Google offers the above tool to help web developers get accurate data surrounding the type of visitors and visiting going on in their site. I got it and put it here, to see if I have any readers at all. It showed a map of the world, with U.S. and Alaska green for visitors. I got extremely excited, thinking, "Someone in Alaska likes my blog!!". Unfortunately, they just lump them together as the U.S. Bummer.
Moral of the story: if you read it - comment it -I could really use any kinda support. If I had a fan base, I'd write more often!!
Comment - where and when do you read techno-geekdom?
This is just too much - check out the horribly massive heatsink on the center of the drive! i'll be honest, it's a crude attempt at best, but proving it can be done is definitely worthy of a post. check it out, Meddy Christ-a-mas!
On Engadget this week there was an article about scientists that have made major breakthroughs in nanotechnology allowing you to bring your conscience with you at the size it probably already is.
They have managed to inscribe the Bible onto a tiny bit of silicon smaller than a grain of sugar. They claim 300,000 pages. Now, for those of you shaking there heads, no, the other half of your bible was not eaten by the dog; It is the Hebrew bible, which is significantly larger. It was accomplished in one hour by blasting tiny gallium ions at an object that then rebounded, causing an etching affect.
They have no conclusive proof, in my opinion, because they also cannot read it. Commentors of Engadget were also quick to point this out, saying that it couldn't be read / write technology, and that they didn't include any useful information like the font size or type. My personal favorite remarks on the subject are "Who was the Pinhead? George Bush?", and the other dealing with it's name: someone suggested "iBle".
My take on it is one of enormous triumph. This is a step in the right direction - towards further minimizing our data and bringing us one step closer to carrying flash memory that carries our entire hard drive with us, to boot on any computer anywhere. Common references I'd like to make are to the Artemis Fowl series, specifically he Eternity Cube. Also, to the crystal storage of Superman's parents. Combine this with Seadragon, and then you've got some money!!
As a non-mmorpg-er (uh, yeah.. that made sense..), aka not a WoW player, I hate monthly fees. Hate them. No one likes them, because they feel like bills, like taxes. But, the sad truth is, some things are worth paying for. That is, surely, the only reason I pay for XBox Live Gold Account - I have so many Halo Montage moments!!
Anyways, sc2blog.com has concluded its extensive poll on whether a monthly fee should be placed on the SCII multiplayer experience.
Naturally, Blizzard and Vivendi Games have been considering it. the widespread success of the program for WoW has turned it into one of the most lucrative franchises in history. But would it work for the Stacraft community? SC2blog asked their readers to make the job easy for their heroes at Blizzard by taking a poll of their most loyal fans - the ones that read every Q&A session, play on the beta test servers, and buy anything that they can get their grubby hands on that shares that cool logo they know and love. These are the results (chart taken from SC2blog):
The imaged is linked to larger results. To summarize, the big blue 72% stands for all the useres who polled they couldn't or wouldn't pay a monthly fee for SCII. Well, there's your answer, Blizzard! We like the free Battle.net tool that set the standard for free and simple online play with friends. The next largest chunk, at 14%, suggests instead a large one time fee.
personally, I don't think a fee would keep me away from the game, but I agree with the 74% of fans when I say that games should be made for the gamers, and let's face it: we're all mostly 12 year olds or poor college kids these days, so cut us a break. I garuntee you, you WILL sell lots of your masterpeice sequel.
I know you're all curious - what did I get for Christmas? Well, I have some stories to tell.
Best gifts for me were Mass Effect, which was exactly what I asked for, and several shirts that will hide the fact that I am a techno-geek. I got two books worth mentioning: The Starcraft Archive and Decipher. The former is the complete novels covering the story of the game. The latter is a new novel by an author hailed as the next Michael Crichton. Well, we'll see about that - big shoes to fill - but that said the novel looks very interesting, to the techno-geek of course. It is about a power source discovered in the arctic that is more powerful than anything previously discovered by man. It is thought to be the power source that ran Atlantis, the sunken city of the Ancients. It throws the countries of the world into intense war over it's control and use, while a small group of scientists work to decipher the inscription / prophecy located there from coming to be, leaving us to follow the Atlantian's fate. Courtesy of back cover... Doesn't it sound sweet?
I got a few other gifts, none of which were technology related (always disappointing), but thats what you get when you don't ask for any!
Anyone get something sweet for Christmas? The gaming system of their dreams, or a wicked new gadget? Let me know about it. Comment me up!
Hey, sorry for the unintendedhiatus on the blog, but I couldn't find the energy between shopping for my christmas presents and getting scheduled for 39 hours of work this week. Let's recap.
I got back to my old job at the bakery which is in desperate need of a system. Any system. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, but for instance, when we get 60+ orders for bread for Christmas Eve pick-up: organization is KEY. we had orders everywhere, tagged by name and what was included. It didn't help that they weren't on database, let alone alphabetical order. We spent so long trying to find orders it was pathetic. We only screwed up about ...6 people's Christmas's? More or less.. You know I'm kidding, but it's jest never easy explaining to a customer why even though they thought ahead and everything, their party will still go without kaiser rolls because I'm a dufus.
Haven't seen many friends yet, but that will come later. It' truly good to be home. And back to the Blog.
Hey guys! Posting this week's Gamer's Corner early so You don't miss it early in the morning when I'm in an exam and you are crying for new material...
This week is full of previews and reviews: first, preview of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, followed by a review of Unreal Tournament III for PS3, and Endless Ocean for the Wii. A statistical analysis of the new terran unit from Starcraft 2, the Nomad, fills the side story. Enjoy!!
Tomorrow is the end of my first semester at Penn State University. I loved every moment. I met my girl, I made friends, I discovered my love for blogging, played Halo 3, and so much more. Can't wait to go home though! I have one more final tomorrow in (haha) computer science, specifically C++. I could have taken it last week and not had to wait this long but they told me it was impossible to reschedule it without a dire need scenario. I debated chopping my leg off, but decided it was probably not what they meant...
After that I catch a bus home, where I WILL continue writing to my invisible audience (comment please!!) all about the holidays. Thanks for reading!!
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Engadget made my day this morning posting about this. Someone made a case out of cardboard and (lots of) tape. It is running ubuntu, and a pentium 3 processor, and has a 80% chance of lighting on fire immediately after the power switch is flipped (if it has one). I personally love the custom artwork!!
This is an absolutely unbelievable shot.. Cant believe the luck of it. It makes me remember why I love the sniper: it takes skillz. You might hurt yourself with it lol!
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