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Happy Birthday to my wife!!

I have been playing Metroid Prime 3: Corruption lately on my Wii (many, many thanks to Alice for lending it to me). The game is pretty cool. The only other Metroid Prime game that I have played was Metroid Prime Hunters on the Nintendo DS. Corruption really shows off the power [...]

Yes, I have been on an “I Hate Apple” mood lately and my recent dealings with the Apple Store at Oakridge has not helped my attitude. I will never spend another dollar at an Apple Store. Ever. The “geniuses” at the Genius Bar are abso-fucking-lute idiots. They don’t know what [...]

In what could be the lamest marketing ploy, Microsoft released a Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox 360.  What’s so special about this Xbox 360?  It is green, it has a green controller, it has the Halo 3 logo on it and it costs $50 more than the comparable white Xbox 360.  Well, you say, that [...]

Y! Mash (the social tool formerly known as Mosh) was officially released for public beta on Friday. Notice, I called it a social tool, not a social network. Anyways, if you want to try Y! Mash out, send an email to me at mookiekong at yahoo dot com. I’ll create you [...]

You know, I have been using my Powerbook a lot less lately. I have almost all but stopped using my iPods — though, Jacob’s room has one to play music, but my 1G Nano is sitting idle. Lately, I haven’t felt the same about Apple as I did years ago. They have [...]

Well, originally, I was not going to hack my D-Link DNS-323 — even though it is uber-hackable because of the underlying Linux OS (Linux mookienas 2.6.12.6-arm1 #32 Tue Jan 23 17:11:52 CST 2007 armv5tejl unknown
). Ever since I got the box, I have been struggling to get it to work using smb/cifs mounts [...]