I indicated last week that I finally got my Xbox 360, so the obvious follow-up question is ‘what games am I playing?’ First of all there’s plenty of life left in Halo 2 and other “Xbox 180” games, and they look better than ever played through the 360 on my HD display. The future’s in […]
Month: July 2006
Evening Wildlife
Last night my wife and I went for a walk around Hembree Park. It was a beautiful evening, with twilight fading and just a faint breeze. Here are a couple of pictures of the wildlife along the path As usual, click for larger images hosted by Flickr.
Livin’ in a Mobile Home
Something untoward is afoot. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Alwin’s having “fun” with the net too, his long-held ahawkins.net domain’s all boogered up (technical term, that), so you can find his shingle hanging at alwinism.org for the time being at least.
Trashy Allied Waste/BFI Service
I’m disappointed in the Alpharetta city services today, specifically the garbage collection done by BFI, now owned by Allied Waste Industries. The photos here are what’s left on our street after the collectors came through. The blue box and white styrofoam are from the new ceiling fan, freshly installed yesterday. I can understand them perhaps […]
Cheesy Fourth
A bit o’ what Commander Dave would call a Cheese Sandwich post today – just a slice of life. Today’s task is to purchase and install a new ceiling fan to replace the one that broke last night. The darn thing had been threatening me for long enough and I finally bumped it and it […]
RSS Hacked?
John Porcaro’s weblog looks fine tonight, nothing odd. The state of his feed is a completely different matter though. Behind his back, someone’s done a dasterdly deed – replacing John’s xml (normally provided in a proper fashion by the folks at FeedBurner) with their own. A file full of vile stuff – adverts for phenobarbital, […]