Archive for Odds & Ends
· October 1, 2008 at 5:50 am · Odds & Ends
What was the best of the best on Mitchelaneous.com in the past month?
Plus as an extra bonus, don’t forget to pick up the Mega Man 9 villain pack of all the bosses from the latest blue bomber adventure:
Did I miss a post you liked? What else would you like to see me cover?
· August 28, 2008 at 4:36 am · Odds & Ends
Typing this as, well, I type I can tell you I am a Kubuntu user. Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to get it just the way I want it. Was I successful? Well as somebody who has used just Windows all his life, it wasn’t easy - but it is now done.
Firefox is installed, Pidgin is up and running, so I now know I can at least do my day-to-day work done on here.
What is the Most Frustrating Thing About Kubuntu?
Well for me, my cries are pretty anal. I don’t like that windows do not remember their locations when you close and reopen them. Instead they just rotate corners they launch from. I guess this will take some getting used to.
What do I like the most about Kubuntu?
The biggest positive is hard to put my finger on. I like the basic look and feel of it, even more so than I liked Ubuntu. Ubuntu just never felt right to me when using it, but Kubuntu does the trick. Guess that makes me a fan of KDE over Gnome? Hope that is right, getting the “lingo” down is another challenge for another post.
Feel like trying a new OS? So if you have looked the other way with Linux distros in the past, give Kubuntu a shot.
· August 16, 2008 at 8:50 am · Hot Web Topics, Odds & Ends
Shame on you for missing out on some great post this week? Want that link again?
Mixing POP3, Gmail and Thunderbird for E-mail Anywhere!
Watch as I explain my confusing, yet practical e-mail system I have in place.
Mitch’s Favorite Thunderbird Add-ons and Themes
Here are some of the few Thunderbird goodies worthy of being shared.
Different Quote Level Colors for Thunderbird
My absolute favorite tweak for Thunderbird usage. Helps with seeing who said what.
OneNews - Create a List of News
Looking for a way to clone popurls.com? This is the perfect WordPress powered solution.
Captain N: The Game Master
This has to be one of the greatest Saturday morning cartoons ever… at least for me.
· August 15, 2008 at 5:10 am · Odds & Ends
Recently picked up the DVD collection of Captain N: The Game Master. Now many of you probably don’t remember it, but I sure do. I was around 7 or 8 years old when it was in it’s first run and is one the the few Saturday morning cartoons I still have an itch to watch even today.
Here is a pretty good summary of the plot of the show:
The premise of the show concerns average California teen and Nintendo fan Kevin Keene and his faithful dog Lucky, who are both pulled into their game system to Videoland, an animated world populated by heroes and villains from various Nintendo games. There, Kevin must assist the N Team–a group formed by Princess Lana, Icarus (from “Kid Icarus”), Simon Belmont (from “Castlevania”) and Mega Man (from the game of the same name)–in defeating Mother Brain (from “Metroid”) and her henchmen from conquering Videoland.
Still doesn’t sound familiar? Here’s the intro (the music still gets stuck in my head to this day) to the show:
If you can put aside all the storylines that don’t exactly match up with video game history, it is still a fun show to look back on. I also stick by the same thing that I thought way back in 1989 - Mother Brain sounds like a drag queen.
· June 23, 2008 at 5:12 am · Odds & Ends
Time you learned how to defend yourself, isn’t it? The only catch this time around is you must have a walking stick with you at all times. Ok, so maybe we don’t all do that anymore but after reading this article on the issue I am looking at the idea of bringing it back into style! Here is some more on the topic:
It will be seen that the figure on the right is exposing his body in order to insure his adversary attacking him there, and to be prepared with an immediate defence.
Directly the man with the alpenstock attempts to bayonette him, he diverts the blow by turning sideways, and making a circular downward cut, which hits the alpenstock and causes it to glide slightly upwards and sideways — a guard known in sword play as "Septime envelopé." The moment the blow has been diverted, the man with the stick must seize the alpenstock with his left hand, and, stepping in, strike his assailant a blow across the face.
At least you can say you had an entertaining start to your week now.
· May 17, 2008 at 6:00 am · Odds & Ends
Due to the popularity of last weekend’s wallpaper remix, I figured I might try to make this a regular weekend task. Now we have all grown tired of the “bliss” wallpaper that was made famous with Windows XP - so here are a few similar (but better) wallpapers to decorate your desktops with.
Just click the wallpaper you want to go visit the download page for it:
Got a theme idea for next weekend’s wallpaper roundup?
