Sigh
So yesterday we got our first spam comment here on the blog. Which was stupid - it didn't even contain a URL. Anyway.
I deleted it - I'm not entirely sure what that will make the comments rss look like.
Hopefully it was a one-off. Otherwise I'll have to look into installing some sort of better filter system, and probably upgrading MovableType. We'll see.
So yesterday we got our first spam comment here on the blog. Which was stupid - it didn't even contain a URL. Anyway.
I deleted it - I'm not entirely sure what that will make the comments rss look like.
Hopefully it was a one-off. Otherwise I'll have to look into installing some sort of better filter system, and probably upgrading MovableType. We'll see.
I deleted it - I'm not entirely sure what that will make the comments rss look like.
Hopefully it was a one-off. Otherwise I'll have to look into installing some sort of better filter system, and probably upgrading MovableType. We'll see.
Times when the early schedule punishes
Apparently the copy of Half-Life 2 sitting on my HD at home went playable at midnight. But I've got a full day of work, a train ride, and a Tai Chi class before I get there.
Hmmm - I bet I could download HL2 by lunchtime here at work . . . and he's off! :-)
Apparently the copy of Half-Life 2 sitting on my HD at home went playable at midnight. But I've got a full day of work, a train ride, and a Tai Chi class before I get there.
Hmmm - I bet I could download HL2 by lunchtime here at work . . . and he's off! :-)
Hmmm - I bet I could download HL2 by lunchtime here at work . . . and he's off! :-)
Dead or Alive Ultimate!
OK, so coerced two buddies back east into buying or renting DOA Ultimate, and just got off about an hour or so of playing (We were playing Burnout 3 earlier, then I went to get dinner while one of them went out to buy DOAU). I gotta admit - I don't know how they did it, but DOAU seems to play flawlessly across the internet. I only saw two incidents of slowdown - and one of those was when the host quit the game (mid match).
You can have up to eight (I think) players, playing 1 on 1 winner stays matches. The others observe and have full voice capability, so it's startlingly close to having a bunch of friends in your living room playing and passing the controller back and forth. We had three Xboxes, with two people rotating on one of the Xboxes - for a grand total of four people playing.
If you have an Xbox and you have Xbox Live - go buy DOAU - it's just that simple. Then drop me a line - my GamerTag is ChromaticGnu (long story there, I'll tell it some other time).
In other news, my NaNoWriMo wordcount is at 9374. But I need to be over 10K, so I'm going to go fix another another drink and hit the productive words. Y'all be good while I'm gone, hear?
OK, so coerced two buddies back east into buying or renting DOA Ultimate, and just got off about an hour or so of playing (We were playing Burnout 3 earlier, then I went to get dinner while one of them went out to buy DOAU). I gotta admit - I don't know how they did it, but DOAU seems to play flawlessly across the internet. I only saw two incidents of slowdown - and one of those was when the host quit the game (mid match).
You can have up to eight (I think) players, playing 1 on 1 winner stays matches. The others observe and have full voice capability, so it's startlingly close to having a bunch of friends in your living room playing and passing the controller back and forth. We had three Xboxes, with two people rotating on one of the Xboxes - for a grand total of four people playing.
If you have an Xbox and you have Xbox Live - go buy DOAU - it's just that simple. Then drop me a line - my GamerTag is ChromaticGnu (long story there, I'll tell it some other time).
In other news, my NaNoWriMo wordcount is at 9374. But I need to be over 10K, so I'm going to go fix another another drink and hit the productive words. Y'all be good while I'm gone, hear?
You can have up to eight (I think) players, playing 1 on 1 winner stays matches. The others observe and have full voice capability, so it's startlingly close to having a bunch of friends in your living room playing and passing the controller back and forth. We had three Xboxes, with two people rotating on one of the Xboxes - for a grand total of four people playing.
If you have an Xbox and you have Xbox Live - go buy DOAU - it's just that simple. Then drop me a line - my GamerTag is ChromaticGnu (long story there, I'll tell it some other time).
In other news, my NaNoWriMo wordcount is at 9374. But I need to be over 10K, so I'm going to go fix another another drink and hit the productive words. Y'all be good while I'm gone, hear?
Great Electronica
So the iPodder feed from IndieFeed dumped a song in my iTunes/iPod sometime in last few days. I listened to it and rocked. It's a guy who samples GBA games, then uses those samples to make electronica. The album is called Hey Kid, Nice Robot and it will make your inner geek get his groove thang on. Which is kind of scary to visualize, so don't do that. But do grab the songs.
There's no ID3 tags, so expect to fix up the metadata, but it's worth the time.
(And if you notice the subtextual endorsement of IndieFeed then good on you. :-))
So the iPodder feed from IndieFeed dumped a song in my iTunes/iPod sometime in last few days. I listened to it and rocked. It's a guy who samples GBA games, then uses those samples to make electronica. The album is called Hey Kid, Nice Robot and it will make your inner geek get his groove thang on. Which is kind of scary to visualize, so don't do that. But do grab the songs.
There's no ID3 tags, so expect to fix up the metadata, but it's worth the time.
(And if you notice the subtextual endorsement of IndieFeed then good on you. :-))
There's no ID3 tags, so expect to fix up the metadata, but it's worth the time.
(And if you notice the subtextual endorsement of IndieFeed then good on you. :-))