Month: September 2007

NY’s ‘Halo 3’ launch was no riot, but it was close

Paul

reporter’s notebook NEW YORK–At about 9:30 p.m. Monday, George Clooney waltzed into a midtown Manhattan hotel, the camera flashes of the paparazzi following him right into the lobby. But a block away at the Best Buy store on 5th Avenue and 44th Street, the fans waiting for the launch of Microsoft’s Halo 3 video game couldn’t have cared less.

They had their own epilepsy-inducing lights, after all. New York’s Halo 3 debut stopped short of pyrotechnics, but it was over the top in just about every other way.

“George Clooney who?” one person near the head of the line joked when he heard the gossip. Like most of the queuers who’d shown up at the Best Buy store for the official launch celebration for the final installment of the Xbox 360 game trilogy, he was young, male and sporting a Halo 3 T-shirt that had been given away as part of the festivities.

http://www.news.com/NYs-Halo-3-launch-was-no-riot%2C-but-it-was-close/2100-1043_3-6209832.html?tag=nefd.top

Oh Come off it. These people love Halo 3 and I knew today was going to have to be a day of all Halo. I wish there was more House M.D. than Halo. I do not have an XBOX 360 and wished I did. I sit here wondering when I will get one and hope it is soon! Donate help me get an XBOX! 😉

Fifteen Back up programs to save your data!

Paul

There’s no way around it: Malware happens, drive failure happens, natural disaster happens. If your data isn’t backed up, it’s gone–or it will require an extremely expensive, not-certain-to-succeed recovery operation.

If all you have on your system are scribblings and unimportant downloads, you might not care. But you probably have something of value: scanned pictures of ancestors, wedding videos, a presentation you worked all week on, the song that’s going to make you famous.

It pays to back up, and it has never been easier to do so. No matter what method you’re most comfortable with, be it traditional file-based backup, image backup, or continuous data protection, one of the following fifteen tools will do the trick.


http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137434/article.html

Even though they aren’t free I’ll still take a look at them to see if I can afford one or two of them.

Let’s all call in sick today!

Paul

Some gamers plan to be ‘Halo’ sick
By John Kiesewetter, The Cincinnati Enquirer
For Microsoft Xbox 360 owners, Tuesday is Opening Day — the time to skip school, call in sick or take a vacation day for the big game.

Halo 3.

The much-anticipated third and final edition in the Halo video game trilogy — about a super-human soldier, Master Chief, fighting against alien races and parasites — will be released at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

REVIEW: ‘Halo 3’ lives up to the hype

http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Some+gamers+plan+to+be+%27Halo%27+sick+-+USATODAY.com&expire=&urlID=24080716&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Ftech%2Fgaming%2F2007-09-24-halo-sickness_N.htm&partnerID=1665

I say lets just call in sick to prove them right. We’ll log into our xbox live accounts and swarm the live account. Then everyone will be happy, except the employers.

OpenID Pro’s and Con’s

Paul

Decentralized online identification system OpenID can log you into thousands of social networking sites (and counting) using a single username and password. OpenID asserts who you are by proving you own a URL—not an email address, not a password, not your mother’s maiden name, just a URL that must be confirmed by both the accepting site and OpenID host. No more filling out web site registration forms! Now that sounds wonderful to those of us sick of tracking the login details for all the web services we use. However, while OpenID is terrific in theory, it’s real-world usage still has a way to go. Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of OpenID.

http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/one-openid-to-rule-them-allor-not-302156.php

It’s definitely opens my eyes. Go check it out yourself.