Category Archives: internet

surf the channel

02 Tuesday Dec 2008

Posted by in films, internet, media, television

≈ 6 Comments

television

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The other day my friend Kristin suggested I try out surfthechannel to find a new tv series she had recommended. So I checked it out yesterday and it looked like a fabulous idea, but upon using it I have found a few annoying glitches.

STC doesn’t stream videos or host content and so the videos available are hosted and shown from sites such as Y! Video, Tudou & Megavideo. I’ve tried all three. Tudou has massive subtitles in Japanese that take up almost a quarter of the screen, Y! Video has serious buffering problems and Megavideo limits your viewing time to 70 minutes – if you want to continue watching you either have to wait an hour or else pay a monthly fee (10€ a month). Also, if you click to full screen on any of them the image goes all pixillated. It’s a shame because STC has a massive library that includes films, cartoons, sports, etc.

Has anyone else tried STC?

Looks like it’s back to adding to my Amazon wish list …

twitter status generator

23 Sunday Nov 2008

Posted by in computers, geekiness, humour, internet

≈ 4 Comments

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Sometimes the banalities of life just don’t make for solid Twitter status updates. Add a little mystery and confusion with the Twitter Status Generator.

I must admit that I still haven’t really got the hang of my Twitter page yet. But this looks like fun and the above tweet was scarily accurate. A few other generated tweets I liked were:

tweet-1Curiously hurt and floating with fish sticks.
tweet-1 Happily snuggled and staring at extinction.
tweet-1 Near hungry and sharing the point of existence.

What did you get?

Twitter Status Generator

~ via The Generator Blog ~

avg annoyance!

12 Wednesday Nov 2008

Posted by in computers, internet, rants

≈ 14 Comments

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Yesterday Nog turned on his laptop and got the blue screen of death, saying something about a problem with the user32 dll file and recommended that the operating system be restored.  Turns out this problem was caused by his ‘free’ anti-virus, AVG, which had released an update that mistakenly identified the user32 dll file (a key Windows file) as a Trojan Horse virus.

Thing is, we’ve been trying to restore the OS using the CD but – so far – it doesn’t seem to be working. The instructions say the process could take 1-2 hours, after which the laptop will reboot itself. But after about 4 hours it was still going so we decided to exit and reboot manually … and got the blue screen again. So we’re trying it again. Bloody false positives!f_cross.gif

Has anyone else had this problem?

lexulous

23 Thursday Oct 2008

Posted by in fun stuff, games, internet

≈ 11 Comments

It’s baaaack! New name, same great game. Man, I was so lost after email Scrabulous disappeared. Life became a meaningless journey … because it’s not only  playing the game that I enjoy, but also the contact with others and the little messages we leave each other …  all that stuff!  🙂

So just email me if you’d like a game.

google chrome

21 Tuesday Oct 2008

Posted by in computers, geekiness, internet

≈ 13 Comments

Back in March I started using Safari as my back-up browser. But over the months I’ve been very frustrated at how very very s-l-o-w it is and so the other day I checked out Google Chrome. And I love it! It’s fast fast fast and has lots of coolisimo features. And casa az looks good on it too.

I still prefer Firefox and will continue to use it as my primary browser, but it’s fun having other options and set-ups.

Is there anybody out there still using IE?