The Wiivolution has began

So let it be known, I have succumb to the powers of the Wii and have gone and bought one. I was going to get one sooner or later, but when the missus said that she had been in a few shops to ask about it, I wasn’t that bothered that nobody had any stock. That was until she had been into town yesterday and had walked past GAME, where the manager spotted her and waved her into the shop to let her know they had gotten 6 in stock.

As stock pretty much everywhere is low or non-existant, that was when I said to get one. As usual, the kids have given me their cold, they so like to share their germs with me and as it’s the first day of this cold, I was feeling quite shitty. After having a go with the Wii, setting it all up and getting it online, then having a go at Wii Sports and Wii Play, it’s made me feel somewhat better and especially the Billiards game in Wii Play. I like pool games and this one is so addictive, if they brought out a game like it or like the Xbox Live Arcade game Bankshot Billiards 2, I’d buy it.

So that’s something to keep me happy for a while and especially having this shitty cold.

For anyone that bothers to read this and also has a Wii, leave your Wii Number in the comments and add me 6687 8973 3265 7754

Insane in the Upgrade

Once again, WordPress has been updated and now it’s at 2.1, two updates in a month…

One of the improvements I like is the ability to change between WYSIWYG and Code in the ‘Write’ bit, that makes it easier to use the YouTube plugin as it needs to be used in the ‘Code’ editor.

Anyway, it’s all been updated, even though I had a bit of trouble that didn’t take long to fix.

Bloggity bloggity blog

There are so many blogging clients out there and even a handful of decent hosts, it’s so easy to choose one and start telling the rest of the internet your thoughts, opinions and whatever.

I’ve been doing ‘blogging’ for years, when I used to have my little personal site (kinda like the main one here), I would update it around once or twice a week and put an ‘update post’ on the main page, that was in 2001-2002, just before the blogging scene appeared. Now it’s gone crazy, not only do people use the blogging client for a blog, but with clients like WordPress, they’re used for full sites too.

In the sidebar on the right, there’s a ‘Blogroll’ with links to other blogs, they include a couple from real people, but it seems I’m starting to gain a few more of my own. In December 2005, Windows Live was starting to become a bit more noticed and that has a thing called Windows Live Spaces, that was when I took a look and set this up just to see what it was like. Then in May of 2006 when I thought about starting up a proper blog, I tried Yahoo 360°, but due to trying the US version with Firefox first, it was a Javascript nightmare that didn’t work. The US part of geocities is now like this just as something to put there, the space on my UK Geocities space holds the old Need For Speed Underground 2 site I did ages ago, but my Yahoo 360° blog looks a bit like this.

My latest additions to the aceman blog society are; a new Live Space based on Xbox Live and even my Xbox 360 has a blog to tell the intarweb world whether I’ve been playing, what I’ve been playing and what happened. What I can’t understand about the X360’s blog is that it reckons I didn’t play anything in the last 2 days, yet I know I did and my Xbox Live profile can vouch for me playing something on Jan 20th, in the Recent Players part of my profile, it’s got a list of other people that were also playing the Test Drive Unlimited demo at the same time I was. I’ve played something every day since registering the blog (it even takes 2 days to get going properly), so it seems that it either doesn’t really work that well or because it’s 8 hours behind GMT (US Pacific time), it doesn’t register games played at a certain time.

Ah well, it’s all just a bit of fun anyway.

Top class guitar playing

This guy just totally rocks.

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You can find his CD on www.candyrat.com, not too sure about delivery outside of the US though.

Yay, more upgrading!

What has only been 11 days since the last upgrade, WordPress has had to have a security update that fixes a php bug, so the hamsters have gradually had their booster shots and are up to date.

I couldn’t work out why I couldn’t connect to da intarweb directly, get emails and use FTP with the wireless router, turns out I needed to ‘network’ the PC, even though it’s the only PC running (it’s using a wired connection to the router, same with the X360). The X360 works fine and I’ve already downloaded a couple of demos and a few XBLA games (trial versions), although, I’ve had to change my tag to MentalAceman due to being a knob and creating the tag online. That meant that, when I connected to Xbox Live, it would download the new profile that didn’t have the (very little) Gamerpoints and Achievements I originally had, never mind though, it’s a name I also use on YouTube…

Anyhoo, it all seems fine and dandy now and the connection to Xbox Live is something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, now I’ll be able to try out the new XBLA game that’s out from 9am tomorrow (Wed Jan 17th), Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank.