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Wow, SumbleUpon coming through for me once again. Not much to talk about today so I thought I’d just post a HotLink. Paul did his demo at school today and they loved him (they all think he’s better than me, which is true). Before we went to school we had a 2 player session of Halo. Now I see where the game shines. If you look at the game with only 1 player mode in mind, it’s just OK (In My Opinion), but playing cooperatively with a second person is lots of fun. So that was cool.

My birthday’s tomorrow, so if you read this today (the 24th) send me positive birthday vibes. I added another game to my library today and have 2 more games I want to get. I haven’t been keeping up-to-date with games so now I’m all excited about the new stuff. I’ll just enjoy the games I have for a while and wait for the other ones to get cheaper.

That’s about it.

Happy Birthday to me

Even though I went to pick up some owed money after work, bought 2 Xbox games, went home and played Halo (1) for 4 hours I ended up getting some things done today. Something I had been looking for on and off for a while was a good WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) html editor and today, that search ended.

I stumbled on this program called Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/). It’s open source (free) and very nice. It’s feels really natural to use and has all the features you’d need to make simple little pages (like I like to do). I made a profile to go with my blog. You can see it by clicking here, or clicking the link in the upper right hand corner. Next thing on my html to do list is making a new homepage.

I’ve spent about 2 hours messing with that new program and making the profile so I don’t feel like writing much more. Two more things. One: I got a card for my GBA movie player so now I can play old NES games on it. And Two: someone messaged me about one of my posts. It’s funny to me getting evidence that more than my mom reads these pages (sometimes).

A few more things… I won’t be having my cake and eating it too. They replaced that other guy already, so I’ll still be switching to the elementary school (which is fine by me). Well, one more thing I guess. A movie just came on with Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Baby) playing in the intro, I think I’ll go watch it for a bit.

miltownkid out

Picked up my Xbox Friday evening. I got one game with it and I haven’t even put it in yet. I spent all Friday night trying to install Linux on it (gotta love the irony in that: Linux on a Microsoft machine). I had Linux fully working Saturday, but I haven’t had much time to play with it yet (you’ll soon see why). The cool thing about getting Linux on it is that it’s turns it into a little computer. After I figure out how to get everything working I’ll be able to surf the Internet, check email, watch movies (dixv movies), play mp3s, basically anything I can do on a computer I’ll be able to do on my LinuXbox (from the comfort of my couch). Another bonus is I’ll also learn Linux basics messing around with it. The site with information about installing Linux onto an Xbox is here.

Saturday was spent biking in the morn, chatting with Paul at lunch time, GTAing afterwards and KTVing at night. Today was spent with the family for my birthday. I finally saw that movie “House of Flying Daggers” at I-Ping’s brothers house. I got through the first VCD thinking “Why were people so harsh on this movies, it’s OK” then I was stabbed in the back (at about the same time Andy Lao was). The ending blows chunks. The beginning and middle were just OK to me, so I was a let down with the end.

Something else happened between now and my last written post. One of the teachers at my school said he was leaving the country (for reasons I’m not at liberty to say). But, it made an opening for Paul so we may end up working together again. That’d be cool, because I was planning on switching to the elementary school next semester so Paul could work at the kindergarten (and relax), but now it looks as if I may be able to have my cake and eat it too.

Halo 2 was shipped a few days ago and should be here in a week or so. I’ll probably pick up Halo: Combat Evolved (part 1) this week for practice. I’ll work on getting a KTV song or 2 up soon and another set of pictures (probably from previous bike rides). OK TTFN.