http://greghowley.com/ GregHowley.com - Blog Postings en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss php written in Notepad 5.0 http://www.greghowley.com/images/category/t_category_personal.png http://greghowley.com/ 70 60 http://greghowley.com/691 You may have heard about the recent issue many people have had with Grand Theft Auto 4 crashing on their Playstation 3. The overly intricate 12-step fix offered by Take-Two involves uninstalling the game, deleting your saved games, disabling the PS3's internet connection, information board, and media server functionality, clearing the web cache, turning off the screen saver, reinstalling the game, turning off auto-save, the game's flicker filter and the controller's vibration feature, and praying like heck that this solves the problem.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/691#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/691 Fri, 09 May 2008 04:06:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/690 I recently destroyed what I believed was the sole copy of this site's primary stylesheet while making a minor change to support the Twitter sidebar that you'll now find on this site, so I should explain a bit about Twitter.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/690#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/690 Wed, 07 May 2008 02:24:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/689 Looks like my browser cache had a copy of my stylesheet, so I was able to resurrect it. You'd better believe I'll be keeping a backup from now on. I'm not a huge fan of the blueberry version myself.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/689#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/689 Tue, 06 May 2008 06:10:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/688 Well, I just went and did it. While uploading a minor css change for the addition of a Twitter sidebar, I somehow managed to entirely delete my css file. And I've got no backup. So I guess you're stuck with this new style, "Blueberry Cheese Brownie", until I can find the time to rewrite the old one, which will likely not be exactly the same as it was. Sigh.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/688#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/688 Tue, 06 May 2008 04:32:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/687 Over the past month, I've been working on many small changes to this site. Firstly, I've installed the newest version of Gallery, since the older version broke. It remains the only portion of this site that I haven't coded myself in Notepad. I may do some slight tweaking to the Gallery theme at some point, but overall I'm pretty happy with it.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/687#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/687 Mon, 05 May 2008 02:49:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/686 Okay, this is just about scraping the bottom of the barrel for movie quotes. I'm not saying that these aren't good quotes, it's just that my list is now exhausted. If I do another one of these, it may be a long way off.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/686#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/686 Fri, 02 May 2008 05:40:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/685 Game franchises have become like movie sequels, and more often than not, hearing about a game sequel gets a groan out of me. I don't need Cooking Mama 3, Postal 3, or Twisted Metal 6 any more than I needed Scary Movie 4, Mission Impossible 3, or Leprechaun 5. But even though many sequels are terrible, there are some I'd like to see.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/685#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/685 Thu, 01 May 2008 06:48:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/684 When I run out of things to write about, I still find that I haven't run out of things to be annoyed at. It's actually kind of sad - I'd actually rather run out of things to be annoyed at.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/684#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/684 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:40:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/683 Warning: if you've got no interest in reading about games, skip the first two paragraphs and jump straight to the third. Uhh... and don't count this as a paragraph.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/683#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/683 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:55:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/682 Aside from BSG, there's not too much on TV right now. If you're looking for looking for a good show, I highly recommend renting or Netflixing Dexter. Linda and I are nearly finished watching season 2, and the show is downright amazing. Yes, there are occasional bits of gore, and yes, there is nudity. And there's a hell of a lot of swearing. That's why it's on Showtime.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/682#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/682 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:20:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/681 A long time ago, I blogged about a classical pianist and singer called Elly K, who after my post actually left a comment on my site. Since then, she's changed her stage name to her real name: Elizaveta. Actually, her real name is Elizaveta Igorevna Khripounova, but I really can't pronounce or even remember that name, so I'll just keep referring to her as Elly.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/681#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/681 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:53:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/680 KKTV has pictures of the wildfires out here.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/680#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/680 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:48:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/679 Well, this sucks. A wildfire has closed the road I drive home on. Looks like my hour commute is now almost two hours. Stupid fire.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/679#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/679 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:46:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/678 Although it's a childrens' book, it's pretty popular, so you may have heard of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I hadn't heard of it until my friend Charlie gave Linda and I a copy nearly a year ago. When Rachel and Charlie visited again last month, he gave us a copy of the sequel. When you look at the acknowledgements at the back of the book, Charlie's name is first.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/678#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/678 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:03:00 -0600 http://greghowley.com/677 I was surprised today with the best video game related news I've gotten since the announcement of Fallout 3 and Starcraft 2. When WiiWare launches on May 12th it's gonna have some cool stuff, but come June we get this epic five-episode series from the same people who put together the successful Sam & Max Episodic series.GregHowley.com Bloghttp://www.greghowley.com/677#comment_formhttp://greghowley.com/677 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:30:00 -0600