Entries from February 2006 ↓

My internet connection is on the blink so I won’t be around for a few days. But, it kind of works out since it’s the birthday weekend I’ll be too busy with other things anyway. I might even get in a bit of skiing on Monday. Yay!

Well, till later then.

Christophe Gans, talking about the upcoming Silent Hill movie.

For a lazy director, like the one who directed Doom, Silent Hill would be too big of a piece to swallow.

From 1up.

I spent far to long today looking for a copy of Empire at War - every store I stopped at was sold out. Now considering that each store only had one or two copies extra after preorders I guess it’s no surprise they were all gone. However, with the help of my new best friend ‘whatshername‘ over at EB I was able to track one down - which was great because I wasn’t feeling all that well and really needed to get back to the pad (but that’s a whole other story). I even got one of those Death Star desktop ball things. I wonder if the Star Wars geeks will be buying them off of Ebay in a few weeks.

So, I quickly got the game installed - started her up - got notified of a patch (patch details) - got that installed - then finally got into the game. I started my campaign as the Empire, because as Mike would say, I get all the darkside points. I just felt that crushing the Rebels would be a good time… Is that so wrong?

Overall the game is great, having played the demo I already had a feel for the game play so I was able to just jump right in and play. To put it simply, if you like RTS games and Star Wars then you better play this game. It’s a good game chock full of all things Star Wars. If you need more convincing - grab the demo via bit torrent.

nuff' said.

I just watched "House of the Dead 2: Dead Aim" and realize now that Uwe Boll is only part of the problem. Just take a look at the following…

HotD2 Writing Credits:

• Mark A. Altman
• Michael Roesch
• Peter Scheerer

It's like some sort of strange Uwe Boll fest. I almost wonder if Boll shadow directed this train wreck. I'm not sure but I think I still like "Alone in the Dark" better. *shudder*

Do yourself a favor: Do not watch this movie EVER! It is not even a good type of bad - there is no Ed Wood charm to be found! Nothing! Just a waste of video game licenses.

Some screens:

I couldn't bring myself to post anymore.

I like it!  I may just have to pick one up when it’s released.  Is there a US release date yet?  Did the old school DS come in Navy?

I was having some issues with WordPress and the image uploading function, every time I uploaded an image I'd get an error telling me that the thumbnail wasn't found. Taking a look at the code in wp-admin/admin-functions.php (starting at line 750 or so) made me realize that I had a similar error on this server when trying out PixelPost. And the fix was exactly the same.

I just checked and there is a fix up on Trac so it should be good to go with the next release. But, if you need to fix it now open up admin-functions.php and look for (around line 750 or so):

$thumbpath = str_replace(basename($file), $thumb, $file);

just after it insert:

touch("$thumbpath");

And you should be all set.

Opps I wasn’t paying attention - the new TIM is out!

changed/added (shindakun - SalmonKing)
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- Read Only file(s) in zip.
- Fixdat including extra data.
- Set status not saving.

- Added ‘demo-kiosk’ to the list of demo flags available

WordPress 2.0.1 was released the other day - I’ve already updated the site from the nightly code.  Just before the release I started going through Trac to see if I could fix any of the bugs or what not that people had found.  I submitted a couple diffs for some of the minor issues - not for 2.0.1 but for the eventual 2.1 release.  By no means spectacular but, every little bit helps I guess.  Besides it gives me some good PHP practice.  I’m going to follow the Trac and the wp-hackers mailing list as I have time - to see if I can continue to contribute.

I’ve got a couple of ideas in the works for the site - hopefully I’ll have some news posted soon.