allowed to dream, aren't I?

I've also been busy learing the basics of XML. I'm trying to get the documentation side of my work life as far away from M$ Word as I can. So, I'm looking at ways to implement the use of DocBook as a solution. Problem is that everyone is so used to WYSIWYG editors that finding an editor that allows that feature and still uses the DocBook DTD has required an effort and a half!

Well, I think that's enough for now...

More details emerge on the Phantom gaming console by Infinium.

Wired News has more details on the Phantom gaming system/service by Infinium Labs, Inc.. Looks like it'll be a subscription service where the gaming "console" is free for a $30 per month fee. Or, you can buy the "console" outright for $200.

Mama mia!

The Register (UK) has a review of the newly announced ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. Lordy!

Kevin Garnett is NBA MVP. FINALLY!

ESPN.com has a nice write-up about one of the worst kept secrets in the NBA from over the weekend, Kevin Garnett receiving the nod as the NBA's MVP. Yay!