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Ruining Xbox Live For Everyone / Behaving in an Internet Forum

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

omfg it WAS LAG!!!!!! ur al n00bz!!!!!

How To Ruin Xbox Live For Everyone Else
Where is my ROFLcopter?
Oh and I guess you stupid lag-causing n00bs want to know how to behave in an intarweb forum. Whatever. I r l33t.

How To Behave On An Internet Forum
N00B!!!!!111

Technorati Tags: funny, geek, lolz, video

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Tags: funny · gaming · geek · pwn3d · video

Speak Geek

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Apparently after watching this video, you will know how to speak geek. Do you really want to though?

How To Speak Geek
Step 1:
LOL
LOL – Laugh out Loud: I am laughing out loud at your comment. Feel free to use this even though it’s unlikely to be strictly-speaking true, and in reality you’re just smirking a [...]

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Tags: funny · geek · video

Safari for Windows 3.1

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Wow. That’s pretty nifty. Apple is writing software for Windows 3.1! I suppose the author meant to say Safari 3.1 for Windows …
An Argentinian security researcher has discovered two flaws in Apple’s Safari for Windows browser.
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian said the vulnerabilities could allow hackers to remotely take control of a [...]

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Tags: apple · geek

128 kbps vs. 320 kbps

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

There are many people out there who insist that there is no discernible (why does the spell checker think discernible is not a word?) difference between MP3 files encoded with a bitrate of 320 kbps versus 128 kbps. Apparently anything over 128 kbps is a waste of space. I always go for 320 [...]

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Tags: geek · music

Ruby resources for n00bz

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I am learning Ruby. As such, i r n00b. Here is a list of resources I have found to be helpful so far.
Try Ruby! (in your browser)
This site allows you to get a decent overview of how Ruby works in an interactive manner. Definitely the first site I would suggest to anyone [...]

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Tags: geek · programming

Vista SP1 TP For Your Bunghole!

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Just what Vista deserves. I’d love to get a couple of rolls of this stuff.Tokyo (Japan) - If there is one place in the world that any gadget-electronic freak should go to, that is Akihabara district in Tokyo. Numerous stores bring on fascinating number of products, often first in the world. There are also [...]

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Tags: funny · geek

Rails

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Today I went through the Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard tutorial. The tutorial from Apple was much easier to digest than some of the other ones out there. Yikes. I’m not afraid of terminal, but I started to get extremely confused when many of the tutorials I found were [...]

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Tags: geek · programming

7 Ways to Win Back Your Gaming Spouse

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Is it just me or is #1 pretty conniving? I’d get pretty suspicious if my SO started to offer me +1 loot for doing chores around the house.Sorry … the power outage thing won’t work, by the way. I have a laptop and I will resort to dial-up if I have to. [...]

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Tags: gaming · geek

Folding @ Home = 100

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Yay! 100 work units. Feel free to join my team if you have a PS3, Mac or even a Windows PC.
Visit Folding@home if you want to help, or find out more about what the hell it is.
P.S. I know the picture is crooked. But you try taking a picture of a [...]

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Tags: gaming · geek · misc

chantal13.com

March 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments

I finally decided to set up another domain today. I haven’t had a working one in years, since I got over the whole “webmaster” of the early 90s thing. Angelfire. Geocities. Ugh.

In the end, I decided to use GoDaddy as my domain name registrar. Not because I liked them the [...]

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Tags: geek · misc