http://www.spearmaster.com Spearmaster's Gambling Blog and Soap Box - UNDER CONSTRUCTION Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:03:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday was one of those days which started off very badly... I had been planning to go to the office as usual because there were a lot of things that I needed to take care of.  But suddenly I was told my son was "performing" at school and my wife ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/06/26/8888-golf-balls-and-the-hind-end-of-an-elephant/ Despite what one might think, providing security at the Olympics was actually quite simple, in that very few incidents occurred - I spent most of my time walking around and checking the various posts, and figuring out how many pizzas to order that night! One of the funnier things I encountered ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/06/18/spearmaster-at-the-1984-olympics-part-2/ Hi all - been a long time since I had any updates, and been quite busy and travelling quite a bit.  Today, I thought I'd share with you the story of how I made it to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At the time, I was studying (well ok, ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/06/14/spearmaster-at-the-1984-olympics/ After my last post about missing disk space, I thought everything had been fixed... only to watch it quickly creep back up to nearly full.One solution I discovered today was to restrict the amount of space reserved for system restore - open up a DOS (command) prompt with administrator privileges ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/05/14/where-did-all-my-disk-space-go-more-stuff/ For some time now, I've noticed that my notebook always seems to be quite full - I regularly move data onto an external hard drive, uninstall programs that I don't use, and yet I always seem to have less than 5% disk space left. What was most unusual was that every ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/05/02/where-did-all-my-disk-space-go/ ... takes place every year in Thailand from April 13th-15th during the Thai New Year, more commonly known as Songkran. Though the Guinness Book of World Records obviously hasn't certified this fact, an estimated 60 million people (well, the population of Thailand, give or take a few million, plus many foreigners) ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/04/14/the-worlds-largest-water-fight/ Strange as it seems - Windows Vista was absolutely terrible when it was first released, in my case my notebook seemed 100x slower than it would've been with XP installed - the hard disk was always thrashing, while just about any software seemed to hang forever.  I lost count of ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/03/21/vista-sp1-makes-your-computer-run-normally/ Mickey.. er.. MicroSoft hasn't changed its ways one bit.  Despite providing us with Windows, and giving us Word, Excel, IE, and a ton of other stuff - it still hasn't learned to be friendly to anyone but their own geeks and nerds. I'm sure all of you have experienced the frustration ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/03/20/0x80073712-vista-sp1-upgrade-means-a-day-wasted/ After a day of messing around with some new scripts for a different project, I decided to take a look at the jackpot database to see how busy the jackpots were - and did a double-take.  Note the time of this post, however, as numbers do fluctuate according to time ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/03/17/more-interesting-jackpot-data/ ...why there haven't been any posts in the last couple of days, I've been tied up trying to gather additional information for Awesome Jackpots as well as trying to write a bunch of code for AJ as well as my hotel booking site. A couple of software platforms have yet to ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/03/16/just-in-case-you-were-wondering/