Archive for February, 2009

Back from Holiday in Zermatt

By On February 22, 2009 In Archived, Personal With No Comments Permanent Link to Back from Holiday in ZermattPermalink

After a wonderful week, both regarding the weather and the happenings, in Zermatt I am finally back home.
Zermatt is a well-known skiing area in the southern parts of Switzerland, just close to the Italian border. The ski-system consists of 313km snow-covered pistes including a snow-park, a beginners area and pistes on a glacier (the Theodul Glacier).
Amongst other things I brought my camera, a Kodak Z812 IS, which resulted in a lot of imagery (and a lot of thought about whether to buy a new camera or not), most of it being fairly dull photos of the scenery.
Nonetheless I have had time to edit and perfect a dozen or so images (not only from Zermatt) which I have uploaded to the Gallery.

On the return from Zermatt I paid a visit to the Caf̩ de Paris in Geneva. As you may know they only serve one dish, the Entrec̫te Caf̩ de Paris with the famous Caf̩ de Paris sauce and the French Fries. Let me just say this Рit tasted amazing. Nothing short of amazing.

I do hope you enjoy watching the newly uploaded photos as well as further reading my blog!

Dalai Lama is on Twitter!

By On February 8, 2009 In Archived, News With No Comments Permanent Link to Dalai Lama is on Twitter!Permalink

Just stumbled upon His Holiness Dalai Lama’s Twitter account. Apparently he has joined the ranks of worldwide leaders, such as Barack Obama, posting their daily happenings on the Web.
Looking forward to reading about his daily life, not that I care much but HEY it’s Dalai Lama!

Counter-Strike: Source – How To Open the Console

By On February 7, 2009 In Archived, Gaming With 1 Comment Permanent Link to Counter-Strike: Source – How To Open the ConsolePermalink

Perhaps you’ve somewhere read console commands and you’ve wondered where on earth to enter them. I’ve put together this fairly straight-forward guide to help you.

Steps

#1
Open up your list of games inside Steam. Right click on Counter-Strike: Source, choose Properties and click the button that says Set launch options….

#2
Enter -console without spaces or anything else, to make the window look like this:
Launch options
Press OK to close the window and save the setting. It will now open a console every time you launch the game.

#3
Open the game up and you should see a fairly big window opened inside the game, the console. You could stop here and just press Espace every time you’d like to type in a command, but unless that’s what you want there is an easier way of opening it.

#4
Inside the console, type bind <key> toggleconsole and replace <key> with whatever key you would like to bind the console to. I, for one, use bind F12 toggleconsole as I find that to be useful.

I hope you’ve found this short guide useful, this trick will work in all Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2-based games as far as I am concerned. Good luck!