Pain and I were discussing the possibility of a new PC in the nearish future and it seems the talk of dual-cores and PCI-Express videocards made my aging P4 box jealous.

It gave me a big fat fuck off, BSOD-style. It took me awhile to figure out what the problem was, but when my PC is giving the 'ole blue screen of death not only in safe mode but during an attempt to reinstall Windows, well the reason is obvious: it hates me.

The upgrade path feels a bit forced, which steals some of the sweetness out of the deal, but it's hard to stay frustrated with a bright shiny new PC under your desk. I'll be doing the install-reboot-install-some-more dance for the next day or so.

For the curious, the specs on the new machine:

• 3GHz Core 2 Duo (E8400).
• Nvidia 8800 GT.
• Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer.
• ASUS P5K SE Motherboard.
• 320gig SATA harddrive.
• 2gigs of RAM (for XP, I won't bother with Vista, probably just leapfrog to Windows 7).

Seems pretty zippy so far.

I'm currently working on converting this blog + a whole bunch of other sites to Drupal. I'm also restructuring my entire server and database setup. So far, it's a bigger task than I had imagined. You can read about my efforts if you wish on my work-in-progress blog: News @ Gameslate.

In the meantime I've been posting less here, not so much because I'm so busy, but when I've got something new on the horizon the incentive is low to add to the pile. It's mostly just an in-my-head thing, because logically I know that a couple more articles in a database of ~1000 isn't going to make much difference in the conversion process, but still it doesn't feel as productive.

I'm looking forward to this blog thriving in my new working environment. I have a few world domination plans here and there. ;)