http://www.cbulock.com/ Why would you want to know what I'm thinking? Weirdos. http://www.cbulock.com/cameron.jpg http://www.cbulock.com/ 87 95 Copyright 2003-2009 en-us cbulock@cbulock.com 2009-06-10T01:54:00-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/06/palm_pre_review.html I purchased a Palm Pre as soon as they were available Saturday morning, so this is my review of the unit after using for the last four days. Just to give a background, this review will be comparing the Pre... http://www.cbulock.com/2009/06/palm_pre_review.html Reviews 2009-06-10T01:54:00-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/06/palm_pre_review.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/06/hailey_1.html Just a quick update on Hailey. She is now riding a bike with just two wheels. And she rides it pretty fast. She is about to loose her first tooth. It's going to come out at any time now. Tomorrow is her last day of kindergarten. She is also having a birthday party on June 13th. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/06/hailey_1.html Family 2009-06-03T18:15:51-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/06/hailey_1.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/05/what_went_wrong_with_terminator_salvation.html My last post was about my excitement with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and how I loved that show and how I couldn't wait to see Terminator Salvation. Sadly, I learned the show, which has now been cancelled, has a much better storyline. Please note that there will be SPOILERS in the review so you probably don't want to read past the second paragraph if you haven't watched it yet. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/05/what_went_wrong_with_terminator_salvation.html Reviews 2009-05-28T00:31:26-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/05/what_went_wrong_with_terminator_salvation.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/05/the_terminator_post.html It's once again been quite some time since I've posted. This has been the longest gap between postings in the nearly six year history of this blog. Today I am going to be posting about a show that I have been very into for the last year. That show is Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. There has been two seasons of this show now, but the first was somewhat short due to the writers strike last year. Sadly, it was announced that the show will not be returning for a third season. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/05/the_terminator_post.html 2009-05-19T01:09:20-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/05/the_terminator_post.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/salt.html For whatever reason, I noticed that McDonald's never gives salt anymore when you order fries. Wendy's always gives salt when you get fries in the drive-thru without fail. The stupid thing though, is that when you ask for salt at McDonald's, they give you like four or five. I can only imagine they don't give it as a cost saving measure, but if you give a handful every time someone asks for it, I can only imagine in the end you'd do just as well off giving everyone a single packet. Because of the plentiful amounts of salt they give, I had a stockpile at home. I've been using that for a while since they never give out salt. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/salt.html 2009-02-22T19:43:28-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/salt.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/new_netflix_movie_player.html As I mentioned in my previous post, I had some issue with the Netflix player. I often use the 'Watch Instantly' on-demand service Netflix provides. I usually watch it for documentaries. Most often I watch them as I lay in bed at night as it makes it nice and easy to fall asleep. After I installed a new CPU last week or so, whenever I would go to play a movie, Internet Explorer would instantly crash. I had reinstalled the Netflix Movie Player software, but that didn't fix anything. I thought I might try calling Netflix to see if they had any suggestions as they do have a free tech support number. I wasn't expecting much, but I figured it would be worth the test it out. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/new_netflix_movie_player.html 2009-02-13T23:06:31-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/new_netflix_movie_player.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/drm_woes.html I am not someone who is exactly against DRM, for the most part I don't mind it. I buy stuff from the Apple Store all the time and haven't been too affected by the DRM. I did encounter some issues with it today however. Though, overall, it hasn't been too bad, I was annoyed by what I did deal with. I installed a new CPU in my computer yesterday finally. Last year I purchased tons of new parts for my computer, but I kept the same CPU I had previously. I now have replaced my older Pentium D dual core with a Q9400 quad core chip. This is a massive improvement and am very happy with it. However, I have came up with two DRM issues that I believe are related to the change in hardware on my machine. It seems to be likely that the DRM is using the serial number in the CPU as at least one identifier. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/drm_woes.html Computers 2009-02-05T20:44:53-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/02/drm_woes.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/look_back_at_2008.html I typically right a review at the end of each year, this year I've been putting if off. I planned to write this the last week of December, but I was afraid it may be depressing, so I didn't. 2008 was quite the year. In some ways it could be described as my best year, in many ways as my worst. It also seemed to be very easily separated into two distinct parts that seem to be demarcated right in the center of the year. The first half of the year was mainly the partying half, while the second half was the sick half. It's quite possible the first half caused the second half, but so far the doctors have not linked the two. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/look_back_at_2008.html Personal 2009-01-29T00:23:21-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/look_back_at_2008.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/why_do_i_pay_doctors.html On my seemingly endless search to figure out what is wrong with me, I have started to look at things from a different approach. Up to this point, I have been under the impression that there has been something physically wrong with my stomach or digestive system. Standard treatments such as antacids and diet changes have been completely ineffective though. Additionally, every anti-nausea medication I've taken has done nothing for me. I've taken three of them so far, and at least two of them I've looked up and they show the most common use is for chemo-therapy patients, so I know they are pretty decent medications. Yesterday, the scope of my stomach showed nothing wrong. So, if there is nothing physically wrong, I have started to see if it is maybe a mental dysfunction. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/why_do_i_pay_doctors.html Personal 2009-01-23T00:27:51-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/why_do_i_pay_doctors.html#comments http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/scope_done.html I had a scope of my stomach done today. I've been waiting to have this done for quite a while now. I was hoping so much that this would finally solve what has been wrong with me for so long. After I woke up from the anesthesia the doctor said they didn't find anything wrong. When I have mentioned this to a couple people, their response was "Oh, that's good". I mean, it should be good that they didn't find a problem. It's nice to know I don't have an ulcer or cancer or something. But, the reality is, there is still something seriously wrong with me. I have been in tons of pain and suffering for months and months now. This was my biggest fear, that nothing would be found and now nothing is going to change. It seems that doctors will continue to just keep guessing at what the issue is. My ultimate fear is that I will have to live like this forever. I really don't think I can handle that. The only thing that keeps me going from day to day is the knowledge that this will soon be over. Right now, I can't see when that day will be. http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/scope_done.html Personal 2009-01-21T20:58:02-05:00 0 http://www.cbulock.com/2009/01/scope_done.html#comments