Musings of a technophile

So I was playing Warcraft III online last night and this guy used a strategy against me that I had never seen before. You know that’s one of the best things about Warcraft III, and perhaps other RTS games as well; no matter how many times you play online, there is always someone else who uses a different strategy.

Anyways, this guy’s strategy was pretty simple. Basically he brought… Continue reading

So this last weekend I finally got around to beating BioShock for the first time. I started BioShock on November 20th of last year, and have played it VERY rarely since then, which is why it took me a whole year to beat it.

BioShock is a FPS where you play the role of Jack, a plane crash victim that survives the crash only to discover you are in… Continue reading

School Days is an Anime about a boy named Makoto Itou who goes from never having a girlfriend to having about all the girls in his class as his girlfriends at the end of the series. It is an Ecchi anime – although there is a HUGE difference between an Ecchi Anime like Love Hina and this one, I’d even call this a Hentai wannabe.

First off let me… Continue reading

So I watched this Anime series called Devil May Cry. Many of you may recognize the name from the fairly popular Devil May Cry video game series. I played Devil May Cry (the first one) once, but never completed it, I think after watching this Anime I may give it another try.

The series is only 12 episodes long, but it follows the story of Dante – a half… Continue reading

So I was going through my pantry today looking for a snack when I came across some new gummi snacks – Lego’s. Yep, they are just little gummi’s which look like Lego blocks in assorted colors.

You know for the child in me I thought it was a pretty neat idea, I mean who doesn’t know what Lego’s are?… Continue reading

Many people could tell you that when a piece of software doesn’t work correctly, or rather doesn’t do all the it should be capable of doing, I’ll be one of the first to point that out.  Being a programmer and a DBA certainly helps with this as since I have such a good knowledge of how stuff works from a back end perspective, even perhaps if I can’t see the… Continue reading

StarCraft II is one of Blizzards highly anticipated games coming out (from what sources indicate) in a few months. A new StarCraft game hasn’t come out in like ten years, so this new addition to the series has some old time fans all excited. I never played the original StarCraft until recently – a friend at work still plays the game so we’ve played it a few times at LAN… Continue reading

So Friday night we decide to go to the movies.  Yes, you read right – the movies. Whats so great about the movies you ask?  Well – it happened to be the first time we a) had been to the movies in two years and b) took the boys the movies.   We found this movie theater called the picture show that is only $1.75 – of course it’s hidden in… Continue reading

So I have spent the last week or so reconfiguring our reporting server at work. It was running Windows Server 2003 x86 with SQL Server 2005 and SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) 2005 before, now it is running Windows Server 2008 x64, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 (two different instances) and SSRS 2005.

Just to be clear, we tried SSRS 2008 before but apparently SSRS 2008 has… Continue reading

So I recently had a friend read my blog post about recovering a hard drive while he was going through my site. He had a drive that had died and it wouldn’t even POST in the BIOS. Apparently after reading my post he decided to give the freezer trick a try. He tested the drive before freezing it and sure enough it still did not POST. He put it… Continue reading