fuzmeister: Crossing The 4GB Threshold

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RAM is pretty darn cheap these days. I installed 4GB of RAM last night in my Dell Inspiron 570 bumping me up to 8GB.

I'm expecting most of the performance boosts to come from stuff like Photoshop and Audition. I don't see games really benefiting from the jump, but who knows.

I guess the next logical step up for my budget model Dell would be a new video card. I'm in no rush for that though. RAM may be cheap these days, but I don't feel like premium video cards are.

Mood: Pleased and Frugal
Music: The Leafs - The Friends Song


Tags (beta): computers, upgrayedd

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fuzmeister: Fellow Amazonians

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Anyone ever notice how the video game trade-in values for Wii games on Amazon are insanely higher than other systems?

As an example, Mario Galaxy 2 has a trade-in value of $26 today.

I'm curious as to why Wii games are rated significantly higher value-wise.

Mood: Mediocre
Music: Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack


Tags (beta): wii, video games, amazon

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fuzmeister: Latest Code Frenzy

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For years, I used a specific forum signature generator. The site that provided the service recently disappeared from the internet. Being the somewhat motivated programmer that I am, I simply decided to write a clone from scratch.

If you're a user of last.fm, you can pop in your info here and take it for a test drive. There's no error handling yet, so don't expect it to be unbreakable.

This is the second time I used the last.fm API (the first was for the vent module). It's pretty fun to mess with and pretty easy.

Code on.

Mood: Nerdy
Browsing: http://www.stevethompson.net/lastfm/


Tags (beta): programming, nerdery, last.fm, php

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fuzmeister: The A-Team

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I never thought I'd be saying this, but after finally just seeing the 2010 A-Team film, I'm convinced it's the best possible film they could have made.

Good fun with completely over the top action...

I must be mellowing in my old age...

Mood: Surprised


Tags (beta): movies, nostalgia

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fuzmeister: End of America

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I don't try to use this space for anything political too often, but seeing Porter Stansberry's ridiculous online video made me feel the need to toss my two cents in.

It's not secret that this country and the world at large is swirling down the proverbial shitter. I'm not attempting to point fingers at any one group, individual, or business here; I'm simply saying that most people of moderate intelligence can see the writing on the wall and realize things ain't what they used to be.

Now, my real problem with Stansberry's video isn't that he points out facts in support of western decline (though he seems to only address certain facts that support his cause). My problem is how blatantly obvious his intentions are by the end of the video. He wants to make an easy buck and sincerely hopes what you just watched has scared you enough to fork over a few bucks.

Lame.

If people like this who saw the economic problems we're having on a national and international scale could get past trying to make a quick buck, they might be more respected by the mainstream and taken more seriously. Then maybe we could fix problems instead of simply riding the wave out in a proverbial handbasket.

Mood: Irritated
Music: The Doors - The End


Tags (beta): meltdown, the end

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