As part of the promotion for my hardware upgrade I got 3 Codemaster games. Grid, Dirt, and flash point. It was a little retarded that newegg didn’t just package the steam keys with the shipment of parts and instead shipped them via UPS.

Anyway been spending a bit of time on Grid and just wanted to share my experience. Lets get my system configuration out of the way first.

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I work at a call center and today a customer called and had mentioned that you can die from sitting. I thought this was funny. I mean I sit pretty much all day. I get up and sit at my computer for several hours. I go to work and sit. Any time I’m traveling I sit. Any way I decided to see if this was true and googled “Sitting can kill you” and actually had some interesting findings.

Turns out 2Million people get Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) per year and out of them 300,000 die. Not so funny any more.

Get more information HERE.

For the past couple of days I have been battling getting my new PC upgrade working. I had purchased MSI NF980-G65, AMD 965 Phenom II Black edition quad core 125 W, G.Skill DDR 3 2200 7-10-10-28 memory, hec Zephyr 1000 1000W power supply.
I had also purchased a 2nd identical board and processor plus Corsair DDR3 1600 ram for a friend.
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Upgrading the old PC and I have yet again been reminded why its such a bad idea to toss all the hardware in to a case prior to table top testing. Wasted a bit of time and think I’ve narrowed things down to a deffective mother board.

Luckily for this trouble shooting I had bought 2 of everything. One for my self and another for a friend whom decided he wanted to upgrade his as well but was too lazy to do the research so he wanted what ever I ended up getting.

So I’ve been fortunate enough to have spare parts to swap out. I’ll be swapping mother boards later tonight and will update this post then.

Something very weird happened today.. All my scheduled calander events seem to have moved 1 hour back after daylight savings time reverted last night. Not sure if this was a Google or Palm Pre bug.

These giveaways are a few days old but it’s not too late to get in yet if you’re not already.

First we have Chris Pirillo given away a turbo stick

Also household hacker is given away some gain in routers and a NAS system..

Good luck and have fun!

I do appoligize yet again for lack of activity. Lately fingers been getting pretty sore after typing all day at work. Would love to have it checked out but im still a temp and have no medical yet..

I am going to try to put up a Nuance Naturally Speaking 11 64bit soon enough which I’ll try to make aggresive usage on to do less typing.

Stay tuned.  I do appreciate your patience

Just wanted to share a find everyone should check out to learn what click jacking is, How it works, And what steps to take to protect your self.

Please check TechRepublic ClickJacking out complete with video and keep in mind the webcam access example they use here is a simple example. Obviously clickjacking can apply to just about anything you click on.  Note they use a Mac on this example. This will work on Mac or PC or anything else capable of running Javascript which is nearly anything with web access today.

I think we have all seen the Microsoft advertisement where they claim to have selected random people $1000 and challenge them to purchase a computer. They start off at the Mac store where they have no luck and then visit the local computer store where they find plenty of options for PCs under $1000. Apple is now threatening Microsoft to pull the ad or risk legal actions. This is coming from the company that has been making fun of Microsoft windows for long time now.
In other news Microsoft has announced that they will be opening stores to promote and sell their products just like Apple does. They also said that some of the stores will be located near the Mac stores.

Apple has also recently launched a attack against Palm Pre yesterday by updating its iTunes software to block Palm Pre synchronization via iTunes. Palm Pre will have another major update within the next 30 days and already there is rumor that this update may very possibly retrick the iTunes software. We shall see soon enough!

I think most PC builders realize Intel currently leads in the Processor performance department but when you are working within a budget I think you will find 9 times out of 10 you will get more performance for your money on the AMD platform. Toms Hardware website has posted such a comparison regarding in this case gaming optimized computer builds. Read it HERE