I spent the weekend at Nick’s, at the end of which I concluded that technology sucks. It seemed like everything we tried this weekend when it came to computers ended up failing abysmally. In no particular order we:

• failed to get Nick’s WinME computer working such that it could copy CD’s (and I tried everything, yes, including updating the ASPI layer or whatever that thing’s called, plus I tried 5 different cd authoring apps)
• failed to get Warlords battlecry II working such that we could play a networked game for more than 10 minutes at a time (it kept crashing)
• failed repeated attempts to watch Battle Royale (I ended up solving this problem at home)
• We failed to fix Nick’s install of Urban Terror, which is prone to emitting an endless series of boinging noises (we made some progress but it is still broken)
• There’s probably a few other things I’ve since forgotten.

By the end of the weekend both of us were joking about what losers we were. On a positive note we did manage to get my Playstation 2 working with his stereo system. We had to go to Radio Shack and buy a box that converts RCA output to Coax output since his tv only has a coax in cable and you can’t run a DVD player through a VCR due to the Macrovision copy protection.

The lesson I took away from this weekend was: the PS2 rocks, never any compatibility issues. Just plug in a game and wheee, away you go.