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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Thinking about nanowrimo 2008

Like many people all over the place, I am starting to consider my run at NaNoWriMo 2008.

This site has documented my abject failure at this project during 2006 and 2007. This year may very well be different (he tells himself anyway).

And this is why I think so:

Planning is starting in July. Not November. Have purchased Jer’s [...]

Fixed my “useful” feed

Thanks to del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes and Firefox’s Live Bookmarks I have a handy toolbar folder containing a nice long list of “Useful” links. These links are usually complicated and not regularly used, but nice to have handy (eg the admin page for this site). Recently, I noticed that my list had shrunk. It turns out [...]

Neverwinter Nights 2 error!

I have had my copy of NWN2 pretty much since it was released.

After a couple of false starts over the last two years, I have finally managed to play more than once or twice with a character and really get moving. I am almost at the end of Act I, and at 10th level.

This is [...]

Sometimes it IS that simple

Just recently, I have been having trouble getting my VMware machines to accept keyboard input.

The patterns:

Not a problem in unity mode. Which doesn’t help when you are trying to log in to the machine. Happens to both my Boot Camp image and to true virtual machines. Also happens on XP images and my Ubuntu image.

Of course, [...]

My first ever trackback

I don’t post for a couple of months and someone actually sees my stuff and posts about it. I’m speechless.

Launch Vmware fusion apps from Quicksilver

I switched to a Mac late last year (traded a Powerbook for a Compaq Presario) and immediately started being jealous of all the owners of newer Macs with their intel chips. Specifially, I wanted VMware fusion so that I could run those select few windows apps I have yet to find reasonable mac substitutes for.

So [...]