Now that I can play music on my computer, I am streaming my iTunes library downstairs to my computer. I had to buy some new speakers, because my current ones weren’t great. I got some really good Logitech speakers for $40 (down from $70) which sound great.

The only problem that I have now is my wireless card. Ubuntu comes with a driver for my chipset, but it is limited to WEP encryption. So instead of this, I am trying to use NDISwrapper instead (it was working great in SuSE). I just can’t work out how to change it’s driver from rt2500 to nidiswrapper…

Andrew bought a domain name today (andrewgentle.com), and you might be able to see it. It currently has a parked page, but I haven’t checked it for a few hours. His site has been under development for quite a while now, and it is pretty good. Melita also has a site there, called Melita, Ink.

-Stephen

I’ve been playing around with an old Ubuntu live CD that I had lying around. I like KDE better than Gnome, but with a better GTK+ theme, icon set, GDM theme, and splash screen I found at the Gnome Art page, I actually like the look beter. I still prefer Knoquerer over Nautilis but apart from that, Gnome is fine. I will probably install both, just in case.

We will be getting ADSL 2+ on the 26th, which sucks, because I thought it would be activated on the 10th. The speed of my web pages should be greatly improved then!

-Stephen

I’ll post again after I’ve played a bit.

-Stephen

Update!

I have now played up to the third chapter (out of 5), and it is really good. The graphics are excellent, and there have been some great puzzles so far. It’s really great to have new challenges after playing Half-Life 2 so many times. It crashed on me a few times, but I downloaded an updated video driver, and now it works fine. I would play it all the way through in one sitting, but I want it to last at least a few days. Episode 2 isn’t coming out for 6 months!
Check out the screenshots here!

“Did Kliener just tell everyone to get busy?” -Alyx

I have made my own blog theme which fits into my main site now! It looks really good, except for the comments. I still haven’t written any CSS for them yet, so they look really bad. I have decided now to make the registration for the blog only, and not for my main site. This is because it would be confusing now that the sites look the same. So if you want to comment on the site news, just use the guest posting thing. It’s unfortunate that I wont be able to use the register and user viewer on my site, because they were really cool. If I could work out how to encrypt and decrypt passwords so WordPress could use them, I could have an all-round site login (not forums though…), which would be great. But I am doing two other sites that can use the register page, so that’s OK. If you want to see it, you can try it out, but you wont be able to register. I’ll just use the login to get to the admin panel.

I also made my blog have search engine optimised links, which I didn’t know it could do! I thought that I was going to have to do it manually… The links are better now, but I would like to see if I can separate words with underscores, not dashes.

I recently got Gmail for my domain, so now if anyone wants to email me, they can at stephen@stephengentle.com.

Now for some random things that have been happening recently:

• My sister got a red Siamese fighting fish. We keep hers and mine in different tanks so they don’t fight to the death.
• Half-Life 2: Episode One is coming out on thursday. I have downloaded it, but I will need to pay for it soon so it will be unlocked on the release date.
• Last week we had the musical at school, which was a theatre restarunt. It was really good. I did tech team stuff for it
• There’s only four more weeks of school left, but we have a couple of assignments and exam block to get through before that…

Thats all for today,

-Stephen

I bought a Siamese fighting fish on Saturday. Its blue, with a black head. It eats very expensive blood worms and blows bubbles….

That sounds so retarded… But its true.

-Stephen

I’ve been watching IT Crowd episodes lately. If you want to see them, look here.

I’ve also been reading a bunch of Garry’s Mod comics. This forum post has links to my favoruites.

School’s OK… Haven’t had much homework…

I’ll make another post when something noteworthy happens…

-Stephen

At school in HPE we are doing badminton and we are going to have a round-robbin tornament on monday. I hope my partner (don’t know his name) and I win, and we have a pretty good chance, as most of the other groups aren’t great (and I’m so awesome )….

Thats all for now,

-Stephen

In the late afternoon, I steped on a rusty nail, and although it was a very small wound, I still had to go to the doctors, and get a tetanus shot (but I was due for one anyway). So now, not only do I have a sore foot, but a sore arm as well…

-Stephen