http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress Stuff worth writing about Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:46:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two amusing screenshots from earlier this week. Click 'em to make 'em bigger. Apparently Team Fortress 2 hasn't been updated since the Johnson administration. And apparently EA wants you to pay a little protection money. In case something should "happen" to your files. We wouldn't want there to be an "accident." http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/06/21/odd-error-and-the-ea-mafia/ Check out my new home page. It looks a lot better than the old placeholder did. It took about an hour to create. http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/06/13/new-home-page/ I learned a useful new word today from Karen Armstrong's recent TED Talk about religion. This word comes from the Quran, which dismisses religious opinion as: zanna — self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian I'm ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/05/03/zanna/ I got to wondering the other day: Why hasn't Vista Service Pack 1 showed up in my Automatic Updates yet? It's been out since March. So, after some investigating, I discovered that Vista SP1 has problems with some laptop hardware drivers, and the T4215 has several of these drivers. After ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/30/how-to-update-the-fujitsu-t4215-to-vista-service-pack-1/ After seeing part of the democratic debates on TV a couple of nights ago, I think that this is an entirely accurate portrayal of how ABC would handle the Lincoln-Douglas debates: LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/19/this-sounds-about-right-the-lincoln-douglas-debates-as-conducted-by-abc/ So, we've all heard about how bacteria are starting to adapt to our antibiotics, right? (It's standard-issue survival of the fittest stuff--the bacteria that can best survive antibiotics survive and reproduce, leading to more antibiotic resistant bacteria.) Well, apparently, there are now bacteria that literally eat our antibiotics. The bacteria cited ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/06/nature-is-fascinating/ I'm in the process of updating to Wordpress version 2.5. The site may look weird for a few minutes. OK, I think we're good now. Fingers are crossed, but I think I've fixed the problems that cropped up in the theme. Let me know if anything looks obviously wrong. On the ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/02/upgrade-in-progress/ Howdy, y'all! I know it's been a long, long time, but I haven't been idle. In fact, I've been posting every weekday on my new blog, The Parade of Awesomeness. Each weekday I post something that I think is awesome. Sometimes its a product, like the Logitech VX Nano or ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/03/23/where-ive-been-the-parade-of-awesomeness/ I was able to play in the GameStop Super Smash Brothers: Brawl tournament today. While other GameStop stores are holding the tournament tonight at 10:00 PM, the local manager here decided to hold the tournament a few hours early so that younger kids could enter. Although I was ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/03/08/i-love-super-smash-brothers-brawl/ Jared Axelrod played The Ballad of Barry Allen, and I've listened to it a half-dozen times today. It's about the downside of super-speed. http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/02/26/i-cant-stop-listening-to-this-song/