I never knew this was possible, so there’s a good chance you didn’t either.

The other night, it was raining, but not too hard. I was sitting in my living room, watching the ol’ boob-tube, when there was a power surge. I knew it was a surge (and not a quick blackout) because the fluorescent light that was illuminating the room got a lot brighter instead of going out.

So, since it was a surge, my surge protector on the TV did its job, and ended up turning off everything connected to it. It also required a reset, which I thought was kind of weird.

The weirdest thing, though, that happened from the power surge, was the reset of my Linksys WRT54GS router.

It didn’t blow it. It just reset it.

Therefore, with a quick reconfiguration, it was good and usable again.

Interesting, eh?

Okay, I did it. I hopped aboard the netbook bandwagon. And what jewel pushed me over the edge? The Asus Eee PC 1000h.

Originally, I was one of those people who said, “Why would I get that, when, for the same price, I could get a full-sized laptop that dwarfs those puny netbooks in speed and functionality?” Was.

Really, what did it for me was the need (want) for a laptop. My roommates are always playing with their laptops downstairs, and I get jealous. For example, if I wanted to get in on an internet poker game they were playing, I’d have to either play on the HTPC, or go upstairs to the four-core powerhouse. The HTPC, while being quite feasible, is a bit ridiculous to play on because of the 42-inch “monitor” it’s connected to. That left me with the powerhouse — and that left me alone, upstairs.

I might post up a review at some point, although I modified it right after I bought it, so the review wouldn’t really be fair. We’ll see. If anyone genuinely wants to see a review/write-up, let me know. If I get more than 2 responses, I’ll definitely write something up.

As always: keep it real.

Is it just me, or is there a ridiculous amount of unnecessary letters in that name? Okay, I can accept the PRO, ’cause, I mean, yeah it’s totally professional. I can MAYBE even accept the Duo, even though I honestly don’t know what it means.. or even if it’s supposed to mean anything. Is it an acronym? Is PRO an acronym? It’s capitalized like an acronym. It’s too bad I’m not more interested, or I might actually look this stuff up.

So yeah, the PRO and the Duo… passable. What starts to get me is that HG. You’re pushing it with just the HG, Sony. Then you have the tact to add the HX? Are you kidding me?

I get that it’s a new product. Give it a new name… like the Memory Stick HG. That wasn’t taken, was it? Come on.. c’..c’..c’mon. No, seriously. Come on.

To sum it up, one word: bleh.

Did you know that you can play Old Snakey, a fun snake-eating-dots game, within Gmail?

Me either. That is, until today.

I thought that it was pretty sweet, so I decided to write a how-to. That way, you too can play Old Snakey.

Good luck trying to beat my sweet high score!

Click here to learn how to play Old Snakey.

XHTML 1.0 Strict, that is. It took a little while, but it was worth it… I think.

Honestly, I’m not sure why peeps be hatin’ on XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I mean, yeah, some aspects of it are supposed to be deprecated, but really, we’re never doing away with the align attribute, nor the target attribute. I don’t think, anyway. A browser maker would have to be straight up stupid to do something like that. Half the pages on the interwebz wouldn’t work right without a browser parsing those attributes, so no one would use it.

I like transitional, but I guess I’ll try to code in XTML Strict from now on. Maybe some day it’ll be worth it.

…the new website design is up.  It’s simple and clean, but I’m starting to think that maybe it’s too simple.  I don’t want people to see my website and be like, “oh, it’s simple looking, therefore the content within must be simple.”  That would suck.

If you read this, consider shooting me an e-mail or leaving a comment.  Let me know what you think of the new site design.  You can do so anonymously, which means you can trash it all you want, and there will be no repercussions.  And if you feel like the design deserves it, please do.

Seriously.  I want feedback, even if it’s negative.

Thanks!

…and there was an offer to review a power supply. Unfortunately, it was about a month old, but I told them that if they’re still interested in sending it, I’m interested in reviewing it.

Therefore, there may just be a new review to go along with the new design I’ve been working on.

Speaking of the new design, it’s pretty sweet looking so far. I’m actually really close to being finished, so it should be up within the next couple of days. Hopefully you’ll like it as much as I do.

I found some time, so I’m going to redo the design of this website.

I’m going to try and make it look as professional as possible, and have it be completely viewable at 800×600 (something I like to do with all websites I make).

Here we go!

This website is the first site I ever designed with CSS. That’s why it’s simple.

Since the creation of this website, I have designed a few others, and have gotten pretty good with CSS. Because of this, I’ve been considering maybe redesigning ReviewDesk.com. The only problem with this is time.

You’re probably wondering, “If you’re such a pro at CSS, then why does it take you so much time?” The short answer is: cross-browser compatibility. CSS is rendered differently in different aspects on all the different browsers out there. It sucks. I can make a sweet design that looks super awesome in Firefox in 1-2 days, in my spare time. But then guess what happens when I look at it in Internet Explorer or perhaps even Opera? It looks all stupid.

So, let’s see. Maybe if I can get the motivation to write a few more reviews, I’ll go ahead and take the leap and make a new design. I want to write reviews, I really do, but I’m so busy. It sucks.

I will admit it, I love StarCraft. For a game that came out in 1998, it’s really awesome. Even if it was just made last year, it’s still awesome. It’s a timeless classic, really. I might even go as far as saying it’s the best game ever.

So, if it’s the best game ever, I would imagine that it’s going to be pretty difficult for it to be BETTER than the first one. Really, though, if it’s just like the first one, but with better graphics and new units, I would be pretty happy. And from the screen shots located here, it looks like it’s going to be very similar.

One of the best features of StarCraft is the ability to easily create maps, and the “Use Map Settings” aspect of the game. Yeah, fighting an opponent the way the game intended you to is cool, but sometimes you just want to chill out and play some Sunken D or V-Tec Paintball, ya know? I hope the new one will have similar features. What would be REALLY cool is if you could play old SC maps in SC2. That would be amazing. Especially with the fancy new graphics.

I’m pretty happy that StarCraft 2 is supposed to come out sometime this year, and I hope that it does. I really look forward to it.