Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Blingo Prizes Have Arrived!

After waiting for many weeks to get the Blingo prizes, they finally have arrived! 3x movie tickets! Time to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest now

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Yankees Aquire Abreu and Lidle

ESPN reports the Yankees have aquired outfielder Bobby Abreu and starting pitcher Corey Lidle from the Philadelphia Phillies for minor-leaguers C.J. Henry, Matt Smith, Jesus Sanchez, and Carlos Monasterios.

Blog Updates

So this morning I finally updated my version of K2 to revision 407 from revision 345. Most of the changes are pretty minor and cosmetic and involving the backend code. There’s one bug where the rolling archive bar at the top doesn’t get the maximum pages correct, so I’m trying to fix it. (Fixed the problem by retrieving some K2 code. The problem was that the function they currently use returned the wrong number of pages.) Mostly I had to hack together all the changes I made for the other revision so everything looks mostly the same as before. I’ve also added a new ‘Quote’ plugin so you can quote another person’s comments. Lastly, I’m trying to get rid of the invisible border around the smilies, but not to get rid of the borders on all the other images (the css is linked together) (Fixed the smilies this afternoon with some CSS editing to isolate the smilies from the other images). That’s pretty much it for today.

On another note, I just started play Day of Defeat again after not playing it for over a year or two. So far it’s just as I remember it, but I still haven’t gotten back into the groove of playing so I’m not doing so well right now. Everything is just so dark unlike TFC and Counter-Strike, but hopefully a tweak or two can fix that. At least it runs well on my laptop instead of being really choppy on my old desktop that I used to play on.

Day of Defeat

Intel Unveils the Core 2 Duo

On July 27th, Intel unveiled it’s newest processor line, codenamed Conroe for desktops and Merom for laptops, the Core 2 Duo. Featuring a shorter instruction path and more efficient eneregy management, the Core 2 Duo has suddenly revitalized Intel in its war against rival AMD.

Funny Zidane Video

Everyone by now has heard about and seen the Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt on Marco Materazzi. Although it was a bizarre moment at the end of the World Cup, it’s spawned lots of funny videos, photoshopped pictures, and animated gifs which make it one of the funniest Internet memes since the Star Wars Kid and William Hung. Today my brother showed me this one set to the Benny Hill theme. It’s one of the most hilarious videos only second to the William Hung “Hey Ya!” music-video.

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