http://www.checkthisshitout.com because everyone else is doing it Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:24:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Halloween has come and gone, naturally like every year I worked straight through it. But I can't say we missed all the fun. Well not all of us had fun. [gallery=12] http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/11/halloween-fun-possible-cat-abuse/ So for some of you who know me, I've been going on about the eeePC laptop for sometime and I recently (today) received a free eeePC 4G Surf from my bank. As I switched to some new account type and jumped through all their hoops. Needless to say ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/10/unboxing-the-eeepc/ Every once in a while I get invited to a wedding, I have for the most part been able to avoid these gatherings through various external factors that are beyond my control. However this time I made it. The following shots are from a wedding I attended in ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/08/wedding-blitz/ Where to begin with this one? Well the parking lot where I work is like most parking lots, a place to store your vehicle and a hobo's washroom. Needless to say, someone took a dook in the parking lot and it sat there for sometime. Apparently the ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/07/the-yellow-dook/ Obligatory Wii boxing video. [flv:http://www.checkthisshitout.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/boxing.flv 480 360] http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/06/the-battle/ A simple perl script utilizing mkisofs that takes a VIDEO_TS directory full of vobs and creates a dvd iso image. It needs a bit of further modification to make it more robost, but the basics are there and its fully usable. #!/usr/bin/perl # # a script to create dvd iso images using ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/06/mkdvdiso-2/ Well recently I split my two myth boxes into a true slave and master configuration. I have to admit this was more troublesome that I expected. I decided my myth box in the living room would be a slave with no tuner. Since the case (silverstone lc10m) has the built ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/06/lirc-and-imon-receiver-pauses/ Interested in what exactly is consuming most of my disk space on my laptop I took a look using Disk Inventory X. The little utility fired up and scanned my hard drive in no time. When the scan was complete I was given a detailed map of everything on my hard ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/06/wheres-the-disk-space/ I'm ready to surf the web! http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/06/internet-security/ Well for all of you who have ever wondered what you would look like in the world of the simpsons, just head on over to simpsonsizeme.com and upload a picture of yourself. After a few manual final touches you yourself can become a springfield resident. Thats me after I uploaded a simple ... http://www.checkthisshitout.com/2008/06/mike-simpson/