Sylar, the evil boogeyman of the Heroes TV show is a very complex character. Born Gabriel Gray, he is a watchmaker from Queens, New York who always hoped to be “special” but never knew how special he was until he met Chandra Suresh.It was during his first meeting with Chandra Suresh that he was disapointed…
Month: May 2007
Delta and Nintendo team up for free DS download games
As people get ready to travel this summer Delta and Nintendo have announced that they are teaming up to provide free DS demo games at select airports in the USA. All though these are not full-fledged games these demos are enough to keep those bored kids happy during lay overs and while waiting to board…
Wii Preview: Mario Party 8
Are you ready to party?Are you sure?Then get ready for May 29, 2007 because that is the day when the new Mario Party 8 is released for the Wii!Developed by Hudson Soft this is the first game in the long running Mario Party series to hit the Wii. Unlike the last version, Mario Party 7,…
Music Review: Naama Hillman
‘This article has been in the works for a number of weeks now. I wanted to make sure I did it up right before publishing it. I also want to thank charbarred from The Plugg for turning me on to this great musician. The fact that he is a guitarist on the album and is…
Five Blogs that I read
‘I just wanted to give a quick shout out to five of the blogs that I read often.Jane May Blogs – Jane May is part of the writing team over at Career Ramblings. She uses her blog to talk about things that do not fit on the Career Ramblings blog. She does not update daily…
The Spammers Do Try
I get a lot of spam comments here on HMTK. Most days I get between 600 and 1,200 spam comments. Since I ported the blog over to WordPress back in February I have gotten hit with 53,666 spam comments.Akismet grabs 99% of them and has only mislabeled one comment as spam. Well, I think it…
My favorite forums
When I’m not blogging I like to waste spend my time on a few forums. I’m going to list them in no particular order.Kenzer and Company Forums – Home of the Kenzer and Company games such as HackMaster and their wonderful magazine Knights of the Dinner Table. I used to admin for these guys but…
Weird Al Yankovic and Left Brain Games Team up to Stamp-Out Viruses!
Left Brain Games, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive game for personal computers featuring musical artist and cult hero Weird Al Yankovic and thousands of pesky computer viruses.Virus Alert 3D features Weird Al as the new Information Technology employee at Companytechco Inc., LLC. His job is to hunt down and…
I guess it’s time to ban circular saws
Dateline: La Habra CaliforniaA man used a circular saw to cut off his mother’s head and then turned it on himself and tried to do the same. He failed in trying to cut his own head off but he did kill himself in the proccess.Police responded to an early morning 911 call for a family…
Q&A from Nintendo Analyst Meeting April 27, 2007
On April 27, 2007 Mr. Iwata answered a series of questions at an analyst meeting. You will find the complete text here. Because this is a long one I am using the ‘more’ tag.Q1. Some time ago, Mr. Iwata said that the video game hardware business is the business of momentum, so you must achieve…
Pokemon Global Trade Station Tips
One of the most anticipated features of the new Pokemon games for DS (Diamond and Pearl) has to be the GTS, or Global Trade Station. Using the GTS players are able to trade their Pokemon with players all over the world.Parents need not fear this as the GTS does not allow for any real interaction…
Amazon Reaches One Million “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” pre-orders!
Amazon.com has announced that they have broken the one million pre-order mark for the newest Book; “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”. With only two and one half months remaining before the book comes out the company has broken past the million mark for this seventh (and final) book in the Harry Potter series.Amazon has…