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So my trusty laptop (Thinkpad T61) that I have been using for the past few years finally gave up the ghost on its battery. I knew the battery was failing cause it would charge less and less. I almost never use it off AC, so it is prob my own fault. Looking around online I found several people that had the flashing orange battery light. Some where saying that the T61 was known to have issues with the battery connector on the mainboard and that it may not be the battery. Having the laptop still under warranty (not the battery) I figured I better get one while I still have less than a year of warranty left.

Well I got the battery today and it is charging as I type this post up. Guess its not the mainboard connector. Other than the pain of having to get it warrantied, it would have been nice to get a new mainboard with less than a year to go.

Spent some time tonight playing around with the new WordPress. I changed up the theme (Not overly happy with it yet), redid the ads and am using some ad plug-ins to server them up randomly. Added side content using widgets so next time I change themes I don’t need to edit the theme files by hand.

I am really impressed with how far WordPress has come over the years. Really you can do everything you want from the admin panel and never have to touch the site files or themes. Updating via the web is not so painless you have no excuse not to be up to date with the current version. I am still using a plug-in to filter out spam comments, but might try disabling it and see if WordPress has anything under the hood by default to deal with spam.

Over the past while I have become a widget and plug-in whore. Everything I think of doing seems to have a plug-in. Installing plug-ins from the admin panel allows you to install, play with, and delete in minutes. I was a little worried about using a plug-in to manage google ads, since it would be easy for someone to make it so they got all the clicks (I think I am safe with my 2 clicks a month).

In searching for the above WordPress logo image I used google images. I really dislike the new google images search page and the loading of the image in the foreground of a AJAX window. I wish you could go back to the old image pages with the top frame.

Google Image Search 2010

New Super Mario Bros DS

Last weekend Erika started playing New Super Mario Bros on the DS. I have had the game since it came out ages back, but had never really finished it. I spent most of last Sunday playing it, and ended up finishing the game later that week. It really is a great throw back to the classic Super Mario games. Game difficulty was pretty low and it didn’t seem to increase till the final world after the 2nd castle. Most boss battles could be beat in seconds if you saved a flower power for them. Graphics where some of the best on the DS, but I see little to no replay in this game for me.

Over all the game was fun but not very challenging.

Erika and I are planning to hit up some some Super Mario Bros 3 on the Wii since we got the Classic Mario bug.

Its been a very long while since I made and posts on this blog, but I have not really had much of anything to post the last while. With the addition of Twitter and twitpic to my daily life a year or more back, the blog took a back seat. Most of the people I would be posting things of interest to are already following me on twitter and get a idea of what is going on in my life. I will see about posting more to sociallysour.org and bring some of the personal idea’s back to it.