One of these days my blog here is just gonna up and leave it's key on the kitchen counter with a goodbye note. I suppose I owe an explanation. Lately, my time has been spent with another, younger, more attractive site. My latest venture is another site for myself, to promote my business: Justin Hayes Consulting. Yes, I guess that means I'm sorta cheating on this site, but I am all for polygamy :) I still love them both.

Anyway, in other news... traffic here is up, big time. Welcome visitors, take a look around, and enjoy your stay :) Seems many people are interested in how I got Ubuntu working on my laptop. Google, and several other search engines I'd guess have gotten wind of that, and now many searches are directing to it. I'll have to thank FeedBurner for the detailed stats :)

Got to be one of Tools best songs (and that says a lot because they have many great ones.)

My favourite part of all has to be this one, about 8:40 into it (its an 11 minute song OMG!)

Overwhelmed as one would be
Placed in my position
Such a heavy burden now to be the one
Born to bear and read you all
The details of our ending
To write it down for all the world to see
But I forgot my pen
Shit the bed again
Typical

Right-click and save as to hear this part of the song

Anyway, I just felt like putting that out there. I just love this song. It's so deep. Here's the full song (Pray no one sues... *knock on wood*) and the lyrics after the jump.

Just thought I'd plug my friend Dan's first stop-motion animation. So watch some G.I. Joes duke it out, it's hilarious :)

This is just a quickie:
I've renewed my domain for 2 more years, so it's not going to expire until January 2009 :D If I'm still around by then *knock on wood* I'll probably do another 3 year registration.

EDIT: Just realized, this is my first post of the New Year! Happy New Years everyone that reads my blog! (all two of you.)

Let me preface this by saying this notebook is perfect, at least that's what it seemed like before I got it. I'm not saying it's not great, it is, but it did have a few issues with Linux, but the good news is, they were easily fixed. Overall, I'd still recommend this laptop, even with the extra effort needed to make it work. That aside, here is how to get Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft installed and working on an Asus F3Jm (most likely will work on any other F3 series notebook as well.)

Ok... uh... I GOT THE LAPTOP! Alright, guess that's one way to just get that out of the way :) This thing just rocks... I re-installed Windows (default install was crap), and then proceeded to install Ubuntu Linux 6.10 Edgy Eft (LP isn't going to be happy...) on it. I've spent most of the morning and all afternoon so far configuring it. Still need to do a bunch of work on Windows, including installing games.

Carrying on... I also got Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter :) (oh what a surprise, harr! :P), a $20 gift certificate for a local mall, $90 cash from various relatives, some clothes, assorted chocolates, and.. oh, get this... 4 Bacardi Breezers (rum coolers), and a 1 litre bottle of Vex (vodka cooler :D). From my parents. Overall, a good haul, but I would have been happy with just the laptop ;)

Time sure flies huh? I for one am looking forward to Christmas for the most part (especially getting that laptop :D), but I'm also a little disappointed because I am not spending it where I really want to be, or with the people that matter most to me (you know who you are). Oh well, maybe next year...

Anyway, I've got a metric ton of e-cards to send.. ah screw it, no I don't. Just a few people, but by golly they're going to get their cards!

Oooh! I should make a Christmas theme for the site :P

Just thought I'd put together a little Christmas list I can direct my family and friends to, and perhaps even generous strangers out there :) (Ya.. right, like anyone else reads my blog...)

...where you kick yourself for not doing something at an advantageous time, that could have brought your fame, or fortune, or both, or something else valuable to you?

I'm having one right now, realizing that I could have bought two PS3s and sold them on Ebay and make thousands of dollars profit, even considering the $1300 initial investment.

Ya, I'm a dumbass idiot (let's not be too harsh now...)

Let's assume I could have sold each for $5000, that's $10000 minus the $1300 spent gives me $8700 to spend on the laptop I've been after for a while (the reason I have $1300 on hand) - $1700. A 24" 30" LCD - about $2000. And to power that behemoth, a GeForce 8800 GTX, which is $850 or there abouts. That still leaves me $4150, so why not throw in about $2000 for a new Core 2 Duo computer, and even that's fairly modest, I could go higher...

Point I'm trying to make here is, I had an opportunity to buy all the things I want right now, and STILL have change to maybe buy a PS3 for keepers. And I hate myself for not exploiting it.

* None of these measurements should be considered totally accurate on account of my being too lazy to calculate taxes into them or even look up actual prices.

Yesterday, with deep regret, I finally put an end to the hobby forum I ran for Warhammer 40,000 for two and a half years; The Smoking Bolter. The final closing thread is here.

I hadn't mentioned more specifically why I had to close the forum besides it's recent stagnation. Truth is, I haven't got the time to properly run a large forum anymore, and I didn't think it fair to the members and staff that supported it for me to do a half-assed job at it. I have an education, and a future career to worry about, and it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for my hobbies. It is a sad thing to do, but unfortunately, I had to do it.

RIP The Smoking Bolter.