Gno Schitt

I'm a gamer, and I have long said the only thing that'll move me over to Vista is the games that work on Vista exclusively, and how pretty DirectX10 can make things look. Which is a laarge part of why this project interests me so much.

This guy is claiming to have reverse engineered the aspects of DirectX10 that make it Vista specific. Meaning, by his claim, "These libraries allow the use of DirectX 10 games on platforms other than Microsoft Vista..."

I hope it's not a hoax / lie. however since 1) I'm at work, and 2) the actual website is getting pounded, I can't investigate these claims for myself.

Since it apparently compiles things down to assembly, I am excited for the potential on non-windows OS's. If I could play DX10 games on Linux, well, I'd be reformatting soon.

This should make folk like Selbonaut happy, as I last heard he was still hunting for a laptop that would come with XP on it still, now we have time to look at different Dell offerings that do.

This BBC article is referenced in the Wired article, I like the bit by Michael Silver, research vice president at analysts Gartner. What a loon.

A-ha,
Take that annoying man in adjacent cubicle! I don't care if you were told you could listen to music quietly from 9 to 11am, that didn't include friggin' Neil Diamond hour!!
And no, I didn't get the memo on the TPS report!
I hope they come up with a Greek Fire add-on next. If I rub the ammunition on my hemorrhoids would that count as plague bombs...

So, I've been loving the re-re-release of this board game at home for a couple years now. I always knew that there were older/different versions of the game out there. Stumbled across this online flash version of an older edition of the game that can be played from almost any machine, anywhere, anytime. Good clean "destroy your stellar neighbour" type fun.

The art in the board game pictured above is much better in my opinion, but this online game is free and easy, and what could be better than that?

Those of you that know me know I'm a Jazz guy. I was reading the announced concerts this year for the Jazz Festival. Some pretty sweet acts coming.

Antibalas, DJ Champion, Joshua Redman, Jeff Healey, Oscar Lopez (Although I don't think that one's announced yet, so you didn't hear that from me), and Herbie Hancock. (Pictured to the right. Doesn't he just scream cool jazz?)

Anyone looking for me the entire week of June 23rd to June July 1st, I'll be at the Bess Gardens.

Once again, the images from the blog have disappeared as the server is relocated to its new (please let it be final) home in East College Park. I was having a thought that it would be handy to upload the images using Blogger or Picasa or something, but it turns out you can't directly link an img src tag to a Picasa image or a blog image (unless I'm just missing something).

Very frustrating.

If anybody knows of a free picture hosting site that is lightweight, free, and can be used to direct link, I'd love to hear about it. Otherwise, I'll just have to wait until I get the new hardware firewall up and running at the folks place and put the server back online. Until then, Gno Imajezz.

J.W. Wells is a creation of Gilbert & Sullivan; a character in a comic opera called "The Sorcerer," a pre-cursor to their more famous works. Tom Holt, a dark fantasy humourist, and Brit has brought this magical organization into his hilarious world. This organization of magical beings and magic users exists in a number of Tom Holt's books and is the subject of many amusing adventures.

Now you too can determine if you are evil enough to work for J.W. Wells by taking this simple ten question interview. Good luck future necromancers!

Just bought a new Dell, HP, Gateway, etc?
Deeply annoyed at all the included limited time, trial version 3rd party crap that's included on it?

Well, Decrapify it! This is a great little piece of free software that will find all the applets and software that you don't want and give it to you in a nice neat list that you can then pick and choose from. So save yourself some time for, I dunno, boobies!

...with us, among the clouds.

Strikes me as something that just might grab peoples attention at internet cafes and the like. Of course the hungry-man among us might need a 100 spindle with two or three well loaded ones.

BTW, anyone know what the storage capacity of the average bagel is? For me it's about 6-8 MB

Want to see breasts in action (no, not that kind of action you pervs)?
Check out this website where you can enter the breast size, an activity, and then compare said breasts movement nekkid, in a regular bra, or one of their uber-bras.
And then try it again, and again, and again, and again...

It is Billy's birthday right quick, and he has asked me to come and play at the party he is throwing at Diva's nightclub (yes, that is the gay club downtown). I'm playing early, which is cool by me, from 10 pm to 11:20 pm (or so). I told him I'm going to play "punchy psy-tek", but I really have no idea what that is... it should be interesting. That is April, Friday the 13th (oooh, scaaarryy).

In other news, DJ Rasta (formerly from Saskatoon, currently hailing from Edmonton) has asked me if I'm interested in doing a radio show on Friday's from 6pm to 8pm. Broadcast is over the web. If my Internet connection is fast enough (here's hoping) it should be groovy.

Hey, if anyone has retail copies of Warcraft 3 and the expansion, The Frozen Throne, I'd be interested in purchasing them from you. Let me know if you're interested in selling.

Cheers!

Spread this article around. Microsoft is pulling a Sony.
It is amazing how many clowns fit into those little cars isn't it?

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I don't really like Trump all that much more than I like bush, but I sure like Trump critiquing Bush.

[From Michael Geist's blog]

Number Crunching
Tuesday March 20, 2007
Earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins stepped up the pressure on Canada on copyright. The speech that launched a round of media coverage has now been posted by the U.S. Embassy. The relevant passage is:We are asking the Government of Canada to strengthen your copyright laws. There is a lot of pirating that goes on, a lot of counterfeiting of movies and songs and whatnot. And it is not some effort to protect some high-paid Hollywood star or studio, it is about ensuring that Canadian and American innovators and entrepreneurs are encouraged and protected so they will continue to make North America competitive in the world marketplace.And we are working with the Canadian government now on that issue. We have met with Ministers Bernier and Oda and members of the Prime Minister's staff and we are requesting a stronger copyright bill be introduced and be passed. We are joined by the U.S. and Canadian motion picture and sound recording and computer software industries. Right now the copyright laws or the intellectual property right protection in Canada is considered the weakest of the G-7 countries. So we are asking that be strengthened. And it really does cost the Canadian economy a huge amount every year. It is estimated to be from some $10 to $30 billion per year.Leaving aside the rhetoric, what is particularly remarkable about these comments is the claim that Canadian copyright law is costing the economy between $10 to $30 billion per year. Obviously any estimate that varies by up to $20 billion is not particularly credible. Further, even the low end figure looks ridiculous as it is four times the losses claimed by the MPAA in China and is more than three times the total amount of cultural goods that Canada imports from the U.S. every year. Or considered another way, the $10 billion figure is more than the Finance Minister committed yesterday to new health care initiatives, the environment, education, and special services for armed forces veterans combined. And that is the low end - the $30 billion figure represents nearly 13 percent of total government revenues and nearly equals the total amount of provincial transfers and subsidies. All of this from "a lot of counterfeiting of movies and songs and whatnot?"

I thought some people would get a kick out of this.

I think more judges should determine cases by this means. It's definitely the most fair, impartial system I can think of at this moment.

For those of you heading to court soon, here are some more links to help you out.
http://www.worldrps.com/

Wow. I want to start collecting all my favourite RPS players cards! Check Out Franz's great Scissors toss! Awe inspiring!

Note: Upon further research, his nickname "Hot" appears to be due to a winning streak, and not his moustache like I originally thought.

I can't tell you how much I think Hillary is the wrong woman at the right time. The world needs some more female leadership, but it also needs good leadership. I don't know if Hillary is either of those.

I dunno about the rest of you guys... but since converting this blog over to the "New" Blogger.. I've had nothing but problems. Really starting to piss me off.

Sometimes when posting I get a "not allowed to post with reference field = null" error, and my typing is gone. Sometimes, pictures don't work. Occassinally, when I edit a post, the comments are all dropped (like the StarCrash post just did).

What does this all boil down to? I'm thinking of deleting GnoSchitt, and creating a GnoSchitt-2 or Son of Gno Schitt or something similar. I'd send out the invites AGAIN after rebuilding from the bottom up.

I love this blog honestly, and follow all links faithfully, even if I don't comment. I hope others are still into it also but I'd like to see it working right.

So, how about some votes on the new blog name?

GnoSchitt2 / GnoSchitt II
Son of Gno Schitt
Still Gno Schitt
[insert your own clever name here]