I am by no means a gamer (don’t play, never did a lot (except for Tetris (the original one), The Incredible Machine, and maybe something else) but was fascinated by Crayon Physics Deluxe. I’ve been setting up my father’s and my sister’s computer (they’ve bought themselves an MSI multi-touch all-in-one PC AE2220M) and found an interesting application in the Windows 7 Touch Pack: Blackboard. It reminded me of The Incredible Machine, a DOS-based game in the early nineties. Refreshing the fond memories of TIM, I read the Wikipedia article about it, where I saw the game Crayon Physics Deluxe mentioned. When I saw the demo (the video recording), I downloaded a trial and bought the game. I do own a tablet, and I’m testing it on my kids tomorrow (they are not allowed to work computer otherwise).

With regards to the multi-touch all-in-one PC: it is solid built, the sound is not so great, and the keyboard is too small for my taste and feels very plastic — it is wireless, on the other hand. Otherwise, it’s quite good consireding the price (720 EUR + VAT), sporting a dual core CPU, 4GB of RAM and 640GB of hard disk space. A quality keyboard would’ve made the difference, in my opinion, since the rest of the computer feels quite solid.

Stanovanje smo vmes že prodali.

USE MASTER
GO

ALTER DATABASE moovme SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE moovme COLLATE Slovenian_CI_AS
ALTER DATABASE moovme SET MULTI_USER
GO

Hope that helps anyone.

I ordered business cards and opted for premium Matt paper. I was expecting some premium paper, but was disappointed when I got them. I guess it’s my own fault, because I did not educate myself what exactly does premium Matt paper mean. The shipping was faster than advertised, which was a nice surprise though.

Canon inject printer iP4300 consumes 0 Watt when in idle mode (it probably consumes more, but so small, that the energy meter does not detect it).

An interesting observation about light bulbs though: normal, healthy energy efficient light bulb takes a bit to warm up. During that period, it consumes less energy that it’s supposed to when “warm”. I also have a bit “overused” energy efficient light bulb (was frequently turned on/off for short periods of time) and interestingly enough, it consumes more power when “warming up” (an 11Watt light bulb consumes 15-17 Watts when warming up), but then (after 1 min apx) drops to 10-11 Watts. Thought someone else might find that bit of information useful.

Interestingly enough, Google’s appsstatus shows no problems.

Old design

I guess the old blue theme was looong overdue, so I decided to change it. It took longer than expected, but here we are. I don’t know about “better”, but it is definitely different. And that’s a good thing.

On a related note, I do like the new Wordpress 2.7 administration interface.