Upgrading wordpress to 2.0.2 right now. If you see any weirdness, that’s probably why.
Edit: And it’s done.
Upgrading wordpress to 2.0.2 right now. If you see any weirdness, that’s probably why.
Edit: And it’s done.
You. Yeah, you. What are you doing? Stop it. Do you have a Playstation 2? Do you like rock music AT ALL? Yeah? Then why the hell aren’t you playing Guitar Hero right the hell now? Seriously, go. NOW. Go to the store, buy this game, grab some beer and rock the hell out.
Why? All right fine. Awesome tracks from Black Sabbath to Jimi Hendrix to Franz Ferdinand to Boston – I could go on – grace the game. All great guitar songs. The learning curve is excellent with the easier levels grouping notes together and letting you use only three frets. The harder levels separate those sounds out and make you use more frets until your fingers catch on fire. It has perfect timing and I hear that playing with the mini-guitar mimics playing an actual guitar rather well (to the point where an actual guitarist wouldn’t have to start on the easier levels). I can’t vouch for this myself as I don’t play guitar but dammit, now I want to learn. It’s that much fun.
What I think makes this game so great as compared to other rhythm games is that you actually get a sense that you’re playing the song. When you miss a note, it doesn’t play. So you start really getting into hitting the right notes and cords. You worry less about getting a high score and more about just making the song sound right. And once you really nail the song, you start really getting into it. You’ll be tilting the guitar on longs notes, banging your head, and just having a good time.
Seriously, you have no idea what you’re missing. Yeah, I know it sounds ridiculous – jumping around like a mad man in front of your TV and playing a plastic guitar in time with classic rock songs. Well suck it up. It’s fun. Now get out of here dammit, and play.
I’m not much of a politics guy as I have an equal hatred towards all parties for some reason or another but this bill, as described, is amazingly ignorant. Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania wants to ban all minors from using social networking sites such as myspace and facebook because “child predators” use them to find victims. Isn’t that kind of like banning kids from the playground because they might get kidnapped?
Anyway, I’m not one these armchair pundits so I’ll just let you read the article yourself and form your own opinion.
Update: Here’s another story about it at C|Net. It would seem that Fitzpatrick just wants to band school and libraries that receive federal money to ban access, not just a general banning.
Hehe…. All right, Sony. You already pissed me off with the whole rootkit thing. Now you’re selling the PS3 for at least $500. I guess I know what my next two consoles will be.
I would like it if that “Purchased” playlist they give you in iTunes actually listed all the stuff I purchased in iTunes. That would be nice. Then I could just select that list to backup all those purchases on a DVD. Unfortunately it doesn’t do that for me as I keep messing around with it, and changing computers, and *cough*. Whatever. It’s Apple’s fault. Right.
It would be extra nice if Apple added an obvious choice to pick iTunes purchased music when you’re making a smart playlist. But it doesn’t. Oh well, after searching in vain for a solution on Google and messing around with iTunes for a bit I finally just opened up the iTunes library XML file in BBEdit and looked for something in the protected files that would identify it to the smart playlists. Lo and behold there was.
To list all your iTunes purchased songs, do this:
- Select File ยป New Smart Playlist…. (or use Command+Option+N)
- Select Kind from the first drop down box.
- Select Contains from the second drop down box.
- And type Protected AAC audio file in the text field.
- Hit OK and you should have a new playlist with all the iTunes purchased songs that are in your library.
Now I’m sure someone has figured this out before I have, but I couldn’t find it so I thought I’d share.
Edit: Corrected some grammar mistakes.