Rihards Unplugged

Well, I’m back from the first part of my vacation, and boy was it great or what. A lot of really positive changes in Latvia over the past few years, at least from my viewpoint. For one, smoking ban in locales and other public indoor places is just great. I think I went the whole week without smelling any cigarette smoke whatsoever. And once I got back to the Austria, one of the first things that I got to experience here was second hand smoke, really great.

Got to love shopping in Latvia as well. None of those crappy opening times that they have here in Austria, or the fact that shops are open on Sundays as well. There’s a lot more, but I’d like to get back to blog related things as well. Right now I’m thinking about reducing the blogging from daily to something along the lines of, “If something good comes along post it”.

As to reasons why I’d like to do that, is that I don’t want to feel forced to post something everyday, and secondly I think if I reduce the posting, I can concentrate on my other projects more, as well make higher quality posts overall. Not that most people seem to be unhappy with my posts so far (3.88 stars average out of 40 or so ratings).

Sweet, sweet vacation time has finally arrived. And it’s long overdue as well. Having said that, I’ll be without internet most of the time, and won’t have much free time to post on the blog anyway. So, as of today the blog will be in a vacation mode, and no new posts, will be made until I return from my vacation.

I’ll be returning next Saturday, the 28th of July, at which point, expect photos, and maybe few stories about it. Until then, take care, and enjoy your summers. Ciao.

Finally I got all of the stuff that I ordered delivered to me today. A new 3D card, Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro Ultimate, and two sticks of one gigabyte RAM. Needless to say, just like with most other extensive PC upgrades there were problems. My PC wouldn’t even start up at first, until I re-cabled the whole PC, and removed my satellite card.

Stupid PSU probably unable to handle the card properly, so might have to go out and upgrade that as well. But so far it’s coping just fine. So what does this mean? It means that I’ll probably be gaming more often now, which of course means more game reviews for the blog.

In other news, I’m planning on making a new site. A site with multiple blogs, as for the topics, it will be very similar to this blog, but a lot more of it, so more gaming, more news, more anime, more fun.

As I already informed the world yesterday, my 3D card crapped out on my main PC. So I was basically more or less forced to buy a new 3D card, and while I was at it, I also picked up two 1024MB ram sticks, and a present for my brother. Totaling for almost 400 EUR, which is basically the X-Box 360 price. So a forced PC upgrade instead of buying an X-Box 360.

I don’t know yet if it’s for the better or for worse actually. On one hand side I really wanted to get an X-Box 360, if only for Mass Effect (no, I’m not one of those people who have to have an X-Box 360 for Halo, because quite frankly I don’t even like Halo). But on the other hand side, these new PC upgrades should mean I that I should be able to play Crysis, and other hardware hungry game titles that are coming out soon.

Oh yeah, before I forget, anyone interested in two 512MB matched sticks of DDR RAM? If not, I can just always keep them in my PC for nice 3GB of RAM.