Breaking Windows

I hope you all had a good Christmas. I made out pretty well, in the giving and getting part. New boots were in order, and they sure are comfortable. It is really hard finding size 14 4E. The boots I like are never ever available for purchase years later when I need another pair.

I got a nice pair of New Balance boots that are Gor-Tex but don't necessarily look like shit kickers. They feel pretty good too, great ankle support which is what I need. Thanks to Dad and Melodye for the boots.

Another gift from mom and pop was a new watch. Same as the old watch, just black, and not 4 yrs. old.

My brother got me a gift card for probably my favorite store in the world, Cabelas.

But my aunt got me the gift that I will remember for a very long time. In our Secret Santa exchange she got me the worlds best gag gift: a beer stein with a bell on it. Yes, exactly.

Happy Holidays and last minute shopping! on 12seconds.tv

Yves Luther has created a Brightkite plugin for Action Streams. If you are using the very basic LI code to create an entire Action Streams block of code:

<li class="hentry service-icon service-<mt:var name="service_type">"> <span class="entry-content">
<mt:StreamAction smarty_pants="1">
</span> </li>

The Brightkite plugin produces this:

„meancode checked in @ 133 N Prospect St“

Keep reading to see my way of changing it.

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Just upgraded to MT 4.23. Works fine. Rebuilt everything, can comment, post, etc, etc. No problems at all. So I installed the Facebook Connect plugin (I understand the plugin is in beta) and have all types of problems. First of all, FB comments work. I have that working just fine. You can see that in action here.

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Be sure to tune in at 10 PM tonight as Geekerati Radio is having a show with me on it. Yea, total disaster I know. The last time I was on the show, about a year ago in fact, I was pretty new to this Internet Radio thing and Blog Talk Radio.

Show is called "Recession Holiday Shopping for the Geek" and to be honest up until right now the only thing I was told be Christian was "holiday shopping recommendations" but a recession spin on things might be different. We shall see how the show goes. That is what I love about doing these live (that and it cuts down on the post production for a podcast feed!).

So check out the show tonight at 10 PM, or listen to the Geekerati Radio feed.

Why doesn't Microsoft offer Gamercards like this? Kudos to MyGamerCard.net

Whatever you do today, go out and vote. I just hope that when the 5th rolls around we do not have hanging chads and recounts of recounts, and (more) voter fraud... and another Ohio or Florida incident.

Its damn well time another state gets the "limelight" for crying out loud. I am tired of it being Ohio.

So go to the polls today and don't make me feel bad when we see the horrendous voter turnout numbers this year.

No, I will not stop with the LittleBigPlanet Jokes. You tell me what this is:

This happened twice when I entered Play Mode while play testing the level I am working on. I jumped back out to my Pod in between. I though my entire level was FUBAR at this point. It was all Mandelbrot for the entire level, until I jumped back to Create Mode.

So far its fine. I rebooted the PS3. Let me tell you Sony. If my level *was* FUBAR you can bet your ass I would not be spending one more minute designing levels in this thing.

I am a huge fan of Transmit. I love it, well worth the money spent years ago. But on our Intern's iMac, we have Cyberduck. It is free and it is good for being free.

In the office the other day we started singing the rubber duckie song (no I do not know why). So I chimed in "CyberDuckie, you're the one, You make FTP-ing lots of fun"

Ann finished off the song. She must have been bored out of her mind. Find it after the jump.

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Sony sure is doing a good job! They must have learned so much from the beta. Stuff about user demand, provisioning of servers, stuff like that. Well that all went to shit today as I cannot do anything online in LittleBigPlanet.

I cannot publish a level. When tried Quick Play I stared at a white screen for a while before it loaded a level - with no one in it but me. Playing that level was very, very laggy. And please let me remind you that I was the only one in it.

Many people cannot connect at all. It took me about 10 tries. Let me put this better into perspective for you. I logged into Movable Type, created a new entry, and have typed all this since I tried to play a community level. Just now it has told me it failed to load the level. Play Online is the default, it seems I can play it alone, but that is not the point. Scratch that. I just tried another community level multiple times and it failed to load too.

Trying to publish my level again gives me the same error again. Please try again later I am told. Now I am trying to play a main story level online. So far it has loaded and the only way I can describe it as a slide show. A high-def slide show, but a slide show.

The Game leader has left. You are now the Game leader. Well that is great but it does not let me hit the OK button to dismiss the message. The Game leader has left. What? It just told me I was the game reader. Now I think I am in the level by myself.

The windmills here in Skate o Victory are not moving as fast as they usually do. So not only do we have severe frame drops, we have slowdown even when one SackPerson is on the screen.

I can't even seem to navigate around the in-game News without things locking up on me for a little bit.

Fine. Screw this. LittleBigWasteOfTime.

Hey look Europe, we can has patches too! Yes, we finally get the LittleBigPlanet 1.02 patch as of this AM, early AM. This must mean the servers for the game are up? I hope so. Once this 57 MB is done downloading and installing I will find out. Bye Bye "offensive" music and hello instrumental track!

... and servers are not up yet. Close though. Do not get an error 402 any more. And now when I try and go to the InfoMoon it tells me I must agree to the EULA, but cannot connect to the EULA, and then gives me another generic "a problem occured when attempting to connect..."

*big sigh*

You know, sometimes the likes of Joystiq and Kotaku really irritate me. They copy each others posts and don't try and do a bit of research.

LittleBigPlanet has been patched, in EUROPE. I don't know how many days, I don't know how many times, I don't even know all the features that were added (or or specific songs were altered).

I have heard from others that 1.02 is out and that takes the song out, but I cannot verify that.

What I can verify is that the patch is not out in North America. Not last night when Kotaku reported it, not today when Joysti reported it.

Can we all try and be clear in our headlines and posts, and state that the patch is out now in EUROPE?

Thanks!

I have a lot of respect for Keith Olbermann, he is a solid broadcaster. Today my dad sent me this story from the Canton Rep: Stark matters: Hate-inciting tactics no laughing matter.

Now for the Keith Olbermann clip:

Why would you go anywhere else other than Amazon for your review needs? I mean, look at this epic review for the 360 version of Fracture:

i got game soon and i dont like well. Guys shot dont fall down and grond moves around an stuff. i dont rent i buy an i no happy. it ok if u not smart or kid but i adult an i return. Ok good but no ok good just ok good. Get.

That's awesome, but so is this equally amazing response from a reader:

you're reviews suck; not little suck; big suck; you go back to cave and try to make fire. no push green button on x-box. no go to gamestore and buy game. just make fire and think about where next meal will come from. maybe da dumpster?

Burn.