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Over the past several months, I’ve found myself enjoying a good bit of Half Life 2 Deathmatch. It’s nothing complicated, just good fun running around getting as many frags as you can. Most maps give you access to the majority of the HL2 weapons, including the gravity gun. It’s quite fun to [...]

I recently picked up a Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server. The reason was that I work from home most of the time now, and needed to be able to print papers. However, the only “real” printer we have is an older HP LaserJet 4L. It works fine, but it only has a [...]

I upgraded my desktop last night from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon. I must say that it was a pretty disappointing upgrade. The things that broke are:

My mouse behaviour inexplicably changed to “focus on click” from “focus on mouse over” - and the settings to change it back are not under the [...]

When I bought our Wii a couple of weeks ago, I immediately bought Wii Play, because friends had told me that while the game is not worth $50, you effectively get the game for $10 if you were going to buy another remote anyway. This pretty much sums things up. The games are [...]

I’m not much of a runner, but occasionally I get myself psyched up to go out for a few miles. What I do really like, however, is keeping obsessive track of my activity. When the Google Maps API came out, I thought “It would be really cool to use this to create maps [...]