Monthly Archives: April 2005

Here is a blunt, but nicely written defence of the late Pope which I find nicely counters this equally blunt, but nicely written post slagging the Pontiff for all the nasty that happened during his watch. Two different bloggers, two … Continue reading →

Not every science fiction show can rock as much as the new Battlestar Galactica — and if you just saw the two-part season finale, you know what I mean. But for every Battlestar Galactica, there are thousands of pitches out … Continue reading →

Let’s say that you want give your year-old system a nice, new, shiny case. But when you start to hack it together you realise that the new case comes with an ATX-12V v2.0 power supply. It has a different primary … Continue reading →

otherwise nice people in my building totally lose their minds over parking spaces. i don’t know why. a friend of mine unwittingly pulls into one of the parking spaces normally used by one of the other stores. that shopkeeper, a … Continue reading →

When you assemble a modern compuer you always put the processor into it’s socket before you put the board into the case. This is what a normal Pentium 4 LGA 775-pin mainboard looks like when the heatsink is completely latched … Continue reading →

Everquest, one of the first MMORGs, has been slowly declining in popularity, and newer, prettier, more technologically advanced games like World of Warcraft are taking over. In a move, no doubt, to control expenses, Sony is beginning to consolidate the … Continue reading →

In this case, Matthew Mullenweg, the lead developer of the mega-popular blogging software WordPress, signed with some advertising company called HotNacho. They uploaded thousands of bogus advertising pages to the WordPress servers and had the webadmin make invisible links to … Continue reading →