Litany Against Fear

No post tonight, so in the spirit of @mittense, here’s a kitty.

I did upgrade to WP 2.5 though, and it’s working great. More on Tuesday!

It simply does. That is all.

Oh, you wanted to know why! Well, if you’re still reading and not playing it, there’s three reasons why Rock Band is an awesome investment (it’s still $169.99) for your Xbox 360, PS3, or (soonly) your Wii. First off, the UI is a lot cleaner than Guitar Hero 3’s. Let’s look at the two side by side.

Rock Band

Guitar Hero 3

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I’ve become quite a twitterholic the past few days. In fact, let’s check the stats. Yeah, I’ve been pretty much addicted the past few days. Why? Well, there’s a few things I love about Twitter:

1. Twitter is short, sweet, and easy to use.

The concept is simple: 140 characters to tell the world what you’re doing. I don’t think you can get more simple than that. No complex forms, no huge commitments, just a simple request, and your simple answer. It has a wonderful web interface, and the settings allow you completely customize your page’s background along with colors for fonts. It’s just a breeze to use and easy to look at, which is a welcome change compared to Facebook or MySpace. Read the rest of this entry »

I had a slighty crappy weekend filling mostly with playing games and working on my ray tracer. Looks like it isn’t going to well:

That should be a sphere. Not some strange cone thing. Progress is slow, but steady.  Understanding the theory is key to this, and it’s pretty damn tough.

Well, Happy Easter everyone, and I hope if you made some sort of Lenten sacrifice (I gave up fast food!) you’ve kept it. A Wendy’s spicy Baconator is calling my name, and it’s getting harder and harder to resist…

Lately I’ve noticed that a few of my friends have been able to understand or even be aware of the Windows command line. I have a hard time myself pulling myself away from Explorer, but sometimes the command line is just quicker. However, it’s a bit drab by default. Today I’m going to show you just how you can pimp yours out a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

As always, I’m late to jump on the failboat, and this time I’ve decided to do some serious maintenance on my computer. I’ve had enough of having to rely on System Restore and worrying that I’ve lost all of my data, or that my computer is on the brink of death. So, I’m going to start maintaining my system more, and that’s starting with keeping my hard drive as tidy and speedy as possible. Read the rest of this entry »

I recently came across this post about a user who decided he had enough of the user-generated news community, Reddit. I’ve been a Reddit user for a quite some time now, and I’ve done my share of down voting Ron Paul stories as well submitting silly pictures that have made it onto the front page. Lately though, it’s become more than a habit to check this site. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sure that this list could be a lot longer, but I’m going to focus on six issues that really piss me off when I’m playing video games. If games happen to have more than 2 or 3 of these traits they tend to collect dust in my game cases very quickly, or they will do the same at your local game store. So, without further adieu:

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Every few months I try to start up this routine, but this time I’m going to try and keep it. I’m going to post blogs on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. It’s a strange schedule since most bloggers and web comics seem to update on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, but this works a little better for me with my classes this quarter. Read the rest of this entry »

I could say this about WPF as a whole, but when things actually work with WPF it’s so damn smooth I can’t help but feel somewhat accomplished. Nevertheless, I had a real pain trying to get an embedded flash player into my WPF app. Why Flash? Why not…dare I say, Silverlight? Well, I’m building a small app that plays YouTube videos, so obviously Flash makes sense. First, here’s some lessons I learned while on this wonderfully frustrating journey: Read the rest of this entry »