Games for the Masses I was just watching The Daily Show and I was surprised to see that gaming is more popular than I thought. Lewis Black was on doing his "Back in Black" editorial segment and he was saying how he likes video games better than reality. As soon as he
PS2 Broadband So I applied to beta test Sony's Ethernet Network Adapter for the PS2, and today I got an email saying that I qualify to test. After logging on to their beta test site, and agreeing to their terms and conditions, they said I should be receiving hardware later
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" Yeah it's late. I've got a bad case of insomnia. Anyways, I was bored and I just went through my webstats. There's a cool section that shows the search strings that people entered into search engines and navigated to this page. Surprisingly, Underactive.net
Fry's So a new Fry's opened up today in the City of Industry (much much closer than the Manhattan Beach/Burbank/Fountain Valley stores I've been going to), so I decided to go and check it out. Parking was pretty bad. They had 2 people at the
State of the Eric Address Well my first week of being 29 went pretty well. On my birthday, I drove down to San Diego to have lunch. Yeah I drove 100+ miles just for lunch and I don't have any complaints. So after lunch, I drove back home and returned a message from
Classic Themes Yes! I just found out that the old Themes.org site is still up on Classic.Themes.org. The new site is just a pain in the arse to navigate, the search feature is flaky, and the new "marbles" rating system is seriously flawed – one person decides if
Must Listen Radio My friend turned me on to this Shoutcast station: Digitally Imported Radio. If you like trance, you'll dig this station. It rocks! Er, um... raves? If you run Linux, XMMS can handle the streaming MP3. Just set Mozilla to run XMMS for .pls filetypes. Easy!
Broken Record I know I've blogged about this before, but I have to vent... Pacbell DSL sucks! These last 4 days have been unbearable. The quality of service is very spotty. I'll be cruising along with 80kb/s transfer rates, and a minute later it will slow down
New Webcam I just got this super cheap $20 webcam and the pictures it captures look like they came from a... $20 webcam. =) It's a D-Link CSB-C100 (OV511-based cam) which just happens to be one of the few USB webcams that work in Linux. It took a bit of work
New Old PS2 Last Monday I took in my PS2 to Sony in Irvine to take it in for service for the 3rd time, as it came back to me with the same problem I had before, only worse. Since it was my 3rd time taking it back, they decided to ship me
Version 6.0 The new site design is up. One of the first things I wanted to do with this is to shrink down the header area. Version 5 had a pretty large graphic up top and required a bit of scrolling to get to the content (especially if you run at a
Apple Wowee, I think I'm in the minority here, but I think those new iMacs look mighty cool. If only Apple released OS X for x86 platforms, that would be even cooler. It's only a matter of time before the PC makers come out with 2nd-rate iMac
underactive.net QA department I was just informed of this cool bug. If you enter in a search string with a space in it, all of the weblog entries appear. Guess I shouldn't have switched over to MyPHPblog so quickly. I'm due for a new site design so whenever that
Mobile Linux About a month or so ago I read a little blurb in Wired Mag about this company, PhatNoise, who are working on an MP3 player that works with car stereo systems with CD changer controls. So I jumped on their site for more info. At the time it was only
den.net Woohoo! Den.net is back online. Umm, well, kinda. Looks like it's been taken over by Dino, this guy that used to work there. There's not much on that site except for a list of assets and trademarks. Ex-denizens will probably find this somewhat amusing, as
Krunk Woo, it's been a while since I last wrote on here. You know it's bad when (1) the last time I wrote, I also said how long it's been since I last wrote; and (2) I nearly forget my login/pass info to submit
Updates Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been taking these free Saturday classes in San Diego. Just finished one in VB6 and yesterday started Flash5. Now if I was local, I'd take their weekday classes too. I need to find a job there so I can
New MS Worm I was just on Slashdot and read about this new worm, so I checked my logs and sure enough, I've already received a few requests from this Nimda worm. Yay.
Terrorism Today was the first day since the attack that I haven't cried. I know I haven't written anything about it since then, and I don't really know why. I guess I've just been in a really sensitive mood these past few days,
New Backend I just switched over to MyPHPblog as my blogging tool. Visually, you can't tell the difference (and it took some time for me to tweak it so the transition would appear seamless), but behind the scenes, it's much more robust compared to my own blog code.
Random News My auto insurance (21st Century) raised up my rates by $300/year so I switched over to AAA and saved $400/year. I should have switched over sooner... Just upgraded my GKrellM program from 1.0 to 1.2. Huge improvements made all around. I added sensors support, as well
Back to reality Sorry it's been a while since my last blog entry. I spent the last part of last week in SD. Right now, I feel like I have to work in SD, so I've been looking at SD jobs exclusively. It looks like things are starting to
dotcoms I just saw this funny t-shirt on ThinkGeek. While on the subject, I'd also like to point out that I didn't go for dotcom work to cash in on options. It was more of the casual work environment than anything else. Before the dotcoms, I was
