There is some excellent music that never gets any national attention. When I was in High School one of my favorite bands was Jerry Lives Twice. They only ever made one album. They never made it big, and they broke up at the end of high school. Now there is a place to track all of the little bands and find out when and where they’re playing. Find out more about your local bands at Loud Is Relative, a brand new site dedicated to showcasing the little guy.
My father-in-law works at a great place for finding abandoned computers. Organizations for higher learning are constantly ditching old computers and things that have only minor problems with individual components. He got me three Dell laptops that have only minor problems. I only have a single hard drive for the three of them, so that’s obviously a problem. One of the laptops is missing the connector for the hard drive as well as the hard drive itself. One of them has a problem with the keyboard where the “8” key only works if you twist the display a little bit. That’s obviously a contact problem somewhere. My hope is to get at least one of them working so that Krissy and I can each have our own laptops instead of sharing one.
Here is a piece of the new puzzle put out to introduce a new super secret payperpostbluemonster program they’re releasing. The first person to reassemble these puzzle pieces and post it on their blog will get $500. So act now, don’t delay, it’s a race to see who can find them all. They’re scattered on blogs all over the net. Be the first and let me know when you win!
On Costco’s website they have information about the Ninendo Wii and the upcoming release. They say that you will be able to preorder it, but they don’t have it available yet. They have Red Steel and Twilight Princess available for preorder, though. I don’t want to do that, though, becasue Costco is well-known for their bundles and I want to wait and see if they are selling the Wii bundled with a game or two. I’m guessing they will bundle the Wii with Excite Truck and le tpeople buy Twilight Princess seperately, though. This is getting more and more exciting!
If you’ve read much on this blog then you would know how much I love geocaching. GPS technology has always fascinated me. It’s positively amazing that you can have a tiny little device receiving information from multiple satellites in orbit around the Earth. Geocaching is a lot of fun, but I really would like to know where I’m going while I’m in the car and sync that up with a map. I was able to get a lot of information about GPS and sat nav from currys, a large online retailer of satellite navigation equipment. Whether you are looking for a TomTom Go or a good old Garmin like what I’ve got, they’ve got you covered. Give them a try and see what you find.
I just heard about this artist over at my favorite accordion-related blog so I thought I would check out her music. It is really catchy and I like it a lot. Here is a video of a song from her newest album. I hope you love it!
This looks like the perfect thing for the traveling laptop user. I could see myself zipping all over the country, and even the world, with one of these. The wheel are like rollerblades so they’re really durable. You can put all your papers in here and keep your laptop safe all at once. For more information about this and similar items check out Tumi at Luggage Online for the best deals.
I just finished up a programming assignment for my Data Structures and Algorithm Development class simulating a CPU and a preemptive real-time operating system’s handling of jobs. It was relatively complex so I expected there to be a bug or two to track down when I thought I was finished coding. When I finished the last function and ran the program the output was right on! Usually I have to spend an hour tying to figure out what’s throwing the whole thing off, but not this time. What a relief. I didn’t expect to be done last night, but there I was, done.
At work someone had the great idea that everyone at work dress up like pirates. We were looking at patterns for pirate costumes when I suggested we might be able to get a costume like this put together for less than the price of the pattern and the material. Well, this got me thinking about when I want to be for Halloween. Thinking about pirates reminded me of the age old debate of which would win in a fight with a pirate against a ninja. Ninjas win hands down in my book. I still don’t know about pirate costumes, but ninja costumes are readily available and not a bad price, either. So if Krissy ends up as a pirate and I end up as a ninja then I’ll let you know who would really win in a fight!
Here is a piece of the new puzzle put out to introduce a new super secret payperpostbluemonster program they’re releasing. The first person to reassemble these puzzle pieces and post it on their 
