Yes folks, my new PC is now up and running. Everything seems to have gone swimmingly hardware-wise. Today I got the final pieces of the system: a Winfast 8800GTS 640MB and a Ritmo “55-in-1″ card reader.
Today I started building my new PC. Like all my desktop computers this one is intended to last a while so I tried not to skimp on the hardware too much. At the same time I don’t exactly have unlimited funds so keeping the price around $2000 was the target. I already have a nice monitor, sets of 2.1 speakers and a keyboard and mouse so I only need the stuff “in the box”, most of which I managed to acquire today: Read the rest of this entry »
Well, here it is, the final part of my report on Manifest 2007. As you might be able to tell this is for the third and final day of the event.
My second day at Manifest started out far more smoothly since I already had a pass and didn’t need to queue up to get one. Surprisingly, there was still a huge queue to pick up passes! With a day full of events there was plenty to do and I feel that Saturday is the real start of the festival.
Today was the opening day of Manifest for 2007. There’s usually not much to do on the Friday apart from picking up tickets and watching some anime screenings and this year was no exception. What the first day is really good for is whetting your appetite for the next two days!
I was originally intending to be writing something else right now but – unfortunately – I just managed to erase it all by accidentally clicked the home button in my browser. Gah! Even though WordPress periodically saves your work via JavaScript it seems that you need to explicitly save your work before it actually stores these periodic saves somewhere accessible to the user. (Although it’s not in the database either so apparently the “saved at -” message is just plain lying.) Perhaps something to look at?
I also had a pleasant experience last night when I deleted the entire web site for one of the software engineering subjects I’m involved with. Thank God for backups.
Anyway, very annoyed right now. Once I’ve calmed down I’ll return to my original topic of discussion.