Archive for July, 2006


Weekend Focus

It’s finally Friday. This weekend promises to be pretty uneventful if not relaxing. My office at home is in serious need of some love. I have a couple months worth of receipts, filing, and other “adult” things to do. Of course I don’t want to do any of them. What I’d rather do is blow [...]

Gaming Keypad

As a follow-up to the article about my fire-breathing game system, I’ve decided to order the WolfKing Warrior USB Gaming Keypad Add-On (whew, that’s a mouthful).
I re-map my keys for playing World of Warcraft, but having to move around all my key bindings every time I load a new game gets old fast. This way [...]

Fire Breather

My wife is always trying to buy me more “geek bling” and I’m always trying to duck the attention. The other day I finally succumbed to the temptation and let her pick out a new computer for me.
It’s a fire-breather, for sure. In no particular order, here are the specs:

Coolermaster Wavemaster case
Enermax Liberty [...]

Fables

I’m documenting this err in judgment in the hopes that someone, in a similar situation, might not repeat it.
Last Friday I headed to the gym bright and early. This marked the second day on my return to working out and I wanted to make it count: I expected to be sore in the morning. Because [...]

Wagon Surfing

The last couple weeks have played hell with my schedule.
Between Disneyland with the family and the extended weekend over the July 4th holiday I haven’t been eating right, getting enough sleep (or too much, in some cases), or getting to the gym. The scale don’t lie, folks—10 lbs put right back on. I don’t see [...]