Been a damn long time since I updated so I thought I would do it now, not sure where to start though really, perhaps at the last post.

I was playing with the Word 2007 which now has a feature to post blogs straight from Word itself, a very cool feature if you are into such things. Not exactly the blogging type really as I always have OSNN to express my opinions, that and I tend to rant on far too long which seems to go against the blogging way. But I am sure some people will find it a great feature.

Has been so hot here for the past couple of days and I have been finding it so hard to concentrate in any kind of way after about 3pm, which is strange as that used to be the time my brain would used to finally kick in. Perhaps I need to start increasing my dosage of Red Bull as I am currently down to about one can every four hours, my teeth hurt.

The last post I haven't deleted (har) talked briefly about Wireless keyboards, I was waiting for Logitech...

The batteries on my wireless keyboard are runniiiiii out,m ithjvetgo toe hopt getore, that just damn well sucks.mmses te orking ow? ope Iguessnot.

The World of Warcraft guild I am in is getting quite a reputation on our server, so obviously as far as promotion goes (why does this game keep bursting out into the real world!), I felt it was important that the Guild had a good looking website.

Sadly the current one is a very basic phpbb theme with a similarly and integrated portal.php that lets you select one (or more) forum category that will act as the news for the frontpage - pretty basic stuff.

I have been working on a design that could continue to use the phpbb templates to some extent (hopefully just for variables such as post counts, online members and indeed the posts themselves) and then the news posters (sounds a bit like a news site so lets call them Heralds to keep in with the whole fantasy theme) could then simply post some HTML in and voila... a post appears, it is a little more complicated as I really want new images up every week, but thats about it, we even have a modified spoiler script...

So I found a little time last night to do what I was dreading to do, take my old motherboard out and replace it with a new motherboard. I made this easy for myself by effectively making it an upgrade. 3400+ --> 3700+ stunning eh?

Obviously taking a motherboard out is not the most fun you can have on a Sunday evening, especially when the graphics card is attached to the nortbridge with a cooler, so I had to remove the cooler from the motherboard first while keeping the graphics card out while remember that both of those were attached to the hard drive and liquid cooling unit, respectively.

I managed to do it though with a little help. I then had to remount the Nortbridge cooler while the motherboard was still unattached while taking care of a loose 6800 Ultra that was left flapping around. All went well though and after carefully putting everything back into place... would it boot?

No.

****, what did I expect? I bought the motherboard...

Well I was going to post something, but it seems my time these days is so short? What is happening? I will get the photos posted that I took at CES2006 soon I hope, but I doubt I will write a report as there has been enough. But maybe a few words...

The event was pretty damn big and there was plenty to see, I know alot of Microsoft guys were excited about going but I spoke to Bryant from Coolermaster and he said it was just like any other day in the office, ah well. Spoke to him about getting more affiliated with www.osnn.net as well which is great - I have spent quite alot on their gear after all.

Was good to see my Zen won best of show, it is a damn nice device after all, although I didn't quite have enough to watch movies all the way back. Damn thing is a scratch magnet though so I am going to have to take good care of it.

Obviously as it was Microsoft that flew me out there, I learnt alot about Microsoft product, some stuff I can talk about...