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Archive for August, 2009
PS3 Hitting It’s Stride
Aug 31st
If you haven’t heard the news: God of War Collection – Blu-ray Disc Compilation Available This Holiday Season!
All I can say is FUCK YES! This gives me hope that they’ll possibly do the same for ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.
WoW Tip #1
Aug 30th
During a raid recently it came to my attention that there are people who don’t know how to tell if a mob ability can be interrupted. I can’t recall exactly when Blizzard added in the ability to distinguish between abilities that can and cannot be interrupted, but here you go:
Example: Ability cannot be interrupted
As seen above, the shield around the ability icon indicates it cannot be interrupted. No shield means it can be interrupted.
Drupal’s Steep Learning Curve
Aug 27th
While I don’t think I’ve mastered Drupal I’m past the worst of the learning curve, but there were a number of things that I never saw explained anywhere which caused me many a headache. Many a time I would update some css but after uploading and forcing a page refresh the changes wouldn’t appear and I’d spend the next 20-30 minutes trying to see if I’d mispelt something (which is often the case).
Occasionally it would happen that I didn’t make a mistake though leaving me extremely perplexed and thoroughly unconfident in my ability to learn the intricacies of Drupal, only to have my original changes suddenly appear on the site without me doing anything.
My Torrents Are Slooow
Aug 26th
I’ve noticed since yesterday all trackers to the torrents I’m downloading of various televions shows have gone offline or aren’t working. Has anyone else seen this or is it just me (if it’s just me I need to make a phone call to my ISP.
It’s not that my torrents aren’t downloading though. DHT, Local Peer Discovery, and Peer Exchange still work perfectly.
Sitemaps And Drupal
Aug 25th
Most people don’t realise it but there is a standard out there for reporting to various search engines such as Google and Yahoo what pages they should and should not index, including the ability to give weight (importance) to individual pages. In Drupal a module called XML Sitemap has always handled this and I’m happy to say that today it has finally reached version 1.0 for Drupal 6.
Even though XML Sitemaps is a contributed module everyone uses it and I really can’t imagine a scenario where this module wouldn’t be wanted. We’ve been quietly twisting our panties at having to use a development version for so long in fear that if we said something to upset the module maintainer he’d drop the project leaving it in limbo. It has only been the organisation of some very respected members of the Drupal community who stepped in after seeing the mess it had become that has seen it reach 1.0.
Drupal 7 Is Cool
Aug 24th
The upcoming release of Drupal 7 is seeing some major changes in the look and functionality due to the attention that has been given to the user experience. Like Wordpress, Drupal 7 will have an administration theme which will take away many of the layout, design, and customisation headaches that currently exist.
When Drupal 6 was released contributed modules such as CCK and Views were not ready due to major rewrites for both, which meant most people couldn’t upgrade. There is a push behind Drupal 7 to make sure this doesn’t happen again. More >
Something Finally Clicked
Aug 23rd
We bought a PS3 nearly a year ago and in all that time I’ve been trying to find a game that would get Oui interested in it. Even Little Big Planet wasn’t able to penetrate his ambivalence, but last night I found the game.
While he and I were looking through the PSN his reluctance to buy anything was decieving, in reality derived from his inherent cheapness, but when it was downloaded he was transfixed. His hands wrapped around the controller in a death-grip only hardcore gamers would recognise, his eyes fixed on the screen, his face constantly transitioning between intense concentration to intense effort.
The game?
Marvel vs Capcom 2 HD
Watching him with the controller makes me concerned that he’s going to break it so I try not to watch, but I did manage to walk myself off a cliff in WoW while watching the game. Funilly enough he seems to have come around to the idea of buying a second controller now too, even though I’ve explicitly stated that there is no way I’m going to play it with him. He’s got his eye on Super Puzzle Fighter HD next.
Oh, and for a HD remake Marvel vs Capcom 2 HD looks shit. You can tell they barely put any effort into it.
My Little Modem
Aug 18th
Back in the old days, when dial-up was king. When the cool kids hung out on BBS’s and online child predators were just a twinkle in politicians eyes. Where the internet was that thing used by the US military for some thing or other. When the content of a 100KB file had to be extremely compelling to justify the time it would take to download it (it was usually porn). I was on a 2400 baud modem.
I was cool and hip (to myself) and the internet ruined everything.
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