PS2 Recalled

Thousands of new slim-design PS2s have been recalled, due to an overheating power supply. This, of course, marks the second mass recall for the PS2, and also the second mass recall of a console due to overheating.

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Easy Way to See The Tree's Secerts

Over at OrigenXbox360.com...the tree is holding omse pretty well-hidden secerts. You can easily find out something about them though by viewing the page as "Source" or in HTML.It will tell you what week its in, and the secert or change for the week so at least your know what to look for. What it dosn't say, however, is when Halo 3 is coming out...

Did You Buy a Shirt Yet?

Remember to head over and buy the Flood shirt from Bungie. They've nearly collects $120,000 to donate to the Red Cross...that number should be higher by now. We all need to join together to help fellow Americans. Buy a shirt now. Already bought one? Buy another. Theres still people out there that need help. Heck, buy three, even four or five. BUY!!!!!!!! And tell others to as well!!!

http://www.bungiestore.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=322

Cool Logo Makers

Nothing new...but these are old favorites of mine:

Google Page Creator
Favorite Logo of Mine
A Dream of Mine

Yahoo Logo Creator
Favorite Logo of Mine

Now I'm Interested

I never got into the whole Origen thing (The ILB like viral thing for the Xbox 360)...until now. In fact, I had never visted the site until today.

What changed me? This update from TeamXbox. It seems to me that there is lily some kind of connection between it and Halo 3. Not sure how big...but anything that mentions Halo is worth my time. I'll spend today trying to get up-t0-pace with the Origen thing...but untill then, heres some Latin that may be as famous as I Love Bees:

in hoc spatio arbor noster floruit, fecundus pomies Elysii ignoti, qui in loco ludent electi, ab Originis angelis circumdati.

The New iPod: Nano

Today, Apple annouced the birth of the next big thing in MP3 players: the iPod Nano. As you can see from the picture, its pretty much a bigger version of the Shuffle...with a screen. It's flash based...which means it should be dock-free. It's scdueled to be available sometime this week, for $199 +. It holds 500-1000 songs (I belive there is two versions, geussing 500 and 1000). Apple plans on making the Nano replace the iPod Mini.

Apple also annouced the alreadly-known deal involving the iTunes cell phone deal with Mortorla.

Support Bungie in Helping Fight The Flood

Don't listen to the fools over at the TeamXbox forums...Bungie really is trying to help those hurt by the devestating effects of Katrina. While I am far away from its immediate effects, I too am deeply hurt by this great disaster. Buy a shirt...help save lives. And remember, for every ugly, dirty, rotten no-good scum of-the-Earth lotter, there are 1,000 good people just stuck there, and tens of thousands more trying get to them.

LINK TO SAVE AMERICA
(PLEASE BLOG THIS LINK EVERYWHERE. INLCUDE IT IN ALL FORUM SIGS)
http://www.bungie.net/News/Story.aspx?link=8495D2B1-3505-4EF4-A6DE-A99B109A332B

from my psp

this post is coming coming from my psp ... i just updatd now 2 vers. 2.0

From The Del Coranado Hotel

Yes...I am once agai on vaction with my insane family...thistime to an actual tortsist place. I am blogging this fro a $9.99 Internet access thing on my TV in h room (ye..Ipaid fr it, altough I didn't like it. Sorry for the poor spelling and the like...this key boar sucks).

Nothing new to really report (No WWWU from Bungie) except that I won my Fantasy -ball game. Go Carp! Oe more copetegame is al I need to win BIG!!

Second Test of the Year

Today I had (dun-dun-dundah!) the second test of the year, and again, it was in Computer Science. Well, actually, its more like the forth or fifth...but CS is the only class I care enough (I guess, I actually really like gov) to blog about. Today it was on basic code structure. Heres some q's I remeber for you:

T or F: GUI stands for Graphical Interface

What symbal will make Java ignore everything that comes after it? (Highlight below for answers)

Number 1: True
Number Two: Double slash: //

Come on Major: UPDATE

Latter on last night, MN did do a repost to the new information. Was this becuase of the report I had just made? Did I cuase history to happen? I doubt it...but a guy can dream.

Come On, Major

We all know Major Nelson, as a rep for MS, will usually tend to gloss over any article that shows either the 360 in a bad light...or the PS3 in a good one. Thats just the way it is...and thats cool. I understand. Everyone does it...from the NY Times to our faithful and war-loving president.

Today, however, I have no understanding for Major. This goes beyond the normal "Everyone loves the 360" news to the "your just being unfair". Heres how it goes down:

August 31, 2005 8:34 AM PST-
TeamXbox posts this story, about the PS3 chip being less powerful than some other cool PC chip alreadly out.

August 31, 2005 10:53 AM PST-
Major Nelson posts a link to the article. "Team Xbox has this article up that has some interesting details about next gen video cards". He's nice, and not baised. Kudos, MN.

August 31, 2005 4:16 PM PST-
TeamXbox retracts (sorta) the story, saying the PS# is more powerful.

August 31, 2005 7:53 PM PST-
At time of writting, nothing from MN...

Note on that Q's

I tricked you...The answer is really false. Java uses UNIX, and yes, I did that on purpose.

First Test of the Year

Yesterday I had my first test of the school year, in Computer Science. I manged a 27/30, which, when curved was about a 94%. I'm off to a good start.

The test was pretty easy...covering mostly the history of computers and some of the basic elements of code and Java. Sample question: True or False, Java uses ASCII to encode. True.

Expect more updates like this from my school life--it's part of my commitment I made at the 1-year mark to reinvent this blog.

Root Me On!

I made to the second week of the playoffs in my Fantasy B-ball league. Come anr root me on... link to the scoreboard page is below (May have to have a CBS accoutant...sorry).

Right now I am up 18-13. Carp got a win...he's two got losses!

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No More Spam

I've turned on word type for comments. No more spam! You get to type random squiggly letters!

Probably Won't See This On MN's Blog

$5 says you won't see Major Nelson posting link about this Xbox 360 story...probably becuase it realistically describes the situation the video game world Xbox 360 is about to create by launching without a HDD. Heres a quote from Valve (the 2nd best videogame company in the world, right behind Bungie in my book) leader Gabe Newell:

"Look, I spoke to some people at Microsoft, and as I said, I can't point to a single feature in Vista that I care about that solves problems for us at all. And I had the same conversation with the Xbox 360 guys. It's like, Xbox 360 doesn't make my life any better, and in fact, it makes it a lot worse, as you're telling me I can't count on having a hard drive."

Finally, someone important says what we've all been thinking: MS was nucking futs in spilting the Xbox 360 population.

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Coffee: Actually Good For You?

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This just seems too good to be true...but it is just one more excuse to make a trip to Starbucks.

Thats My HS

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Note: I wasn't the student who saw it.

Thoughts on The Week

Ahhh...the first weeks of school. The last first week of school for me. Monday was the first day of my senior year in high school. I wanted/planned to blog during the week...but with homework and band, and then Blogger not working right on Wednesday...I just didn't.

So, anyway...the week went by prettty smootly. First period I have Honors Computer Science (Java) which is cool. So far 've learned some basic system.out.println(" My Name is Chris "); codes, and a cool temperature converter. Second is Trig...nothing more should I have to say. Third is A.P. Gov, which is a cool class but a hell of lot of work. It's basically a full years worth of stuff (a full 400 pagen textbook) crammed into a 9-week course. Then it's band.

Alotta things happened this week in the outside world actually. Google launced an IM client that looks cool, but I havn't had a chance to play around with it yet...The PSP 2.0 update was released which is very cool...and Leo is back on TV with "Call For Help." Perhaps there is a God after all. Now...if the show could just get moved to a time when I'm actually home...oh wait, thats what TiVo is for...thank you!