Tuesday, 28 August, 2007 – 17:00
Not realizing that I had done so, I mistakenly left an upgrade to the most recent beta build of WordPress in my directory without running the corresponding database upgrade; this left my site partially inaccessible for a decent portion of the afternoon.
I’m also running unstable WordPress code for the time being, so if things get [...]
Monday, 20 August, 2007 – 14:56
It was bound to happen sooner or later. For the first real time in the history of this household, a round of sickness is washing throughout the entire family. Joshua started the madness last week Wednesday, and it seems as though he tried to close the circle last night with another round.
The youngest two have [...]
Sunday, 12 August, 2007 – 07:21
If you see a bottle of this monstrosity that is currently taking the name of Mountain Dew and and the name of Halo in vain, please don’t pick it up. Don’t do what I did and let your curiosity overtake your intuition when it informs you that a soda this bright an orange/red color cannot [...]
Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 – 15:02
Behold! A look at what Microsoft is clearly missing out on with their online service right now!
I used to be OK with the fact that I was paying $50 per year for online console gaming. It costs money to run that kind of infrastructure, and to design the services that are so cohesive on a [...]
Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 – 14:37
As I’m sure more of the Internet will soon discover, the pricing mistake mentioned earlier in this space that I had hoped to take advantage of is no more:
Dear Best Buy Customer,
Thank you for your recent Rock Band software order on BestBuy.com.
Unfortunately, our website incorrectly stated that the Rock Band accessories were included with your [...]
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 – 15:49
The iMacs are coming!
Apple cut the smallest display out of the product loop, redesigned the enclosure in aluminum and glass - which may be part of their new environmental initiatives, and added a glossy display, new keyboard and a few smaller features to the iMac lienup today. Looks nice. Notice one thing, though:
The border around [...]
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 – 13:26
A wonderful new study shows that preschoolers - preschoolers - are more likely to think anything tastes good if it has the right branding on it (in this case, McDonald’s).
Even carrots, milk and apple juice tasted better to the kids when they were wrapped in the familiar packaging of the Golden Arches.
The study had [...]
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 – 13:05
Can anyone please clue me in on what I just watched here?
I’ve seen some weird Japanese video game advertisements in the past, but this one’s a touch beyond. A touch.
Monday, 6 August, 2007 – 21:45
For a couple of short hours this evening, the pre-order page for Rock Band on Best Buy’s Web site looked like this:
It’s clearly just someone who uploaded the wrong item description, and I highly doubt that they’re going to honor that $60 price (which is clearly for the standalone game and not for one with [...]
Monday, 6 August, 2007 – 08:21
I’m hoping that some kind of bizarre copyright lawsuit doesn’t bring this thing down, but for the time being, you too can experience gaming the way it once was in the day of monochrome displays and before modern graphics (or even ancient tile-based graphics systems really existed).
It looks a lot like this, updated with a [...]
Thursday, 2 August, 2007 – 21:44
I don’t think I could explain things any better than this video can.
An introduction to Faceball from Face Ball and Vimeo.
I’ve also added an article to my wiki for Faceball and am looking forward to hosting the eventual First Annual Markel Invitational Faceball Tournament.
Thursday, 5 July, 2007 – 20:52
To our Xbox Community:You’ve spoken, and we’ve heard you. Good service and a good customer experience are areas of the business that we care deeply about. And frankly, we’ve not been doing a good enough job.
Seriously, stop flooding our forums and our employees’ blogs with comments. Anyone with a pulse knows we’ve been providing horrible [...]
Wednesday, 13 June, 2007 – 11:50
Geeks who were around for the launch of Halo 2 and were paying close attention to the Internet around that time will have fond memories of ilovebees.com, which was far ahead of its time and a pioneering attempt at alternate reality gaming. Several groups have since tried to start up ARGs, only to have them [...]
Sunday, 10 June, 2007 – 08:32
John Siracusa’s annual WWDC bingo card for the year has been posted, and I’ve already got mine printed and ready to go while I keep up with the live feed at work on Monday.
In case you’re unfamiliar, this has become a tradition in the last few years with the Mac faithful. We dream about the [...]
Sunday, 10 June, 2007 – 06:51
In case you missed it, STS-117 launched launched successfully on Friday and appears to be going quite well. I’m quite upset at myself for not paying more attention to it and forgetting that it was going up this month, and more upset that I never saw anything about it on the news or anywhere else.
It’s [...]
Sunday, 29 April, 2007 – 00:56
Inspired by a thread at 360 Arcadians, I’ve decided that my Xbox 360 going in for repairs was the perfect time to begin attempting to clear out my game backlog (that is, the games I own that I have not yet finished). The entire backlog is listed below.
I began with Shadow of the Colossus, which [...]
Sunday, 15 April, 2007 – 16:28
I have two other, much more mundane posts in the draft hopper that are going to be posted later today when I get the time to do so, but both video games and my stuff breaking seemed at least a bit trivial in the wake of this afternoon’s slight scare that I’m not too worried [...]
Monday, 9 April, 2007 – 14:52
Long story short:
I’m moving the family stuff off Drupal and back to WordPress. There are two side effects to this change:
The Drupal-originating posts won’t be here for a little while as I work on exporting/importing them, which shouldn’t take all that long.
My entire archive, from the last six years, is now once again available as [...]
Saturday, 20 May, 2006 – 07:19
For those not in the know, Amanda and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary this past Thursday the 18th.
We used up two days to celebrate, wihch is something we try to do with anything that’s a big deal in our lives in order to stretch it out and not make it feel as fleeting. On [...]
Friday, 19 May, 2006 – 14:00
Amanda just received a phone call from our house builder, and we are meeting the construction manager next week to discuss the home site and go through any questions we might have.
This means they will be doing things like pouring concrete and other cool things like that very, very soon.
Weather permitting, we could be in [...]
Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 – 10:15
Sem friends should be aware that I will be on campus this upcoming Wednesday to help demo the product I’m managing at convocation.
You know and I know you don’t have any classes, so I expect to see you there. I may even eat lunch in the general vicinity.
Or we could go out. You [...]
Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 – 10:06
Yes, it’s true:
I was on a bit of a streak recently, what with the daily updates and all.
Appears that’s all come to a screaming halt. Lots of things have been going down, and unfortunately, this kind of thing tends to take a backseat to other things in my life. I am sure you can understand [...]
Monday, 10 April, 2006 – 16:10
The title is fitting as we have recently (and by recently, I mean last Saturday) signed a contract and placed a deposit to build us a new house. This would be an old topic if it were not for the fact that Amanda and I look at each other approximately a dozen times per [...]
Thursday, 6 April, 2006 – 16:01
Amanda e-mailed me earlier this afternoon to share with me the following:
ha ha ha….just so you know, we have one superman, and one supergal, complete with capes…
This, of course, demands a phone call to follow up on the situation. I discover from the eyewitness at the scene (their mother) that they are standing up [...]