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I’ve just hooked up the Popularity Contest WordPress plugin, and it’s pretty cool. Since it’s just now starting to collect data, most of the entries will be based on comments, but the most hardlinked pages should make it to the top pretty fast.
A word of warning if you want to use this plugin though, […]

I’ve been looking for something like the JimXfor a while now, ever since the last time I was mugged. After the hassle of canceling my credit cards and replacing my driver’s license, I stopped carrying a wallet. I keep my money loose in my front pocket, and my ID and credit cards in […]

Damn you, Ryan North! Your Canadian hilarity is no match for Wikipedia’s humorless pedantry.
Seriously though, defacing Wikipedia is not cool, but chickens are totally hilarious.

My computer started dying a few weeks ago, and I’ve been in a struggle to recover it since. I think I’ve finally got all the hardware worked out, but the end result was still a completely corrupted installation of Windows 2000. Now, I’d been thinking of upgrading to XP anyways (I’m pretty happy […]

Like every other person I know who’s enjoyed a computer game at some point in their life, I’m anxiously awaiting next year’s release of Will Wright’s Spore. If you’re not one of those people, Spore is like a mash-up of every Sim* game before it: you go from a microscopic organism, to a land […]

Last week, Microsoft released a new dashboard update for the Xbox 360. I don’t use mine for much except Dead Rising and Fight Night, so I never bothered to hook it up to live or anything like that. My options in doing so either involved running a length of cat5 downstairs through the […]

I ordered an external hardrive and enclosure, and a cheap USB keydrive yesterday, at around noon. Shipping was $4.99 with UPS 3rd day. Here’s the current tracking status:

10/17/2006 05:41:00 OUT FOR DELIVERY[I] SPARKS, MD, US
10/17/2006 05:40:00 ARRIVAL SCAN[I] SPARKS, MD, US
10/17/2006 03:16:00 DEPARTURE SCAN[I] LAWNSIDE, NJ, US
10/17/2006 01:15:00 LOCATION SCAN[I] LAWNSIDE, […]

There’s a new site out there called Volity (as in frivolity, get it?), which has accomplished something very interesting for game designers. They’ve created an open source platform for hosting online multiplayer turn based games.
They seem to be focused primarily around the board game and card game model, sort of like yahoo and aol’s […]

Like good little microsoft junkies, we’ve been transitioning all of our development to .NET 2005, including using their new flagship IDE, VS.NET 2005. In our initial transition, we ran into huge headaches trying to import our old ASP.NET projects, particularly when heavily divided into namespaces. We eventually sorted all of these things out, […]

Apple’s iPod Shuffle is a ridiculously cool little device. I bought one because I wanted a USB thumb drive, and for just marginally more than a standard one, I figured I may as well get one that can play mp3s. I picked up a 1GB drive back in February, when they dropped the […]