It lives
It’s not like it’s the story of the century, we’re not releasing a new iPod or anything but….
COMING SOON
SAVVYNATION DOT COM
Toying
The mere fact that I can write a post while I’m using the restroom has to be some sort milestone for human ingenuity. Seriously. The web while you poop, right up there with the wheel, flight and the lightbulb.
Moving on.
Has anyone ever bothered to do any of those “free Something” websites? FreeIpod, freeXbox, etc. I’ve looked at half a dozen of them and briefly considered giving it a try. All the “I didn’t think it was real but here it is” testimonials are starting to sway me. Free iPods or free GameBoys I could live without. A free laptop or a free Mac Mini however, that might peak my interest.
The only problem becomes getting 10 other people to get “free” trial offers of pointless crap so you can get your thing. And no, I’m not going to ask any of you to sign your life over for 6 months of Entertainment Weekly magazine. What I might do, as any good hacker/pirate from my generation would, is socially engineer 9 other people. That means “make them up” for you younger folks just joining the program.
We’ll see if I have the motivation.
Besides that, I’m also toying with the idea of starting a group editorial news/blog page. You of course would be invited to join. I could envision myself writing about games and tech, Jason about music maybe, Nagle about art/design and cool web stuff, Chip and Chris about tech and programming and other cool stuff. I’m fairly serious about it though. I’d want to go at it hardcore, really try and make something out of it. I dunno. You guys even interested in something like that. I’d covering the setup and hosting costs, but would you guys want to contribute if given the chance?
Topic Bonanza!
There’s about a million things I’d like to mention and at present I lack the motivation to discuss any of them at great length. It’s not that they’re unworthy topics, it’s just that I’m lazy.
I could be telling you about DiggNation, the weekly podcast I’m addicted to, and it’s bigger brother This Week In Tech. Both shows have redefined the way I think about online audio content and I highly recommend both. The easiest thing to do is to get the new version of iTunes OR (my personal preference) the latest version of Winamp. Both programs have both shows available in the Podcast sections of their respective media browsers.
As a preface to DiggNation, I should also mention I was a very early adopter of Digg.com. Which, btw, is like sex for your browser. Customizable RSS feeds, social bookmarking, tech/game/cool stuff news around the clock. Must check this one out if you’re not already addicted like I am.
I might also mention things like the new BF2 patch (news). Download. It’s quasi-helpfulness in some areas lead many to believe that yet again, EA Games has failed to properly support it’s products. I can see many things this patch fixed and yet there are hundreds more things that need addressing before we can call this game complete. Instead of putting out a few more patches and fixing a few bugs, EA has already moved on to it’s first expansion pack. Lame. Battlefield2: Special Forces should more accurately be called “BF2: All the things we forgot the first time”.
As part of that update, the stat system within BF2 was changed tremendously. The ranks, as they were, were very spread out, causing the average person to have to play the game for approx. 2 years before unlocking all the content. EA realized this was a problem and lowered the requirements for ranks and unlocks for the first few levels. So, as a result, most people jumped 2 or 3 ranks the next time they logged in, triggering massive unlocks and upgrades. Myself I went from Lance Corporal to Staff Sargent in about 30 seconds. You can get an explination of the new ranks here. You can also check out my personal stats incase you’re curious.
That leads me to website updates, because that’s something I’m planning on including. I’m going to embed some BF2 info over here in the rightside navigation menu. Probably a little “on/off” logo to say when I’m playing and two small lines for rank and global score. Nothing big or intrusive. I’m also going to update those links a bit, put a few more up and probably change this entire template from light whites/grays to dark grays and blacks with some glow effects here and there. That is, if I have time.
Also, some TCC tshirts are finally going to be printed up. I’m going to make a small run for myself and a few Crew members but afterwards, I’m going to set up a SpreadShirt.com store (a bit more flexible than CafePress) to take future orders.
Of course we can’t have an update without talking about those RedSox. Jesus guys, you trying to make me have a heart attack or what? Talk about down to the last friggin game. At least they spanked the yankees good in that last regular season game. It’s a shame that even though their records are identical the Sox get the wild card while the Yankees get the division. That’s a bullshit rule about the better record versus each other. What’s also bullshit is the home/away rule being decided by the All-Star game. Game two is tonight, I’ll be watching, and a few of you probably will too.
I also wanted to quickly mention this month being a jackpot for gamers. With the release of this new BF2 patch, Quake 4 coming out in 2 weeks and Call of Duty 2 and Civ4 coming out in just 3, October is going to be kick ass. Call of Duty was THE best WW2 game ever made. Period. I’m not talking multiplayer (we all know where my allegance lies with that) but I’m talking about single player and story-wise. COD was beautiful and judging by the demo I checked out today, COD2 will be more so. Civ4 on the other hand, answers my addiction on a whole new level. I STILL play Civ3 to kill time. It’s that good. It’s perfection in terms of gameplay, AI and strategy. Civ 4 is going to take that and add 3D (Pirates engine) and raise the bar through the roof. Quake4 I’m excited about simply for nostalgia sake. I started with Quake, moved to HL, then to CS and finally BF, now it’s all full circle.
Finally, I’d like to say congrats to both Chip and Lauren for their new jobs. Both have been looking for a while and it’s great to know both of them found what they were looking for. So, congrats to Chip on a new job, and congrats to Lauren for changing jobs to something less stressful and more lucrative.
That’s about it kids. I’m out.
Wild Wild Web
Man, the internet is a crazy friggin place. Last night I was reading on Digg, my new favorite site by the way, that something insane was happening over at Methlabs with PeerGuardian. Apparently, the guy responsible for handling Methlabs and Blocklist.org’s donations, in a bid for power, took control over the web servers, forums and financial accounts of the team. The official PG homepage, the forums and any information coming from BlockList is now said to be compromised. The development team has moved what they could salvage to the SourceForge site that PG was downloaded from and put up a press release about it.
” The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website following a series of threats and incidents. The member of the group that had been trusted to handle the finances and servers slowly managed to take over each individual part of the website’s assets, eventually claiming control over the entire group and locking out the majority of staff.
The organisation’s founders, Tim Leonard and Ken McKelland, as well as the majority of the organisation’s staff and developers (including the main developer of the PeerGuardian2 application, Cory Nelson and the staff members responsible for auditing the PeerGuardian Blocklists) have all been forcibly removed from the servers that were funded from donations given to the organisation by happy users, and from text advertising placed on the websites forum and project pages. “
That’s nuts. Goes to show you, you should never let a single person control all of YOUR hard work. At this point, no one knows what to think about this and everyone is urged not to download from Methlabs and NOT to update your blocklists. I’m glad I heard about this, I was just about to.
Konfabulator is FREE!
Holy crap on a cracker. Konfabulator was bought by Yahoo! and is now free to all. That’s fantastic. Long live the widget. Check it out at konfabulator.com.
Java?
Do Chris or Chip (or JTN if he reads this) have any Java or J2ME applications that maybe, perhaps, they wouldn’t mind me passing off as my own for the purpose of getting a Developers License for my SideKick? Apparently, along with blood, semen and you’re first born, in order to unlock these things now you need to actually have an application that works and you’re looking to test it on actual hardware. That incredibly messed up. There’s SO MANY 3rd party apps that I’d like to install. Browse ANY of the apps at skdr.net and see what I mean. But you can’t even begin to get near installing them without completely opening up the SideKicks OS, something you can only do with a Dev Key. I cry foul.
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