O emacs, how I hate thee. I’m stuck using it for my CS labs, and learned over the course of 3 hours how horrible emacs actually is. Vim, here I come.
I’m going to try and move the blog to WordPress soon. Also, it will have a new home – SteveStreza.com, as well as a new design. Hopefully. There are a few reasons behind it – one, MT was giving me nothing but a ton of crap on this server. Two, I want to be able to use a Dashboard widget to post. Three, I’ve heard a lot of good things about WP and wanted to try it out.
Nine Figures 2 is now available for release. Those of you who fondly remember it as the best way to get the current count of how many songs Apple has sold on the iTunes Music Store back when they were climbing to reach 100 million songs. Well, 9F has returned for the new 500 million song race, and has brought along a killer new feature that Apple’s doing – fast incrementing. Really fast. In fact, in theory, it can be as fast as you want (if you know your way around command-line).
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
So I’m not dead. I’ve been playing a couple games lately on my PS2, and this is sort of a synopsis of some of those games I’ve been playing. Both of them rule. Today I’m gonna be highlighting one of them. Because, ya know, I want to.
I wish I had a 6th star. I really do. This episode was exquisite.
Rating: 5/5
E3 looms. We’ve got a big week ahead of us. It’s E3, which means new games, of course. Last year we saw the unveiling of two handhelds, and this week, we see the unveiling of two new consoles. Xbox 360 having already been unveiled, based on what little I know, I’d have to say that I want an X360 more, for a lot of reasons. The biggest is probably Halo 3.
Oh, and J Allard is a BOSS.
So Apple just released iTunes 4.8. One of the most interesting features in this release is video playback and management right from within iTunes. An interesting addition, and suddenly the decision as to why iFlicks got pulled, and was subsequently made into a piece of crap, makes more sense. Apple was probably up in arms about their new feature and didn’t want Helixent storming all over the place with their iTunes ripoff copy innovative immitation.
The OurColony challenge that was posted yesterday was ridiculously easy. Took me all of about 5 minutes to figure out. Read on for the details.
I saw Hitchhiker’s Guide on Friday. I was VERY skeptical when I walked in, as I loved the book and didn’t want a movie to bastardize it. But it was actually pretty good. It got a bit rough and hard to understand near the end, but the movie retained a LOT of the funny guide entries and all of the little nuances that made it so great.
Rating: 4/5
Some of the little nuances in 24 are starting to become obscenely cliche to the show. Read on for spoiler-laden perspective to see what I mean.