The Blog of Zachary Snow

So I finally got to play Braid. I realize I’m a few months late but that’s besides the point.

My opinion of Braid is maybe not as good as some others. Yes, the time element of it was great. I found some puzzles were difficult for no reason though. For instance, I would know the solution but it would take me several tries to actually pull it off. This led to a few frustrating moments. Overall I liked the gameplay though.

The story was not so good to me. I understood the fact that at the end it turned out Tim was a bad guy but I read an online discussion after the fact and I didn’t pick up on most of the stuff that was being discussed.

Overall a decent game. Don’t know about the 1200 points though. I bought Castle Crashers back when it came out and I actually played that for 3 or 4 times as long.

Today I moved my blog on to WordPress.org. I had to do this as zacharysnow.com will be expiring in the future and I don’t feel like going through the hassle of trying to renew it. New url is http://zacharysnow.wordpress.org.

A few things were messed up in the move and I’ll try and fix those as time allows.

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.

It’s fall here in the Deutschland. All the leaves on the trees are orange and falling off and the wind blows almost all day. It’s very lovely here right now.

Now I realize there is a fall in Florida, but it’s nothing like here. I feel like I’m experiencing the fall season for the first time.

I’ve been using the last.fm for quite a while now and never really payed attention to it outside of displaying recent played tracks on the blog. I took at a website today though and it’s really cool once it starts to scrobble a great deal. You can really learn a lot about your musical taste from it.

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