I recently purchased two of these drives and installing one in my media center PC was the biggest pain I have ever endured from any hard drive manufacturer. So it began around 6:00 p.m. last night, I stuck the samsung in the case and booted up. I checked the bios and the drive detected fine. I fired up windows went to my computer, no drive. This didn't hurt my feelings too bad as the drive didn't come with a disk so off off to the samsung website I went. I downloaded the utility, burned to disk and did a restart. Once the utility fired up I selected the "low level format" option as I did not see a quick format.
06/03: Plogger with lightbox!
If you are looking for a good, light weight photo gallery look no further than plogger!
I have used quite a few photo galleries in the past (coppermine, gallery, and others) and was never very happy with the "backend" administration side. There were other things left to be desired but this was the main kicker for me. In pursuit of something better I came across plogger. Plogger is hands down the best PHP based image gallery I have ever installed and used. Light weight, super simple administration, bug free (at least for me) and good load times set it apart from the crowd.
After installing it and taking it for a test drive I found that there was no "easy" way to implement Lightbox. For those of you who don't know about lightbox it provides a nice flash-like effect using javascript and CSS. I figured it would be something nice to add to a already awesome gallery program.
20/02: Lunar Eclipse!
I was up watching The Godfather: Part III for the thousandth time (and giving thanks that Sofia Coppola is now directing and not acting) when I jumped outside to snap a quick shot of the lunar eclipse. Pretty cool.
"Big business for big business"
There is a large portion of America's middle class that turns to investments as a means of retirement. A lot of people like to keep tabs on stock they have invested in, or receive as benefits. Some might receive shares of a stock as an incentive to take care of the company they work for insuring they and the company are profitable. Then one day the moment in the spotlight comes and the company goes public on the market. The glitter quickly fades to gloom as the company you and so many worked so hard for falls in value %15-%35 in the first month continuing the trend over the next year. Someone must be to blame but not who you might think.
21/08: Unprofessional Letters
Recently I have been working on purchasing a house. As some of our clients know I just recently got married and the next step in my life is to purchase a house. While working on the financing though I found out I have a big pet peeve and its unprofessional letters in professional circumstances...
06/07: Shaolin vs. lama soundboard
There is nothing wrong with a good kung fu movie
and shaolin vs. lama could quite possibly be the best. I was turned on to this movie about two years ago by a friend after explaining my enjoyment in an occasional kung fu flick. He informed me that I must see "chicken fists" and looking back I would say he was right. Now I understand that kung fu movies are not for everyone but I have seen few people who actually sit and watched it who didn't agree it is one of the best movies ever. What makes it good? Well for starters bad acting, I mean after all bad acting didn't stop people from going to see transformers. I also think that a shaolin monk who eats red meat, drinks good wine and takes no students makes for a good plot line. 
I came across these a while back and can't quite get over the fact that magnetic force can do this
to a coin. Actually that was two Georgia quarters he is holding there (see the peach)! Granted it has some juice behind it but cool none the less. Of course if you don't feel like lugging around giant capacitors you can check it out here.
to a coin. Actually that was two Georgia quarters he is holding there (see the peach)! Granted it has some juice behind it but cool none the less. Of course if you don't feel like lugging around giant capacitors you can check it out here.
It seems to be a ever increasing trend...
less is more. Not for me, I like my baked potatoes loaded and a good side salad to boot with my dinner. In the past couple of years CSS built sites have been increasing exponentially. Fortunately, there are web designers out there that do not follow the trend and CSS Sites, when they are done well, look great and can be changed with relative ease. I guess you could design a site taking from the white pages of your local phone book. Thats fine, you present your information to the people who are in search of it. I would like to see a little more of a hybrid between the yellow pages and the white. The point that I am trying to drive home here would probably be that rounded corners, gradients, and reflections does not make a site golden. If it does you are among the millions of "golden web 2.0" sites out there. For example..
Why yes, yes it is a joke.
09/02: Press one to.....grrrr
How sweet it is to talk to a human..
I recently came across this and knew immediately it was too good not to share. We have all wasted at least a day (cumulative total) on the phone with robots, most likely far more. I know there has been many times that I have given up on phone system "stockyards". I use the term stockyard because it most certainly makes you feel like a cow being pushed through the series of gates to your death. Well, next time try the list out when applicable. It might not take 20 minutes to jump through the hoops to get a warm body on the other end."The List"
Disclaimer: You might still have to deal with rude customer service representatives who take pleasure putting you on hold while they do their nails. Also remember to make sure to get their name so you know who to give a hard time for dumping you back into number pad hell, rather than dealing with the problem.
"Dumb of the Month" AWARD
A 14yr old kid in New Zealand just recently won my personal "Dumb of the Month" award. He was recently picked up for stealing an XBOX 360 after he tried to go online with it. The problem was that the previous owner had already registered it with Microsoft. After the boy ordered another power cable (since he forgot to steal it) they had his address. Wow... I am always amazed at people...Anyway, it seems this has brought up all kinds of Privacy Policy Issues with Microsoft. It seems it took the police over 2 weeks to get the information out of Microsoft even though they knew something wasn't right with the whole thing. Now, there are two ways you can understand this. Your personal information is VERY secure and Microsoft will protect you no matter what or if your XBOX is stolen it might be kinda hard to get Microsoft to tell you where it is. But Microsoft holds that they were in the right and are very protective of their clients identities, but are always happy to assist the police.
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