So. According to the date at the bottom of this entry, I’ve already missed a day of updating and therefore have disgraced the name of the December Challenge. On the other hand, according to my Wife, it doesn’t count as a day until you’ve actually gone to sleep. And since she made up the rules for the good ol’ DC, I’m still in the running.<\/p>\n
Go me.
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\nI’m writing this entry in Firefox on the PC since the Mac laptop I usually use is acting all funky.<\/p>\n
And it’s not a good, James Brown funky either. It’s the sort of funky where everything seems fine up until you start to do something that mildly taxes the processor, and then everything goes black and there’s a little click-click-click sound.<\/p>\n
This, in technical computer terms, is a “Bad Thing.”<\/p>\n
My intention had been to sit down and write up an entry about the cool old retro video game that I tracked down after some of us got nostalgic for the soundtrack. Instead, I’ve just spent the last… oh… six or seven hours tracking down one of my external Firewire drives and backing up everything on the internal HD of the Powerbook in preparation for the total wipe-down and reinstall that I’m going to need to do if none of my other fixes take care of the problem.<\/p>\n
Still, the game is quite cool. It was called Star Control II, and the people who wrote it back in the early ’90’s released it to the Open Source community in 2002. It’s now called The Ur-Quan Masters<\/a>, and it runs on pretty much any hardware under the sun.<\/p>\n Except for a misbehaving powerbook. That’s gonna take some work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So. According to the date at the bottom of this entry, I’ve already missed a day of updating and therefore have disgraced the name of the December Challenge. On the other hand, according to my Wife, it doesn’t count as … Continue reading