Shiny.

A have new toys.  Free, shiny, and gadgety.

 

A buddy of mine from work has been running a hacked copy of the Mac OSX "Snow Leopard" for awhile, now.  I recently found some older versions of Windows backed up on my computer, and deleted them, freeing over half of my hard drive space, so I had plenty of room and wanted to do something cool.  The aforementioned buddy of mine got a copy I heard could work on my hardware, and I was going to start playing.

 

But Windows wouldn't let me free up enough partition space!  I could free up about 1.24 Gigs.  I can't put anything cool on 1.24 Gigs!  And I didn't want to format and start from scratch.  I wanted to dual boot Win7 with something fun, but Win7 wasn't going to let me do all the fiddly bits required.

 

I started browsing around.  I went to the Ubuntu website, and thought, "Well, I can download a copy of this, and have it ready in case I find a way around the partition problem."  And then the download halted partway in.  So I went back to the website--and noticed something cool I missed before.  There is a Windows installer for Ubuntu.

 

I can install it from Win7, setup a dual boot, and never have to muck around with actual partitions.

 

So I did.  I've been messing with Ubuntu for the last couple of days, grabbing software, a blogging plugin for Chrome.  The Google junky I am, I needed to grab Chrome, too, after I got Chromium.  I got World of Warcraft to work--badly--in Ubuntu.  I got a Vent client.  And there's a lot of cool Linux software over here on the flip side--stuff that does cool things, things that are a little...shady, let's say.  Software that isn't very trustworthy, if it's on the Win side.  And it comes preloaded, here.

 

Anyway, it's been a long time since I posted.  I wanted to give my excuse.  I'm playing.

 

~j

Silent Protagonist Haiku

Grey blobs fly away.
But patience is my weapon -
Also, Metal Slash.

Making Things Look Better.

So, I got restless sitting here, trying to think of what to write about. I have the day off, decided to hit the library and work a little on my web-presence...but I was coming up with nothing I wanted to say. So, I decided to play with the new layout templates from Blogger, and make this a little more pleasant to the eye.

I had a handful of websites before, starting with good old Geocities. I had personal sites, and I even webmastered for the church choir I ended up directing. Back then, I actually bothered messing around with HTML. I'm not a web-design pro, but I like to think I have a fairly clever, if untrained, eye. So, if you tune in at all, please comment and tell me what you think. Suggestions are welcome, but remember--I really like black, so I'm probably not going to give on that.

I also think I'm a fair hand at designing superhero costumes. I realize that I seem to think I'm decently good at all these things that have tools to help people design a good look, but...well, when my Champions Online account becomes active again, I'll put up screenshots or something.

Now to go find my old MySpace page and make it not suck before anyone reads this and uses it as evidence against me.

~j