I’ll have to admit it I guess: I’ve played with Twisted Metal on the PSP over the last three days more than I have with Halo 2. Could be because of the move or because it’s new to me – I don’t know which. Halo 2 is still a kick ass game, of course – better than Twisted Metal, in all honesty – but after so many months of it, I think I might have needed a little break. Besides, it’s nice to know that I can suck ass on a completely new platform… but there’s been some unexpected bonuses with PSP play… w00t!
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Yearly Archives: 2005
Blogging Milestone
Matt: (Housemate) Ben, please use your own toothbrush. Thanks. (Mine is the one with the blue handle).
That’s gotta be the first time a Blog has been used for inner-bathroom communication… or perhaps not.
The Ol’ Switcheroo
MSNBC: Two days after the end of the legislative session, state lawmakers are discovering something few were aware of: They voted to make English the official language of West Virginia.
Hah!
Sour Apple?
Steve: Here comes my rant: I certainly wouldn’t mind paying $25 or so for the upgrade, considering I just bought a $700 machine from them 4 weeks ago. However, $129 is freaking ridiculous.
He ain’t lying. In fact, I’m pretty freakin’ annoyed at Apple – and their zealots – about this constant pay-for-minor-release bullshit… they keep getting a shaft shoved up their collective asses and say “Yum good more!” just because it comes from Apple. Maybe they’re too busy pointing fingers and shouting in the wind at Redmond to notice it. Fact is, there are many problems with this practice…
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RSS Ads?
Oh for fuck’s sake… I was going through my normal round of RSS reading this morning and noticed that a number of them suddenly started shoving ads in my face. One is from a family of blogs, so they’ve added a “brought to you by” cross promotion tag line on every article and someone else put what looks like Google ads in their articles…
Come’n bloggers… web ads did nothing but piss people off, so why clutter up an RSS feed with’m? I can sincerely promise you that nothing in any of these ads will get me to click through them. In fact, if I see a product in an RSS ad that looks interesting, I’ll go type the URL in myself so that you won’t get a click-through kick back. Just out of spite. Yes… I really do mean it.
I’m ads free – except for my book (which would make a great case study on how people don’t buy through ads!) – and I’m staying that way.
Warning: Blogging Coma
Just a warning that this site might go quiet for a while, what with my moving and all… I can’t even begin to think what impact work will have on this week, as well. I’ll be lurking around, but no promises…
Think about all of that time you won’t be wasting coming here! *smirk*
…um, it HAD to be the Robitussin
I’m now the proud, and very impressed, owner of a PSP.
Can someone tell me what in the hell I’m supposed to do with it now? [yes, there’s more to this entry]
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And the Hits Keep Coming
The releases just keep on coming this week, with this round coming from the web (and for free). MSN Messenger 7.0 has been released – so has MSN Spaces – both of which have been pretty stable through out their beta cycles. What’s new with MSN-IM?
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w00t! 64-bit Excitment!
Maybe it’s just because it’s my first “official” big release that I’ve been around campus for, but I couldn’t help myself!
Best Buy Pissed Me Off
Shocking that a retail establishment can spark a Rant, right? Hah, yeah, sure. This past weekend I popped into Best Buy to pick up a second Xbox controller and some banana plugs for some audio speaker wire. The game controller was on sale for $25, which is a good price, and since I have “official” speaker jack outlets in my new place, I needed the plugs. I was pretty much left to myself while shopping – which is good! – but the check out process was rather …irksome, to say the least.
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All Praise Sanrio
CNET Asia: Sanrio’s annoyingly cute kitty has enveloped the Xbox in its feline embrace […]and painted the console a girly pink.
If Sanrio ever gets out of the products business to form a government lobby, we’re all fucked. No one can stand up to their marketing force. No one. Within two weeks, we’d all be worshipping mouth-less big-headed cats… with bows in our hair.
Phear!
Ahhhhh.
One down and one hundred sixty-one to go.
And yes, I did a Snoopy-Happy-Dance-Of-Joy when Tino made that grab at first base… so good to see him back home again.
At least it’s something to distract me from the ring ceremony that’s slated for the the opening day at Fenway.
Fu Fu!
CSS Sucks Bollocks
Over the past week I’ve spent hours trying to re-create my current blog layout using CSS, instead of the nested HTML tables that I currently use. In theory, it would make for a cleaner layout, especially if I wanted to make any changes, but I would have to change every posted page first. On top of that, the simple truth is that I can’t figure out how to get a fixed-sized, two column layout: a fixed right column width and an “expand to fit” left column. The closest I came to it was using percentages, but those look extremely ugly on smaller resolutions/screens, and that’s made me reject the entire project. I simply refuse to change all of my markup text and lose some existing functionality, in the process of it all.
Totally disappointed by this, you know – I mean, it just sucks.
64-bit-o-Rama
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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 has been released! As of this moment, you get pick up SP1 from Windows Update; MSDN Subscribers can also download the full version of the OS with SP1 built in… in addition to this, the 64-bit version of Windows has been shipped. For Windows Server, this is the 64-bit edition – one for AMD and one for Intel – in the form of 2003 with SP1, and there’s also a new Windows Client version: Windows XP Profession 64-bit edition (which includes SP2).
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Scary…
I was watching 1984 last night on cable… I dunno why I can’t pass that movie by – everytime I see it pop up in the program guide, I can’t seem to scroll past it. While driving into work today, I had a thought run through my head. When I looked at it, I tried to shove it in a drawer or something, but it kept re-appearing in a new and brighter colour every few minutes:
The same people that will be legally able to buy alcohol for the first this year weren’t even alive when the Macintosh-1984 commercial was aired for the first [and only] time.
*sob*