Here is a small program that I come across in my usual internet browsing called SSD Life, all it does is tell you how long your ssd has left in years, months and days.
It also gives you Trim information, space used and free, times powered on.
ssd life expectancy
I don’t know how accurate that is? but it looks like I have a few years left 
This is a great little application
Here is a quick feature list comparing the lite/free edition against the pro edition.
ssd lite pro features
I went ahead and purchased a blu-ray optical drive for my computer, actually I did this months ago and I quickly ran into a problem that only happens if I connect my monitor to the video card via a VGA cable (which is the only way it can connect)
pdvd9-analogue-warning
Here is a warning from then used Power DVD 9 I believe it was, the usual HDCP warning.
VLC does a similar thing
vlc-blu-ray-error
The only real way around this is to go out and buy a new monitor with at least a HDMI input which was out of the question, so I left it for a while because I wasn’t really in the mood to troll through all the crap google brings up.
I stumbled upon an answer when i went to the DVDfab website for some other software, I found a small free/lite program called Passkey Lite, what this small program does is on the fly protection removal while you watch the movie (actually it pops up a dialog from the system tray and takes about 5 seconds to remove the protection from any dvd or blu-ray that I threw at it)
Now when you run the program for the first time it comes up stating which edition you would like to use.
Just choose the Lite / Free edition as it works fine.
passkey lite
I have been busy producing quiet a few minecraft videos and have forgotten to post each one on my site (this site) actually I have only posted the first episode on this site. You can view upto episode 25 on my youtube channel.
I also have enought video for around 10 more episodes.
Here are some screenshots of my world and to expect after episode 25.
So as you can see there are quiet a few things in the pipeline so to speak. Actually that is an understatement.
So keep watching and keep an eye out for future episodes.
Well My web site has reached a point where I seem to moderate spam comments more than actually creating content and in the last few weeks I have just given up on this site of which the main visitors seem to be people posting rubbish comments, anything from mens clothes and wallets to cheap prescription drugs.
I have had to completely disable all comments in order to stop this but now they are posting comments on pictures in my posts which I had no idea you could do.
For a few years I have used a plugin called ban ip, this is used to block spammers ip address from my web site which blocks them just fine but they still keep coming, I have also gone as far as blocking entire countries from accessing this web site.
I have actually made a decision, my domain name is dew for renewal in a few days, I don’t think I will renew it and just close / delete this site forever because I have lost a lot of interest in it. When I first started this site around 5 years ago I had a very different idea of where it / I would be today, this web site at the moment is mainly just full of useless out dated personal crap of which I only get visitors who don’t care about my actual content and just care about there crap spam comments.
So for now It is farewell from me. Actually I will keep the domain name because I have a few email accounts with it which I don’t want to change or give up. So in a few days I will backup the site and then just delete it.
Thanks and goodbye.
Well after the close encounter with the 4WD in the car park it was time for another set of wheels.
excel side damage
And in with the new, I am yet to fully check this car over but she looks good so far.
mitsubishi magna 1994
This car is in mint condition, nice chrome rims, no towbar which we kind of wanted but we can’t have it all. Needs a wheel alignment but that is about it, good service history going by all the receipts in the glove box.
I have made it a habit to now use the Minecraft snapshots on all my worlds (yes I have more than one for some reason) so I decided to take some screen shots of features over the last week or so and share them.
There are a few screen shots there, read the descriptions for the full details of each image.
The current snap shot is 12w37a which has many new features, items and bug fixes and also introduces many new bugs.
