Jacken’s Blog

One of my long time dreams is to have a robot. A walking, talking robot.

Today I had a little talk with my daughter Mira, about cleaning up. I thought that it was time for her to clean up the mess in her room, and she thought that it was time for me to go f..k [...]

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I’m finally getting some respect. By my co-workers? no. Friends? no. By the neighborhood kids, they’ve never seen a 39-year old power-gamer before…

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Apple have agreed to pay royaltys to E-Data for a broad patent about e-commerce. This is the second time Apple has folded under pressure from stupid patents. They paid Amazon for the so called “One-Click” patent that’s up there on the top 50 of stupid patents that’s been approved. I can see Apples reasoning. It’s [...]

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Paycheck is John Woo’s latest film starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. It’s a standard suspense/action movie, but it’s actually pretty good. There is a lot of Hitchcock homages in the film. It’s not a masterpiece in any respect, but good entertainment to waste a couple of hours.

Recommended.

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Recently I have had a problem concentrating when watching movies. But now, when I got my projector up and running again my film watching drive is back.

One of the recent films I’m been watching is Shaun of the Dead. I haven’t had this much fun watching someone getting their entrails pulled out in a long [...]

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The DVD program, PowerDVD that I use for my HTPC has a Dolby Headphones simulated surround sound option. I didn’t get the time to rig my phones to test it out. But later, sitting and surfing I searched on it and found Dolby Labs own page about Dolby Headphones. And as usual when in bed [...]

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In my continued effort to get a Windows PC to act as an HTPC for using with my projector I got a problem with DVD playback. When watching a DVD, the PowerDVD player would start to playback the video in four times the normal speed. This would occur sporadically. After fiddling around a bit, checking [...]

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I finally got around to replace the lamp in my InFocus LP530 projector. I bought it used, and the internal counter said that the lamp had only been used for 300 hours, and the lamp is supposed to hold for 2000 hours. Which is good, because they cost like $300. But the bastard that sold [...]

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When my wife got her new iPod we had an old 5 gig gen1 iPod to spare. So my mother got it. But her old Wallstreet PowerBook didn’t have firewire so I needed to buy a PC Card with firewire. But instead of buying it from a mac dealer, I got a ST Labs card [...]

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Could this be the beginning of the end of the plastic surgery hysteria that’s been gripping Hollywood for decades? Where women looking like skeletons with faces that’s been windtunnel tested. Try concentrating on acting lessons instead.

Jamie Lee Curtis claims her movie career may be over — because she won’t get plastic surgery. In a revealing [...]

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