August 2005 Archives

Well, that project that I've been working on is now complete. For the past week, I've been slowly painting certain interior panels of my Mustang. I mainly did this for no real reason whasoever. Hell, it only cost $20 for all the supplies. Of course, I also had to spend some time out in my oven of a car pulling the individual panels out.

I opted for the metallic blue look for them; so, as to match my exterior color.

As you can see, it still doesn't totally fit in with the rest of the interior colors. I'm working on that though. I'm going to paint some other things before I'm really done.

The hardest part, out of this whole project, would have to have been getting the top part of the center console out. Despite having the necessary 'stereo keys', I ended up just yanking it out entirely. Luckily I had my brother to help with this part, because I would have become enraged and simply destroyed it.

The panels on the door were relatively easy to extract. I simply had to pop them out, paint 'em, and pop 'em back in. Ya.

Yea, easily handled. I should get to work on the remaining bits by next week or something. I don't know. I'm in no rush...

Just updating to tell you that I'm still alive. I'm busy at the moment with college and other things. I'm working on something at the moment that I'm quite proud of. I'll get a post of it up here when I'm completely done. For now, see you in a few...

Hmm. Not much going on these days. Mainly, I'm trying to get my schedule of classes sorted out for this coming semester. I was a little late and most of my classes I planned to take are full. I may actually have to take some that I don't really need. Ughh.

I've actually been playing a lot of Diablo II lately. I already went through the entire game and expansion pack but now I'm doing it on a harder level. Sadly, I have a bunch of other games waiting to be finished that I just don't feel like playing at the moment.

World of Warcraft for one. Not only does it crash but it also throws my whole computer into a kernel panic. This is what mainly threw me off of it for now. Don't get me wrong, its not like my computer was struggling to play it. I'll admit it wasn't the most extreme 200+ framerate, but it was more than playable. Plus, I've still got Wild Arms 3 to finish.

Stargate Atlantis is coming on in a bit so that's the end of this entry...

Whew, its been sometime since I've been able to get another 'Picture of the Week' post up. Here ya go...

This week's picture of the week just happens to be from my family's recent trip to Ireland. I only have a few pictures from when we were down in Southern Ireland. Nevertheless, I had a lot of pictures to choose from.

If you don't know, this is 'Scrabo Tower'. We took a quick trip up here one day. Sadly, the tower was closed on that very day and we couldn't go up it. The trip up the hill, that the tower sits upon, was still more than worthwhile.

I took many a great shot of the tower and the sourrounding countryside. I might post one or more of them for a weekly picture one day. Yes, one day...

When Apple released the Mac OS 10.4.2 update, CPU Director was once again broken and my G3 was stuck at 800MHz till I could get something to clock it back up. Thinking about it now, I should have waited on installing the 10.4.2 update till Powerlogix updated CPU Director but I'm somewhat an impatient person. So, I went on the lookout for another alternative.

Thus, I found Daystar's XLR8 Mach Speed Tools. For one, they were compatible with my processor. The real goody about it, though, was that with it the OS actually knew what my processor speed was; with CPU Director, it is always 800MHz, no matter what.

Sadly, though, things weren't as fast as they could be. I realized this by comparing xBench scores from before and after installing XLR8's utility. While I believe most benchmarks aren't useful in comparing different machines, they can sometimes be quite useful when used on the same machine to test the affect of some action. For this, I needed to install the new version of CPU Director, which luckily was released not longer after the OS update.

By comparing scores, it seemed that XLR8 was actually slower in some regions. Of course, it also sped things up in some, although by an insignificant amount.

Despite the differences in speed being small and unnoticeable, I'm quite paranoid about such things. Thus, for now I'm still using CPU Director.

Such a boring entry...

Yep, I'm back from the 2 week trip to Ireland, and quite a trip it was. I'll have a short summary of it up later. For now, I've got to catch up on some things...