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.
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I knew it would just be a matter of time but it seems that the blog spammers finally found me. When I checked my site today I noticed at least 2 comments on every single post in my blog. They were all for online casinos. Spammers really are ruining the internet. Damn they are annoying!
So to fix the problem I got MT-BlackList. It's a pretty simple little plugin for Movable Type that will not only de-spam your comments on request, but it also blocks spammers from ever posting to your site. It's pretty damn good too. It's written in Perl and uses regular expressions and a black list (of course) to do the filtering. I definitely recommend it to anyone that is having spam related troubles with their blog.
L8r.
I finally did it. I broke down and bought Madden 2005. I of course couldn't just get the regular version. I got the awesome Collectors Edition. It's not like some of the other stupid collectors edition versions of games were you just get the same game in a tin box with a key chain. Oh no. This one is different. The collectors edition gets trivia, a ton of videos, the Madden Moments game mode and 3 vintage versions of Madden games including the original. Oh yeah that's right, the first ever Madden game that was built for the SEGA Genesis. You also get a couple of the Playstation 1 versions. These could quite possibly be the most fun features in Madden 2005!
As for the actual Madden 2005 game it's perfect. The new additions to the defensive side of the ball are long overdue and they were implemented perfectly. Cudos to the fine people at EA Sports for this one. It's a gem!
L8r.
Today Lauren asked me to setup a web photo album for her trip to Montreal. The service that she uses right now requires people to create accounts and that is just plain annoying. I said sure, no problem! Turns out after a quick little search on the web it was indeed stupid easy.
I found this great program called Web Album Generator. It was easy to find, easy to install and easy to use. I ended up having the photo album setup in like 5 minutes. That even includes download and install time for the program.
For anyone that is interested you can check out the photo album here.
I figured a web based photo album would be slow but the pages generated by Web Album Generator and really lightweight. The album is quck and really usable.
Just thought I would pass on this little gem that I found. Hope you enjoy it!
L8r
