2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003Found this link on Will’s Weblog and decided to try it myself. As expected I turned out to be a Low-Rank Computer Geek. Hopefully Tivo-Guy will take the test. He should probably ace it. [Link]
Update: Tivo-Guy took the test and sadly scored only a 93. I thought for sure he would get 100. tsk tsk
1- walk really fast when you are going anywhere as to appear something important is going to happen
2- carry a notebook with you at all times. seems like you are suppose to be somewhere taking notes. if at your desk keep it open with a pen on it
3- keep your headset on if you are in your cubicle
4- actually do work but that defeats the purpose. okay more later. any suggestions?
5- shuffle papers
6- look pissed off
7- put up a do not disturb sign when you are browsing the web
8- continually click on a pen
9- walk around with your laptop open, side note: take your laptop home and say you are WFH (working from home)
10- open up Microsoft Word and write blog entries to post later
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I watched three movies this weekend, here are some quick reviews.
Ocean’s Twelve
First one I watched was Ocean’s Twelve. I wasn’t expecting allot of this movie but it turned out pretty cool. I like George Clooney so thats why I probably enjoyed the movie. Catherine Zeta-Jones did a pretty good job in this movie although I really dislike her. The movie wasn’t action packed but since there were allot of characters and most of them celebrities, it was pretty entertaining to watch.
Hellboy
The second movie I watched was Hellboy. I thought this movie was pretty silly. Its watchable.. if there was nothing else on TV.
Kingdom of Heaven
Finally, the third movie I watched and the best of the bunch was Kingdom of Heaven. I was for some reason expecting it to be a romance and thats why I held back on watching it till now. Well it turned out it’s not a romance. The movie was exciting to watch but I was expecting more battle scenes. Other then the last large one you don’t see that much fighting. There was one battle I was excited to watch but they didn’t show it to us. They showed the army arriving in one scene, and then the next scene the battle is over. I thought that was pretty lame. After the couple of mediocre movies I watched recently, this movie faired better at keeping me interested.
The Sun Online had this picture of how they think The Shamsoons would look like. Marge looks cool. [Link]
Here is the Top Ten Worst Shows for family viewing according to The Parents Television Council.
1. The War at Home
2. The Family Guy
3. American Dad
4. The O.C
5. C.S.I.
6. Desperate Housewives
7. Two and a Half Men
8. That ‘70s Show
9. Arrested Development
10. Cold Case
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Someone shared this with me in the morning. Did you know the nails on your fingers grow four times faster then on your toes? Also another fact I learned, international banks that are opening up in Kuwait like HSBC and CitiBank are only allowed to open only one local branch according to Kuwait law.
Been doing allot of looking around trying to find a software on the Mac that will convert my DivX and Xvid movies and tv shows which I’ve downloaded via torrents to a format that the iPod Video would read. I found the following software that will convert from anything to anything, its called ffmpegX and its only $15. [Link]
Autoblog has tons of pictures of the new Nissan GT-R concept. Supposingly the production car is going to look very similar to this. So far it looks like they have retained most of the characteristics of the previous model which is a good thing. [Link]
A friend of mine is selling his 12″ Apple PowerBook. Here are the specs:
12″ Powerbook
G4 1.5ghz
1.25GB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
8x SuperDrive
Airport Extreme
Bluetooth
Asking price: KD500
Used for 3 months only. PowerBook in excellent condition. If interested leave a comment below and I will send you contact info.
The rumors were mostly right, here are some highlights from todays Apple event:
PowerBooks Updated
– Upgrades to the 15″ and 17″ PowerBooks.
– 15″ gets a new display with 1440 x960 resolution, while the 17″ will get 1680 x1050. Both will be brighter than previous models and have better battery life.
– SuperDrives will be standard
– Prices start at $1,499 for 12″, $1,999 for 15″ and $2,499 for 17″.
– Powerbooks ship today
PowerMac G5s Updated
– Dual core processors, up to 16GB of DDR2 RAM, 1TB of internal storage
– Four new nVidia cards, including the Quadro FX 4500
– PowerMac G5 Quad, with dual dual-core processors
– Single dual-core 2.0 GHz CPU version is $1,999; single dual core 2.3Ghz is $2,499; dual CPU dual-core is $3,299
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1 – Seinfeld
2 – Friends
3 – Frasier
4 – Drew Carey
5 – Roseanne
6 – Married… With Children
7 – Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
8 – NewsRadio
9 – 3rd Rock from the Sun
10 – Home Improvement
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Yesterday I recieved my 1GB Ultra II Memorystick Duo and I quickly tried running games off it by copying their iso’s onto the Memorystick and running them using FastLoader 0.7. Majority of the games I tried didn’t work and I even had trouble unraring most of the files. So here are some tips I would like to pass on from my experience.
– Firstly, Mac users, if you want to unrar files, get UnRarX. Its a great utillity that does a much better job then Stuffit. I was getting errors using Stuffit but didn’t get any when using UnRarX.
– Secondly, there are two different types of MemoryStick Duo’s, the regular kinda and the High-speed. Whats the difference? Regular memorysticks read and write at 15MB/sec while the high=speed ones read and write at 80MB/sec. So get the High-Speed (Ultra II) ones since they cost a bit more but offer better performance.
– Thirdly, most of the games like Winning Eleven 9 and Madden 2006 wouldn’t work with the regular FastLoader. To get it working I used Devhook 0.21.
If I have any more tips I will add them to this post in the future.
Am I allowed to post about food before iftar? Its a slow day today and the only thing I could think of posting about is food.
* You have an Apple ][e in your room
* You have over 5 web browsers installed
* You use an old desktop-format Mac II/Powermac as a laptop stand
* You’ve been to 1 Infinite Loop
* You’ve used System 1 on a 128k Mac…within the past year
* Your external hard drive has Apple stickers on it
* You’ve stood in line for at least one Apple Store opening/OS release
* If you see a Mac/iPod in a movie or TV show, you know exactly what model it is, how many megahertz it has, and whether it can run OS X at a decent speed
Here is a flickr photoset of the unpacking of the iPod video. [Link]