Mobile Video Games
Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays. Planning birthday parties for teens are quite challenging. In the past couple years, we have done the following: laser tag, bowling, go karts, water park, coin arcade, etc. We need something different this year.
I just stumbled on a mobile video game company. It has nothing to do with mobile devices, but it does involve video games. Imagine a video game theater on wheels, yup you got it. I thought it was cheesy at first, but it might be cool for parties.
Initially, I thought one could just go to the local arcade and get their game on. Not so fast, these mobile theaters include Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii games. A couple companies offer laser tag and other outdoor-type games too. Hmm, interesting concept.
HP Notebook V
What the hell is wrong with HP? I had a total of four Pavilion notebooks serviced in the past couple of months. Tonight, another notebook (one of the previous four) died again! Do not purchase the HP Pavilion dv9000 model, because it is crap! Time to call support again!
Premium Cable
Is not what it is cracked up to be, so I am ditching HBO and Cinemax ASAP. I waste $30 per month watching the same crap over and over. Major ripoffs. The ONLY value might be HBO sport events, but it is still weak.
The on-demand movie rentals are $4-6 per movie for a 24-hour viewing period. Ripoff! We do not have to lug our lazy butts down to the local video store, but $6 for 1-day is too much. I can rent a 2-day rental for less $8 per movie, wassup?
I think I am going to try Netflix. For $16.99 per month, I can have 3 DVDs out at-a-time plus I can stream movies directly to an Xbox 360 console. I would save $150+ per year over cheesy premium channels and its cheaper than on-demand. Stay tuned for an update.
Apple comes through after phone defect
After realizing that my phone just wasn't going to be the same (read: I couldn't delete my web history!). I started realizing that this dead space, which seems to be a general problem resulting from extended use, was actually effecting my normal use. Because the dead strip occurs all the way across in a horizontal bar, it rendered any delete feature inoperable because of its placement in the UI. Scrolling was also negated when I hit the dead zone and would automaticaly select the last value touched. similarly the keyboard, while still operable, was difficult to use since I could now only touch the top of the button.
After explaining the problem to friends the advice was always the same. Take it in to Apple and see what they could do. Since my warranty had expired some time ago, I was certain to get the shaft on this one. However, as my title implies Apple did in fact come through. After a 10 second demonstration of the defect, an Apple genius took my phone, did some searches through what I imagine is their Resolution software, and announced that my phone would be replaced at NO COST. Sweet success. I imagine that they must have a backlog of G1 iPhone that they're now hording for just this purpose. Instead of selling them off, they're leveraging the extra stock to take care of the customers like me who paid a good deal of money for a cool phone.
I just finished restoring the phone and every thing with an exception to my ActiveSync account is working great. This is the second time I've ever visited an apple store and once again walk out enthused about the service. I need to go buy some stock...
Add Video Bug
I used the "Add Video" button to add the Russell Peters video into the previous post and it screwed up! Note the post with embedded video was mashed with the Weight Loss Secrets II post. WordPress or template? WTF is right!
Guess What
Russell Peters was in town last week! He was at the Punch Line for five days and I missed all of his shows. Was the event advertised on the radio? I cannot believe I missed it. Arrgh!
Bend Over California
Attention California residents! I am sure you know the @$$holes that are running this state into the ground are raising the sales tax. Well, you have less than 5 days until YOU have to pay for their reckless spending. One percent increase starts April 1, 2009.
Naming Conventions
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Private mvarMyBusinessObject1 As Object 'BusinessObjects.cBO_FacilityInformation
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Worst ever...
How can you possibly know what each of those are?
My iPhone continues to decline
As if the two dead pixels wasn't bad enough. Now I have a dead space on my screen that doesn't recognize my fingers. I thought maybe it was because I was turning into a vampire, but I had it independently verified. I drug up this image which will help illustrate exactly where its dead.
Right there where it says "Delete All Future Events." Yup that's a no go for my calendar. I don't know exactly what's wrong because the same space on other apps seems to work fine, but I can no longer delete events from my calendar even after a reset. I haven't really noticed it in other applications, but if i move over to another application I can see that the "scrolling" feature breaks and stops working when i run over the dead zone.
Blog Statistics
Last night, I commented that wassupjose receives 500 page views per day. I want to confirm the number, so I mined the web logs. Wassupjose.com receives over 60% of requests across all hosted domains (yes, I have a few).
Below is a current weekly report across all domains. Note that the total requests per week for this year are averaging about 20,000. Page views for wassupjose are hovering around 500 per day with frequent spikes in the 900 range (excluding bots, etc). Nice!
