Geek Entertainment TV: Wii Fight.
If you watch the intro, you’ll understand the title of this post 🙂
On Wii’s though, my 4 year old takes me to points in Wii Boxing, and he kicks my backside in bowling, he even bowled a 180 the other day! Time to start working out I guess 🙂
One problem solved. As I mentioned in (possibly my last) weekly column at The Blogging Times this week, I’ve had to spend money on infrastructure, another box (dedicated hosting box) to be precise, making my sum total of boxes to 3. The problem I had was the new box wasn’t provisioned until yesterday (Tuesday) lunchtime, and in the mean time Box 2 was flipping out, it got so bad that Apache was failing every 5-10 minutes, sometimes more often, every single time resulting in an email from the box to me. It’s over, god bless, and now the numbers are sweet, apache has been up for a day, and all is good in the world again…and no more apache failed email messages. A personal victory, but one I thought I might share 🙂
I’m no Howard hater, I was a long term member of the Liberal Party (until 2005), I wept when Howard was elected in 1996 (mind you, it could have been the beer, and the fact I hadn’t slept for 3 days prior), I’ve worked on marginal and non-marginal Federal Campaigns since, twice as a staffer, once as Campaign Chair, so I say this with a background of someone who has voted Liberal my entire adult life.
John Howard: shut the f*ck up.
Sorry about the language, but beyond the pale utterances deserve it. For those of you who missed what the Australian Prime Minister said about Barak Obama’s run for President and his call to bring Amercian troops home from Iraq:
“I think he’s wrong. I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilise and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory…If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.”
What an extremely nasty, evil, horrid piece of rhetoric. On the other hand I’ve got only praise for Barack Obama, who replies:
“I think it’s flattering that one of George Bush’s allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced. I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops in Iraq, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1400, so if he is … to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq. Otherwise it’s just a bunch of empty rhetoric.”
Prime Minister, this man could well and truly be the next President of the United States of America, and might I add, one who I believe would make a very, very good President. Don’t think he isn’t going to remember Australia as being a nationfrom which its leader sought to paint him as being in bed with al-Qaeda…aside from the fact saying what you said is just down right beyond stupid. Remember the saying: if you’ve got nothing important or clever to say, don’t say it. Shut the f*ck up, before Australian exporters are destroyed by the next US Administration, before ANZUS is ripped up, and before next time I get strip searched instead of just getting patted down at an American Airport!
Tags: John Howard, Barack Obama
Definite sign of the times: Rockstars next release, Manhunt 2 is being developed for the Playstation 2, PlayStation Portable and….the Wii, but not the XBox 360 nor the PlayStation 3. I keep reading reports of people trading PS3’s for the Wii, and of the massive backlog of orders in the US and Europe for the console. You can’t buy it here in Australia either at the moment, as soon as a shipment comes in, they’re straight out the door. It’s literally the MUST HAVE console of this generation, and even hard core gamers are starting to come across…after all, playing computer games in a group has never been so much fun!
Disclosure: I own a Wii 🙂
It’s official. As of this morning I’ve decided I hate Gawker Media’s Lifehacker. Why? because it’s so infuriatingly useful. Nearly every single day I find something interesting to download, really really good stuff as well. I’ve already got 3 columns of programs in All Programs, I don’t want a 4th column. Today’s key download: RocketDock. It’s brilliant. Ignore the Mac OSX styling for a minute, download it, and have a play. The last thing I wanted is some giant program dock sitting at the bottom middle of my screen (even if it is 22 inches). You can move it, and even strip the background! I ended up with this:
All my favourite programs fitting nicely at the top hand right of the screen all the time, no need to enter start anymore to get to them. Bloody Lifehacker!!!! stop being so useful!!!!!!!
TechCrunch covers Change.org, a not for profit social networking site that links donors and charities. Line 4 of the TechCrunch shot of the Tag Cloud is of particular interest for me:
“Universal Health Care”. ROFL. If you need Universal Health Care, may I humbly suggest you contact DIC, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship and ask about moving permanently to Australia. Permanent Resident = Medicare Card, and all the universal (mostly) free health care you could ever ask for. Sure, I’ve personally got private cover (about $92 AUD ($75 USD) per fortnight currently for my entire family, full cover, top of the range etc…) but that’s because I’m adverse to waiting for elective surgery should the need rise, that and I prefer the food at my local Private Hospital over the Public Hospital, which is literally next door…even connected via a passage way 🙂
Great news for owners of Inkjet Printers, according to USA Today Kodak is about to launch a new line of Inkjet printers with CHEAP INK!
To quote:
For years, companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Epson, Canon and Lexmark have sold inexpensive consumer-grade inkjet printers ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù many are about $100 or so ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù and made up the difference in ink sales.
Manufacturers can make as much as 75% profit on the sale of ink cartridges, says Jim Forrest, an analyst at Lyra Research. Printer ink is a $32 billion market worldwide, he says.
Inkjet manufacturers have never lowered their prices or engaged in a price war, Forrest says. But that could happen if Kodak’s printers take off.
This is great news for consumers. The inflated prices of Ink from all the manufacturers to date smells like and looks like a price fixing cartel. If the Kodak product goes well it will hopefully force other manufactureres to follow with cheaper ink prices. Next time I’m in the market for a printer I’d 99% more likely to go out of my way now to buy a Kodak printer to support what they are doing, and so should others.
The latest and greatest ebook out there (again): Day Job Killer (not an affiliate link). I must have half a dozen emails from marketing gurus in my inbox all pushing the program. I must admit, I’m tempted to buy it, Affiliate Project X wasn’t a bad read, but there’s one big question though, is the program using fake product endorsements?
Joe Birstle, Perth, Australia
That’s my neck of the woods, sort of, well give or take 200kms. Interesting name, one problem, if this guy is real he doesn’t exist in the phone book:
He could potentially have a silent number, I do, but the odds of that are about 1 in several thousand. I also can’t find any mention of him on Google either, aside from the Day Job Killer affiliate sites. The guy literally doesn’t exist online, and as we all know, that’s next to near impossible. If it smells fishy it probably is. Food for thought.
Tags: Day Job Killer
Tired of Mac users telling you how wonderful their Mac is? We’ll have I got the antedote for you, compliments of a wonderfully earnest peice of journalism by Charlie Brooker at The Guardian:
I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, “I hate Macs”, and then I think, “Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?” Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb.
Read the full thing here. It bought a very big smile to my face at least 🙂
More David Hicks BS: this time an advertising campaign trying to “humanise” him. Enough is enough. Hang him, shoot him, do something to him please Mr Bush, just something to shut the nutters up. Am I really alone in being sick and tired of hearing the whinging day in, day out about Hicks being in Gitmo? The f*cker was caught in AFGHANISTAN for christ sake! Let me give everyone a bloody great big clue: he wasn’t there on a Club Med or Club 18-30 holiday. David Hicks should be grateful that he’s alive, after all the best thing for terrorists is death. Oh yeh, this dinky dye, true blue aussie also changed his name to Mohammed Dawood, and whilst converting to mohammedism isn’t a crime (mind you, if you’re a muslim and you convert to Christianity, they consider that a capital crime) he took that to the extreme of fighting in Kosovo, before taking up the fight in Afghanistan. The guy is an admitted Muslim fighter…a fighter who took on allied forces in Afghanistan and who had strong ties to Al Quieda. He’s lucky he is where he is…alive and fed, because he doesn’t deserve it.
Tags: David Hicks