FizzBall

Checkout FizzBall game, very nice one for both adults and kids (has special kid mode where you can’t lose and just play for fun for as long you want). Got a 60-min trial from RealArcade (www.realarcade.com), Real’s gaming shell (many other nice game trials there btw, for example another one I like is “I Spy Spooky Mansion” and in general the “I Spy” series of games).

Windows Vista (sound) driver for CMI9880 (Azalia) codec (ASUS P5GD2-X mb)

read first:

http://www.cmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2998#2998

 

grab the flexbass driver:

http://www.cmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=168

 

UPDATE: The above links don’t work anymore (have changed them to point to the link mentioned below), maybe some C-Media assets were acquired by NVIDIA cause Windows 7 says my audio chipset is "NVIDIA nForce Audio Processing Unit".

 

Can get a x64 driver for CMI9880 (Azalia) from ASUS support (also have x32 version there) that does work with Windows 7 (not initially working, but after some recent seemingly unrelated Win7 updates it suddenly has started working [their control panel applet still crashing though i think])

 

 

Hepatitis A info

Some useful info links on Hepatitis A and other types of Hepatitis:

http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/diseases/hepatitis/a/faqa.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/diseases/hepatitis/a/fiore_ha_transmitted_by_food.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis

http://www.about-hepatitis.com/

Some quick info:

Regarding Hep-A, it can be dangerous for some people when you get sick with it, but after some months you’re pretty much ok and you’re not infectious anymore, plus you’re immune to it for the rest of your life. It can also be food-borne and in countries where there’s good water  network, a source of infection is children and some teenagers cause they usually show no signs of sickness during the infectious period, that’s why children shouldn’t be much arround places where food is prepared. The article about transmision of Hepatitis A by food, mentioned above has some interesting statistics for the US.

Regarding Hep-B, which is more tricky, there’s a vaccine for it.

Some other types of Hep are more dangerous, with no vaccines for them yet