Brian Vaughan

Finally Back with a Smoking New Machine

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It has been just over a month since the world has heard from me here at BrianVaughan.com. You may be wondering what exactly happened to me, might of thought I just fell off the face of the world, well it sure did seem like I did.

As I have stated in previous posts of mine, my computer was on the verge of really crapping out on me, and it finally did. For a while I was using an old back up machine running on a 600mhz processor or something crazy like that. It just didn’t cut it for me and was just making me madder and madder everything that I had to use it. But all of that is over now. I am running on a brand new custom built beast of a machine.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+
Cooler Master Centurion 5 Case
Cooler Master Extreme 500 Watt Power Supply
Asus Nvidia 590i SLI Mother Board
Nvidia 8600 graphics card
A-Data 2 Gigs of Ram (2x 1024 sticks)

I was able to canabolize my other machine and use the hard drive and dvd-writer from it. After Christmas I hope to upgrade at least the hard drive to a nice new SATA drive so I can get the most performance out of my new machine.

So now that I am back up and running what can you expect from me in the coming days and weeks? Well I want to get this blog rolling again, it had built up a bit of steam and was doing really well (at least in my opinion) had a small (but dedicated) group of readers. I want to get them back and bring in more of those types of readers. I might refocus the target audience of the blog, or at least expand into other things that I think my readers will enjoy reading about. Before my machine went down I had the 2nd part in my Adsense for Beginners series done, I need to get that rewritten and posted up for all to see.

I want to also get a custom theme done up the site, to make it stand out from all the rest of the blogs out there. While I was on the hiatus I did also find out this theme is slightly broken in at least IE7, so that is something I will want to address soon, it was still readable, but I feel like it should look better for those users. I’m hoping this blog will get rolling again really soon. So stay tuned in, I have a lot of catching up to do in the blogosphere once I finish reading the hundreds of posts I need to catch up on, expect a lot of posts to be rolling your way over the next week and month.

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3 Responses to “Finally Back with a Smoking New Machine”

1. Emma Nelson Says:
   November 2nd, 2007 at 6:41 pm

   Welcome back Brian!

2. Brian Says:
   November 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm

   Thanks

3. Scot Smith Says:
   November 12th, 2007 at 10:01 pm

   Hey, nice blog.

   My computer did the same, but it’s always nice to upgrade

   I picked up a 5200+ as well (2mb l2 cache!) 2gb of ram a new sata hd but I went with an ati video card: x1950 pro.

   No complaints and photoshop runs so much quicker now! I just need a 28″ monitor now…

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