Asymptomatic

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XBox Mod Foibles
June 14, 2004

After having played with it for a while, there are a few things that bother me about this XBox mod chip and the software that is available for it.

The Xenium apparently has some kind of problem with there being a non-Microsoft controller plugged into any port when the XBox boots. I have installed XeniumOS 1.1, which is supposed to take care of this issue, but it doesn’t. The system just hangs at the boot screen if you have anything other than a real MS controller plugged in. I’m anxious to get XeniumOS 2.0, which looks very cool, and hopefully solves this issue.

Short Weekend
June 13, 2004

Another short weekend down the drain.

We killed Friday evening going out with Mom to the slowest moving buffet I’ve ever seen. This Chinese buffet is one of those places (like the PA DMV or the Chester County Library) that you go into around 6pm expecting to spend a half hour or so eating, and you end up walking out and it’s quarter til 11 and you feel hungry. Weird.

Something Positive at Something Positive
June 11, 2004

A few weeks ago, Randy at Something Positive complained that he kept getting email from people telling him that he had bad spelling. That if was really going to be serious about his web comic (something he did in his free time around his real life and real job) that he should look at these things more carefully before they go online.

In response, he challenged people to make this possible. He challenged his readers to donate enough cash to cover a year of salary. If hey did it, he would quit his day job and become a full-time web cartoonist.

You'll get a tummy ache
June 11, 2004

Berta and Abby were eating jellybeans recently. Abby mentioned something about a tummy ache, presumably from eating too much candy. I wondered where she had learned this tidbit, and figured that Berta must have told this to her to prevent her from eating the whole bag of beans. This got me wondering…

Is “you’ll get a tummy ache” just an excuse that parents give so that their kids don’t eat too much candy? I don’t remember ever getting sick from eating too much candy - no amount of candy was too much in my childhood mind. Then again, maybe I stopped myself thinking that I might get sick from it.

Wiki Wiki
June 10, 2004

It’s got to be the stupidest name I’ve heard for a thing, but I’ve finally broken down and installed one.

Basically, a Wiki is a piece of software that allows you to create and edit web pages in a most free-form manner. In fact, the design was intended such that anyone could come along and make changes to any page that they wanted and add any page that they thought was needed.