Archived News starting from 12-17-2007 and earlier
Blog
My obsession with Windows Home Server is
well documented, so naturally I check the
team blog regularly. After a long gap I finally checked it again today to find a post about the
Stay at Home Server ad campaign. While the acting in the clips is horribly cheesy, I'll write it off as their attempt to reach the average consumer, which went horribly wrong. Fortunately the most amusing part doesn't have any actors to make you cringe; enjoy
Mommy, Why Is There a Server In The House? 
A
half-foot of snow today answered my question about global warming potentially ending big snowstorms. Drifts up to
two feet were also a pleasant surprise. My hatred of winter is temporarily lifted when snow falls thanks to the light-reflective anti-
SAD effect, and exponentially more exciting winter 4x4 driving. It also brings potential for more
Yee Haw Sleddin which was missed last year.
After the
Morlocks holiday party, followed by a visit from Chase and the flatlanders last night, I decided to assemble the
inflatable snowman to help keep the good times rolling. Lisa has often told me how much she enjoys my obnoxious decoration, and the Morlock even stopped by promising to violate it frequently while I was setting it up. Repeated violations make me wonder if I'll get a 6th year out of this $50 investment, but even a 5 year eyesore was well worth the money, especially with so many
great memories.
The
Morlock messaged me today with the news that
Google Maps Street View had added our street to their image library. You can even move the camera angle to the ground and see the car that drove by taking the 360° images. I wasn't able to find anything displaying a date in the imagery, but since my truck is in the back and my Cougar is in the driveway I would place it somewhere around the time I was
shoveling rock in July. Now that I'm officially famous I'll be signing autographs for $1 each.
Lisas obsession with
Carcassone and a few other Xbox 360 arcade games has finally pushed my
gamer points over 1,000. By beating various online challengers she has fully unlocked the game achievements, which also happens to be the only game we own that's fully unlocked. With phase 1 complete, and Lisa fully ensnared in online gaming, the next step is to gradually move her up to more challenging games until she's fully dedicated to unlocking achievements in my name. The final phase of course involving the sale of various game currency she earns on eBay. Like a chinese game sweatshop but in southern Michigan.
Thank you to everyone who helped
celebrate the death of my 20s today. Now that I finally reached 3 decades I'm finding it's not so bad. As my sisters friend stated, turning 30 means you didn't die young, so I can now list that along with losing my hair and growing a gut as my accomplishments for the decade. Gifts were strictly forbidden but Stavos broke the rule with a Transformers Monopoly game. Lisa was exempt and bought me an Optimus Prime, two gnome shirts and an Optimus Prime blanket. The Transformers theme continued into her mega-party plan including an Optimus Prime cake and favors. Excessive jello shots rendered me incapable of stopping the party killer movie, but everything else went swimmingly. I know most of you won't speak to me again now that I'm officially old, but I appreciate you stopping by for one last visit before ex communicating me.
Stavos recently suggested
avatars for the comment section of this website. Not quite sure how I would fit the images in my compact comment area I resisted at first, but some gentle coaxing and a few mockups later and I was convinced. What else was I going to do for two hours anyways? While I was working on the design (before crying uncle with DIVs) Lisa asked "What is your evader supposed to be anyways?" It required a full 8 seconds of mental processing before I realized she was mispronouncing avatar, which then prompted several minutes of uncontrollable laughter and Lisa shakes. So now that you know why I call them "Evaders", next you'll ask "So what?" Well I don't really have an answer for that, but the dropdown allows you to choose from some preset Evaders (uploadable custom capability coming soon). Once you choose one, the preview shows below the dropdown and once you submit, it sticks along with the other fields in the cookie for next visit. Yes, way over engineered for a website 2 people visit on a regular basis, but fortunately for those 2 people, I made exclusive
TM custom©® avatars©®
TM and backfilled old comments with the same one. I promise I'll keep my sugar intake down in the future.
Last time the Steelers had a game on television, I discovered
football freak Lisa and made a
video to document her bizarre behavior. Tonight's game also wound up being televised locally, and this time I had an early christmas present in the form of a
Greg Lloyd jersey ready for her to wear. Even though I don't understand yelling at the TV, I'm glad I was able to
amplify her insanity.
Preparing to relax and enjoy my Saturday night, I booted up my
workstation and noticed the BIOS version on my
ASUS A8N Premium motherboard was 1009. A quick check revealed 1303 was the latest, which I promptly downloaded, and discovered dynamic BIOS updating was yet another thing my newly reloaded 64-bit Vista did not support. After installing my floppy drive from 1998 to complete the bootable BIOS update, I was disappointed to see my NVIDIA RAID firmware remained a lowly version 4.84. A quick Google search revealed ASUS is not as diligent as most motherboard manufacturers with their BIOS updates, and typically don't bother to update integrated device firmware. Fortunately the same search produced a link to the
Award BIOS Editor which just by downloading makes you feel like you're sticking it to "the man". After loading a
BIOS update I found on MSI that users reported also updated their RAID firmware, I was able to extract the RAID update and replace the old 4.84 block with the new 5.60 in the "official" 1303 BIOS for my A8N in the editor. Unsure if my hack update would work, do nothing at all, or completely brick my motherboard, I was surprised to have it work perfectly. The old NVIDIA RAID 4.84 configuration screen now calls itself NVIDIA MediaShield 5.60 with a
moderate performance gain.
Hosted Domains
AtomicInternet
AtomicDetroit Forums
Web Applications
Photo Collection
Solar Generation
Weather Station
Gnome Webcam
Mower Status
Farmer Status
Outdoor Lights
Upload Box
Home Inventory
AtomicDetroit Forums
System Info
System Statistics
Proton System
System Uptime
ASP.net Version
Vehicle Info
1999 Mercury Cougar
2017 Ford Focus ST
2017 Ford Focus RS
2013 Kawasaki Ninja
Search 1549 News Articles
Comment Statistics
