I hate it when
I get to work and I've forgotten my PowerBook power supply. Except
today I didn't even notice and started playing Diablo II (hey, it's
Friday). After an hour and a half my PowerBook beeps and I immediately
know that I've gotten a low power warning, even though Diablo II is
hiding it. Look in my backpack. Dammit, no power supply.
Decided not to go home because I stayed home Thursday. Of course got
very little done. Used my NT box to surf the web and get a little work
not done. Read some. But when you get right down to it, life is pretty
dull without my PowerBook. So I hung around until three and then went
home. Next week I really have to get some work done. This week I
totally blew it.
On Diablo II I tried Kagero's Dungeon. Six levels that start out hard
and get much harder. Very big place too, took me four hours to get to
the final boss, Lucifer. But I couldn't kill her. She killed me with
one blow and i'm a melee guy. After a few tries I gave up. I'll have to
try again when I've gone up a few levels.
Then I played in the regular Friday night Diablo game. Just the three
of us. Got about half way through Act 2. I died like half a dozen
times. Eric eventually got careless and died three or four times. Woo,
with a wall of undead to protect him, didn't die at all. I was tired by
midnight so I called it a game. I went up five levels and am now at
level 101.
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The
Presidential Debates start at the end of the month and run to
mid-October. There will be three debates between the presidentical
candidates and one debate between the vice-presidential candidates.
This is where I make my informed opinion of who I'm going to vote for.
So far I have no opinions.
So I got outbid for the Visual C++ 6.0 box. You know, looking it up on
buy.com I see that it is still like $400 for the Professional Edition.
It's one revision old. The current version is Visual C++ 2003 .Net or
something like that and it's like $800. Ok, I bought a used copy at
Half.com instead. Hopefully I'll get it this next week.
You know, half.com has really bad descriptions. People have to pretty
much use one of the pre-defined entities in the database, at least for
books and software. You don't get pictures, the database has few
entries, you end up with this generic category. And then when I search
for an item I still get a bunch of different categories, all slightly
different but the same item. Makes it had to browse.
Compare it to Amazon.com. Also limited items but still a much larger
database. And at least you rarely have multiple hits for the exact same
item so it's easier to browse. And they have pictures. Item
descriptions suck but are better than half.com (which for the most part
has no item descriptions) and there are user reviews of dubious value.
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