Okay, it may seem silly, but my daughter had me try one of her favorite game sites called Marapets. Okay, okay. Before you go snickering, I actually found the site pretty interesting. For one, it isn’t just for kids—so don’t put it down yet. It is designed to be kid friendly, while catering to all ages. So, the candy sweet coating aside, it actually has some interesting concepts going on.
I’ve been a big fan of the Blendtec “Will it Blend?” videos on YouTube. The latest installment was unbelievable — he blended an iPhone! What a waste of $600, but it is cool to watch. Take a look below.
Well, I traded Viva Piñata this week for Windows Vista. I decided to bite the bullet and give Vista try on my laptop. So far, I’ve been pleasantly surprised.
I’ve run into a bit of an issue. XML uses UTF-8 encoding. I wouldn’t think it would be a big issue, but my web pages render in ISO-8859-1. Since my ISP uses perl 5.6.1, I can’t easily encode/decode between the two Unicode formats. So, I thought I’d just render my pages in UTF-8. Ouch, bigger headache. Now older articles don’t look right and some of the WebAPP code converts things wrong. I’m still looking for a solution. For now, you may find some things display wrong here.
Microsoft has released a public beta of their Microsoft Home Server software. I’ve had various “home servers,” usually older computers, running various version of Windows and Linux. My current one is running Media Center, but it is also a desktop for my daughter.
So, I’m still hacking around in Safari. If you read earlier article, you might remember my complaint about the fonts being a bit blurry. Well, in my wandering around the Apple discussion boards, someone was nice enough to post an interesting article on the philosophical differences between Apple and Microsoft.
I was looking to try out Safari on Windows the other day, but all the links to get it were down. Now I know why! Apple released Safari for Windows today. Well, not one to wait around, I promptly downloaded it to give it a spin. In fact, I’m writing this article in it right now.
Due to issues I’ve been having with ImageShack, I’ve moved some of my userbars over to Flickr. So far, things appear to be working just fine.
Interestingly, an Australian firm is offering a USB drive encased in a LEGO® brick. I just have to say that “I want one!” They look too cool and, of course, very geeky! If you haven’t noticed, I'm a big Lego® Bricks fan. Unfortunately, 50 bucks seems a bit steep. Maybe I should hollow out some of my own bricks and build my own. Hummm...might be worth trying.
For those people that feel a little “less gifted” when trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube, along comes the Idiot’s Cube.
While playing around with Live!, I ran across a web site where someone created a LEGO Rubik’s Cube. They have some pretty interesting pictures, including a movie. Unfortunately, it is very big and doesn’t appear to move very well. If it was smaller, I might try to make my own.
Your Xbox 360 has a voice, and now it can have one on your WebAPP site as well!
Darn it, I lost my gaming streak after a paltry 32 days. 🙁 My Internet was down part of the day last week. Either that, or I just totally spaced it. Either way, I’ve started over again. Sigh. So much for trying to get that 50+ badge on my 360voice Blog.
Well, I’ve been using 360voice for awhile now. It is the site that creates the Xbox 360 blogs. So, I thought I’d whip up a Userbar for the site.
Well, it took me just over a month, but I was finally able to find the time to get 1500 pts and complete the Old Spice Challenge on Xbox Rewards. Looks like I’ll receive 4 rewards though—that is pretty cool—assuming I wasn’t too late to receive them.
So, obviously I’m a bit Lego fan. So, I was surprised—although I shouldn’t have been—that people have been re-creating their favorite consoles in Lego form. I ran across a Joystiq article that shows a pretty nice rendition of a Wii using Lego bricks.
Although the default icons that come with WebAPP are nice, I thought I’d try to create a few original ones. I’ve tried to update most (but not quite all) of the icons that I have categories using pictures from from collection.
Wow, I ran into a slight problem that I really didn’t expect. I ran out of space on my laptop’s 100G (technically 93GB)! Now, I’ve filled a 200G drive before, but I was converting my Hi-8 video’s to DV format. But, I really didn’t expect to fill my laptop anytime soon. Seems that copyin
Well, if you didn’t know already, Microsoft is now promoting Xbox Rewards. If you take on the challenge, you get rewards. Sweet right? Yeah, assuming you can get on the site.
Sigh. Seems all I seem to do lately is update my Mods. Truth is, I’ve been working on another web site, but found some issues adding in my Slideshow Mod and decided, while I was there, to fix a few other minor annoyances I had with it. I also cleaned up some minor issues in BlogCal as well. For th
Sigh. Another day, another bug. Seems that writing scripts for my theme meant that I was missing some issues that occur if you run Blog Calendar on a standard WebAPP install. So, here is the latest fix for your Blogging pleasure: Blog Calendar Mod
Darn, I hate it when I miss simple issues. Two more bug fixes in this release. First, the wrong year was being passed when pulling articles. The second one was that I wasn’t properly translating 2 digit years passed as arguments.
Well, it appears that userbars.com isn’t on-line anymore. 🙁 So, I’ve moved my Userbars over to www.userbars.org. You can view my, limited, userbar collection there as well. If you’re looking for a userbar, I’m more then willing to help out (just IM me or add a comment here).
This looks to have been out awhile, but as I’ve been gaming—or living under a rock—I thought I’d share it to others who, like me, obviously missed this. This is another cool example of what people can do with Xbox Live! data. http://gamerscorechart.com/theme/xbox/SafePit.png Try it out with
Oops! I had a minor bug in the current month display. A bad assumption on my part that was easily corrected. You can download the lastest version from here. If you are running R2, you just need to update the blogcal.cgi file.