How do you know when you’ve been playing a video game too much? When in game things invade your real life.I like the Wii game Excite Truck. Heck, I love the game! It’s my favorite game on the Wii! I love it so much it is invading my daily life!While driving through the snow on…
Month: March 2007
It’s not an asteroid!
A few weeks back I pulled an all night shift at work because of a tree falling on some telco wires. Oh what a profitable night that was!A few days later the hole was still black and warm. So warm that no snow had accumulated around it even though several inches had fallen that week.I…
Blog Review: Untwisted Vortex
I first found this blog by checking my incoming links. For some reason I was showing incoming links but, when I went to the blog I couldn’t find any! I didn’t think much of it but I did keep checking out his blog. He must have been reading mine because he took me up on…
Are you ready for Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl?
On April 22, 2007 the two new Pokemon games for DS launch. Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl have already seen great success in Japan, will they duplicate that success in America? Considering the games sold about 5 million copies in the first three months I expect these two games to be very popular. With Pokemon…
Speed Linking for Friday March 16, 2007
It is snowing outside today and I’m going to make this a super speedy speed linking post!Speed Links!What hits you? – Pay attention to the keywords that send traffic your way. I know for a while I was getting a lot of hits for people searching for “sex” and “video” I don’t host either one…
The truth about Digg’s bury brigade
I discovered something this morning about the so-called “bury brigades”I bury lots of crap that I find on Digg, when I still bother to go there but, this very morning, I was up early and I had Digg Spy loaded up.What I saw was not a case of mass burying of certain sites though, it…
Write now, publish later
If you use WordPress you should be using the Post Timestamp feature.What this handy feature does is allow you to write all of your blog posts at once and time stamp them for delivery all day long. This is very useful if your blog does not contain time sensitive material.In fact, I am writing this…
I’m number 1,000
Yesterday I created a card for the new website Bla.st. It took me a few minutes to make the card but, those minutes turned out to be very profitable as I soon received an email from Tim at Bla.st informing me that I had become the 1,000th member of Bla.st!He posted about it on their…
Nintendo wins again, and again!
According to independent sales data released by the NPD Group, the Wii from Nintendo was America’s best-selling video game console in the U.S. again in February, with consumers snapping up virtually every system available in America totaling more than 335,000 units. Only one game system sold more in February, the portable Nintendo DS, with sell-through…
Video game save games
Last night I was listening to a podcast that brought up the subject of save games on video games. They covered the old days of password based games, battery saves, save locations and the current incarnation of quick-saves.They also raised some interesting points about how the introduction of save games has influenced gaming and the…
Wii Review: WarioWare Smooth Moves
Everyone needs a game that you can play with 12 players, is WarioWare: Smooth Moves the game? Only time will tell. Until time does tell you can read this review and decide for yourself.WarioWare: Smooth Moves is all about the “Form Baton” and holding it in bizarre ways. This game will have you holding the…
Almost 50 STAR WARS characters to appear in ST Patty’s Day parade in Boston
Hi Folks,The 501st Legion, along with the Rebel Legion, will be marching in the Boston St Patrick’s Day Parade. This event will be MASSIVE! The Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade is the second largest St Patty’s Day Parade in the country! There are close to 50 people signed up to march and represent Star Wars…