FoxBoom!

So I grabbed a second hand Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard off Spirit to build into a little media server for the PCs and Xbox-es around the house.

One the first day, I plugged DVI out into my TV’s HDMI, and nothing happened. Turns out my TV couldn’t sync down low enough. Poop.

On the second and third days, right after the POST, we were getting “Keyboard is locked out — unlock the key.”

Well, I checked for shorts, I reset the CMOS, I pulled the battery out. And just now, I figured it out. The keyboard wake-up jumper (KBPWR1) was missing. I plugged it back into the default (pins 1 + 2), and it’s done!

With thanks to page 2-15 of the A7N8X manual.

I think “unlock the key” is gonna be my new motivational slogan.

Oh, goddamnit.

At the moment, I read Spirit’s calendar through BusySync, and he reads mine through iCal publishing to ical.me.com… and goddamnit again, I just realised he’ll only see my calendar changes if I launch iCal and let it sync.

This is all just one massive problem.

I was hoping to convince Spirit to sign up for MobileMe. With MobileMe being “Exchange for the rest of us”, I’d assumed calendar sharing would be built right in…

It isn’t.

And I’m all like, OMFG, no push calendar subscriptions?

So I just left some more feedback.

SpiritRaptor has posted the RBW 2007 teaser trailer:

That was the first bit of work I’ve done for Saurian Studios (I edited 0:56 to 2:10), and I’ll be working for Saurian Studios on RBW’s media team later this year. Wave if you see me!

Plan for today:

1. Go find Becky at the train station.
2. Convince Spirit to go out for coffee.
3. Buy a delivery label slip so I can SEND MY FUCKING XBOX BACK AND GET IT REPAIRED OH GOD MY LIFE IS EMPTY WITHOUT GUITAR HERO.

“I need to get some rice in.”

“Ricin?!

“…no, rice in.”

“Wow, your comic is so emo, it breaks the fourth wall!”