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This was my response to this post on Reddit.

"A game, really?"

"Yes. Any game. You win, you go back...you lose...well..."

How does one respond to that? Better yet, how does one respond to Death? Not death, as in the end of life. Death as in the (un)living embodiment of the hereafter.

When upgrading the firmware on your PopcornHour A-100 Network Media Tank, you might end up with a hung machine before any operations take place. You'll know this has happened because your TV screen will go black as soon as you start the process. If this happens to you, there's a simple solution.

Ghost Rider has long been one of my favorite comic books, so imagine my surprise and joy to see this in my feed reader this morning...

The artist is doing a month of Marvel characters done in the style of The Simpsons. I'm glad he's doing some of the more obscure Marvel characters.

So I've been using the awesome SwissCenter media streaming server with my PopcornHour A-100 for a while now. Over the weekend, Windows XP decided it didn't want to run on my file server any longer (yeah, I know... :) ). In it's place I installed Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron". After migrating my SwissCenter settings over to the new Linux install, everything worked, except SwissCenter no longer showed up on the Sources page on the A-100.

I'm such a geek... :)

Being a freelance web developer, there are many times where I'm moving domains for clients (or more recently, myself), and need to know when the DNS entries change to point at the new version of a site. I could just keep submitting an nslookup request manually, but that requires me to stop whatever it is I'm doing, switch to my terminal app, and execute the command.

After losing two hard drives in rapid succession, I figured it was time to start giving some serious thought to my backup plan. I have been rsyncing my documents, pictures, and active projects folders to my local Debian server for a while now so neither drive loss was that critical, but it drove home the fact that while I like to think my systems are bulletproof, there's no such thing.

Apparently, Queensryche has a new album out...of nothing but covers...:)

I've been on a black and white photography kick lately. I don't know what triggered it, but I can't get enough of well-done monochrome photos. I did this one tonight based on a photo I took of a Lilac shrub in my front yard.

I did quite a bit of manipulation in Photoshop to the original shot to get this output, but I think the results are worth it.