The Cabbage Patch

It’s like crack, only with numbers.

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I like Sudoku puzzles. Lots. So here’s a website with heaps of them. They offer Easy, Medium, Hard, and Evil (my favourite) and there are quite literally billions of them.

What do you want to see more of?

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Go vote in this poll over on the forums and tell me what you would like to see more of on The Patch.

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Forums! YAY!

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I have created some official Cabbage Patch Forums! Check ‘em out!

You may post suggestions for the site straight into the forums and discuss them. There is also a General Chat forum for all your witty banter (I have a suspicion this will be the most popular section).

Please, however, READ THIS FIRST!

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The Drop Bears

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I should have posted this days ago, but I didn’t. Sorry.

The Drop Bears is the website dedicated to Sydney band, The Drop Bears (previously The Unnamed Band, and soon to be something else, I imagine).

This affiliate site (I’ll call them an affiliate whether they like it or not) is run by some regular readers of The Patch and they link to me so now I’m linking to them. Go check ‘em out, if only for Tom’s angry ranting.

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Now it’s even easier to find all that stuff you didn’t want to see anyway!

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I have made another little update to the site. Now now, don’t get all excited, it’s only a little one.

I have implemented a sort of “categories” system into the posts, so that it’ll be easier to find posts about certain topics (games, movies, funny, news, etc…). Along the bottom of every new post from here on, there will be a list of categories that the post fits into. Clicking any of those category links will take you to a search page with all the posts that fit into that category. Easy.

I have also added a Category list over on the sidebar that will grow as more categories are added.

Unfortunately, the categories will only apply to new posts (partly because of the way it works, partly because I am too lazy to back-edit all my old posts), and old, uncategorised posts will likely appear in the search pages until the system sorts itself out. But that’s not a big deal now, is it? Thought not.

Geekin’ It Up with The ‘Orrible Cabbage #1: Protecting Your Computer.

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Welcome to the first edition of Geekin’ It Up with The ‘Orrible Cabbage! This will be a semi-regular feature (ie, whenever I feel like writing one) about various “geek” issues that I might think you need to know.

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This first edition is titled Protecting Your Computer and was inspired by something that happened in my house a couple of weeks ago. In this article I will go through the various programs and techniques I use to keep my computer safe when using the internet, and explain briefly what they do and why you need them.

But first, the setup. About a month ago, one of the computers on my network became infected with a trojan. Not a malicious virus type of trojan, but a simple, “less evil” one. Ironically, if it had been a worse type of trojan, the expensive virus scanner that is installed would have picked it up. As it was, this one managed to slip past due to its “medium” threat ranking.

Now as I said, this trojan wasn’t particularly malicious. It didn’t delete any files, steal any passwords or send itself to other computers. All it did was download. I have yet to discover what exactly it was that it was downloading, although I can only assume it was obtaining more copies of itself, because I found several copies of it on the system (a virus with a survival instinct, it seems).

As a consequence of the trojan’s incessant downloading, it broke our 10Gb monthly usage limit in under two weeks. I found and removed the trojan just after this, but the damage had been done. I am now writing this using an appallingly fragile, dial-up speed “shaped” Broadband connection.

This is why I have not posted for several days - it is too painful watching the computer struggle to upload even the simplest of text posts.

So that is why I have decided to write this, the first edition of Geekin’ It Up. I had actually planned to write about various other issues in this new feature, but they will have to wait. I shudder to think how my connection is going to handle such a large post, but the issue is an important one.

So, onto the real point of this article - the advice. Below I will outline several steps which I think every computer user should follow to protect their system (well, any Windows computer user anyway, Mac and Linux users can just sit back and chuckle at us for a while, if you so desire). These steps are basically in some kind of order of importance, although none should be left out.

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One step closer to becoming a real website!

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I’ve added a Google Search box to the top of the page. Yay!

This search box is fully functional, being able to search both The Cabbage Patch and the rest of the web, if that strikes your fancy. I will add, however, that the search seems only to point to the main page, regardless of what you search for (when searching this site only). Hopefully, this will be remedied shortly.

I will also say a quick apology regarding my lack of posts the last few days, but my internet connection has been buggered and I have thus been unable to post. I will explain further later today.

Ah… the smell of sweet, sweet retro…

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Prince of Persia. Free. ‘Nuff Said.

Update on Crazy Air Guitar Playing Hello Kitty Japanese Man!

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The last post on this here scrap of toilet paper website featured a video of a man dressed bizarrely and playing the air guitar. I didn’t explain what it was all about, partly because I couldn’t stop laughing long enough to do so, but mostly because I actually had no idea who he was or what the video was all about.

But I have done some research. I now know who he is and, more importantly, why he was jumping around looking like an idiot (still can’t explain the Hello Kitty breastplate though, sorry).

That man was David “C-Diddy” Jung, the 2003 Air Guitar World Champion.

Now, in light of the fact that they are so hilariously funny, I bring to you two more clips of Air Guitar “champions”.

This first one (click pic on right) is MiRi “Sonyk-Rok” Park, as featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brian. MiRi was the 2004 World Champion.

This second one is a clip of Dan “Bjorn Turoque” Crane who, whilst not a world champion, is listed as “noteworthy” in the Air Guitar Hall of Fame.

For more information about the exciting sport that is Air Guitar, visit airguitarusa.com .

Hahahahahahahahhahahahah…..

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Just watch it… words cannot do it justice.