Do I even need to make the fatality joke here?

Midway files for Chapter 11: "

Well, it looks like the cat is out of the bag. Meet the Pyro, Meet the Spy, and Meet the Medic will be forthcoming. There was some debate within the Guild as to the likelihood of these videos ever being produced, particularly the Pyro. All I can say is HUDDA HUDDA!!!

In my quest for the most bizarre music to be found on the intertubes, I've come across a number of odd container formats. The most vexing for a while was .APE, there was a windows program to handle it but the best it could do was convert the cd wholesale to .WAV format. The file languished on my filestore for quite some time until I found xACT on the mac. xACT is an applescript wrapper around some UNIX command line tools to handle audio files.

If you go to India, please, PLEASE, do not drink anything for the duration of your visit.

Hindu extremists promote cow-urine soft-drink: "Radical Hindus in India are attempting to cleanse the nation of foreign soft-drinks by promoting an 'ayurvedic' beverage made from cow urine:

Glitch, mourning services will be held next week....

Ok, people ask me about this alot, so here is some info on video decoding in Windows and Mac OS. Natively, neither operating system supports most of the codecs you find in use on the internet today. For a long time, it was a pain to have to find and download every codec you would wind up needing to view a particular file. Two packs, however, have sprung up that will fill the void in your media player.

Ok, I used to hate Bill Gates. It was the early days of Linux and Microsoft was the evil empire under the control of the evil puppet master. I still hate Microsoft, but I think I owe an apology to Mr. Gates.

LAN party coming up, I'm thinking the weekend of Febuary 20th. The usual games, TF2, UT, Dawn of War, whatever else we can come up with. Suggestions, comments? Forum thread here.

I've added a new page on iPhone webapp development. This should make another2 cry some.

MySQL has a ton of problems. I know it's one of the most popular databases out there in the non-Oracle world, but that doesn't mean it's any good. MyISAM is a joke. What kind of relational database doesn't have relations? InnoDB sucks too, I can't run it on naoto, it takes more than 128MB of ram to start, all of the ram the server has. This brings us to why the site has changed. It's now running on the far more efficient Postgres database, but Wordpress wouldn't work on Postgres, so I switched to another CMS called Drupal. Drupal has some more modern features too, so it's a good thing.