en-us If Desi bumps into anything while holding a pen, blocks of super-literate grafitti come gushing out of his hands, man. http://www.desiquintans.com/ Copyright Desi Quintans, 2010 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.desiquintans.com/writersblock Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:33:00 +1100 Video Games People who bought Borderlands on PC from a retail store before the official release date have found that Securom has blocked installation. If you go to http://www.2kgames.com/borderlands/activation/, though, you can manually activate the game. This needs to be done before running the installer. http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=224 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=224 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=224 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:10:00 +1100 Video Games Some people, like me, are getting a bug when starting Dark Messiah: Heroes of Might and Magic. The intro video plays, but then a black screen follows it, and not the menu or anything. The problem seems to be caused by the computer trying to run the game in a resolution the game does not like to output in. I have a fix here. Right-click on the game's shortcut and select Properties. On the resulting screen there is a Target text field. Go to the end of the text inside it, add a space, and then … http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=223 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=223 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=223 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:25:00 +1000 Development Gosh, more RSS bugs fixed. It’s nice that the RSS specification is so strict, because it means that you get a more predictable product — but it’s not nice when it refuses to print anything because it doesn’t like a URL you’ve put into a post or something. http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=221 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=221 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=221 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:33:00 +1000 Normal Blog Stuff Recently I looked at my wardrobe and noticed that I was wearing maybe six pieces out of it in total — I don’t go out much, so this is not as bad as it sounds. A lot of it had been gifted to me for my birthday or Christmas over the years, and now either didn’t fit or was not my style. Being aware that I have no interest in the vast majority of my clothes made me donate most of it to Goodwill and put a new collection together. You probably should do the same, so here’s how.… http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=220 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=220 http://www.desiquintans.com/permalink.php?PostID=220