Happy birthday to pearcider

"Birthdays are just nature's way of telling us to eat more cake." - Anonymous

Travels

We're heading off to the UK again today.

First, to see karlthulhu and littlepinkfaery in Derby then we'll all head onto Whitby for the WDS ball, where we'll meet up with gothichaven and r0chet.

The theme this year is fairy tales.

See you all soon.

Heath Ledger found dead!

Holy shit.

Just saw this on Sky News.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2255199420080122

What's Up

So what's been going on with myself? Haven't made a proper post since before Cristmas.

Got lots of lovely things for Christmas including Guitar Hero III, Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warefare, Company Of Heroes, lots of DVDs and half a ton of socks!

I finally managed to figure out how to encode my DVDs to WMV successfully. I was having problems when I ripped the whole thing to a single VOB file and encoded it. The solution was to rip to seperate chapters (and sometimes cells) and stitich them together in Windows Movie Maker. Results are perfect and half the size the DVD.

We signed up to online DVD rental company Screenclick. I've thrown about 80 DVDs on my wishlist, some bits and pieces I've wanted to see for a while but couldn't be bothered to buy and some critcally acclaimed movies such as those recommended in Film4's 50 Films to See Before You Die, Metacritic's All-Time High Scores and IMDB's Top 250.

We let Charlie and Sammy out together in the sitting room for a flap about. They got on well but we'll still keep them in seperate cages for a little while.

Not too long until the Whitby Dracula Society's ball.

Happy Birthday drmick

Hope things are going well in the UK and with the new job.

Happy Birthday ferrousoxide

Hugs to you

Happy Christmas Everyone!

PC Scare

My PC decided to do some weirdness last night. It couldn't load up my profile presumably because my registry was corrupted.

I panicked for a while and contemplated re-installing Vista but after a while I tried System Restore and that set things straight.

According to the internets, some applications installing/un-installing can leave handles open in the registry that cause the aforementioned problems.

TV Card

I managed to get the Hauppauge TV card in my PC back in action last night.

I've left it for some time because I didn't want to have to run coax across the room but there was no choice.

It's only the cable (not digital) feed from the set top box but it's better than nothing and now we can schedule it to record shows or even entire series.

VNV Gig

VNV Nation absolutely fantastic last night though it did leave me a little deaf afterwards but that's clearing now.