So I fell down again, this time just trying to get dressed. Luckily it was a slow fall, and I landed squarely with my tailbone on the tile floor, but without anything unpleasant breaking my fall, so I shouldn't have any surprise bruising tomorrow.
Every now and then I guess subconsciously I need a reminder that i'm still broken.
Remember this?
May, huh. A long time ago. Well, yesterday I arranged for the bulk of a new system to be purchased. I'm now just a couple of drives (the computer kind) away from a nice new system.
Cooler Master 371 case with a Thermaltake TR2 500W power supply to start with. The motherboard is a Gigabyte A75M-S2V (built to last, with USB 2.0 & 3.0 ports), 2x4GB (8GB total) Patriot DDR3 1600 memory, and an AMD A83870K Quad Core APU w/Radeon HD6550D.
Part 2 is the drives, and if I can
Do you watch one or more semi-popular television shows? Do you find yourself sometimes forgetting to set the PVR? Do you use an iCal-compatible app?
Follow this link. It's very good. Very, very good.
I have my diurnal gastric day patient surgery in the morning on July 6, due to a scheduling mishap. I typically go in every late June & November. It's incredibly minor; the set-up and breakdown takes longer than the procedure, but it's all done through imaging (x-rays) so the doctor can see the tube & the contrast while they work.
I also recently met with my Specialist in Ocular Plastics (eye surgeon who closed my eyelid) recently, and she was trying very hard not to say my closed ey
My computer has given of the blue smoke. some will grok. Nine years ago. Right about when Hyperthreading was brand new and RDRRAM was going to do something involving questionable ethics & seafood. Those went well, I note.
I could have sworn that April 16 to May 4 was just this past week, Monday to Friday.
Stop poking me with a stick. Stop!
Well then. Back in the day when I was a boy, we.....
So I've lived at this address for six or so years, and always knew I was close to home by that disused water tower next to the railroad tracks a few blocks over.
What I didn't know is that water tower is part of the building that houses Ubisoft Toronto.
Oh how I wish it were different.
It's the early hours of March 16, 2012 and I realized that my health care situation, how do I put it. On April 1, 2010 I rolled myself to my wife's father's van and left the medical side of things behind me. Almost two years have passed since I've been dealing with all this.
It seems silly to go on about it, but hey, it's all I have. I'm still the same person I was, but I can't express it well.
So Humber River shipped me back to West Park. It took a lot longer than expected, and I don't know if it was HR or WP slowing the process, but I waited.
Eventually, they tossed me in a Ambucab and moved me to a private room, still under sterile observation, and nobody knew why. The folks at Humber, when questioned, would clam up, so West Part had to assume an unknown pathogen, and held me in relative seclusion. Luckily, since I had been there recently, I had months of rehab under my belt, so
Anyone who asked me for my presence before this began and was met with me not feeling well, that was true, mostly unrelated, and stupid on my part.
I was drinking very heavily for years prior to this all, and managed to do some damage to my pancreas and liver. Luckily, though the damage was effectively permanent, I stopped drinking completely before it was too late.
I approached CAMH for support, which they were glad to provide, though the waiting list is long for the serious stuff. I was
When we last left it, our gallant hero blah blah.
So, late summer/early autumn of 2009, when I was long medically stable, and had demonstrated that my throat could deal with working the normal way, at least for breathing, the trach was removed and I was moved to West Park, which has multiple medical departments, but their therapy for physical recovery is the best around.
I was there for a few months, in a program that was closer to a boarding school than a hospital, but full of really grea
I've decided to finally write down (well, type in) my entire health story, as I keep retelling bits, and frankly, I have no clue who knows what bits. So, this is a semi-complete look at what went wrong, how my recovery was, and where I am at.
In the late summer of 2009, and I do not recall the dates well, but it was after the start of June, I lost consciousness, but not awakeness. My missus decided it was prudent to rush me to emergency medical care. I think she threw me in a cab, but I don't
I've been using Evernote for a long long time, but it has always bothered me that I couldn't use it for ALL my notes, because some data you just don't want out there in the cloud i.e passwords and bank details. So what I did was have one Note called "Secure" and marked it as "Do Not Sync.", so that data stayed on my HD and off the cloud. That still left it insecure on my own PC though.
So I let this bother me for about a year, maybe more, and today, finally, I googled it.
It was quite an
theres me sitting at my computer wondering why virtually no one had replied to any posts, then i realized, it's the weekend, it's usually dead
i reckon this site should have weekend entertainment threads to bring more people in on the weekends or somp'in
in case you guys were wondering
Ubuntu 11.04
Windows 7
if i am seeing correctly i see just that little bit more on Ubuntu than i do windows and in ubuntu it does look tidier? i'll let you decide, i'm not here to, metaphorically, sell Ubuntu to you.
yes you'll notice in my ubuntu screenshot i did search the firefox version used in 10.10 for reference. i don't really keep an eye on versions but it was version 3.6 that was the default i believe.
always wondered whether such a thing would work but, here it goes
Whenever a legitimate copy is entered into the drive, the executable file will work as normal for any amount of usage. asking for a key which is connected to that executable file (so keygens won't work)
BUT if the files on the disk are copied, or added to the clipboard. then it immediately releases a program which bluescreens windows (and wreaks havoc in Linux and Mac) causing the data in the clipboard to be taken down.
I'm not saying I have this, but I do watch House. Surgery (again) soon, and that should be it.
I do have palsy in the 7th (lid closure) a 5th (pain, heat, cold) cranial nerves, which on their own are bad but easily treated. Combined, it gets a bit trickier.
I didn't know the piracy scene on the Nintendo DS was so rife, but it appears very easy to use illegal software on that platform.
Ubisoft is known for some draconian anti-piracy measures, usually to the detriment of consumers. This time, they got it right.
If you are one of the tens of people who actually wants Michael Jackson: The Experience, purchase it.
It's been over a year - a very long and interesting year, since I added to this.
Short version: I got very sick, and might never be 100% again.
Longer version: It started with a case of meningitis, during which I had a stroke-like event. I'm in a wheelchair, my right side moves with very little control, my left side doesn't feel pain (which is not as great as it sounds), my throat doesn't work (talking is awkward at best and if it doesn't go through my gastric tube I don't eat or drink) my
Some points of interest that you can take as you find (I don't agree on all of it but it sources lots of external places) :
INHIVED MIND
UNHIVED MIND OLD CLOSED SITE WITH FAR MORE INFO
CSM NETWORKS - INTERVIEWS (SUBSCRIPTION BASED)
VATICAN ASSASSINS
There are many many other but these have a lot within them to link to, well, many others
UNCLASSIFIED
FROM: Scott Mitchell, futuresoldier@ghostrecon.net
TO: Undisclosed Recipients
MEMORANDUM
SUBJ: Polls In Response to Ghost Recon Future Soldier Delay
You have to admire the fortitude and resolve of Ubi Kimi. In light of the recent news release from Ubisoft indicating the delay of Ghost Recon Future Soldier, and the subsequent update indicating the demo was also impacted by the delay, she trudges on with her Community Developer duties as the conduit between the fans and
UNCLASSIFIED
FROM: Scott Mitchell, futuresoldier@ghostrecon.net
TO: Undisclosed Recipients
MEMORANDUM
SUBJ: Ghost Recon Book Review
Introduction
I enjoy reading and I especially enjoy reading fiction based on video games. However, I seldom find time (or make the time) to read anymore. I suppose I’m too busy playing video games, blogging or messing with Facebook and/or Twitter (or as the Commander in Chief might say, being distracted and diverted). Every now and then I’ll get an
