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Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Benchmarking the Old Computer

Tonight, I decided to run some benchmarks on my old computer so that I can compare the new one once I get it built. Here are my old computer’s stats:

AMD Athlon64 3000+ (Winchester, 90 nm, 1800 MHz, 512 KB L2 cache)
Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard (Rev. 1, American Megatrends 1018.001 BIOS)
2×1 GB Dual Channel OCZ [...]

Old Family Photos

My Aunt Kristen scanned a bunch of old family photos and sent out (in 32 emails!).
I uploaded the photos to Picasa. Bill and I are the little kids that look like extras from “Children of the Corn”.

A Few Computer Parts

A few things that I ordered in Japan for my new computer were delivered today.
So far, the monitor, the CPU cooler, and the Blu-ray burner have arrived.  The case has shipped and should get here in a day or two.  The rest of the parts are on the way to my brother in Colorado.  He [...]

The Taxman Cometh

Now that 2008 is over, I started to do what I always do…gather up my paycheck stubs and other documents to do a rough estimate of what my taxes are for the year and how much of a refund to expect.  I logged into the free H&R Block TaxCut online and started putting in some [...]

New Computer

I just bought parts to build a new computer system.  I spent way too much money on it, but I think it should be pretty nice.  Also, the system should have a lot of room for upgrades in the future.
The system has the following parts:
Intel i7 920 2.66 GHz Processor  I was thinking about going with [...]

Sneaky’s Weekly Twitter Update – 2009-01-03

my mouse is getting gimpy…I think my cat knocked it off the desk one too many times. #
omg…my skin is so dry…damn you winter and your cold, dry air. Relative humidity is a bitch. #
Oden is so good…even though the oden at the convenience store looks like food poisoning soup, I can’t resist. #
i vacuumed [...]

Xbox Red Ring

So after spending the last few days finishing up the great “Chrono Trigger,” I decided to turn on my Xbox 360, and surprise I get a nice New Years gift, the red ring of death! Pretty much happens to everyone that buys a 360, and now I have to go through the task of getting [...]

Caviar and Champagne

Happy New Year everyone!  We had a quiet New Year’s Eve at home and got in touch with our Russian mafia roots by eating caviar and drinking champagne.

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