Posted by Xander on 27 November, 2009 – 2:50 pm
Have you ever wanted a program that will go through your computer eliminating inefficiency like a terminator and restoring lost power and performance? A program that you can trust to defrag things, set the settings right and basically return the land to happy sparkly-ness? Welcome PC Matic into your computing experience.
Of course normally I would be staring at this box and wondering what is going to go wrong but as underlined by my post on Optimizer I trust PC Pitstop and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their reliability. Normally when you ask a program to automatically increase your speed and efficiency it causes problems by wiping the wrong file or leave the settings at an unachievable speed and make it crash by tripping over itself, not so with the Optimizer and not so with it’s big brother PC Matic.
So what is PC Matic? Well it’s PC Pitstop’s Optimizer plus their defrag tool, plus their driver wizard (which is a wizard in the proper sense), added to that it’s their own anti malware tool and finally their benchmarking suite to evaluate all that tweaking.
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Posted by Xander on 26 November, 2009 – 4:07 pm
Well it’s back and bad as ever. After a brief hiatus managing to muck up moving this blog to it’s new home snuggled in it’s own subdomain it is now back up and running.
I must say that I’m disappointed though. For what I was trying to do the support from the wordpress forum was pretty much non existent. I had one person respond and even he was so laconic as to make any and all advice he gave rather useless.
So… please do carry on as usual.
There should be something to see here… soon.
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Posted by Xander on 20 November, 2009 – 3:39 pm
Filed under Philosophy and thoughts on the racing of rats
Tagged as brush strokes, craftsmanship, critical acclaim, emperor clothes, female artist, istp, miniature painter, modern art, red canvas, rsquo, tirade
Modern art has been a subject of debate recently as my new friends are one artist and her rather pragmatic but model painting SO. Now you would have thought that a miniature painter would have an appreciation for art, I myself took art as a subject at college, which I later dropped or rage quit as my esteemed colleague would phrase it, but no both he and I abhor it. This of course led to an argument with his SO as she is a fan.
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Posted by Xander on 18 November, 2009 – 3:54 pm
Filed under Den of Diatribes, Painting Projects, Psychology, Tech Stuff
Tagged as coaching course, critical component, current board, finishing touch, life coaching, psychology tests, raid array, ssd, tempting fate, weathering
Why is it that whenever I try to get something “just so” I feel like I’m tempting fate?
My history is filled with times when I’ve tried to perfect something only to stuff it up royally. This is perhaps most evident with computers but I’ve known the same thing happen with models “just one more finishing touch, ah crap!”, arguments (the number of dead ends I’ve found in arguments is beyond count) even psychology tests!
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Posted by Xander on 16 November, 2009 – 4:19 pm
Okay so some things about me and potentially those of my type have come into resolution recently (resolution as in pixel count not as in decision [yeuck]).
The first response to something being difficult/ “tricky” is to slow down. Sure this is primarily so I can think about everything which is about to happen and to try and get it “right” believing that given long enough a perfect plan can be achieved. However there is another facet.
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Posted by Xander on 16 November, 2009 – 9:39 am
Okay I’ve been trying to move my blog to a new location for a fair while now. I thought after setting up a couple of subdomains that it’d look really nice if my blog had it’s own subdomain too. And now it does.
The revelation to this is that I’ve moved nothing. It’s all exactly where it always used to be.
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Posted by Xander on 12 November, 2009 – 9:42 am
So as many people know I spend some of my spare time painting miniatures. Usually I do nothing with the results more than show a couple of people, store them and allow them to get scratched. 
However this lead to me not painting much so I figured I’d return to a game I used to play when I was a kid, Warhammer 40,000.
Now being the kind of person who enjoys losing spectacularly as my own side blows itself up as I do winning by crushing my opponent into the soil, I chose to play Orks. Hence there’s no squishies (humans) or cutesy stuff (well some of the Ork stuff is cute but you have to have the mindset).
Anyhow I’m probably half way through painting the leader and his warbike. Figured I’d post it up now and try and get myself blogging about something other than philosophy and general rants…
So feel free to comment away. I’m going to post this up on my groups forum too Munchkins UK. Hopefully they will be kind….
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Posted by Xander on 2 November, 2009 – 12:02 pm
So I was watching Question Time last night and something struck me harder than it usually does. Sure you had the BNP leader there, Mr Nic Griffin, and they had the whole furore about him and his “fascist” party being represented on such an austere show but that wasn’t what struck me as both dumb and indicative of a larger problem.
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