• 8Apr 08

  Being Saxophonic

  These days I feel so saxophonic.
  I've just got my Maxtone alto saxophone about 2 weeks ago and now I'm studying how to play it. I can't afford a Yamaha; it costs about US$900 and they say it's for the intermediate-advanced players. Well for starters, I think my Maxtone will do.
  I recently am so addicted with smooth jazz, especially those which features saxophones as their main instrument. I favor Dave Koz, Kenny G, and Eric Darius as my want-to-be-like saxophonists. I've already got 3 DK albums and a Kenny G 2 CD pack "The Essentials" album at home, unfortunately I am still unable to find any Eric Darius album. I have ever watched him in a live concert with Jeff Lorber, hell he is so cool and I really want to have one of his smoothest album.
  And by the way, anybody can tell me a site where I can find musical notes/tabs/sheets of the musicians I mentioned above for free? I especially esteem the following tones:
  Can't Let You Go (The Sha La Song) (DK)
  Together Again (DK)
  Love is On The Way (DK)
  Definition of Beautiful (DK)
  Theme from Schindler's List (DK)
  Midnight Motion (Kenny G)
  Oh yeah, and I'm currently practicing The Fragrance of Dark Coffee (you know, Godot's theme) at home. Luckily, I've managed to find its sheets.

  • Posted Apr 8, 2008 5:31 am PT
  • Category: Music
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• 14Feb 08

  Overheating

  Several times ago I moved to a new place. Here my room is smaller than the one in my old place, so I have to put my PC in the 2nd floor living room. And I thought that made a significant difference.
  Previously my PC is inside the room, which is equipped with an AC. Therefore, I can affect my PC's temperature by manipulating the AC. But now, with it's moved to the living room, which there is no AC there, I feel that my PC overheats fast. My city is a well-hot one, you know.
  Once I ever played Just Cause ,Company of Heroes, and followed by Stranglehold (graphics setting: the most max) for about 5 hours nonstop and nothing happened. But now I played Call of Duty 4 and World in Conflict (graphics setting: medium) and for both games it sends the overheat warning just in the first 20 minutes. Do you have any suggestions for how to cool my PC down? Maybe buying some extra fans? Or special game cooler?
  Oh yeah, my VGA is Radeon X1900XT (it's an old model yeah but I have faith on it, it's still trustworthy after all) and I got 2 fans in the CPU.
  • Posted Feb 14, 2008 11:59 pm PT
  • Category: Computers
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• 30Jan 08

  Armageddon--No Cheats This Time!!! The Infection Continues

  In my earlier blogs I've stated that I've overran U.K. with the assistance of U.S. Forces which I turned into an Axis nation using cheat.

  This time, there is no such a cheat!! No U.S. intervention, and in early-mid 1941 I've made the careless Hitler not to invade U.S.S.R. So Germany and Soviet Union kept it cool. With U.S. too, we have a relation of +120. Japan kept herself busy with the Nationalist China and the so-called Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis hadn't been signed yet.

  The result is the following:

  

  What's more, suddenly Iraqi Revolutionaries rebel to their British puppeteers, which in turn brought out another new front: The Middle Eastern Front. Syria and Iraq are now officially part of the Axis.

  In the next two years from this point, I aim to launch Operation Freiheitauslöschen. Maybe I'll post another blog later.

  Oh yeah, the game difficulty and A.I. aggressiveness are both at normal level.

  • Posted Jan 30, 2008 8:22 am PT
  • Category: Games
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