Corey Gouker's Machine Inside the Mindthoughts of the convolutedLet there be light... or Internet at least.- November 30, 2007 Through some act of God or maybe just a certain person I know in the North Central division, the Internet has returned here. I used to have two Internet connections, one for the server, one for personal use. But now it's just one, so if things go down, there's a total feeling of disconnection. Oddly, despite things being down for 2 weeks I've not been too bothered, though I think that's partly because I've barely been on anyway. Anywho, the problems started (again) on the 8th,.http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/30/LetThereBeLightOrInternetAtLeast.aspx Music gets the best of me...- November 21, 2007 Okay, so Comcast has been giving me the runaround with getting my business Internet connection back up and running correctly but one of the upsides of running your own server with DHCP, DNS, Active Directory and all the other overly complicated things is that I can still access all of my own content since it's local and can write this right now. I've decided to take this time "off the net" to go through and organize the terabyte or so of data I've got sitting around including the 500GB+...http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/21/MusicGetsTheBestOfMe.aspx Smooth move on Google's part with AdSense.- November 14, 2007 I think this is pretty cool considering the number of times I've accidentally clicked an AdSense ad during fast web browsing. Smaller clickable ad area is a good thing. Through years of computer usage I've formed this habit of clicking in advance of object appearance on the screen. Back in the days of my 100Mhz Pentium with 8MB RAM, the system would take so long to do things that it got to the point where I was clicking on the Start menu, going to Shutdown, then clicking Reboot even before...http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/14/SmoothMoveOnGooglesPartWithAdSense.aspx Quarter life crisis...- November 13, 2007 This is something I'd not normally post here but I feel compelled to do so to hopefully gain some outside perspective. Basically, I feel like I'm going through a quarter life crisis, but a year or so early. Ever since I got into geekdom my first PC in December '95 and later got into beta testing Windows just a bit after that, I've been pretty set on what I wanted. I didn't go to high school and instead got my GED at 16, I went to college for a year in England, then for a bit in San...http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/13/QuarterLifeCrisis.aspx Now I remember why I had a 4 year break from fast food...- November 13, 2007 I heart Boing Boing sometimes. It's my fav of the big 3 RSS feeds out there, sometimes I love it even more than Engadget, but whatever. They linked to this page showing how little nutrition is in most of the big fast food places burgers and fries. I'm still in shock over this: "The Double Six Dollar Burger from Carl's Jr. contains an insane 1520 calories. That's not a typo. One sandwich contains more calories than some smaller females need... PER DAY." I do miss In-N-Out though, there..http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/13/NowIRememberWhyIHadA4YearBreakFromFastFood.aspx Auditory love affair with my music...- November 3, 2007 I'm just listening to some random music while getting ready to shift my weight over to the gym. I have to say though, I really wish I had the gym right here in front of my Boston speakers though. Listening to the Boston VR3's is a total sexual experience for the ears. Need I say more...http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/03/AuditoryLoveAffairWithMyMusic.aspx Thank you to the drunk driver that hit us last night.- November 2, 2007 Why am I thanking you Well, you've renewed my sense of justice in the world. You blew past the red light paying no attention to us. You hit the front left of the Civic we were in, you totalled that car, you almost totalled 4 lives as well. Luck was on our side, if your Altima was a truck I probably wouldn't be writing this right now. I have no idea how much you had to drink but clearly you should not have gotten in that car. But yes, there is some sort of justice, you're in jail, and probably..http://blogs.coreygouker.com/2007/11/02/ThankYouToTheDrunkDriverThatHitUsLastNight.aspx |