Just bought a new Xbox 360 and Madden ’09 for my brother Frank. Â His house was broken into a few days ago and they made off with that amongst some other things. Â Probably some stupid kids from what was taken, so hopefully they’ll get caught. Â It was Anthony’s idea to buy him a new system.
It’s really ashame you can’t go Charles Bronson on them and take the law into your own hands. Â Well at least we were able to replace most of the stuff that was taken.
Finally just set up an account on Facebook. Â Now I can finally get my hands dirty with FBML, API, Data Store, and FQL while developing for the Facebook Platform. Â If I make anything cool I’ll be sure to write about it here. Â Guess it’d make some sense to have an idea for and app before developing it.
Just finished playing The World Ends with You for the DS. Â It’s one of the better games I’ve played in a while. Â Very original game, not just another sequel. Â The production values were top notch, some of the best graphics I’ve seen on the DS and the original music was really impressive. Â It’s amazing how much work is put into some handheld games now.
A lot of work was put into the story, with a lot of surprises and along the way. Â It style was a bit too teenish for me at times, but I’m probably too old to still be playing these games anyway. Â The dual screen battles, while confusing at first were well done. Â Controlling the bottom screen with the stylus while taking control of the top screen using the directional pad was a really slick idea.
Definitely one of the better RPG’s I’ve played in a long time.  Very refreshing to play something so new and original, instead of another Final Fantasy RPG (though they are usually great games).
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Just downloaded Jungle Disk to help take care of my data storage. Â It uses the Amazon S3 web service to backup and store files. Â I already had an S3 account so it only took me a minute or so to setup the program to automate backups of my data. Â
Currently I’ve been backing up my data to an external hard drive, but having my backup in the same room as my computer isn’t exactly the greatest model for protecting data. Â And the S3 cloud computing model is great for me. Â You only pay based on how much space you’re using and how much data you’re moving a month. Â So it winds up being very affordable for me.
My initial backup on one of my computers should take about 3 days, but after that incremental backups shouldn’t take too long at all. Â This seems very very easy thus far, and I think it’s a great solution to online storage.Â
Saw The Dark Knight the other day with Wes, Jared and Chris on the boardwalk in Ocean City. Â Haven’t seen a movie on the boardwalk in years. Â The theatre was pretty lousy inside, but it was cool to be packed in there and reminded me of all the movies I’d seen on the boardwalk growing up.
While walking there we were the witness to a truly classic event. Â Chris was delighted to see some money poking up from under the boards. Â While he eagerly reached down to pick up this monetary gift, so it vanished right before he could get his hands on it. Â Wow, he’d fallen for one of the oldest of boardwalk pranks. Â It was great, I couldn’t stop laughing that he fell for it and I’m sure those kids under the boardwalk with the money have quite a tale to tell when they go back to school in a few weeks.
I thought the movie was really good. Â Usually I’ll go see a comic based movie just because I used to be so into comics. Â And I end of liking them just because I’m so familiar with the characters and stories. Â But this was a good movie even if Batman and the Joker weren’t in it. Â
The Joker really stole the show. Â He was dark and twisted, yet comical at the same time. Â He really made the movie. Â I wasn’t expecting the whole Two-Face story, so that was a cool surprise too. Â Very good movie, go see it if you haven’t already.
12:48 PM
The Edu Web 2008 Conference is over and I’ve just returned to work. Â Overall I thought it was pretty good. Â Though I’d prefer more development sessions or at least more advanced sessions. Â If this is held close to home again next year I’ll most likely attend if not present. Â I found presentations on cloud computing and AJAX to be the most interesting. Â Good event.
10:49 AM
I’m here a bit early for the next presentation. Â Think I’ve checked everything out here and can’t think of anything else to do. Â Next presentation is on embedding video, and hopefully it’ll be interesting. Â This table I’m at is pretty dirty, think I’ll get up and move.
10:07 AM
Sitting in on a presentation for a FaceBook application called SkoolPool. Â I’ll have to check out their site a bit more, this does seem like something worth checking out a bit further.. Â The presentation is cracking me up. Â The guy has a fairly thick accent and a deep monotone voice, so I can’t make out a word he’s saying. Â He sounds like a really bad Beatles impersonation. Â It’s great. Â And the co-speaker keeps interrupting him. Â This is truly a classic presentation, a true work of art.
8:41 AM
Think I’m in the wrong presentation. Â This is about web content management not working with web services. Â Oh well, she seems to be giving a good presentation so I’ll hang around. Â
8:20 AM
Charging up my laptop and checking email and news at one of the tables setup here with power. Â Seems to be a smaller crowd today, guess people have begun leaving or perhaps are sleeping in a bit.
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