Category Archives: Techy

Programming! Also Linux, web design, hardware… But mostly programming.

Sims 3 World Adventures arrived

Published: 17 November 2009
Whoo, The Sims 3: World Adventures arrived today! I had preordered it on EA’s site but was dubious about it 1) arriving the day it was released (i.e. today) and 2) actually being left on my doorstep/mailbox versus being stashed in some package center for me to go and pick up with my [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged | Leave a comment

PC hard drive dying

Published: 8 November 2009
I don’t know if I blogged about it, but I certainly complained on Twitter about my Macbook hard drive eating itself at the beginning of the semester. Well, just this morning my Windows hard drive in my PC started acting up. When I booted the computer, I got a “DISK READ ERROR INSERT [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

the wily C# shuffle

Published: 7 November 2009
My programming languages professor is quite the wily one. For our last programming assignment in there, we’re to write a fraction class in both Java and Smalltalk, as part of our coverage of object-oriented languages. I asked if I could do C# and Smalltalk, since I really like C# and, darn it, everyone [...]
Also posted in Class, Programming | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

RAM installed

Published: 21 October 2009
Whoo, got my 2GB of RAM yesterday and got it installed. Now to enjoy my 4GB RAM (3GB usable–thanks Windows 7 32-bit) to play The Sims 3. Also, having your apartment building’s roof replaced sucks. I think they’re dancing up there.
Posted in Techy | Tagged | 1 Comment

stupid Adobe pop-up

Published: 13 October 2009
Adobe Reader, I heart your verbosity:
Posted in Techy | Tagged | 2 Comments

Grub Error 13 and 17 together

Published: 12 October 2009
I just encountered a Grub Error 13 and a Grub Error 17 all for seemingly no reason. I fixed the problem, but thought I could save others undue headache. The Setup I have Ubuntu Linux installed on one hard drive which fdisk calls /dev/hda and Windows XP installed on a second hard drive called /dev/hdb. [...]
Also posted in Linux | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

AC Toolkit hack to fix grass

Published: 28 July 2009
So while reading about Animal Crossing: City Folk earlier, I tried to find a way to restore some of my grass, which has been wearing away to brown dirt everywhere. Turns out there’s quite a stink over the “feature” Animal Tracks that Nintendo built into the game. The idea was that grass [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Animal Crossing and Photoshop

Published: 26 July 2009
I just finished a long bout of Animal Crossing: City Folk with Jon’s sister-in-law, who recently got the game. I was quite tickled to see that her town’s native fruit is oranges, whereas mine is cherries, so we were able to trade and now I have another fruit that’ll get me 500 Bells [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged , | Leave a comment

C# and Visual Studio

Published: 27 June 2009
Yarr, so work at HP has been good; I’m enjoying my time there. I’ve worked from home a few times, which has been nice: there’s nothing quite like coding in your pajamas and getting paid for it. I’ve mainly been writing PL/SQL queries and programming in C#. I was apprehensive about [...]
Also posted in Programming | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments | Current music What Else Is There? by Röyksopp

Animal Crossing City Folk error

Published: 3 May 2009
FYI for anyone who has a similar issue:  I tried to play Animal Crossing City Folk on the Wii and after opening up my game, it suddenly gave the Wii error message “An error has occurred”, along with telling me to hit Eject, remove the disc, and turn the power off.  I was able to [...]
Also posted in Video games | Tagged , | 1 Comment