This is a great article on how to fix your troubled Windows XP Installtion.

Article at Tom’s Hardware on Fixing your Windows XP

I love their stuff.

Shuttle’s Media Center XPC

I just love their stuff. I should be getting my newest Shuttle XPC today. However, I won’t be getting the innards for it until tomorrow, it’s looking like. :(

Our friends at Blizzard have put up an awards page for World of Warcraft.

I can’t get enough of this game!

I can’t wait. After almost two years, I ordered a new computer!!!

Case/Motherboard: Shuttle SN95G5
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Memory: 1GB PDP PC3200 (room for 1 more)
Hard Drive: Hitachi 160GB SATA Drive
Hard Drives: Also have 120GB and 200GB PATA Drives from before
DVD Burner: Plextor 708A 8X DVD+R
Video Card: XFX GeForce 6600GT (with dual DVI ports)
Monitor: Dell 2001FP 20.1" LCD (1600x1200 and gorgeous!)

I can’t wait.

Interesting. In a world of popups, spyware, malware, etc., it looks like Microsoft is trying to enter this space with their own proudct. I’m sure it will remain free and I’m sure that MSFT needs to do stuff like this to keep their customers happy. With so many third party companies out there making software from A to Z, Microsoft seems a bit slow on this. Then again, they don’t have their own antivirus software. Strange. I wonder why?

BE WARNED!!! You apparently need to validate your copy of Windows before downloading this. There is an option to NOT VALIDATE, but I’m not sure how this all works out.

Try the beta anti spyware software.

Ars Technica’s Article on It

I felt my baby for the first time yesterday! Felt like a few elbows!!

Meet our baby:

Our baby’s spinal cord:

Nice looking foot:

Another profile shot:

Well, I have to say that I’m glad to see something like this being offered to the general public.

Defibrillator

My buddy, Scott, sent me to Penny Arcade for this. This is pretty funny. I just started playing MMORPGs and I feel like this all the time, since my friends play 80% of their free time.

Looking at the following pictures. You wonder. Do these animals do this stuff out of boredom?

On our way back from the wedding, I got pulled over, about 1/2 mile from our house. I sped through a light that was turning yellow, and I even thought: “It’s dark, I hope there are no coppers around.” Anyway, 1/2 mile up the road from the intersection I sped through, and 1/2 mile from home, I got pulled over.

Copper: Good evening. Know why I pulled you over? Where do you live?
Me: No. Just coming back from a weekend in Green Bay. I live right around the corner, in Spring Hill.
Copper: That light was red.
Me: I thought it was yellow. I didn’t want to skid through it. (It was raining, and near freezing).
Copper: Had anything to drink tonight.
Me: No. On our way back from Green Bay, like I said earlier.
Copper: How’s your driving record.
Me: Good. I think 1 ticket in the past 2 or 3 years.
Copper: Okay. License and registration…
… Copper comes back. Copper: You actually have 4 points. I’m more concerned about drunk drivers. Go home.
[Copper followed me until I pulled into my subdivision]

Phew!

Michelle and I just got back from a trip to Green Bay to celebrate Pepe and Sarah’s Wedding! They got married on New Year’s Eve. Loads of fun. Good times, good times!!!

Photos of the weekend, including the days leading to the wedding and afterwards.

Michelle and I got a chance to meet so many nice people: family and friends of Pepe and Sarah. We also got a chance to see their house. Super tight. We loved it. We stayed there on Wednesday night, the day before the wedding festivities started (rehearsal dinner, picking up tuxedo, etc.). It was nice to get a chance to hang with Dave and Sarah prior to the madness of the weekend.

We were also able to spend a few with our friends from Detroit on Thursday night, after the rehearsal dinner. I also got to see the Kaspers!

Driving the Saab there was amazing. The weather was perfect. Neither of us had to stop to pee or get anything until just past Milwaukee. We made record time, I think. We had to stop for about an hour because we grabbed a late lunch and had to get a nail removed out of the driver’s front tire. NO WONDER the damn thing was losing air pressure and “pulling” to the left all the time. DOH!!!

Driving home kind of sucked. We were both kind of tired, but I was able to drive until we were about 3 hours from home. We stopped and ate at Big Boy, which sucked, not like the olden days, and then Michelle drove for about 2 hours, letting me catch some rare in-car shuteye. I drove the last 75 miles home or so. My wipers SUCKED. I swear, I just got them about 15,000 miles ago, tops, from Saab, for a pretty penny. The ones you but at auto parts stores don’t “work” right because they don’t have the Saab air deflector and the length is a tad off. They snap in and all, but they look kind of “janky” on the thing. Oh well, that’s what you get for buying a Saab. All in all, it drove awesome all weekend. I even learned I had too low of air pressure in the tires. I was about about 31 lbs. but the tires can take up to 51. I think the shop that pulled the nail put in about 45 lbs…. much nicer. A bit rougher, but it drives much better!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Merry Christmas family and friends!!!!