Monday, November 28, 2005

Give Me a Break

There are a number of things are newsworthy.

Michael Scofield and his team are going to break out of Fox River State Penitentiary tonight :-)

On November 18, my new computer ceased to work after being assembled merely three weeks earlier. Without understanding the true cause of the breakdown, I placed the blame on the mother board - Epox 9NDA3J nForce3. I regretted the premature disposal of the packaging boxes because by doing so I cannot refund the defected items from NewEgg.com. Desperately I bought another mother board - Gigabyte Uli 1689 from NewEgg, and it should arrive today. The temperature rises to a near-term peak today. And I will be assembling my new computer tonight ...

My last blog - trip to Yellowstone - is heavily spammed in addition to my mailbox. I don't exactly know how the spammers benefit from commenting my blog entry and placing a link back to their web sites. Are they trying to raise the Google ranking of their own web sites?

XBox 360 started selling on November 22, which is right before the Thanksgiving shopping craze. But rumor has it - PS3 will be sold with Linux pre-installed. Very sweet. With all the hype on HD gaming, yesterday I installed, DOSBox, a MS-DOS emulation program such that my Mom can play Lode Runner, a pre-historic yet extremely fun game. And that's what a brilliant video game should have, an innovative gameplay instead of only pretty high resolution.

Skiing at Winter Park