Phoar! Playing a ghost game of MW2 knifing people. Got the last kill on Highrise by jumping off the steps going down and shooting a guy and ended up with a score of 11/5. Nice 🙂
Author Archives: Donncha
Little Big Planet Wallpapers
If like me you have a small person in your home, and a PS3, you’ll probably appreciate Little Big Planet images. (via)
Gaming TODO list: Finish Bad Company 1. …
Gaming TODO list:
- Finish Bad Company 1. I’m almost near the end, but I kept dying in the village where you have to destroy the two bridges.
- Play Portal as the sequal has been announced. I have the Orange Box, and despite being a huge Half Life fan back in the day I played about an hour of HL2 before getting bored of it. I never even go to Portal.
First Day at #WCIRL
So, day one of WordCamp Ireland draws to a close, there is a dinner tonight but the talks and sessions are over for the day.
I briefly helped John Handelaar during his talk on WordPress MU, but my main talk was on WP Super Cache. Thank you Hanni, Jane and Sheri for recording the talk. Hopefully it’ll be available online next week. In the meantime here’s the OpenOffice slides of my talk.
I must extend a big thank you to Sabrina Dent and Katherine Nolan for organising a great day and to the sponsors who made the weekend possible.
Looking forward to the dinner tonight, and the rest of the conference tomorrow.
Update! I’ve added a few photos from Day 2. I was shattered tired though as I was up until 1.30am chatting with Donnacha!
Update 2! Sabrina has written a thoughtful post about WordCamp Ireland. I for one had a great time there and so did everyone I spoke to. I totally agree with her about child minding facilities. My son Adam had a whale of a time, and is still talking about it. (and for an almost three year old, that’s a very good sign!)
Retro Gamer has a big feature on the Gho…
Retro Gamer has a big feature on the Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins series of games. The C64 version of Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins was the first game I tried hacking into with my Action Replay to see how it worked. I think I only threw out the notes I made from that time a few weeks ago.
Ah nostalgia.
WordPress MU 2.9.2
WordPress MU 2.9.2 has just been released and is mostly a security and bugfix release based on WordPress 2.9.2. Grab it from the download page.
As well as the security fix mentioned above, this version also fixes a few bugs, makes the blog signup process much faster and adds a new “Global Terms” Site Admin page.
The “Global Terms” page is one I should have added years ago. Currently it’s fairly bare, but hopefully in future versions of WordPress it will be expanded. It allows the Site Admin to “fix” the terms (tags and categories) used in MU blogs. These terms are normally synced with the “sitecategories” table but sometimes they go astray. This can happen if you “import” a blog using PHPMyAdmin without going through the WordPress importer, or if a plugin manipulates the terms table directly.
WordPress MU forces the “slug” used by terms to be a sanitized version of the “name”, which isn’t the case in WordPress. This page can optionally rename the terms so they match the slug. It doesn’t do the opposite because that would break public facing URLs on the site. (I must extend a big thank you to Deanna for helping debug that page)
Enjoy!
Email in 2009
I just ran the following code on the 2009 archive of my inbox.
grep "From: " 2009|cut -f 1 --complement -d " "|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|less
I received the most email from bots and scripts, among them WordPress.com, Twitter and Facebook. Of the real people here are the top 5 names you may recognise:
- Maya Desai (109)
- Matt Mullenweg (96)
- Sheri Bigelow (76)
- Michael D Adams (37)
- Barry Abrahamson (34)
This was of course inspired by Matt’s post in January. I should do the same for Twitter replies/messages and for blog comments. I somehow doubt there would be much overlap between Twitter DMs and emails.
PS3 Motion Controller
I really don’t get Natal, the Xbox camera system that allows you to interact with the system. I mean, you need a trigger don’t you? I just came across this video of the PS3 motion controller from E3 last year. Impressive stuff, looks like a more accurate version of the Wii controller.
Came across my first nuke boosters this …
Came across my first nuke boosters this evening and unfortunately wasn’t able to stop them. It was a game of TDM so of course my “team mate” was able to give his friend plenty of warning. Grrr.
The Sharkoon Xtatic Headset arrived and …
The Sharkoon Xtatic Headset arrived and I played two games of Modern Warfare 2 with them. Sound quality is great, although mid to high range sounds are missing a bit of “oomph”. They need a bit more bass. The subwoofer does a great job with booming explosions however!
Unfortunately at this time of day it was really hard to find a game, so I had to play on rust where it’s so small that players are all around you making noise. The next game on Favela was better, and I clearly heard footsteps clomping up the stairs 🙂
All in all, my first impressions are good, the sound is immersive. I noticed the wind blowing on rust and other atmospherics that I never heard before when playing with a stereo headset. There are a ton of settings I don’t know about so I’ll need to experiment with those to find the best ones.