Games, games, and more games

@steam_games is having their big summer sale this week, and to get ready for it, I took advantage of Gamestop's promotion (trade in your games and get an extra 30% if you use the trades towards steam cards). Since I am a Power Pro Rewards member, i got an extra 10% on top of that. So, I traded my Xbox games in for Steam cash, and I have bought twice as many pc games as I had xbox games for the cash. I purchased all the games I traded in for pc (because I love them) and quite a few more I have been looking at.

Now, I am not out of money yet, and the sale is not over. There are a few more games I want to buy but the rule of Steam sales is that unless a game is part of a daily deal or in a publisher pack, do not buy it until the last day of the sale. This rule has gotten me through a lot of Steam sales, and I haven't been burned yet.

Now, off to play Skyrim.

Raid Zero

I reinstalled windows on my Intel ICH9 Raid0, and it is much better. I did have it on only one hard drive but man, load times and windows boot times sucked. I plan on partitioning and putting linux back on, but I want to get my games loaded first because hey, I am a gamer.

Maybe I will just run VirtualBox and put some linux distros in there, which would make it way easier because let's face it, dual booting sux.

On a positive note, because I am now a student, I get Visual Studio Professional for free. I can't wait to install it and try it out.

Chrome and Fonts

So it seems that Google Chrome (and it's open source base Chromium) do not display web fonts correctly. They just use whatever they want to display. I noticed this today while redoing my blog theme.

I can use Konqueror and change the user agent to anything but Chrome and it will work just fine, but when I change it to chrome, the fonts go to default (basic Sans). It seems that it has to do with the browser being reported as chrome instead of it actually being chrome itself, because I noticed that when chrome loads the page the fonts are correct, and then they go to default before the page stops loading.

I have tried changing the fonts in chrome's settings, I have tried uninstalling the fonts and just using the webfonts on the web, and also clearing all cache and cookies. Yeah, nothing works. Looks like it is a bug in chrome. I was just starting to love chrome, and now this. This is a deal breaker.

Oh yeah, the font problem happens on Windows and Linux, so it isn't just my install.

Off to look for a decent browser because I really can't stand Firefox.

Moved.....to blogger?

I have moved my blog back to blogger. Wordpress has frustrated me ever since I started using it, so I moved back with google. I have my email here, and pretty much most of my cloud services here. It makes sense.

Speaking of the cloud, I have been using Google Music Manager. The only thing it is missing is the ability to share to another account. Not multiple accounts, just one more. You know, like husband and wife, like Amazon allows you to do (the only difference really is amazon doesn't offer email so you can use one sign in).

Other than that, I am just trying to catch up from my 17 years of working so that I don't just completely bomb my first semester of college.