More Sticky

Posted on October 11, 2008 by kenhaun

Have you ever noticed those small black security strips that are usually tacked on to DVD covers when you buy DVDs?

I have and I usually try to remove them when I do. What I don’t understand is why must the glue they use to stick them on be so damned strong when you always place them inside the plastic-sealed DVD covers anyway? It’s not like you can actually get a go at trying to remove them while in the store, unless you try to unwrap the DVD, and if you start doing that in a store I am sure that is an almost foolproof way of bringing the attention of people who will prevent you from stealing it.

But that’s probably just me.

In A Perfect World

Posted on October 3, 2008 by kenhaun

…I wouldn’t have had to spend 2 minutes carefully removing stickers from my newly acquired Hellboy volume 8. And there is still Sticky Stuff on it!

Look, I am not asking for much in life. Sad then, that I can’t even have that.

Seriously marketing-people, do you honestly believe that there are anyone buying volume 8 of the Hellboy Comic Book that don’t already know that it is now a Major Motion Picture? Anyone at all?

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On a somewhat amusing side-note, WordPress suggested that I correct “Comicbook” to “Gamecock”. I wonder why.

Good Old Games

Posted on September 26, 2008 by kenhaun

Good Old Games, gog.com, is a site that sells exactly what the name implies: games that are good and old. What the name doesn’t imply is that they also sells them dirt cheap, without any form of DRM and often also with neat little extras like Soundtracks. You buy, you download and you own.

Forever.

I like this policy.

My experience with the beta-site have been really great. The interface is nice and works really well. It’s easy to navigate around and the option to download and re-download what you have bought is fast end convenient. I just pressed the button and the download began.

My advice: Check it out when it launches. I you missed Fallout the first time aound, here is your chance.

Hell No, Boy.

Posted on September 19, 2008 by kenhaun

I went to see Hellboy 2 last night and I didn’t love it. I really wanted to love it and not just because that meant getting a better deal for my money. I wanted to love it because I really love Mignola’s original Hellboy comic and after a mediocre first movie I could do with some good Hellboy movie action.

But alas, it was no to be.

The main problem, as I see it, was that the movie was just not engaging. There were a lot of potentially interesting points; Hellboy and Liz’s relationship, the Prince trying to save his dying people or Hellboy’s struggle with finding a place in the world, but none of it ever got really real. You could see it there in the story but it never connected emotionally.

Another point that bothered me a bit was the fact that the movie felt like it had 2 very strong design directions that didn’t fit together very well. I love Mignola’s designs and I love the Pan’s-Labyrinth-style but I don’t love them in the same movie at the same time.

Also, I don’t know it is a Guillermo del Toro thing or if it Doug Jones, but the excessive hand-gesticulation that they have going both here and in Pan’s Labyrinth is getting a bit annoying (if you don’t know what I am talking about, good for you. If you want to know take a look at the Faun in Pan’s)

All in all it wasn’t completely hopeless. I just wasn’t nearly as good as i had hoped.

Installing The Game

Posted on September 18, 2008 by kenhaun

I find it strange that, while the instructions for installing the game (in this case Warhammer Online) include helpful tips like “Put the CD into your DVD-ROM drive” and “Click the INSTALL button”, they have excluded the very first step which is how the hell do you remove the DVD from the DVD case without breaking it!?

My favorite install instructions are still from Simon the Sorcerer. They had two methods and reproduces here for your amusement is method one, which is the one for clever people and I thought that would be the one most relevant to my readers:

METHOD 1
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THIS METHOD IS REALLY CLEVER AND FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW A LOT ABOUT COMPUTERS. WE SUGGEST YOU TRY THIS WAY FIRST

1. REMOVE THE DISKS FROM THE BOX AND FLUSH THEM DOWN THE TOILET

2. GO AND BUY ANOTHER SET OF DISKS AND REPEAT THE PROCESS

Maya Scripts?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by kenhaun

Isn’t this the reason to have a blog? To post stuff that might help people? Yes Mom, I am going to give it a try! I am going to do my best!!!

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Ok, my best wasn’t good enough. No code for you my friend. Blame WordPress’s insistence to removing spaces in text.

LATER: Hah, eat this, WordPress!

After the break, a small python script to quickly create a renderlayer with a name: Continue reading →

It’s Called Fork

Posted on September 6, 2008 by kenhaun

And was originally made by Dave Kellam (here) and is now maintained by Gigi. Now I just need to make my own adjustments again. That or, you know, actually make something original.

The Worst Part

Posted on September 6, 2008 by kenhaun

… of my recent server wipe is not actually the work I put into making it work again. It is that the theme I used, not my own but it had grown on me quite at bit, is gone. And I can’t find it again!

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Ok, scratch that. I just found it.

Piss Off, Australia.

Posted on September 1, 2008 by kenhaun

I am getting a bit tired of all the Australians complaining about the insane prices they have on games because it seems like they think they are the only ones. They are not. We Danish pay just as much as they do, sometimes more, and we don’t even have sunshine and nice beaches! We only have rain. Lots and lots and lots of rain.

So, I guess it’s not all bad.

Hello World!

Posted on August 22, 2008 by kenhaun

Suddenly Gigahost fuxed up my webserver and then all my files were gone. Then I cried for a while, in my mind, and then I set to work restoring my site.

Luckily, my database was still intact so I could recover all my posts and comments but it did take a bit of fiddling. I couldn’t copy over my user info or my options because then WordPress broke, but that isn’t that big of a deal because I only have one user anyway.

This is what I did to use my old database in my new WordPress install and you could probably too if you use phpMyAdmin:

Install a fresh wordpress to a new database, run the install script and log in to the new database
I added myself as a new user and deleted the admin, but I don’t think this is necessary.
Go to phpMyAdmin and select your old data base.

You need to copy the following tables: wp_comments, wp_links, wp_posts, wp_postmeta, wp_terms, wp_term_relationships and wp_term_taxonomy. That were the tables I bothered copying, at least. You do that by doing the following:

Select one of the tables in the list to the left and then click the operations tap on the right of the list
In the “Copy table to (database.table)” select your new database and type in the name of the table (or copy it from the “Move table to” field right above your current field.
click the “add DROP TABLE” option.
click “Go”
Hopefully you didn’t get any errors or you are now, officially, in Trouble.

You should now have a working wordpress with all your old posts and none of your old design. Take it as an opportunity to spice up your website a bit. Also, take this opportunity to backup your website. I know I will.

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