May 2007 Archives

I finally got my butt in gear and got the comment feature working on here. In order to fight the stupid comment spammers I have my blog setup to require users to authenticate with a 3rd party before you can post a comment. I'm using the default suggestion TypeKey for the authentication service cause it's the default, I'm lazy and I'm sure it works fine.

I know having to create an account just to leave a commet might be annoying for some is not most of you but it's log in to leave a comment or no comments at all. This is much easier than we weeding through and deleting endless spam comments, trust me.

I finally got an external hard drive so I can backup the stuff on my computer. I have a ton of stuff that I would be screwed if I ever lost (e.g. pictures, old school work, programs I've written, documents, music, etc...). I have been looking at a Western Digital My Book Premium at Costco for weeks now but Monday when I was there it had dropped in price so I finally got it. I got the 500GB drive for $200.00. It was a great deal seeing the drive is big enough for me to use as a backup drive and extra storage. It aslo came with all the software I need to do automatic backups and of course restores which is a nice bonus. The drive works and looks great. Now my next purchase is going to be a USB 2.0 PCI card for my computer cause the transfers are a little slow. It never ends.