Dang’s Weblog

 D&D 4 is coming out, and it’s supposed to be a huge change from previous versions.  I love D&D, so I’m curious.

The Penny Arcade guys teamed up with the PvP guy to play the new version and chronical the game in comics and a podcast.  I love Penny Arcade, so this interests me.

So, I go to the site (hosted at Wizard’s of the Coast).  Guess what?  You need an account to view the set.  Fail.  I have to sign up and give personal information (at least a working email address, and I don’t know what else, more later) to view what amounts to advertising for D&D 4?

Okay, so I finally decide to bite the bullet and fork over an address to get an account.  What am I greated with?

Epic Fail.  Guess I don’t get to see them afterall, and I’m slightly less likely to care about D&D 4.

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Well, I bought a new HD for my laptop yesterday.  250G.  I’d forgotten how long it takes to stream 110G of data across a network.

The surprising thing is how much faster everything is.  I guess it was fragmented into oblivion (hardly surprising, since it was full…)  Booting is about 1/3 the time.

Now, back to kvm/uml…

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<sigh> My disk is full *again*. It seems like every time I turn around, I’m out of space. Who’d have thought, just a year ago, that 120G wouldn’t be close to enough?

I’d like to get a bigger hard drive, but it’s a laptop, so thats slightly complicated. Maybe I can get an external firewire drive.

Time to go scan my drive again to figure out what I can delete…

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Morgan turned 4 on Sunday:

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So, I’ve decided to try github to host my scripts repo. The new URL is git://github.com/dang/scripts.git

I’ll see how I like it. If it’s not any good, I’ll switch back to my self-hosted repo. So far, it’s pretty nice.

Fortunately, due to the wonders of distributed version control, I always have several local copies of the whole repo, so I can leave any time.  Lack of lock-in is a great thing.

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We are finally offically Comcast Free(tm)! It feels so good.

Thanks to U-verse, we’ve been able to get rid of Comcast, get more content (yes, even more HD content, dispite what Comcast advertises on their own cable channels), and pay less for TV + Internet than we were paying for just TV before.   And, we even get the Big Ten network, and have the NFL network back!

Comcast: you suck.

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Today was a milesone day in Keira’s life. All in one day she:

1. Started crawling

2. Climbed up to standing while holding on to something (all by herself)

3. Laughed at something I said, rather than at being tickled

4. Called for Daddy

What a day!

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Well, I finally went and moved gryniewicz.com (where my blog is hosted) over to my slice. As a side effect, I updated wordpress to a much much newer version, and switched to using wordpress-mu, rather than two separate installs of wordpress. This makes the multiple blogs *much* easier to handle. I belive I’ve put all the correct redirects in place to get people to the new location. If you dont see this for some reason, please let me know so I can fix it…

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Okay, Nokia officially sucks. On top of my $400 n810, I now have to spend $129 for 36 months of GPS navigation? Screw you, Nokia. No way in hell am I paying that. Heck, I can get a Garmin for that.

Too bad, because it’s pretty nice software. I guess it gets removed, and I figure out Maemo Mapper…

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