I recently was assigned to write an essay for my “special topics in computer science” senior class. The essay was to be on an industry that had been affected by technology, so I chose the sex industry – after all, what industry has been driven so dramatically by technology as the sex industry?! It was… Continue reading The Influence of Technology on the Sex Industry
Author: mattezell
Year Three.
It has been three years now without my little bother. I do not think about ‘it’ as much as I used to; though, that is not to say I don’t think of him daily. Although 3 years have passed to the day today, it seems like it was just last week I was chatting with… Continue reading Year Three.
Halo 3 – v 1.1 – February 20, 2008 update
Well, Bungie released the Halo 3 v1.1 update in the early morning of Wednesday February the 20th 2008. In short the update is intended to fix some of the perceived discrepancies with the melee system in Halo 3. Apparently there have been a great deal of complaints from user who felt that they were on… Continue reading Halo 3 – v 1.1 – February 20, 2008 update
WINBUNTU >> WWWRRRAAAAARRRR!!!
Wwrrraaaarrr…The new quad running Ubuntu with VirtualBox deployed with XP – on which I was installing Visual Studio 2005 (so now I can dev .net in Ubuntu 🙂 )
Shiny new toy…
I am writing this post from my shiny new toy (as shown). This beotch is bad. Quad cores and 2.4 Ghz each, Dual Nvidia 512MB 8500GTs in SLI configuration and 2GB ram (more to come). Obviously there is more to is than that, but those are the high points. Now I am going through the… Continue reading Shiny new toy…
Snowing In Birmingham
So it is snowing in birmingham. It is nice to see a bit of the white fluff (although this is a bit more icy than fluffy). It has been quite awhile since we last got to enjoy a bit of snow and luckily this comes on a Saturday. I’m loaded up on firewood and have… Continue reading Snowing In Birmingham
Vulcan Park Birmingham, Al
Been a minute, so I figured I would stop and drop a blurb. We are in Birmingham now (as many of you know) and there are many sights to see. The other day while Kristy was at work I headed up to Vulan Park here in Birmingham, Al to check out the worlds largest cast… Continue reading Vulcan Park Birmingham, Al
Christmas Festivities 2007
Hello all (who are interested), Here are the pics of our 2007 Christmas festivities… As most everyone knows, we have been moving and doing the holiday ‘thing’ at the same time. Although the Christmas was not a typical holiday season for us this year, we still had a good time seeing friends and family again!… Continue reading Christmas Festivities 2007
Upgrading: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Alpha 1
So, as soon as I read of the Ubuntu 8.04 release I decided that would be a weekend activity. As always in these cases, I read the provided tid-bits, crossed my fingers and clicked through the “oks  Well, things did not go exactly as smoothly as I had hoped, but fortunately with just a little… Continue reading Upgrading: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Alpha 1
The Orange Box : Portal
There has been a lot of talk about the newest Valve release; The Orange Box. On the disk is Half Life 2, HL2 Episode 1, HL2 Episode 2, Team Fortress and Portal. Released as the new game in the “Orange Boxâ€, Portalis seemingly a new genera that is a hybrid 1st person-action-puzzle game. The single… Continue reading The Orange Box : Portal