Archive for August, 2005
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005 at 1:09 pmLife is sometimes funny. I will go for long stretches of time, not worrying about the “little things” in a game that used to bother me. Now that I am a borderline mass-market gamer, I just want to have fun with my gaming experiences. Then other times (such as last night) I […]
Oh to backup …
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 at 3:53 pmI should have seen this coming. No backups in a year or so, and now thanks to a nasty virus it is all gone. “It” of course is everything that I should have been backing up weekly/monthly - tax records, my wife’s legal documents, license keys to a few favorite software packages and […]
World of Warcraft Revisited
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 at 11:04 amI decided to put Battlefield 2 on the backburner for now. The game looks fantastic and many friends are enjoying it, but there is a steep learning curve. That is, if you want to play the game correctly and not be one of the kool dudez that frequent such games. I’ve grown […]
Total College Basketball
Saturday, August 13th, 2005 at 9:49 pmGreydog Software announced that Gary Gorski is developing a new text-based college basketball game called “Total College Basketball.” What’s interesting is that Arlie Rahn developed the bug filled and much patched Tournament Dreams College Baseketball for .400 Software Studios. Yes, that’s the same Arlie Rahn who is CEO of Greydog Software.
Gary Gorski’s Total […]
Mac or Bust?
Saturday, August 13th, 2005 at 5:18 pmI think I am going to have to break down and buy a new PC, but I keep looking at the iMac solution. I think this would work for most of the things my family needs - but I would hate to give up Windows software (Word, Excel, Outlook, OOTP6.5, FM2005, and a few […]
Calvertgames.com Fantasy Football at NFL.com
Saturday, August 13th, 2005 at 1:17 pmI just setup a public league at NFL.com. If anyone is interested in joining, please sign up in the next day or two; live draft is Aug 18 at 7:45PM EST.
I have played yahoo FF for several years, but my dad tells me that NFL.com is much better, so I figured I would give […]
Grossman Goes Down (Here We Go Again)
Friday, August 12th, 2005 at 11:31 pmNot that I am a Bears fan or a Gators fan, but when are we going to say “the hell with preseason” and put a stop to the insanity? Grossman went down with a broken ankle against the St. Louis Rams earlier tonight.
Why not eliminate the preseason, and expand the rosters for several weeks? […]
Virus Blues
Friday, August 12th, 2005 at 12:49 pmWell, it finally happened. I guess it was inevitable - my PC has been crippled by a nasty boot virus. I have been using Norton 2002 for 4+ years, and it has always been a trusty little friend. Alas, Norton let me down this week, despite faithfully renewing my support license year […]
Madden NFL 06
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 at 6:03 pmLet me save you the time and effort of reading up about Madden 2006. Here’s the synopsis:
“Madden sucks!”
“Madden’s not that bad!”
“This [insert new stupid EA Sports gimmick]-mode is really silly.”
“We can tweak Madden!”
Two or three weeks of slider creating, testing, etc.
“Can I get a copy of Bill [insert Harris or Abner]’s sliders?”
“Man, I hope […]
Stewart Wins! Stewart Wins!
Sunday, August 7th, 2005 at 8:22 pmCongratulations to Tony Stewart on an awesome 2005 Brickyard 400 win! I only got to watch the last third of the race, but what I saw was very entertaining. It was great to see the emotion pour from Stewart - he really appreciated what he did today, and appreciated all that has come […]
Madden, PSP, and Bliss?
Saturday, August 6th, 2005 at 8:30 pmMy PSP has not gotten much play of late, but that is mostly due to not playing much of anything lately besides NCAA Football 2006. This fall I plan to beef up my PSP library via the UK PSP launch - TOCA Race Drive 2, F1 Grand Prix, Colin McRae Rally 2005 Plus, and […]
Schaub Again …
Saturday, August 6th, 2005 at 8:17 pmThis time last year I wrote about Atlanta’s Matt Schaub being a starter in the making. After watching Schaub play in today’s preseason match up vs. Indy, you have to wonder if Atlanta just gave too much money to Vick.
Sure, sure, sure - I still love me some Vick; he is exciting, he has […]
Upgrade Is Complete!
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 at 6:53 pmWell, the hardware portion of my upgrade is complete. The final system configuration is:
ASUS A8N-E
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (San Diego)
1 MB PC 3200 RAM (from my old system)
NEC 3520A DVD Writer
Leadtek Winfast PX6800 GT
Western Digital 320MB SATA Drive
Maxtor 200 GB EIDE Drive (from my old machine)
Antec Truepower 2.0 550W power supply
Thermaltake Armor Black Tower
It […]
Video Cards
Monday, August 1st, 2005 at 8:52 pmThere’s a nice video card comparison at ExtremeTech that does a good job discussing the relative performance of all the available products except the 7800GTX. The prices are a little dated, but the information is still valid. Currently, I’d say that the best value can be found at the NVidia 6800GT level. […]
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