Because I’m bored and so are you.
Short and sweet: The NXE is cool for the sole fact that I can install my games now. Not because it makes the games run faster or anything like that but because my damn console isn’t so loud now.
It’s of course also pretty. I find things a little bit harder to find now but I think that’s just because I’m not used to the new layout yet. Avatars are kind of fun but overall just fluff.
My $0.02.
I’ve been trying to use IE7 more frequently lately. I get in trouble sometimes because I develop everything in Firefox and then I move over to IE and things don’t look as nice. It’s definately different developing for IE. No firebug is a biggy. Also, IE7 just seems to be slower. I like what I’ve seen of IE8 but I’ll make a final judgement when it’s no longer beta.
One thing that does intrigue me though is the new Windows Live stuff. I would love this whole cloud thing if everything I wanted to do on the cloud worked together and I could access it all in one place. From what I’ve used so far though, it’s definately not ready. Google’s stuff still works better in my oppinion as of yet.
I think back though to when I first started using Firefox though. I didn’t wanna switch at first because Firefox didn’t have feature X or Y and overtime it got those features and it became my primary browser. I find myself somewhat bored with it now though and it basically does me no good at work because it only matters if it works in IE. I feel another transition could be coming.
I discovered Google Reader some time ago and have been using that keep up with blogs and most of the websites I like. One thing I’ve noticed about myself recently though is that I miss all the color. Google Reader makes everything so bland. Sure, it’s helped me read so much more but I miss the color. The solution to this of course is to use Google Reader only as a scanner and not read the entire article from the RSS feed as I so often do. Oh well.
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time but I’ve never gotten around to it. I’ve been in Germany for one year now as of October 27. I’ve learned much about the way of the world.
One complaint that I have that I don’t think I will ever get over is that the German people do not know how to wait in a line. If you are waiting in line somewhere and you don’t pay attention people will just move in front of you. Last night I was at a bar and had been waiting for almost 5 minutes for one beer and this other guy just walked up beside me and acted like he had been there longer. I just don’t get it sometimes. Granted it was a bar, but this happens everywhere.
One thing I do like about Germany is things seem to be more relaxed at work here. There is a lot more vacation time. I for instance get 20 days. To which my girlfriend complains is not enough.
Overall I’m enjoying my time here so far. I miss home of course. I miss my family and sometimes I miss the technology we have in the US that isn’t either as good or non existent here. How much longer I’ll be here is indefinite.
I was bored last night and I’ve been needing a good timer so I wrote a simple timer application. You can download the executable and source here.
Not gonna say much about this one. Just look at it.
No, I’m not talking about GoW2. I’m playing GoW1 again in anticipation of 2 and also I’m waiting on Fable2 to be delivered from the UK. The story of GoW1 is a lot deeper than I had picked up on the first time around. I never picked up on the fact that Marcus’s dad was somehow involved and why Marcus was in jail. I guess what I’m saying is, if you’ve got the time you might want to give it another go if you only played it one time.
I’ve been working on a new game lately. I call it Traffic. The object is to help the cars move across the grid. You have to help move the cars through the traffic. Every color car has to go in one designated direction. Should be ready for play soon.
From time to time I need to associate two things in my html document. What is this association? Could be any number of things. Could be you want one div to display like a tooltip when you mouseover another div. Use your imagination.
Here is some HTML:
Something hereSomething else here
And here is some javascript:
$('.tooltip').mouseover(function(event){
$('#' + $(this).attr('id') + '_tooltip').show();
});
This will show the divs foo_tooltip and bar_tooltip when hovering over the divs foo and bar. Add some pizazz and you have fairly nice effect for your document.
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