Well, Another Day has passed

Well, day after my birthday :/
as normal was pretty much another day for me, I did get to the range, which is always fun, let's me hear loud booms and work on my marksmanship, which is ALWAYS a good thing, if you own a firearm, you should practice with it so you can hit what you are aiming at not something totally different, only safe way to own one in my opinion. Well just wanted to jot a few thoughts down, better be off, maybe I can find a lead on a new job, since the FBI is still dragging there heels and not figuring out I am no threat to anyone, but that is for
my rant
HI HI

So sayeth John

Well, as I get thing ready to head down to Austin, I am still waiting to hear from the FBI as to this silly investigation I am dealing with :/ ahh well my humor gets me in trouble again, should be used to people not gettin my dark sense of humor by now. Ohh well, gettin out of town should do me some good, always nice to get out of town for a few days, and the fact that I am going to be making some money while I am down there is good as wel. Also hope to trade ownership of my XD to another so that I might purchase a better home defense/CCW weapon. My days are short since I cannot seem to stay awake during the day, yet I am bored stiff at night, but cannot sleep. Damn being a vampire has it's draw backs.


So sayeth John

I think I need a life

Well, reripping 5 Audio books on CD just to get them to work on you MP3 player is a bit of a pain in the ass, specially since there are a total of 70 odd discs in one set of 5 books :|
course I also ripped 2 other books as well, I have ripped over 106 odd Compact Discs in the past 3 days I think :|

Damn I need a life

So sayeth John

So True

Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtably will destroy it via some typical bonehead consumer maneuver.
Which is why we ask you to PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE READ THIS OWNER'S MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU UNPACK THE DEVICE. YOU ALREADY UNPACKED IT, DIDN'T YOU? YOU UNPACKED IT AND PLUGGED IT IN AND TURNED IT ON AND FIDDLED WITH THE KNOBS, AND NOW YOUR CHILD, THE SAME CHILD WHO ONCE SHOVED A POLISH SAUSAGE INTO YOUR VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDER AND SET IT ON "FAST FORWARD", THIS CHILD ALSO IS FIDDLING WITH THE KNOBS, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT??? WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST BREAK THESE DEVICES RIGHT AT THE FACTORY BEFORE WE SHIP THEM OUT, YOU KNOW THAT?
-- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"

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John
www.rblprd.com
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Now this is Cute

After what ahppened to JibJab.Com and their great poltical jab of a
cartoon this is great
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040815

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John
www.rblprd.com
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More Thoughts on XP SP2

well it certainly is nice having an out of box firewall that works.
I still like the functionality of ZoneAlarm, and the ease of configuration.
Granted this is a HUGE step forward for MS in the security field.
Something that actually blocks programs from accessing the network, BY DEFAULT and I like the new pop up blocking, finally something good in IE's favor.
I will still use Mozilla thou for my browsing, I am very much addicted to the Tabbed Browsing and plug-ins that are out there for Mozilla and it's kin.

and low and behold they seem to have gotten a wifi manager that works.
the old one always lost connection to my APs whenever they say the ping from a second AP. Most frustrating let me tell you. I started using Boingo just to keep an active WiFi connection :|, course that was before I went with ABG APs and Proxim ABG cards in the laptops, the Proxim client is great. having all the profiles for wherever you happen to be or go is EXTREMELY nice, no reconfiguring when you get home after you have been at wrok, or out in public at a hotspot.

Well enough babbling for now


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John
www.rblprd.com
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First Day thoughts

Well, the System Seems to be running balls out, just getting the main
apps I need loaded so far. I will say Tune-Up Utilities 2004 work
fairly well to tune your system easily. Office 03 is going to be a
bear thou, 5 bloody discs man, it's insane. Hopefully this thing
doesn't tank soon after I get it all loaded :/. Still have to get in
to the firewall and see how it will behave, I am thinking it is going
to be a lot of manual tweaking. unlike ZA which is fairly straight
forward and simple, asks simple questions and click simple answers.

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John
www.rblprd.com
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First Thoughts

Well, the main machine is back up and running nicely so far, just installed Win XP SP2, and have my browser loaded back, even updated I cannot bring myself to use IE anymore than I have to, baka Micro$oft and not allowing to kill it, and also even thou it says you are unistalling messenger from the add/remove programs, don't believe a word they say, it is still there and will still launch, again baka Miro$oft.

At least they did get the firewall somewhat more up to snuff, will know more as I have more and more programs accessing the net and have to tailor it to fit me. Will hold off on installing my standard ZA first thing, HI HI

Well back to the software grind

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The average person spends their life avoiding intense situations,
And Extreme person spends their life looking for intense situations
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John
www.rblprd.com
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Well this is new

Well this is nice, my main machine has once again decided to bite the dust :/
Damn Micr$oft and Winbloze

I guess I should concentrate on moving completely to Linux now

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The average person spends their life avoiding intense situations,
And Extreme person spends their life looking for intense situations
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John

www.rblprd.com
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Well, I must say, this MozBlog for Mozilla works a lot better to blog myself silly and share my rants with the rest of the world

Well, now that that is updated, maybe this will work better

Well since I just got me Main Computer back up, I figured I would Blog a little Blog with me.
Damn I hate when my main box dies, takes bloody forever to get the thing back in a working order.
bollocks