it's still alive thank Dina

Dina saved me for the first time. I decided I would overclock my router.

The first few increments worked fine. The one following the few managed to make my router useless - it was dead.

I was unable to get any response from the machine so my attempts at a TFTP installation of a new firmware would have been unsucessful.

Following instructions to short pins 15 and 16 on the firmware chip failed. Damn those things are small!

I finally managed to get ping responses when I shorted the antenna wire to pin 16 on the firmware controller chip. This was a bitch! I transfered the firmware with the trivial ftp protocol, it rebooted, and I was greeted with my new welcome screen.

I will think twice before doing 2 second silly things that require two hour fixings.

cool beans

I proved once again that the slow cooker is an invention of great importance.

What was I to eat? Noodles? P&J Sandwich? Nope, beans, HOT beans!

What utilities were available to me, you might be asking? Well, I had ketchup (of course), salt, some hot sauce, pepper, and uncooked beans. What else did I have - a slow cooker. What I did not have, which I thought were necessary (but was not): brown sugar, bacon, and tomato sauce.

After about four hours of slow cooking on its highest setting, the meal came to a finish. My reaction was one of suprise. It really was good. Not fantastic, because of the missing ingredients, but once again I found a solution to a poor man's problem.

Now this afternoon I have some cool beans to heat up. I can't wait!

My Top Somewhat Inclusive Music List

My musical interests while younger were mostly influenced by associations with friends and there musical tastes. As I grew older, my aged influences paved the way to self liberation, in a sense - rather I grew up, and through the help of friends, society, but mostly myself, I discovered new styles of music and new genres that are now part of my personal style and which flow through my persona - now part of my personality.

Your identity when younger influences your musical preference, not the other way around. No one can have an element of life totally define your personality, nor can a personality totally pave the way of static or dynamic preferences in life. However, influences, social structures, and human interests, all aspects of life, allows senses such as rhyme and beat to merge with our existing understanding. This is what forms human life.

Music has moved me through time. There have been some undertones and high notes of this travel. The whole sense and understanding of our movement through life experiences allows our brains and souls to negotiate connections to beat, rhyme, soul, and acceptance in its whole.

I recently discovered an outlet, last.fm, that allows me to explore self expression without barriers such as peer classification of good or bad, or social exceptions or perversions of class.

For personal interest alone, and the curios reaction from those whom read this, this post will provide a bland categorization (non exclusionary by self protruding selfish indulgence) taste of what I enjoy listening too.

Overall Artists Top 10

Overall Weekly Artists

Overall Weekly Tracks

slow cookers, the blue-ray technology of culinary arts

The slow cooker - the most usefull culinary invention that I have used.

Really, there isn't anything you can't make with it. I got one as a gift a couple years ago for christmas. I started out with pot roasts, and pork roasts, which always turned out amazing, but very simple to make and not very challenging.

So lately I have been experimenting a little bit. A few days ago I made a stew: potatoes, onions, garlic, rice, and a big fat stew bone. It was a killer meal and fun to prepare.

Then just a couple days ago I was contemplating lunch. Although I will cherish P&J sandwiches to the end, I was looking for something different. This was a hard project, since I didn't have a lot of food in my house. I did have potatoes, garlic cloves, corn, kindey beans, and rice, AND a small packet of beef mix from some sort of mystery boxed stroganoff kit. So I threw all that in, let it cook for a few hours, and wala! I was amazed, since I didn't think there would be a lot of flavor with such a small packet of seasoning. I was surely wrong.

Now here I am going at it again. Cuberts are pretty bare for nurishment except for clam chowder soup mix (which makes a half a gallon), and some encredibly unique rice that is organic and aged for 10 years. That is what is in the pot now. I just hope I used the right balance of water and rice. I think I did, but we will see.

Just to edit: The rice is aged for one year. I can't imagine what weird and creepy things may happen if I were to eat 10 year old rice.

Byte Size Guardian, Dina - Thanks Gizmodo