My first build that's not just adding parts to an existing system. All the computers my family and I have bought have been Gateway, starting in 1994.

My current system is the 500XL from 2003. Base stats were a Pentium 4 2.6 GHz with HyperThreading, 512 MB of DDR 400 PC-3200 RAM, a 160 GB Maxtor HDD, a GeForce FX 5200 and a Creative Audigy 2. Over the 5 years, I first added another gig of RAM, and then swapped out the 5200 for a GeForce 6200 with 256 MB of onboard RAM. I added a second...

Rogue_hunter

Hunting season is officially over, for me at least. I have some family still gunning for the big elusive buck until tomorrow night (when the season actually closes), but I headed home early due to lack of vacation time at work.

Hunting itself had its ups and downs. I did shoot a doe on opening night, so that is a little retribution for the ones I missed last year.

I spoiler tagged a couple images for the folks who can't handle the sight of dead animals as the images...

shunoshi

This series is aimed to provide a tiny bit of insight into the mind and habits of Japanese gamers. Although I'm sure most will be pretty dry, I hope to occasionally surprise some of you .

In part one I'm talking with a male high school student, Hiroki.

Me: So what did you do on the weekend?
Hiroki: I played Mario Kart for 4 hours.
Me: Oh yeah? Mario Kart Wii?
Hiroki: No, on the Gamecube. I don't have a Wii *looks disappointed*.
Me: Don't...

Chris_D

Some of you might have heard of this before: the fashion of school girls wearing surprisingly bulky loose white socks with their school uniforms (often with a super short skirt!). Well you might not be aware, that to keep the socks in their fashionably correct place, a special adhesive called sock glue* is needed.

Anyway, I had heard of this sock glue before but today, for the first time, I got to witness the application process in person! On the train, a young school girl, as casual...

Chris_D

It took a moment, but finally Ghazali’s site finally appeared on the screen. At first glance the site appeared to be completely innocuous. The page design was functional but extremely plain: there were no advanced features, fanciful graphics or interactive interface. Instead, all that was available was a single page that contained a few photos of Ahmed, half a dozen paragraphs describing his music and philosophical viewpoints, and at the bottom of the page a few links to sample music tracks....

Crittias