January 2005 Entries
Here’s another excuse for me to post the “Devin Hester Breaking Ankles” pic. Shark Productions has created a Devin Hester highlight reel which shows this exciting cane creating havoc all over the field. The video itself is full of poor production values so I won’t be using Shark Productions anytime soon. My question about this video is why would you use the entire frame and place the highlights in a tiny portion of the frame? It’s cheap. The Call FM upgrade video is much, much better.
Now Playing: TLC - Waterfalls
I’ve been using Flickr for a few months now and have been really happy with it. There have been some really cool Flickr projects and here’s one of them. Flickr Color Fields. It allows you to pick a color and view pictures from Flickr that have the same color. (via Sarah Lane)
Now Playing: Pigeon John - Same Dark Sweater (w/ Joey the Jerk)
I’ve gotta use this for my next Hurricane football party. It’s an M&Ms sorter. Orange and green peanut M&Ms for everybody!
Now Playing: Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon
Well, that was quick. I found a solution for the comment spam problem. I’ve added a control that requires the user to input a code to post comments. The great thing about it is that there was no code to recompile. The control is the Clearscreen HIP Control. To install the control on your .Text blog copy the dll to your bin directory, add one line of code to your web.config and modify your postcomment.aspx file to include the control. It’s really, really simple. For more information on the control visit Miguel Jimenez’s blog and view this post and...
I really, really hate comment spam. Recently the ol’ blog has been hit pretty hard by comment spam. I’ve deleted the spam within hours but like an evil ex-girlfriend it keeps coming back. Which is why I need to do something about it, quickly. So I’ll be upgrading the .Text blog software to the new version of community server. .Text was written and maintained by Scott Watermasysk. Last year Scott started working for Telligent Systems and started working on .Text, now community server: blogs, full time. (For more info on community server: blogs see this post.) So be prepared...
When I was in intern working for the Mouse I often used ten codes to talk to the PC LAN team over the radio. I’ve forgotten most of it but thanks to lockergnome I now have the full list again. Use this in your next Halo 2 game to spread confusion all over your team!
10-1 - Weak signal10-2 - Good signal10-3 - Stop transmitting10-4 - Affirmative, OK10-5 - Relay message to [X]10-6 - Busy10-7 - Out of service10-8 - In service10-9 - Repeat transmission10-10 - Negative10-11 - [X] On duty10-12 - Stand by10-13 - Existing conditions10-14 - Message, information10-15 -...
This one is crazy. The cheerleader goes for two! Is it real or not? After you’ve debated it go play the game. I might try this one with Lucy at home!Now Playing: Fluffy - Dead Horse Grin
Who was the brainaic who did this? Someone apparently has created a version of Pac-Man in Excel. Why? The dev used each cell as one pixel to create the game. Cool but dumb. (via Chris and Scott.)Now Playing: Steve Taylor - This Disco (Used to be a Cute Cathedral)
Paige Davis of Trading Spaces was recently fired. Apparently the network was unhappy of the hostess’ antics. It first started with Ms. Davis “pretending” to strip at a fundraiser event. It continued when she posed in only wallpaper on the cover of TV Guide. Then there was the alleged sex tape. Well, it looks like she had a morals clause in her contract and the network decided enough was enough. Something tells me there’s more to this story…Now Playing: The Prayer Chain - Big Wheel
Two hundred posts. I bet many of you never thought I’d make it to this magic number. Frankly neither did I. Blogging has been loads of fun. I kinda wish I had a larger presence but I’ve always said I don’t blog for anyone but myself. If a million people read it or if zero people read it I’d still blog just the same. So raise your glasses of spring water everyone, post number three hundred is just around the corner.
Now Playing: Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Being a part of Call FM and having a kickin digital camera has added up to me taking a lot more photos of concerts. Lucky, I’ve found this three part article on concert photography at photo.net. The article is a little too technical for me but I’ve got to learn sometime right?Now Playing: Denison Marrs - Send Me an Angel
I had the time of my life running in the 2005 Disney marathon. The day started early, 3:45 AM early. We left the Contemporary via the Monorail for the starting line near the Epcot parking lot. It was a cold morning about 55 degrees. Freezing for a Miami boy like me. When we got there the starting area was abuzz with anticipation. I was a bit nervous about the race but excited at the same time. In the coral, someone mentioned to turn around so I did. There were runners lined up all the way to the horizon. It was an incredible sight....
Tomorrow morning I will attempt to do something that I have never done before, run thirteen miles. The Walt Disney World Marathon and Half-Marathon is tomorrow. I'm writing from from the Contemporary Resort at Disney World. Where, interestingly enough, I have never stayed. I'm somewhat apprehensive about tomorrow's run. I haven't had a long run since then end of November. The holidays really did a number on my training schedule. I'm going to choose to look on the bright side and say I'm “well rested”. There will be over 24,000 runners running in the marathon/half-marathon tomorrow. So the start will be...
We’re all pretty fanatical about Halo 2 on XBox Live right? We’ll Shatterock Technologies has released Query Spree a tool to download and analyze all of your Halo 2 online stats. This thing is downright cool. It lets you download your stats from Bungie.net and store the locally in Access (I know it sucks but it works). So when Bungie decides to purge their database your data will safe (as safe as it can be in Access). Speaking of Bungie and stats as of January 2nd there has been almost 46 million games of Halo 2 played on Xbox...
I installed Community Server Forums yesterday to kick its tires a bit, when I ran into the client side script problem again. I’ve seen this before so I ran aspnet_regiis –c to fix the problem. Instead, I received another problem aspnet_regiis -c was giving me an error of:
An error has occurred (0x80070005).You must have administrative rights on this machine in order to run this tool.
Yay. So I tried Google…nothing. Google groups...nothing. MSDN…nothing. I decided to post a message to the MSDN newsgroups. Within ten minutes I received a response and within seventy an answer. Here is the response from Juan:
Find...
ExtremeTech has posted a four part article on display technologies. I for one have been completely blown away by the variety of different technologies in the flat-panel arena. Just walk into your favorite electronic store and ask them the difference between plasma, LCD, rear-projection and DLP. Your eyes will be glazed before he finishes a sentence. The article is very technical and is written like an academic paper. (Which makes sense since a PhD wrote it.) I suggest that you skip parts one, two and three and jump right into part four. Part four reviews the different display technologies and gives...
Microsoft has released their new AntiSpyware application. I must say that the app looks great. Be aware that this is beta software so install at your own risk.
Now Playing: Luna Halo - Running Away
Yesterday, Ryne Sandberg was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Being a life long Cub fan this brings joy to my heart. When I was growing up Sandberg was my favorite player. For over a decade Ryno anchored the Cubs infield. Ryno wasn’t flashy and didn’t give very good quotes. He just did his job day in and day out better than anyone else. Even in the two playoff series that he played in he didn’t choke like the rest of the Cubs seemed to do (he batted .385 in ten games). He gave us Cub fans...