Monthly Archives: July 2007

Hi! Just wanted to let me know I see and appreciate your comments. Blogspot isn’t giving me enough information to actually respond to you, so I’ll just use an entry. Hey, gives me something to say for this half-hour anyway Hope you’re enjoying my geekiness.

How exactly am I supposed to keep posting every half-hour if there’s a power outage? This house seems to lose power at least a bit during every thunderstorm… One time, the transformer for the whole block blew up. I guess if I disappear, just wait and I’ll try to catch up when I get back [...]

My wife’s cell phone contract runs out next month, and I’m already out of mine. We’re going to go ahead and merge our plans into one with 2 lines, and get new phones. For the first time, I should be able to afford to buy a phone, instead of going with whatever free one sucks [...]

A penguin is driving through the desert when his car starts making horrible noises. He manages to get the car into a small town before it finally stalls out in the middle of the street. He gets out of the car and, hiking through the hot desert afternoon, sweat pouring down his penguin brow, he [...]

What is the beverage of choice for you geeks out there? I follow the somewhat stereotypical path of Mountain Dew. Several others I know only drink Bawls. What’s your choice? What’s most important? Usually, that seems to be caffeine content. What about taste? You know, that thing that Bawls lacks? I need more of whatever [...]

So here’s where I’ll tell a few extra things that I couldn’t get screenshots of. You know the Windows logo you get while you’re booting up? With the little progress bar underneath? Did you know you can change that? BootSkin lets you copy in themes (available on deviantART! woohoo!). From the same company, LogonStudio lets [...]

Go back to my previous post if you haven’t seen it yet. So now I have Windows and Winamp set up with matching skins. At work, I typically have an external LCD hooked up to my laptop, to more than double the screen real estate I have available. To make it simpler to find things [...]

Here’s the link to my full screenshot. For the skinning itself, I had to replace uxtheme.dll in C:\WINDOWS\system32. I downloaded a “hacked” version and used Replacer to copy it in, bypassing Windows’s protection of system files. The patched uxtheme.dll allows third-party skins to be used. Once that file is in, go download a skin from [...]