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New computer, new dog

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Just put together a new computer and am very happy with it. I also managed to buy a “new” copy of Win XP Pro Retail from Amazon. With XP having become a valuable gem since its discontinuation by Microsoft, I’m happy to have two retail copies, one home and one pro. We also just got [...]

Tutorial: Check if the CD You Won off eBay is a Bootleg Using ImgBurn

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

I’m an eBay addict, and if you are too, you know it’s very easy to buy used and cheap CDs. You can even get rare and out-of-print CDs, some obscure ones go for over $100! However, often times people take advantage of the rarity of some CDs to sell unsuspecting (or, sometimes, desperate) people bootlegs. [...]

This Site on a Mobile Phone

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

A friend of my sister’s tonight had what I think was a Blackberry, or something similar with a keypad and Internet access. As I always wondered how difficult it would look, she told me that it worked on certain major sites like Gmail, Amazon, etc., or sites designed for mobile phones, with it being possibly [...]

Why does everyone hate this album but me?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Bush’s Razorblade Suitcase is always criticized and shit on. Their first album, Sixteen Stone, which contains all their classic rock radio hits, was criticized for being a set-up corporate ripoff of then-deceased Nirvana. (And while we all love the hits, it isn’t anything special. I have it.) So for their next album, Razorblade Suitcase, Bush [...]