Ew, Ugly.

Yeah, yeah, I know the sidebar's ugly. I can't get a selective Wikiquote gadget, so this'll do.

Hopefully.

I'd really just like a few games on there and maybe a movie or two.

"Nothin' too fancy." -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Train of Thought?

I had something here that had to do with games.

And then I lost it.

No wonder this is sort of like Twitter. "I HAD A THOT AND THEN I LOSTED IT".

Trendy.

I play video games in trends.

I'll play one for a few weeks to death, get bored, and move on.

Thing is, now I'm debating on finishing KotoR 2: The Sith Lords, which I started in late June, or play Rise of Nations.

I'm voting Rise of Nations. Time for a test on my HDD.

And it's Friday tomorrow.

Hooray.

Consistency.

I'm learning or am reinforcing the fact that I'm not great with keeping PC's alive.

That being said, my HDD is really, really loud. I'm working on the problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, but my blogs and blogging in general is just millions of people talking into brick walls.

So I'll never get a comment, never get more than a view a day by Google crawling, and never figure out how, for the life of me, to fix my own computer's hardware.

Software, I'm great, but once something sounds funky, I'm out of luck almost every time.

When will I learn?

Lead on, Freeman!

Because everyone needs a hero. Gordon Freeman does not lead, he just does. It's how it goes.

But if every one of your followers (NPC's, in game) dies within five minutes of you getting an actual squadron together, what's the point?

To get to the end of the game intact. To say that you were the lone man or woman who conquered over thousands of obstacles.

To lead on.

One.

So I've been having trouble with my HDD latey, and I downloaded this tool from the OEM, Western Digital.

It's got a "write-zeros" function, which erases the disk, turning ones into zeros and zeros into zeros. Very intriguing.

Ones, it seems, are what make a hard drive, and a computer, unique. If everything was one way or the other, it'd be using the same computer over and over.

But it's the combination of billions and trillions of ones and zeros that make hard drives unique.

And they make users unique.

A Quick Intro

Welcome to Dropped Packets, my second-ever Blog! My first Blog, I/O Nightly News, can be found here: http://io-nightly.blogspot.com/

I'm using this as a more sophisticated form of Twitter and Facebook. Whenever I'm developing a concept for an essay, playing a new game, crawling for a good tool, or just generally traversing the internet, it could end up here.

Feel free to drop me a line or follow me. I also respond to E-Mails, so if you like what I'm doing, or think I could use improvement in some aspect, tell me! I'll be glad to respond!