I haven’t written anything on KishCom in far too long, but I’m feeling that creative writing bug biting once again and thus I’ve decided to post more. Part of my problem when I write on Kishcom, is that I don’t really know who my audience is, which makes it hard when I talk about technical things because I’m never sure how much I should try and explain something. So I’ve made a decision, I’m going to write as if I were my only audience –which means this blog may get a lot more technical when I post about things such as my Xbox Input Machine (detailed post coming soon).
In the mean time, let me update you on the awesome-ness that is my life. My car is running great, and now that winter is over I’ve been keeping it washed, and I’ve noticed a lot of little dings, scratches and scuffs on the paint — I’m playing with the idea of having it repainted. Other than that and gas being $1.22 a liter car life is peachy.
The real inspiration for this post comes from my need to brag about my new multimedia setup. I got a nice tax return this year and invested in a new TV. I got a 42″ 1080p LCD TV (that I’m writing this very post on… from my couch), and a Logitech Z-5500 sound system (1000watts Dolby DTS — nothing short of amazing) to complete the ‘home theater experience’. I never knew how awesome having such big sound and images could be — I should have invested in a setup like this a while ago. I also discovered that you need a pretty high-end PC to play back true 1080p HD content — my HTPC (3.0Ghz P4 HT, 2048MB, ATI X800 Pro) can’t play back 1080p HD .mkv files (technically it can… just not well). So I may still have to look into getting a Rogers HD box… but I haven’t had ‘real’ TV in so long I find that the commercials drive me nuts. Not to mention how much I loathe Rogers and the amount of money HD content costs is absurd — I’ll be on the fence about this one for a while.
That’s it. More later, I promise.

The Golden Rule.

I read Reddit daily, it’s a great site that allows you to up vote links you like and down vote links you don’t. So there’s always nifty stuff there. Just for fun I submitted the ‘Golden Rule’ image linked above… I was not prepared for the response. I’ve submitted about a dozen or so things to Reddit before, and one got 200 up votes one time, the rest were down voted into obscurity.
This image got more than 900 up votes, which lead to about 30,000 unique visitors and 5GB worth of traffic (on one image ~110KB in size!).
I’m glad so many people enjoyed it, I should really give credit where credit is due, the image made by a guy by the name of Paul McKenna, and is available for purchase at the ‘Scarboro Missions‘ website.

Reddit has a largely left-leaning reader base, Atheists, Ron Paul Supporters, Ruby on Rails fanatics… Someone posted a photoshopped follow up image: “The Golden Rule…For Atheists”. Cheers to that!