Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Monday, December 29
They Made A What Out Of What?!
Disney has made a TV series out of Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, without question the worst book I have ever read.
Even if they have removed all traces of the torture porn (about a third of the book) and the more loathsome actions of the so-called heroes, such as when they cripple and disfigure a young girl, they are left with an insipid fantasy setting, a monumentally stupid story, frankly idiotic political and philosophical themes, and a uniformly unpleasant cast of characters.
They* canceled Journeyman. They canceled The Dresden Files. And in their place, we get... This?
Which reminds me - were there any good new shows in 2008? I was dead and would have missed them.
* I know it's not the same they. Journeyman was Fox; The Dresden Files was Sci Fi Channel. Shut up. I'm ranting here.
Disney has made a TV series out of Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule, without question the worst book I have ever read.
Even if they have removed all traces of the torture porn (about a third of the book) and the more loathsome actions of the so-called heroes, such as when they cripple and disfigure a young girl, they are left with an insipid fantasy setting, a monumentally stupid story, frankly idiotic political and philosophical themes, and a uniformly unpleasant cast of characters.
They* canceled Journeyman. They canceled The Dresden Files. And in their place, we get... This?
Which reminds me - were there any good new shows in 2008? I was dead and would have missed them.
* I know it's not the same they. Journeyman was Fox; The Dresden Files was Sci Fi Channel. Shut up. I'm ranting here.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
01:22 AM
| Comments (6)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 148 words, total size 1 kb.
Monday, December 01
Die, Microsoft, Die
System Restore was using up 100GB of disk on my new system.
The only indication of this was that there was 100GB of missing space that I couldn't account for - and that after I turned off System Restore, I got it all back.
In Windows XP, you could control the amount of space System Restore would use. In Vista, it's fixed at 15% of your disk space, and bad luck to you if that's a problem.
Sigh.
Currently copying about a terabyte of data off my old Vista box in preparation for switching over to the new one. If I get paid this week I'm going to pick up another 1.5TB drive. Don't absolutely need it, but it will make the migration process a lot easier.
System Restore was using up 100GB of disk on my new system.
The only indication of this was that there was 100GB of missing space that I couldn't account for - and that after I turned off System Restore, I got it all back.
In Windows XP, you could control the amount of space System Restore would use. In Vista, it's fixed at 15% of your disk space, and bad luck to you if that's a problem.
Sigh.
Currently copying about a terabyte of data off my old Vista box in preparation for switching over to the new one. If I get paid this week I'm going to pick up another 1.5TB drive. Don't absolutely need it, but it will make the migration process a lot easier.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
12:30 AM
| Comments (6)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 130 words, total size 1 kb.
<< Page 1 of 1 >>
45kb generated in CPU 0.019, elapsed 0.3262 seconds.
52 queries taking 0.318 seconds, 219 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
52 queries taking 0.318 seconds, 219 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
