Microsoft has released a lot of beta software into the wild lately, and ever the glutton for punishment, I have downloaded most of it. The stuff I use on a regular basis (Office, Media Player, Internet Explorer) mostly confuses me. From these three pieces of software — arguably the three most used pieces of software, short of the OS itself — I get no clear picture of what future applications will look like.
I Didn’t Die…
25
Apr
… but it was close. It was the first illness where I actually considered calling 911. But, I made it through.
Work is still busy. I’m in OKC two weeks out of every three. This project should go through August, or maybe longer.
I’ve got two big poker tournaments coming up … a WSOPC circuit event in New Orleans on 5/19, and a WSOP event in Vegas on July 10th. I have no real expectation of winning or even finishing in the money, but I’ll post my experience here, of course.
Stuck in a Hotel with Malaria
14
Mar
Ok, so it probably isn’t malaria, since I’m not in a tropical hotel. But, it certainly does suck to be in an OKC hotel feeling like crap. Alternating chills and sweats are not how I planned to spend my time here. And to think it was only about 3 weeks ago that I got over the Plague, where I coughed up alarming amounts of brown and green shit. ‘Tis the season, I guess.
A new toy
02
Mar
As usual, it’s Paco‘s fault. Two years ago, when I saw a notebook he bought for Linux, I couldn’t resist and I bought one. Now, my latest toy is his fault too. It occurs to me that I used to be on the bleeding edge with toys but now I’m not anymore. I’m glad I have Paco to keep me buying stuff!
XBox Live updated
06
Jan
I just updated my XBox Live account to work with 360, and I changed my gamertag to be KyleBits. If you want to add me and your tag isn’t obvious who you are, please email me to let me know who the invite is coming from!
Christmas in the new Davis household
06
Jan
Christmas came a little late this year. Ok, that’s not entirely true, since my family got me some spiffy DVDs and CDs from my Amazon wishlist, and they came on time. But, every year there’s one present — the present that makes Christmas, and I just bought it for myself yesterday. Amazingly, it’ll arrive today. Yes, in a few hours, I’ll have an XBox 360.
SBC update
03
Jan
I threw ‘em out. Well, the one part of them I could throw out, anyway. I ordered DirectTV and they put an HD dish on my balcony. So, that’s one problem solved. I really have no choice but to keep SBC for the DSL line and the landline (which the dish needs). So, I’ll grudgingly keep them, but I reserve the right to bitch about them!
I hate SBC
07
Dec
SBC has an exclusive contract with my apartment complex to provide phone, DSL, and cable (DirecTV, actually). No other vendor can come in, other than the satellite providers if you want to put an antenna on your balcony. This stranglehold on the complex is unfortunate (and should be illegal, in my opinion!) because no matter how bad their customer service is, the customer is stuck.
Publishing
07
Dec
I figured out the problem with MovableType (the program I use to create this blog), so now I’ll be able to post the entries I’ve been saving up … coming shortly. It’s been hard to work on it, since I don’t have DSL in the apartment yet. Stay tuned for my rant about SBC.
The new place
04
Dec
In my hunt for an apartment, I discovered I had 2 choices for living in Irving or Dallas: pay more money than I really wanted to, or live in a shithole. There really isn’t any middle ground. Not that the apartments here are all that expensive, but now that I’m consulting instead of working a full time job with a guaranteed paycheck, I thought it would be a good idea to keep costs down.
