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Archive for July, 2006
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Monday, July 24th, 2006AMD's Big Announcements
Monday, July 24th, 2006A couple big announcements related to AMD today… the first is that they’ve slashed prices on most of their processor line.
That’s cool, but the bigger announcement today is that they plan to buy chipset maker ATI. This finally puts all of the rumors to rest. I’ve not yet managed to convince myself that this merger is a good idea, but then what do I know. :p
Hello Again OCC
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006Over the past several days I’ve been talking to Dave (Bosco) from OCC about the stuff I mentioned in a previous post. Dave was able to get my email address un-blacklisted from OCC’s email system as well as reactivating my account. He also tried to assure me that I wasn’t personally being targeted by the new rules at OCC, nor was my site TechRelated.com. Though I have my suspicions, I really have no reason not to trust Dave.
So, this means I’m able to post again on OCC… that is, when I’m not busy with TechRelated.com. 
My XBox 360 Doesn't Like Me
Sunday, July 16th, 2006lol… Apparently, my XBox 360 doesn’t like me.
Where is d3bruts1d at? I want to disown him. I am putting myself up on eBay ASAP.
Oh well… I guess I’ll just have to buy a new, more friendly one. 
Farewell To Those I Knew At OverclockersClub.com
Friday, July 14th, 2006Well, it would appear as though my membership at OverclockersClub.com has gone full circle. I was a member, a dedicated staff member, and now, I’ve basically become banned. Why? While no one will talk to me, I can only assume that it is directly related to my new endeavor, TechRelated.com. A site that in many ways could be direct competition for OCC.
When I stepped down from my staff position at OCC, I made it clear to a number of people that it was to start my own site. At the time, I even showed Bosco, BigRed, and a number of others the “alpha versions” of TR.
It is just something I cannot understand. I have no ill feelings toward OCC, in fact I still wanted to see OCC do well, despite my own site beginning to take off. Maybe it was a conflict of interest, but I had spent too much time and money on OCC just to walk away from it completely.
So, what do I get for my years of service and dedication? A new watch? A simple thank you? No.. none of that. Instead, they delete perfectly valid, and helpful messages that I posted for no other reason that they contained a link to TR. The block my email address (@techrelated.com) so that I cannot send or receive emails from OCC, including those needed to re-validate my account or to even submit news. They’ve even gone so far as to remove my avatar, personal homepage link, and my signature.
Tell me, would that make you feel wanted at a site?
I’ll still visit OCC from time to time, however I no longer have the ability to post messages and help people there.
Goodbye Mamaw. I Love You.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006Yes, I’m still here. Sorry it’s been a long time between posts. While I’ve been busying working on TechRelated.com that isn’t the reason for lack of post lately… nor was it because of the 4th of July holiday or even my birthday. I wish it had been because of one of those reasons.
In the very early hours of July 1st, I lost someone very dear to me, my grandmother (on my mother’s side). We never saw it coming, and I didn’t get a chance to say good bye.
It just goes to show that you never know when someone you love will be gone. Never take their time with you for granted….
February 25, 1929
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July 1, 2006
Rest in peace. We love and miss you.
e107 News Archive "Plug In" Updated
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006It’s been a while since I stopped by the e107 forums. Upon my visit today, I noticed that my news archive “plug in” was still a pretty hot item. — For those of you that don’t know, e107 is a content management system (or CMS). It also happens to be the CMS used by d3bruts1d.com –
Based on feedback from a couple of other e107 users, I’ve created a couple new “versions” of my “plug in”. Yes, I am using the term versions and plug in very loosely.
My news archive system isn’t really a plug in as most e107 users would be experienced with. Rather it is just a file that you can drop into your e107 directory and it “just works”. Nothing to install, enable, set up, configure, or anything like that. How much easier could it get? :p
Information and discussions related to my news archive “plug in” for e107 is in this thread. Information for all three versions can be found in this post.
There may be a 4th “version” coming soon.