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July 26th 2001

Well, a friend of mine decided to get a little artistic on me. Or with me as the case may be. So, now you can see what I look like if I took the fox in Cyberfox a little too far ;) I really love this pic, and damn near everyone who's seen it has said. "It's you !?!" So it ends up on the site ;) Special special thanks to Mousie for the pic. I love it. So go give her some business :)

July 23rd 2001

Went and saw Swordfish last night. Out of all the hacker movies I've seen, this was probably the closest to reality I've seen. Real geek terms, sometimes even used correctly. Lots of nifty hardware, lots of fun toys. And for the first time on a motion picture screen that I've seen, how a hacker actually brain storms a new program. I was laughing my head off. I'm liking John Travolta as a bad guy more and more, think I need to watch Broken Arrow sometime this week. Of course, the movie did have flaws, such as what I think was a horrid piece of editing, I think a whole bridging scene (linking parts together) was cut, and it left me wondering...'err, WTF ?' But other than that it was pretty good. I had a good giggle at the name of one of the hackers, a Finnish guy by the name of Torvalds ;) I wonder what that's about ;)

Kitsune Upgrade

July 20th 2001

Well I continued my computer upgrades today, by making a few small changes to Kitsune. I added an additional 128 megs of memory, and switched cases from a mini-mid tower to a fulltower case. (same case I used to have for nogitsune). Ok, nothing major, but I like it :) I want to upgrade the processor to a faster athlon when I have a job and some spare cash. Which will probably be not for a while. I also attempted to upgrade Reynard, and failed utterly. Not sure if the MB died, or what. So I'll be dragging the remains over to my favorite hardware gurus for an autopsy. I hate messing with hardware, especially jumper driven hardware. But I broke my cardinal rule of computing, never try to switch parts from a working computer to build a new computer. For some reason the computer gods take offense at 'harvesting' from working boxen. Dead is fine, live pisses them off. And yes I am that superstitious about computing.

Liska's Rebirth

July 15th 2001

Well, thanks to Jander, SuSE, and Mt Dew, I have a laptop running SuSE 7.1. Was a pain in the butt, getting X to work, but I finally did. Now to get everything working. Got Enlightenment working, along with my usual chat programs. I'll play more tomorrow, maybe take a screenshot or two. Still having some headaches with it recognizing things like the sound chip and stuff. But other than that, it's peachy. :)

Cyberfox @ the Movies

July 14th 2001

Ok, I've seen a bunch of movies in the last few weeks. So here we go with Vulpine's Movie Reviews.

Ok, the hyped movie of the year (well, at least til Lord of the Rings.), and guess what ? It wasn't bad. No mindblowing plot, but it was cool. It's anime, therefor it is occasionally confusing, and sometimes plain opaque. But it was enjoyable. Go see it, unless you don't like anime.

Kiss of the Dragon

Jet Li flick, small plot, lots of martial arts, not much wires. Very good. I'm starting to like Jet Li movies more and more, I like his acting style. Especially in Once Upon a Time in China, now that was excellent.

Well, it's cute. It's funny, it's mostly plotless. Cats as the bad guys, well stereotypical...but well, stereotypes tend to exist for a reason. I can see Diamond and Trinity trying to take over the world. And maybe suceeding. It's cute, the kids will like it, and there is enough adult jokes to keep the parents entertained.

See above review, with less cats and dogs and more mythical figures. Eddie Murphy shows that he can do humor without body language. Mike Myers gets to dig out his Scottish accent from 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'. Again, cute for the kids, with adult jokes for the parents.

Well, the movie that said it would never have a sequel. And the sequel isn't as good as the original (well they rarely are). But it's still hysterical in spots. James Woods as an exorcist, a parrot who talks trash, busty redhead running around (well that's not funny, but it was nice. ;), lots of scatological humor and sexual references. Oh yeah, Richard Moll as a ghost. That was amusing. I'd see it as a matinee, or wait for the video...unless you LOVE the Waynes brothers.

Picget	July 11th 2001
Well, I finally coded something. I wanted to create a program to grab a image off a website, then display it. Simple you say, well yeah, probably. But I didn't know that, and I coded it myself. So I'm proud. So there. :P laugh And if your curious to what kind of programs I come up with check it out here.

New Email	July 10th 2001
Well, after a small hiatus from collecting emails, I've got a new one. Thanks to the SugarFae for the email, and check out her website.

No News Ain't Great News	July 8th 2001
Wellm it's been a while since I posted last...and no i haven't done squat with my life since then. No luck on the job front, bills piling up, definitely feeling whelmed...On the 'plus' side, I still have my health, my ferrets, my cats, and my friends. Easy to forget the good things when you life goes to hell in a handbasket. Maybe this time I won't forget.