My main machine was getting pretty fragmented, so I ran graphical disk defrag program provided with XP. After it ran, my disk still had 27% file fragmentation and it was recommending that I needed to defrag again. In my online search for a better defrag utility, I discovered that there’s command line defrag utility. I tried it out, and now I’m at 0% fragmentation. I’m not sure why the command-line utility did so much better than the GUI version, but safe to say I’ll be using the command line version from now on.

I was going to try out the SysInternals PageDefrag utility to defrag my system files, but they’re already contiguous. Not sure if they were that way before or if the windows defrag tool took care of them too.

It took 30 hours of game play, spread out over a month and a half, but I finally finished Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It’s easy to see why this game received so many Game of the Year honors, it’s the best game I’ve ever played. And what’s even cooler is that I want to play it again, this time as a bad guy. The whole light vs. dark side conflict works very well and I’m really curious to see how the game progresses when you’re more Vader than Anakin.

I can’t wait to see Bioware’s next XBOX effort: Jade Empire. Between that and Fable, this should be a good year for RPGs on XBOX.