http://brainscat.com Tor Bjornrud's views on tech, media, and miscellany. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:45:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Short Version: If you are considering a case for a new computer, and value customer service, I highly recommend Antec's P180 case. Not only is the case extremely thought out, but Antec's customer service kicks ass. This past year, I recently built a new computer, and chose to house ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/11/29/antec-customer-support-wins Phone support clocked in at two calls of approx 2.5 hours total, only to have no Level 2 support solve my problem. Taking matters into my own hands, and after much experimentation, I discovered, apparently, my issue with the Zune software not being able to connect to my Zune device, seems ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/11/29/zune-update but regular 32-bit vista loves it. Wish me luck in my future phone-support hell. Update: Wed Nov 14th 12:37 AM EST - After a lengthy support call, everything is still the same.... but the support agent told me to call back in a few hours, after they had updated the Zune ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/11/14/vista-64-hates-my-zune Now, I love Google Reader and I'm sure many of you do too... but I still want to be able to backup my blogroll. Does anyone know if Google offers an api or webcall to get your OPML file? My search skills have failed me, and as ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/10/11/me-of-little-faith I need to revisit my previous post about OneNote and the MS Office blog integration... Apparently, using lists screws things up to holy hell. There were tons of malformed <p> tags, a bunch of whitespace, as well as complete disregard for switching from numeric order lists to alpha ordered lists, ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/09/23/onenote-blog-integration-ammendment So, in the same vein as Jason Calacanis and other overweight people before me, I am going to open myself to Internet ridicule and glory by posting regular progress about my personal weight loss journey. Yes, I'm going to Fatblog. Truthfully though, I wouldn't be doing this ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/09/23/fatbloggin%e2%80%99 My friend Nate insisted I post this to my site for safekeeping, as the joys of having a piece of security software share your name need to be kept for the ages. An article on slashdot maintains, "Seems like the Storm botnet that was behind the last two ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/09/09/tor-deux Why on earth is accessible spelled with an 'I'? I can't fathom why, and I hope some really smart person who understands word etymology reads this. They probably won't, but at least I'll feel better by throwing up this Internet Hail Mary. I would think that it should ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/09/07/accessable So, apparently, OneNote has a feature that lets you blog something automatically. This post right now is a result of OneNote's "Blog This" menu option. I clicked the button, it started up a cracked out version of Word that may or may not be Word 2007 (I'm ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/07/04/spastic-test-onenote-blog-integration I haven't heard of this bug in Firefox before, but it sure is interesting. This comment was found in the source of the podcast feed for David Allen, author of "Getting Things Done" This is 512 bytes of nonsense, since the Firefox 2 developers, in one of the strangest decisions ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2007/06/11/the-funny-things-you-find The Revolution has been renamed to "Wii" and all I can hear is this song. Update: I'm not the only one who suffers from this affliction. http://brainscat.com/archives/2006/04/27/le-wee-wii I've been completely bored with the music I've been listening to. Worse yet, I've found it exceedingly difficult to find new music which has caught my fancy. Thankfully, lifehacker swung in on a rope and saved me from musical monotony. In a mouse-click that was as whimsical as any ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2006/04/06/stuck-in-a-rut A week or two ago, I read a post on the Penny Arcade gaming forum that keeps knocking about my head. Basically, the poster was lamenting the fact that he now has lots of disposable income but not nearly the amount of time he used to enjoy as a ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2006/03/26/trying-to-recapture-some-roots I've spent a lot of time gaming in the last three months, and it seems that gamers like myself have been particularly blessed with an abundance of high-quality gaming options. In fact, I've been so involved, I've neglected informing you, gentle reader, as to what is hot-or-not. Dead Or Alive ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2006/03/22/gaming-recap Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in. http://brainscat.com/archives/2006/02/10/new-super-mario-bros-video Check out the best blond joke ever conceived. http://brainscat.com/archives/2006/01/12/hilarious-blonde-joke I've put off writing about the Xbox 360 mainly because I am overwhelmed by the intricacies of the system. That isn't to say the box is complicated, as in fact, quite the opposite is true. My tardiness is because I have a difficult time expressing the weight of ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2005/12/02/life-after-the-blue-pill Looks like someone on the Indian IE development team forgot how many fingers there are in "seven". Oopsie. She sure looks happy though. :) Click to see the full image. http://brainscat.com/archives/2005/10/30/indian-ie-team-introduced-fails-math-test I just received an email from Larry Hyrb, Director of Programming for Xbox Live! Sorry Tor, for many reasons from business to technical, ripping of game titles to the Xbox 360 hard drive is not a scenario or feature we can support. I get the business side of it, but not the ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2005/10/13/xbox-360-ripping-aint-gonna-happen In a recent interview J Allard (via Joystiq) claimed that the featureset of the 360 was designed to make modding unattractive and obsolete. So putting piracy aside what did most of them do? They made it a media player. They had it connect to portable devices. They had it copy ... http://brainscat.com/archives/2005/10/12/discouraging-hacking-the-xbox-360