Archive for March, 2007

Blackout Band – Worst. Band. Ever.

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

You may have heard of this as one of the new things going around the Internet.

It’s a group of “spoilt kids” trying to be a rock band, I won’t link them here, I don’t want to help their google rating (like I would anyway, I know where my mediocrity stands) but www. “name that cannot be spoken but is in the topic” .com

They’re literally shocking, i’m amazed noone had slapped them upside the head and told them how bad they are directly, I guess their parents are too far into the “buying love” stage to realise how much damage letting children have their flights of fancy can do to them as Adults.

I’d like to point one thing out, “streetblaster.com” doesn’t seem to exist anymore, and from what I can see at the web.archive.org it wasn’t a site for quite a while and then “may” have been a site up until recently.

UPDATE: It was streetblast.com, they misspelt it (Thanks Eclipz).

I’ll leave the comments for the people that want to read them, but Cambion, Kooby and Myself have had quite a laugh.

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Final Fantasy on Xbox 360 – A Possibility ?

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

I was floored when I read this article on the creator of the Final Fantasy series stating “I feel that the Final Fantasy series should come to Xbox 360 as well. This is wise. It makes so much sense to me…it has so much potential in North America and in Europe. So there’s a great chance for the series to succeed on 360 as well.”

w000t, I need to verify this.

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LG 37LC2D – LCD TV Problems – Follow Up

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I am completely floored.

The LG Support system is great. I used their website and called the local support representatives (who wasn’t that good, they have a “Straight to voicemail”, probably from all the calls) who prompted me to “if your LG stb, lcd or plasma has locked while watching channel 9. Call 1800 643 156″.

Upon calling the 1800 number I got a “if your LG device has been locking up while watching channel 9 over the weekend press 1″, then a set of instructions on how to get around it and a “we are currently working on this with the station”.

I know it’s just a phone message, but the fact they have jumped on the issue, setup automated responses so I don’t have to wait in a queue just to get an operator who has answered the same question all day state “known issue, go away”.

Kudos to LG on that one.

UPDATE: LG’s phones have switched to AH service, so they don’t have the message anymore, I recorded the local representatives message here (Local LG Support Representative).

UPDATE2: Fixed Link

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New Website – Menu Planet

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I started a new website, whenever i’m at work and we want to order some food in we can never find the menu’s

Someone is always hoarding them, and we can never find them.

So I proposed we start putting them somewhere online, so we can access them whenever we need them.

This has spawned “Menu Pla.net“

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Just Linking – My friend Faust

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I have a friend, he’s been my friend since I was young and stupid, I know if Cambion reads this he’d ask me to be more specific as that could be last week. :)

He’s been my friend as long as I can remember, and probably then some. We don’t see each other often any more, as people get older and move apart we rarely see those friends from when we were children, but every now and then I see my IM flash with a “hey” or “y0″ and sometimes a “kosh”.

So i’m posting a link to his “blog” (I still maintain this site is a “Web Log” not a “blog”)

Click here to read his works

I like to refer to my friends by their handles, and to tell the truth, I don’t know what his current handle is. Maybe it’s about time I asked.

UPDATE: My Friend Faust.

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LG 37LC2D – LCD TV Problems

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Tonight while watching that “20 to 01″ on channel nine in HD, I got a frozen frame, the picture froze but the sound kept going, after a few minutes I turned it off and tried turning it back on, now it was just blank, still had “90 Nine High Definition” in the top corner, but the screen was blank otherwise.

I tried changing to other inputs, changing volume, even changing channels, the LED on the front was blinking showing the TV was receiving the commands but it wasn’t responding, same blank screen with the “90 Nine High Definition” in the top corner (it wasn’t going away either) after turning it off and waiting about 30 minutes it I got a frozen frame with sound upon turning it back on.

I’ve been sourcing my warranty information and left it unplugged from the wall, and decided to try it again now that it’s later and cooler.

and Viola, it works.

I’m probably going to call LG tomorrow if I get time just to see what the deal-i-o is with that.

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USB 2.0 hubs are really slow

Monday, March 19th, 2007

I’ve had a problem with my iPod syncing to my computer lately, it has been REALLY SLOW, I mean in the range of kb/sec in transfer.

Anyway, I’m posting this here hoping that others will find it through google, the problem I had was a Bluetooth dongle attached to the Hub, I’ve bought a few new hubs and tested them all, and I still had the problem, but after removing the bluetooth dongle the speeds just ramped right up.

So my solution was removing another device that probably had a fair bit of chatter with the desktop, and therefore chewed up the resources of the hub.

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