The site hadn’t been upgraded in a long time, too long in fact. So with the release of Wordpress 2.5 I decided it was time to really update this thing. I had been worried in the past with plugins and other things not working, but with 2.5 it seems that most things had been considered and there is even an auto -update-plugin feature. With a little research and a bunch of backups I decided it was time to go.
I did the upgrade this morning and was surprised at how easy it went and how almost everything worked right away. There were only two issues, and only one was major. The smaller issue was compatibility with the FireStats plugin. It was not showing some information correctly and messing with the sidebar widget tool a little. After upgrading the plugin it all works perfectly now. The bigger issue and the one I am not too happy about is the Adhesive plugin which I had been using to keep regular posts at the top and all of my Twitter daily posts below that, as to not lose the regular posts in all my Twitter spam. This plugin does not work at all and all other alternatives to it seem to break Wordpress altogether.
My options now are to stop with the Twitter posts each day or to try to hack the code to get it to work. Seeing as how I’m 1.) really lazy right now and not wanting to look at code and 2.) probably losing RSS subscriptions by posting Twitter things everyday I have decided to just let it go for now and to stop posting Twitter things.
I think most of what is in 2.5 is not noticeable by the viewer of the site, most things are what I will see in the backend, but I’m sure there are performance updates and such that might make it run faster. At any rate, if you see something that isn’t working, let me know. Thanks.
I’ll get right down to it. This game is taking over my life. I only started really playing last night. I accidentally got into a game that lasted 3+ hours. It was only supposed to last 45 minutes, as LyKaios had to leave. It turned into Helmer and I being attacked and harassed by the computer for another 3 hours. This wasn’t what I expected. Since playing it last night all I have done is think about this game. It’s an RTS, so it’s got all the building and farming and research that any RTS had. With Sins though, they don’t tell you much of anything when you start. You have to figure it all out on your own. This means being thrown into a 3 hour+ game with 2 AI opponents and while trying to fend off them, also trying to figure out if I research X thing, I can build Y thing later, right? I was and still am so confused but the level of depth in this game keeps me thinking about it. You can only build a few different buildings and ships, much less than any other modern RTS, but you can research almost 100 different upgrades and abilities, making it very daunting when you first start.
Anyway, that was my long rant. This game is really great so far, if you have some good people to play with and 3-6 hours to waste. If you have it, let me know, lets play a game. If you love RTS games, you should pick it up.
A cool little page, generated using Profilactic. It keeps track of all of my online social network doings. Kind of cool if you want to stalk me, or are interested in the service at all.
I really can’t describe this in any way that will do it justice, but Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft that you should check out. Watch this video, you will be amazed and then try it for real on the Photosynth site:
Photosynth is an amazing new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos.
Introducing Photosynth
Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.
With Photosynth you can:
* Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
* Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size.
* See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
* Find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing.
* Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend.
This is really cool. This guy put a small camera on his cat that took pictures ever few minutes and then let the cat do whatever it is cats do. The page describes how he made the camera and scroll to the bottom for links to the pictures the cat took. It’s really cool to see what the cat does each day, and a little surprising all the things he sees.
I found this on the net, on Digg actually. It looks like a fan made Apple commercial. It is really well done and I love the message in it. Watch it, you won’t be disappointed.
With the new “Google Street” feature come lots of new and fun things to look around at and ‘find’. This is a fun list of some of the cool things people have already found on Google Street. There will surely be hundreds more of these kinds of pictures in coming months.
March 30th, 2008 by 
Jason 
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