Top 15 Albums of 2008

http://www.last.fm/user/kurmidt/journal

zomfg it only gets better

grab song here

WTF CHROME

so i'm totally loving chrome, esp after i found a grey skin. but

murphy's law kicked in. here's what i posted on google chrome help:

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i seem to have a different problem than everyone else.

i had chrome running perfectly since it came out, and recently installed a skin, which was also working perfectly. yesterday i noticed that the skin reverted back to the original oneand then i saw that a new version of chrome had downloaded so i redid the skin on this new version and that's when it stopped working. i should also mention that around the same time i ran googleupdater to install realplayer and norton security scan, both which come bundled
with the google pack, and both of which i have since uninstalled.

i tried to revert the skin from a saved dll, and even tried to go back to the previous downloaded version with no luck. i tried to reinstall anew and had the same problems everyone else had, chromesetup.exe would run, download chrome, start installing and then just disappear.

i would run chrome.exe and nothing would happen at all, not even the flash of it that some others got. i also ended up deleting the google chrome folder thinking this might help, so i no longer have any files associated with chrome which i can check the properties of, and the chromesetup creates no new files, no new shortcuts in the start menu.

i don't have citivan.exe running and i killed ctfmon.exe and still does not work. i even tried nathan's suggestions but both those boxes were unchecked.

i'm runing xp pro, sp3.

any other suggestions would be appreciated!

one last thing, for those who still cant install it and really miss it, i am using chromium to write this, and it works exactly the same. (even the skins work)

CAPTAINS BLOG, SUPPLEMENTAL

me explaining to an unresponsive friend the cheesy windows tweaking i did for the day, im thinking maybe i'll keep a bit of a log, since i might need to know what i did when i reformat

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9:25 PM
so since ive decided i'm reformatting soon, i'm gonna try the new winamp again
9:25 PM
it had trouble with my gtalk for some reason but now i'm using digsby so it dont matta
9:25 PM
also i got digsby to take up slightly less ram by taking off the gmail facebook and twitter updates
9:26 PM
i have a gmail indicator on the dock
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it's swanky
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my life is complete

XMARS

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/christmasonmarstheflaminglips/

MARIO KART WII WFC

i do love playing this shit online.. been playing it nonstop since i
got it, but there are some annoying bitches on there, doing the
incredibly cheap grumble volcano cheat, and choosing the same stage
repeatedly and ruining my fun. wish i could block ppl sometimes, i
hope that sometime in the future, the wfc part gets an upgrade.

also trannyAhoy, if ur out there, we <3 you, you are officially our favourite nemesis.

-kurmy (aka krumy)

home alone and stoned

i cant cook for shit, so what do i do, i get frozen pizza.

tim is in ottawa until thursday, so i put on the oven, the directions say 10-12 mins and i dont have a timer, so what do i do? i msg bill "10-12 mins", i'm sure he was confused.

so i chatted, listened to some funky shit, got myself some icey coke and danced to arcade fire like i was in the 80s! man sometimes it's funto be home alone.

10-12mins later, after a nice chat, bill reminded me. yay friends.

krumbs.

ps. miss u timo!

Top 15 albums of 2006, in quasi order

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche / Songs for Christmas
Hot Chip - The Warning
Ratatat - Classics
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
LO-FI-FNK - Boylife
MSTRKRFT - The Looks
Tiga - Sexor
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - #3
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Clor - Clor
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Nouvelle Vague - Bande Á Part

And from 2005 that i enjoyed in 2006:
Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love

WTF?

WTF is this weird red thing at the bottom of my firefox? is anyone else having this problem?

DOUG + SUF

hey guys! i know it's been a long time, i know i was working on a catchup post but i lost most of it in a firefox accident, and it's hard to do that anyhow so i'm just gonna let go of the past for now.

TODAY
i met douglas coupland at random house.. i just got home from it and i'm drunk (free wine, etc) and it was a great time and i'm totally pumped that now the 3 authors i have as my 'staff pics' at work i've met. YAY!

last nite tim and i went for a run and my legs are killing me. it was hard going down the stairs at work today.. every step felt like someone was stabbing me in the leg, lol. i'm hoping i'll be able to run again in a few days.

uh............ ok so that's all i got for now.. ray is in town and saturday we're going to the wedding of a friend from high school and that should be pretty fun. i get to recycle my pink shirt from kev and jude's beautiful wedding. check out my flickr for some pics. (that thing over there >>>)

ps. I
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