Category Archives: General

Yep, still alive

Posted on July 31, 2010 by deoren

I know, it’s a bad thing to let cobwebs collect on anything you value, but I’ve just lost motivation to post at any sort of update in a while. Thankfully, I’ve tossed some cobwebs on some aspects of my life. … Continue reading →

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Government buyout

Posted on February 16, 2010 by deoren

This is the sort of corruption that seems to be a way of life in government these days.

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When are you too old to trick or treat?

Posted on October 4, 2009 by deoren

View Yahoo Q/A entry At least two things stand out: Replies supporting the original poster are modded up and posts disagreeing with the original poster are modded down and hidden from sight. It seems that this person really didn’t want … Continue reading →

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Making Firefox maximize on startup

Posted on September 10, 2009 by deoren

You’d think something like this would be incredibly easy, maybe even be in an options tab or possibly prefs.js in the user’s profile. Eh, sort of. The setting is in localstore.rdf within the user’s profile. This value is supposed to … Continue reading →

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Dilbert

Posted on August 31, 2009 by deoren
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Prince of Persia 2008 – Final thoughts

Posted on July 19, 2009 by deoren

Well, I did it (mostly without help): I beat Prince of Persia 2008, aka PoP 4. I first heard about the game and wasn’t too interested as I hadn’t played any of the PoP games before and didn’t think I … Continue reading →

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Defense Grid

Posted on July 19, 2009 by deoren

I just finished the demo for Defense Grid; that was yet another awesome game I’ve played lately. After playing beating the demo Friday night I bought it for $9.99 + shipping from Amazon. The demo was reason enough, but finding … Continue reading →

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virtual box win2ksrv vm

Posted on July 3, 2009 by deoren

These are some misc notes on setting up a Windows 2000 Server virtual machine using VirtualBox. I could also use VMware Server, and I may end up doing that, but I’d like to give VirtualBox a try as I haven’t … Continue reading →

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The end of Titan Quest: Immortal Throne

Posted on June 20, 2009 by deoren

How was it? I have no idea. I beat Titan’s Quest, but couldn’t make myself complete the last chapter of Immortal Throne. The game has a lot of stuff to appreciate: Shadow effects, unique monsters, a solid cohesive theme of … Continue reading →

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Real-life Ryu vs Bonus Stage Car

Posted on June 15, 2009 by deoren

From here. This guy has to be in some kind of pain …

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