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More power to ya

So you get dumped. What to do with all your new found discretionary cash? Upgrade your computer of course! After much teeth nashing and enough four letter words to fill an encyclopedia set, I'm posting this from my new PC, composed of:

• Thermaltake VA8000 Armor Chassis
• DFI Lanparty Nforce4 Ultra-D Motherboard
• AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor
• ATI X800XL 256MB PCIe Video Card
• Western Digital 74GB 10000RPM SATA Raptor Drive
• Western Digital 200GB 7200RPM PATA Drive
• NEC Dual Layer DVD Burner
• Mitsumi Black Floppy Drive
• Generic MultiFormat Media Reader

New Year!

Got back from Niagara Falls a week or so ago. My advice is this: DON'T GO. The exchange rate is HORRIBLE. My hotel room bill was $380 Canadian, and when it was converted to US, it was $322. Get the picture? At least I got some cool pictures out of it, like the one on the right. p.s. we stayed at the Niagara Hilton this time. I definitely liked the Embassy Suites better. Next time we're gonna try the Marriott.

Some people have said "dude that torrent site you linked to below doesn't work. Well you're right, but there are still plenty of other torrent sites out there, like this one.

This Christmas sucks

So yah... two weeks until Christmas. My power window on my car goes out, and I need a transmission fluid change. $600 bill. Sweet. Then I get pseudo-quasi-maybe-dumped. Then to top it all off my car shuts itself off while driving on I-90 yesterday (for no apparent reason). Can a brutha get some snow so that it at least feels like Christmas? At least a new toy is on it's way to work to amuse me.

Favorite software of the month:

• BitTornado - Mmmm, for free file goodness. I use it with this site.
• FxCop - FxCop is a code analysis tool that checks .NET managed code assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines. It uses reflection, MSIL parsing, and callgraph analysis to inspect assemblies for more than 200 defects.

New toys

I picked up one of those newfangled reduced size SCPH-70000 PS2s today. Total cost to me: ~$24. Electronic's Boutique traded in my old PS2 for $100, then accepted 5 games at $10 each in trade.. basically making the new PS2 "free" for me, save for the $11 in tax. To get the games to trade-in, I simply bought some crappy $2.99 titles from GameStop. Woohoo! I don't actually get the new PS2 until later in the week because of a shortage, but I can live without it for a few days.

The anti-update

Welp, it's been almost two months, so I figure it's about time for an update to the world famous "page that nobody reads". The .NET classes I took were horrible for the most part. I self taught myself 90% of what was lectured on before setting foot in the door. It didn't help that the instructor didn't know anything that wasn't smack in front of him in the book. I guess the saying "Those that can, do. Those that can't... teach" holds true. So much for taking classes to get ahead. I then proceeded to forget half of what I learned when I went on vacation to Dallas (good thing I'm a quick re-learner, if that's a word?). Ohhhh yah, I went to Dallas for a week, with stopovers in Memphis, Saint Louis, and Chicago. Fun was had by all (all two of us). Does anyone remember this song besides me???

.NET and Flash coolness

Well, I'm finally getting around to learning .NET. Starting July 12th, I will be taking two full time, one week each, classes for ASP.NET and C#. Then in August I will be taking a three day class for ADO.NET. If anyone is curious, the training is at this place called Software Answers, Inc. in Akron, OH. The courses I'm taking are on their course schedule page (courses 2124 and 2310, then 2389).

I found another really addictive flash game in my Internet travels. Check it out. The person that made this must have been REALLY bored... but it's cool anyways. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!.