The Ramblings of Ken

Some of you are going to think that I am totally clueless and that I must live on some other planet. I've never played Dance Dance Revolution until last night. I went out and bought it so that I could have the dance pad that comes with it. I recently purchased Karaoke Revolution Party, which supports the dance pad. That's why I bought the game at all.

I hated it at first, but after keeping at it a little until I was able to do some more difficult songs, it turned into great fun! My favorite song to dance to so far is "I Just Wanna Live" by Good Charlotte. I am going to have to practice a lot, though, to get really good at it. Anybody want to have a DDR party???



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If you search for "Ken's Ramblings" my site comes up as the very last hit. Here is a better search... I come up as the only result...

Google Search for my site

I finally found a fix to this annoying problem!!! Windows has had a bug in it where the tool tips in the system tray on the taskbar would hide behind the taskbar, like this:




I would get so annoyed by it! I like to put my mouse over the clock and have the date pop up as a tool tip. I also like to be able to put my mouse over any icon in the system tray and see what program it is running there.

This is the fix... The registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\UserPreferencesMask needs to be changed from hex:9e,3e,07,80 to hex:90,32,07,80.

Now my tool tips all come up like they should!

"In the end, it seems the only real winner after a hybrid purchase is the environment."

An in depth analysis of the cost savings (or loss) from purchasing a hybrid vehicle can be found here: Is Hybrid Worth It?

So far it just isn't worth it at all to purchase a hybrid vehicle. The cost savings associated with fuel just does not come out to be what one would expect. The cost of monthly payments on the vehicle outweighs any fuel cost savings. Hybrid just is not worth it at all yet.

I decided to put my parent's $350 digital camcorder to use and I implemented a webcam feature for my site. It just sits around and never gets put to use, so I will give it some usage! I don't know if it will stay up forever, but it is online for now. If you click on the picture it will take you to a full-featured webcam page.

Mom: When you read this let me know if this is going to be a problem... :)

Check out the cool new statistics page! Just click on the link on the right that says stats. I have a new graphical traffic monitoring system that runs 24/7. Now I can see at what time everyone is visiting and/or using up my bandwidth.