Hijinks Inc.

Author: Aaron Nelsen

  • iPod games will have to be repurchased

    The rivers are running with the tears of fanboys everywhere, as iLounge is reporting that you have to repurchase all those iPod games you’ve been kicking it with on your old iPod if you want to play them on your new iPod… even more tragically only three iPod games have been updated to work with the new line of iPods.

    Okay, so how is this different from every time I buy a new cell phone and lose my ringtones and games that I’ve purchased for that? Oh yeah, Apple and the League of Extraordinary Fanboys aren’t involved! Sure it sucks, but it’s not at all unexpected, get over it and move on in life. You can do it, I believe in you.

  • Web Hosting

    I run a couple different websites off the same server and have had a few problems here and there, but lately I’ve been having nothing but problems. Recently we were moved to a new server. In that move one of my domains stopped functioning altogether and this domain started working intermittently, then all the sudden I was getting 403 Forbidden errors every time I tried to access a page. Twelve long hours later my websites are finally all in working order (for now).

    Another website I run (which will remain unnamed) lost a good chuck of its MySQL database in the move. My host didn’t have a backup of everything (even though they were in the middle of a transfer between servers), thankfully I made a backup the day of the move.

    So I’m shopping around for a new web hosts, any one have any recommendations?

  • Where is the innovation?

    I have mad love and respect for AMD, the first computer I ever built was AMD powered, and rocked the K7. Let’s face it, I wouldn’t have been able to afford to build my own computer at age 14 if it weren’t for AMD, they undercut Intel right and left in pricing, they were the processors for the little guy. But I have to stop and ask them, what happened? Sure, your prices are still lower… but so are your clock speeds, so are your benchmark scores!

    You’re just finally getting around to releasing a quad core processor, umm… hello? Intel did that eons ago. I don’t mean to rag on you guys, but seriously, you’re letting me down. Buying ATI was a smooth move, but in the long term it only made you a slightly more annoying thorn in Intel’s side. Blogging Stocks thinks Intel is prepping to crush you like a steroid crazed football player crushes his Mt. Dew can after winning the big game. Your performance lacking and battery draining mobile chip sets still make me cry, the desktop platform looks like you’re only hope, don’t let me down.

    And then you went and dumped how much in to Transmeta? 7.5 mil? And you’re hoping to get what out of this? Bottom line, I like you AMD, but there’s a reason why I own Intel stock.

  • Out of Stock

    After spending yesterday afternoon digging spare change out of miscellaneous furniture, I went to Best Buy to buy myself a shiny new iPod touch. Yay! Only not yay… They were sold out, they’d even sold their display model… or it broke on account of people drooling on it and they took it down. Oh, the pain!

    Maybe it’s a sign that I shouldn’t buy one, what with those janky screens and some iPods shipping without OS X installed. But after finally deciding to buy one, it hurts that they were sold out. Honestly, I was surprised that they stayed in stock as long as they did, I’d been to Best Buy a few days earlier and they had quite a few in stock at that time.

    What about you? Are you planning on getting one? Are the issues the iPod touch having enough to keep you from buying it, or are you just holding out for the Zune 2?

  • McDonald’s vs. Starbucks

    I don’t really like Starbucks, so I’m going to enjoy writing this immensely.

    A recent Consumer Reports taste-test McDonald’s coffee beat out Starbucks!

    The magazine says McDonald’s Premium Roast Coffee has “no flaws,” labeling it “decent and moderately strong.” The java from Starbucks, meanwhile, was determined to be “strong, but burnt and bitter enough to make your eyes water instead of open.”

    Granted this is just talking about regular coffee, most people go to Starbucks for a Caramel Macchiato or White Mocha Frappuccino, but still that’s embarrassing. McDonald’s has also recently starting offering other drinks as well, such as lattes and cappuccinos in some locations.