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Haven’t had much to update about lately. School is going well. Work is going well. Banks and bills are being annoying for various reasons. The weather is getting colder. Weblog comment spam is getting worse and sucks more than ever. And I want to redesign gushue.net but I’m just not in the mood to do it.
I finally got myself a proper wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop (which reminds me, I need to leave feedback for that on eBay), which works just fine in Linux without ndiswrapper fuckery. Which is nice and all, but I don’t want to have to deal with it. It’s much nicer to just enable a module in the kernel, and have it work. Now I just have to get the onboard network port fixed before my warranty is up.
I started using Google Adsense stuff on a forum site I run, and it seems to be going well so far. Hopefully it will help with hosting costs, so I don’t have to subtly mention donations every now and then :)
Assuming I have the money in December, I think I’m going to get a BenQ FP737 17″ LCD monitor (1280×1024). It’s about $500 CAD, and has analog/digital inputs - most LCDs around that price range lack the digital input. My video card has DVI, so I might as well make use of it. It might be a big chunk of money, but the monitor is something I have to look at every day, so getting something good makes a difference.
After that, I can think about upgrading at least my CPU, and probably increase my RAM to 1GB (768MB currently). And of course, lots more drive space. If I can find a XP2400+ to put in my current motherboard, I might just do that, instead of building a whole new system - as much as I’d like to.
My current EQ subscription expires in a few days, but I think I’ll go play something else instead. I’m looking forward to some of the things in EQ2, but EQ isn’t as fun when there aren’t as many random people to play with. A lot of what I see are level 65 (and now 70, I guess) characters, who have been playing for years. That’s what I get for trying it so late, I guess. Maybe EQ2 will be better if I start playing it earlier after release.