WiFi and WinXP

I've been having a hell of a time trying to maintain a 'net connection, lately. Found a simple (probably very short term) fix at Wired. The helpful article is entitled Windows XP Bedevils Wi-Fi Users. The workaround is found on the second page, at the very bottom; here it is, copy and pasted:

• Go to Control Panel.
• Choose Administrative Tools.
• Select Services. A two-pane window comes up.
• In the right-hand pane, scroll down and click Wireless Zero Configuration.
• Click Stop the Service. A progress bar may come up briefly.
• Click Start the Service. Again, a progress bar may come up.
• Close the Services window. At this point, Fleishman said, the connection should come back.

Tags: technology wireless wifi howto, ksavo, kslog

Writely, DeviantArt

Writely, now another Google-owned service, is once again accepting new user accounts. I suggest you check it out.
This is going to be very handy for me once school recommences. No more cutting and pasting, uploading/attaching to hotmail, saving to USB device. All my written assignments will be composed and saved online.
Type, print, hooray!

DeviantArt, on the aesthetic side of things, has been updated. The new look is, gladly, no drastic change, but all the menus and graphics seem smoother and a little glossier now. DeviantArt -- Now less dreary than before!

Blogger vs. WordPress: Competition heats up

Three weeks ago, kslog was assigned a second home (really, more like a zen garden) at WordPress. The toe-dip experiment got under way when this typer desired an updated set of features (in addition to the Blogger standards), such as

• tags for entries,
  
• post categorisation,
  
• templates to choose from which didn't look as common as Blogger's,
  
• a super simple/obvious off the bat way to post RSS in a sidebar,
  
• customizable template CSS.

WordPress has much to offer kslog and was slightly ahead of the game, thanks to its early adoption of tags. Until recently, I've had to keep an extension installed in Firefox in order to easily tag my Blogger posts.
And then Blogger picked up the pace (a bit).
An announcement, dated August 14, informs readers that the service will be available in beta, with added features such as 'labels' (why not stick with the rest of the 'net and just call them tags??) and mouse (vs code) template customization. Sounds interesting; it's nice to see some advancement. Problem is, my perception of Blogger over the past while has been shifting toward juvenile, clunky, and basic. Now that owner Google seems to have the ball rolling at its blog company, maybe the dillydallying will cease and Blogger will pull itself up to date.

Question for the reader:
Which publishing service do you use for your website?

Tags: blogging, technology, WordPress, Blogger, ksavo, kslog

Commercial: XBOX 360

Here's a television spot advertising Microsoft's XBOX 360. The ad's concept is one seen relatively frequently on tv: one person performs an action, sets off a chain reaction, eventually leading to a large group of people who have spontaneously joined in and are performing a similar action. Brands such as Fido cellular and Addidas (soccer) have used the idea recently in their television spots. But where there is usually some sort of wholesome activity tinged with a joie de vivre in other ads using this concept, the XBOX commercial depicts a make believe mass gun battle. It strikes me as rotten, a depressing extension of our culture's psyche into reality. For gamers, the idea of finding themselves in the midst of a real world-fantasy world crossover might be thrilling and fun. It just seems too much, too close, and too violent.

Watch the video and see what you think. Keep an eye out for the especially creepy scene toward the end of the man who exits the building onto the street to pantomime the shooting death, using what would be a sort of pump shot gun) of a (willing participant) taxi driver.

Moore tours Canada, scratches bum

Brett Moore, of Can-Aqua fame, has uploaded a gallery of photographs taken during his recent tour of western Canada. As the artist suggests, A Thought Provoking Image.

kslog joins WordPress

a version of kslog is now being published using WordPress. The new blog's unique content will be similar to this one's, and it will include this one's RSS feed. Check it out here to see the difference in layouts and functionality.