Can you believe, I never had to install a foreign language pack on a computer before today?  A lot of my co-workers had no idea either.  One little google search, and I found the following:

This page outlines the steps for installing East Asian languages on a computer running Windows XP so that the user can both read and write in them. For Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Vista, please see the page on how to enable East Asian languages on Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Vista respectively, since the steps are somewhat different. Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 users have to download Asian language support and input editor files from Microsoft’s Web site.

1. First open the Control Panel dialog box by clicking on the Start button, and then click on Control Panel. By default the Control Panel is in the new Category View. If that is the case, click on Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options under Pick a Category. If not, you can either click on Switch to Category View to bring it up, or work in the Classic View (in that case just double click on the Regional and Language Options icon to open the Regional and Language Options dialog box; go on to section (3)).
2. The Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options opens. Click on Regional and Language Options under or Pick a Panel Control icon.
3. You get the Regional and Language Options dialog box. Click on the Languages tab.
4. You are now under the Languages tab for the Regional and Language Options dialog box.Check the box for Install East Asian Languages under Supplemental language support. Then click Apply and OK.
5. Once the language files have been installed, click on the Details … button under Text services and input languages while you are still under the Languages tab for the Regional and Language Options dialog box. You get the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box.Then click on the Add.. button under Installed services.
6. The next 3 sections explain how to install Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 for simplified Chinese. (A number of other input methods for Chinese are available.) For installing Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a for traditional Chinese, skip to section (11). For installing Japanese MS-IME Standard 2002 (which allows the writing of kana and kanji by romaji input), skip to section (14). I have not provided an example for installing Korean language input, but the steps should be similar to those for installing Japanese and Chinese.
7. After you have clicked the Add .. button under Installed services in the Input Locales tab while you are in the Text services and input languages dialog box as outlined in section (5), you get the Add Input Language dialogue box. Choose Chinese (PRC) from the drop-down list under Input Language, check the Keyboard Layout / IME button, and then pick Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0. Then click OK.
8. You are now back to the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. Note that under Chinese (PRC) /Keyboard, Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 is now listed. Click Apply and then OK.
9. After you have installed Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0, you may want to fine tune its properties. To do this, first select Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 under Installed services in the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box by clicking on and highlighting it. Then click on Properties to bring up the Properties dialog box for Microsoft Pinyin 3.0.Experienced users will want to pick and choose their options. For new users, it is strongly recommended that the default options be left in place.
10. Microsoft Pinyin 3.0 allows toggling between traditional and simplified Chinese input, and so if you want to be able to write both traditional and simplified characters and you are comfortable with Pinyin romanization, you may not need to install a traditional Chinese input option additionally. (Skip this section if you don’t want or need to enable toggling between simplified and traditional characters.)After you finished installing Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0, you should see a floating language bar near the top of the screen.If instead of the floating language bar, you see a language button on the taskbar on the bottom of the screen, click on the button to bring up a list of languages installed, and then click on Show the Language bar to bring it up.

    Once the language bar is up, click on it to bring up a list of languages installed, and select Simplified Chinese (PRC)by clicking on it. The Chinese lanuage bar comes up.

    

    By default the toggle button for switching between simplified and traditional does not appear on the language bar for Simplified Chinese in Windows XP (unlike the menu bar for MS-Pinyin98 under Windows 2000 Professional). To enable it, click on the select button (the bottom part of at the right side of the language bar) for additional user selectable settings.

    

    Move the mouse to the option Charset to highlight it, and then click to select it. Now the option menu contains a button for toggling between simplified and traditional characters.

11. This and the following 3 sections explain how to install Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a for traditional Chinese. After you have clicked on the Add .. button under Installed services in the Input Locales tab while you are in the Text services and input languages dialog box as outlined in section (5), you get the Add Input Language dialogue box. Choose Chinese (Taiwan) from the drop-down list under Input Language, check the Keyboard Layout / IME button, and then pick Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a. Then click OK.
12. You are now back to the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. Note that under Chinese (Taiwan) /Keyboard, Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a is now listed. Click Apply and then OK.
13. After you have installed Chinese (Taiwan) /Keyboard, Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a, you may want to fine tune its properties. To do this, first select Chinese (Taiwan) /Keyboard, Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a under Installed services in the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box by clicking on and highlighting it. Then click on Properties to bring up the Properties dialog box for Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a.Experienced users will want to pick and choose their options. For new users, it is strongly recommended that the default options be left in place.
14. In my case because I am familiar with Pinyin romanization but not with other Chinese language input methods, I clicked the radio button for Legacy IME under the Settings tab of the Properties dialog box for Microsoft New Phonetic IME 2002a, and the HanYu Pinyin radio button under the Keyboard Mapping tab.
15. This and the following 2 sections explain how to install Japanese MS-IME Standard 2002. After you have clicked the Add .. button under Installed services in the Input Locales tab while you are in the Text services and input languages dialog box as outlined in section (5), you get the Add Input Language dialogue box. Choose Japanese from the drop-down list under Input Language, check the Keyboard Layout / IME button, and then pick Microsoft IME Standard 2002 ver 8.1. Then click OK.
16. You are now back to the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box. Note that under Japanese /Keyboard, Microsoft IME Standard 2002 ver 8.1 is now listed. Click Apply and then OK.
17. After you have installed Microsoft IME Standard 2002 ver 8.1 for Japanese, you may want to fine tune its properties. To do this, first select Microsoft IME Standard 2002 ver 8.1 under Installed services in the Text Services and Input Languages dialog box by clicking on and highlighting it. Then click on Properties to bring up the Properties dialog box for Microsoft IME Standard 2002.Experienced users will want to pick and choose their options. For new users, it is strongly recommended that the default options be left in place.There appears to be a bug in the English Windows version of Microsoft IME Standard 2002. Even though Hiragana is selected as the Default input mode, the IME always starts in Direct input mode. You have to manually change to Hiragana mode.
18. Voilà! You are now ready to both read and write Chinese and/or Japanese in your documents. You will see near the upper right hand corner of the Windows desktop the Language bar button , which allows users to change the input language in an application by left clicking on it to bring up the language choices available and then selecting and clicking the desired language. Note that within the same document you can change the input language by using the Language bar. You can produce a document with a mixture of different languages.
19. New users may want to take a look at the pages for writing Chinese and Japanese to get started quickly with working with Chinese and/or Japanese in their documents. Please see also the overview on reading and writing e-mail in Chinese and Japanese.

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Whatever you do, don’t take a good look at Hillary Clinton.  Don’t look at her.  Please.

Hillary wants you to stop paying attention to her because she just messed up really bad.  CBS News has  video of Hillary’s trip to Bosnia which directly contradicts her recent report of it.  This is the kind of blunder she’s staying in the race hoping Obama will make.  She very animatedly set the record straight on video describing running off the runway under sniper fire with her head ducked.  “We just ran with our heads down,” she said.  She’s been caught in a bold-faced lie delivering prepared remarks.
Now, Hillary has responded to her mistake with this interview in Pittsburgh.  She is increasing her intensity of attacks against Obama’s pastor.  She is claiming that she misspoke because she was sleep deprived.  She’s trying to make you look at Obama.

The thing that really bothers me is this blog, which was posted on Hillary’s website yesterday, and featured on her homepage.  The first thing it says is that Barack Obama and his advisers have conducted a divisive “full assault” on Hillary’s character, asking “Why would he seek to attack and divide?” and “How can he unify Americans in a general election?”

Indeed.  Who is the one resorting to attacks in response to ones own mistakes?  What happens when Hillary makes a mistake like this while negotiating internationally?  Will she respond by attacking Iran to distract us?

I was looking forward to a Clinton-Obama ticket when both announced their candidacies.  I liked what I heard when Obama talked, and then Hillary started attacking him.  She broke her promises to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada when she lobbied to have the delegates from Florida and Michigan seated.  She is trying to change every rule she can, pull every favor, in order to win.

After seeing this, I have become disgusted with both Clintons.  I do not want either of them in my White House anymore.

So, I think that my company is trying to screw me out of my work from home days, and it hasn’t even been a week yet.  My wife is quite annoying, since she doesn’t help at all.  I tell her something, and she automatically claims they are screwing me over.  The reasoning today is, there is a training class and the instructor called out sick yesterday.  I gladly stepped in, since well, I love to teach.  I ran through the class, and asked if tim was going to call out tomorrow.  They said they didn’t know and would get back to me.  At 9 PM, they sent me an email asking me to come into the city.  I agreed and all was well.  I had to deal with the wife and her rantings, but I see no problem with doing this.  They even were going to give me a 1/2 day off.  Fair right?

Well, I get an email at 6 AM saying that they don’t need me to come into the city and that Tim is coming in.  That totally annoys me because, well, I have already done the following…

4:20 AM – woke up

4:25 AM – take shower

4:40 AM – leave for the train station

5:47 AM – board the train

6:03 AM – receive email saying that you don’t need to come in.

I AM ALREADY COMING IN YOUR FUCKING ASSHOLES!  I am willing to bet I won’t get my 1/2 a day either!  Shit!  Now, I feel that I am being screwed!  I had no problem coming in, but I told them that once I come in, you cannot cancel last minute, since I won’t get the email in time.  Once the ball is in motion, you cannot stop it!  Oh well, I’ll just ask for friday to work from home instead. 

So this completely baffles me.  I am minding my own business, passed out on the train.  No suprise there.  I wake up at 4:20 AM and get on a 5:40 AM train.  Of course I am going to be tired.  Anyways, I am peacefully sleeping when I hear the following…

Excuse me…

Excuse me….

EXCUSE ME…

Now, I wake up and figured it was the conductor, you know, who else would want to wake me up?  Nope.  It was some random women looking to sit across from me.  Now, as I gaze around, I see a million open seats that are completely not occupied.  There was even one just like my configuration one row up from me!  That’s right, but she wanted to sit across from me.  I am baffled!

She then pulled out a newspaper, which I hate it when people read newspapers on the train.  They are loud and annoying.  All you hear is flip flip crumble crumble over and over again.  One day I am going to rip someone’s newspaper out of their hand and tell em to shove it!  It is ruining my beauty sleep!

If the paper was not bad enough, she then started glaring at the seat next to me and then at myself.  She did this about 20 times and then said, and I quote!

“Generally people sit at the ends of the seat and then everyone has more room”

Of course, I had to respond but I was still very much groggy.  I really should of told her that she can move to another seating location, (which was still open when she made this comment) and leave me alone.  Instead, I said the following…

“I am aware of the seating configuration”

What I personally like to do, is sit in the middle of a three seater because I find it to be the most comfortable when sleeping.  When the train gets a little bit more crowded, I will move over to the left or the right to provide more seating.  I don’t see why I cannot get 20 minutes of sleep with comfort beforehand.  It is not like the 5:47 train to NYC gets all that crowded.  When I took a later train, I wouldn’t even dare do such a move.  This train, I don’t see what the fuss is!

Oh well, another day, another problem!

Well, this is starting out to be rather fun!  Day 2 and I am already locked out of the office.  The elevator is shut off and I do not have a key to turn it back on.  I also do not have a deadbolt key, so if I managed to bypass the elevator, I would never make it past the deadbolt.  The worst part?  My laptop power is almost out!  I only have 9% battery left, which equates to windows time of 16 minutes.  Reality, 5 minutes of power.

Well someone just came, time to do some work!

Well, I will be honest that the first thing I dislike about the new job is waking up at 4:30 AM!  First off, when I go to bed, my wife likes to talk!  Last night, she talked for 40 minutes.  40 bloody minutes!  I tried hard and long to get her to shut up, but she just kept on going.  Secondly, I had a hard time falling asleep after this.  When I sum everything up, I got about 4 hours of sleep, and not good sleep mind you.  I probably woke up 4 times throughout the night.  It doesn’t help that my cat gets something in her head around 1 am that she wants to attack me and wake me up.  I think the cat thinks its funny.  I don’t know, I don’t get it.

Anyways, the drive to the train station is nice at 4:30 AM.  There are very few cars, and everyone drives really fast.  I like driving fast, but I like driving fast behind someone else better!  If I get pulled over for speeding, at least I can say I was following the flow of traffic.  Well, there is no traffic at this time, but who is counting?

The train itself is nice mostly due to the little amount of people there are.  The stop I get on at is the first stop, and therefore seats are a plenty.  Sitting is very important for me, mostly because the train ride is around 90 minutes.  Unfortunately, at this time, the seats are still the fucking seats from 1970.  This annoys me because they had revamped this line and put in all new seating.  I guess they haven’t gotten to all the trains yet?  Thankfully, it is the nicer cars of the 1970 seating, but is that really the point?

Well, I will be here enjoying my commute!  Everyone get to work safely!

I really do not know why this DST issue, is well, still an issue.  Today, I ran into a blackberry problem and it is very much DST related.  A few weeks ago (when the time zone changed) a user can enter a calendar appointment from the blackberry, and it would show up an hour off in outlook.  If the user created an entry on outlook, it would show up fine in the BB. I found the following solution, which I haven’t tried yet.  Usually, I provide the link where I obtained such valuable information, but I have lost the link!  For the person that posted this, I apologize.

1. Remove the BlackBerry device user from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Note: When prompted to remove all existing BlackBerry data, select Yes.
2. Connect the BlackBerry device to the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.
3. On the BlackBerry device, go to Options > Advanced Options > Service Books.
4. Delete all Desktop [] or BlackBerry [] service books.
5. In BlackBerry Desktop Manager, click Backup and Restore, then follow the on-screen prompts to back up the BlackBerry device data.
6. Click Backup and Restore again.
7. Select Advanced, then delete the Time Zone Patch entry.
8. Perform a security wipe of the BlackBerry device.
9. Click Backup and Restore again and restore the backup file created in step 5.
10. Add BlackBerry device user to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Hopefully this will work!  I will keep everyone posted.

This is a protest.
We’re making a note here: YOU GUYS SUCK.
From your cult we take no satisfaction.

Religion and Science
You use them both because you can.
For the good of all of us except for Lisa who’s dead.

But there’s no sense calling your religion a fake.
You’ll just keep on sueing and destroying our cake.
But the Science is dumb, and your thetans can’t run
from the people who are O T 5.

We’re not even angry.
We’re being so sincere right now.
Even though you brainwash and decieve us.

Screw dianetics.
I’ll keep my nineteen ninety-five.
We don’t need that science fiction, but we’re happy for you.

Now we walk around you in a beautiful line.
And we’re letting you know, we’ve got plenty of time.
So many people got burned, and the money is earned
for the people who are O T 5.

Go ahead and sit there.
We’ll march and you can stay inside.
Maybe you have someone to protect you.

Maybe Lord Xenu…
That was a joke, HA HA, Fat chance.
Anyway, Anonymous brings scientology’s end.

Look at us still singing when there’s marching to do.
When I look in there it makes me glad I’m not you.
There is auditing to run, and you have to raise some funds
for the people who are O T 5.

And believe us they are O T 5.
They’re making money and they’re O T 5.
You’re like a Bishop when you’re O T 5.
It just costs money to be O T 5.
two hundred thousand and you’re O T 5.
O T 5.
O T 5.

Well, for a split second, I thought it was pretty cool.  It looked like I had the matrix on my iphone.  It would display the black background and white text, looking all cool like.  The only problem?  The phone no longer worked.  The basic rule here is DO NOT HACK YOUR PHONE! 

After some searching on the Internet, I came across this site with the following directions:

1. Put your iphone in the dock, with the USB cable disconnected from your computer.

2. Make sure the phone is off (The only way I got the phone to turn off is to hold the power button + the home button for like 15 seconds)

3. Once you know the phone is off, press and hold the HOME button then plug in the USB cable to your computer, keep holding the HOME button the whole time.

4. Next it should put a Yellow Triangle on your iphone and it should say “connect to itunes”.

5. Now restore your phone, and you should be GOOD TO GO!
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=395211

If nothing else, I now know not to fuck around with the iphone!

I hope to write a walkthrough for this game when I have time.  It is a great game.  The game?

Lilly Hop!  And a special treat, play the game below!

If you know how to beat a level, feel free to add to the comments section.  I should be able to work on this within the upcoming weeks…