At roughly the same price why would you buy an iPhone when the Nokia N95 is a better device? Not only is it a better device but it comes from a manufacturer that has been making cell phones for a long time.When you buy Apple you are buying the label and the hype. When you…
July 4, 1776
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws…
I want a NetFlix Family Que
My family is a big fan of Netflix. We get a lot of use out the service and turn around on DVDs is often under three days. Being a family of three and only using the two disc at a time option does have its share of problems so we have been thinking of upgrading…
at&t offers free Wi-Fi to customers with high speed broadband
AT&T Inc. announced on July 2, 2007 that millions of its customers with higher speed broadband plans can now receive free access to AT&T’s nationwide Wi-Fi network — nearly 10,000 hot spots at popular locations across the country including leading airports, McDonalds restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops and popular sporting venues. Effective now,…
Forums Launching
I have noticed that a lot of people are leaving comments on old farming articles that are no longer valid. Because of this I have begun throwing some forums up on forum.hmtk.com.The forums are currently geared towards Pokemon but more can (and will) be added later. Why not go there and register? Update 8/25/2019 We…
Quartile
It has been a long time coming but I an now proud to announce the release of my new game, Quartile.The original prototype of this game began under the name of “Quads” but was soon changed to “Quadrovex” after I found several other games already using the name Quads. Before final production was complete the…
10 facts about Nintendo’s first half of 2007
10 interesting facts about Nintendo in the first half of 2007Through the first half of 2007, the total Wii hardware sell-through in the United States and Canada combined is more than 2.3 million units (2.1 million United States, 222,000 Canada).For the first half of 2007, Nintendo represents nearly 70 percent of the industry growth in…
Mario Party for DS?
Following on the heals of the Mario Party 8 game released for the Wii we now have news of a November release of Mario Party for DS. No details have been released but I do have these few screenshots.I’m going to make a guess and say the game uses local wi-fi for multi-player. I’m also…
Welcome to the new server
The big ordeal is over. I have defeated the last bug and put the blog onto the new server!The last problem I had to overcome involved moving to a newer version of mySQL that was causing problems with the character set used in the old database. Let me know if you encounter any problems.
If beer money worked like taxes
I know this has been floating around the Internet for many years but it is such a great illustration of how the American tax system works that I would like to share it.Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.If they paid their bill…
Technorati can’t count?
It has recently come to my attention that the blog tracking site Technorati is suffering with a math problem. Yes, the site that tracks millions of blogs (and rates them by popularity) does not understand that their Top 100 list should be just that, a top 100 list. Instead their Top 100 list appears to…
Dude, Where’s my Lake?
For those of you who haven’t yet heard, a lake in Southern Chile disappeared at some point in the last two months. That’s right, disappeared.The lake itself, situated in the southern Andes Mountains, was almost 100 feet deep and had a surface area of 10-12 acres. That’s a lot of water, about 39 million gallons…