Seems like Grand Theft Auto IV is out today. I played the earlier ones for just a couple of minute or two… as Jevon would get mad for disturbing his play time lol

Anyways, I might check it out and give it a try. It’s just interesting to see what creative people put into their work—it’s a nice source of creative juice other than watching movies/commercials, reading a book/magazine, or checking out photography work.

PS. Check out this cool time-lapse video of the Official Box Art Unveiling.

We’ve all been asking/telling ourselves: “damn, I can use some extra cash right about now.” Well, your prayers and requests have been answered as the Government will soon be sending some dough your way:

A. The Treasury Department will make payments starting in early May. Early filers, especially those who choose direct deposit, will get their payments first.

If the IRS finishes processing your return by April 15, you will most likely get your payment based on this schedule. If you choose direct deposit, this means your payment will arrive on May 2, May 9 or May 16. If you do not choose direct deposit, checks will be mailed between mid-May and mid-July. For this initial batch of stimulus payments, the payment date will be based on the last two digits of your Social Security Number. [Updated 3/19/08]

But be smart about with what you do with it—or, just save it. To give you some more info on what this whole ordeal is about, you may check out the following:

• Economic Stimulus Package Explained by KCRA TV (Youtube)

• Economic Stimulus by NYTimes.com

• Truck Driver/Janitor Interview by Donnell Rawlings on Dave Chappelle Show (Season 1, Episode 04 - Reparations)

For those that have a laptop and a work-station or desktop PC/Mac, we are often faced with the question of how to fit and work on both on our tiny little desks (but that’s probably just me). Anyways, if you haven’t heard of Synergy:

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

… it’s a dang useful tool. I have recently tried this on my MacBook Pro (as the client) to work along my work Mac 24” and my new rig at home (as the server).

If you are on an OS X system, you won’t need to install the original Synergy package, but might want to consider stepping in to the GUI version of it called, SyneryKM:

SynergyKM is a GUI wrapper around the synergy command line tool that lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware.

Here are the steps I would take; at least making your main Mac the server, and your MacBook+ the client:

1. Download and install SyneryKM to both machines. The install should put Synergy in your “System Preferences”.

2. Clicking on it to open it up, select the appropriate behavior:

   1. To make the machine the server, click on the option with “Share my keyboard and mouse.”

   2. To make the machine a client, click on the option with “Connect to a shared keyboard and mouse”.

   It should be intuitive enough.

3. Now the next step is to setup the display configuration on “the server” machine. Click on the “Server Configuration” tab. You would then Add each of the machine; you may either use their computer name(s)

4. In “the client” machine(s), you are instead clicking on the “Client Configuration” tab. Enter either the Server IP or hostname of “the server” machine.

5. Last but not least, you just need “Turn Synergy On” and that should do it.

Note: if you have upgraded to at least Leopard v10.5.2, you will need to make sure than “Enable Bonjour” option is turned off. There seems to be a problem that causes SynergyKM to not work correctly with it enabled in this version of Leopard.

Anyways, I’ll see if I can write up the steps to getting your PC/Windows machine working when I get a chance later. For now, soak in the glory of using just a keyboard and a mouse to control your machines.

Wow, didn’t know those spammers got the Hallmark spirit in them.

from Sheila Joseph
date Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM
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Glow in the Dark Tour by stechico.

kanyeuniversecity.com

Kanye West, co-starring: Rihanna, N.E.R.D, and Lupe Fiasco

Awesome show. I went to the San Jose HP Pavilion one this past Saturday, 4/19th. Too bad I missed most of Lupe’s. Oh well, I guess I just have to roll and see him in a smaller venue.

Anyways, this is a dope show/concert to go to—well worth the money and time. I scored an awesome 4-star VIP tix and sat Front-2, Row-10, Seat-14 right dead-smack center and aisle.

Everyone was on point w/ their performances… and didn’t say the wrong city =) (I read that Kanye said "Seattle" up in the Sacramento Arco Arena show 4/18th)—no love for the Kings haha