Everyday Crap

Test post from the iPhone

Mike — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:18:52 +0000

Just testing out the new Wordpress app for the iPhone. Hopefully it works because being able to post directly from my phone would be VERY useful going toward!

Sprout… Flash made easy!

Mike — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:55:06 +0000

I was reading about Sprout over at Techcrunch and I just had to share how cool I think this tool is! Basically Sprout let’s you create Flash “widget” which can then be embedded into other sites such as blogs, MySpace, Facebook, etc. Typically doing work in Flash is complex and time-consuming but Sprout has made it relatively easy.

A new year filled with resolutions I hope to keep!

Mike — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:10:54 +0000

As some of you may have noticed, I’ve recently been somewhat absent on my blog here other than Twitter updates here and there. This is mainly due to life being rather hectic from a work perspective as well as my recent vacation from said work. Now that I’m off vacation and work has slowed down some, I’ll be back to blogging at least 3-4 times per week along with the daily Twitter stuff that’s automatically posted up. This is actually one of my many New Year’s Resolutions for 2008. Here’s the full list if you’re interested:

Get my ass back to the gym on a daily basis and put some muscle weight on to my now slim frame (I’m still at over 25 lbs lost since this time last year)
Blog more regularly and at more length
Keep my Twitter feed updated at least a few times per day
Work on my side projects that I’ve been “back-burnering” for quite some time now
Find a way to actually make money online through blogging and whatnot (this comes back to the afore mentioned side projects)
Be a better man in general (I know this is somewhat vague but I know what it means and that’s what really matters honestly)

Well that’s the list… let’s hope I can actually accomplish most of it by the end of the year! I know I can do a couple of them fairly easily but the last two will definitely be the most challenging at the end of the day. Anyone else out there have any difficult yet personally important resolutions they’d like to share?

P.S. Yes, I know I haven’t updated the diet updates for a few days now but I was on vacation and just didn’t have the time. I did keep a log of the daily data though and will be posting the updates to that category tomorrow!

Apparently I’m good at fighting children…

Mike — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:01:42 +0000

From the quiz I just took it would appear that I can take on a group of 24 five year old kids and win:

If you want to find out how you’d do, click on the button above to take the quiz yourself. How many kids can you take on?

Random crap I found interesting this week…

Mike — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:00:08 +0000

Winner at JohnChow.com - Apparently I won a review by CashQuests.com by subscribing to John Chow’s RSS feed by email. I’ll post a link up to the review when it’s published.

Are you right or left brained? - Interesting article/test to see if you’re right or left brained in nature. For the record, I’m right brained.

Maddox on fashion?!? - Maddox is back at it with another classic on women’s fashion. This is a must read folks!

21 Halo 3 Easter Eggs - While the site navigation is somewhat confusing (click on the links at the bottom of the article to go to the next page), this is a great collection of some really cool little “easter eggs” put into Halo 3 by Bungie. You gotta love these guys… they make a great game AND take the time to put in stuff like this to entertain those who take a closer look!

My Halo 3 service record - No, I’m not bragging. I just thought some of you might want to check out my stats so far in Halo 3 since it’s the been the biggest thing keeping me from blogging recently. Also, hit me up for a friend request on Xbox Live if you want and we’ll play some matches.

Video: Halo 3 skulls and Terminal locations

Mike — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:23:36 +0000

As most of you know, I’m a huge Halo fan and Halo 3 has taken up a huge amount of my time lately (as you can tell by my lack of presence here on the blog as of late… sorry). For those of you out there who are also Halo 3 fans, you’ll know that there are 13 skulls to find which have various effects that you can turn on or off in your campaign. Some of these effects are silly (headshotting a grunt makes the sound of children cheering and makes confetti shoot out of the grunts body as he dies) and others make the game more difficult/interesting (like doubling the life of your enemies or only make your enemies more efficient at avoiding your grenades). The main thing these skulls do though is allow for multipliers in the campaign scoring meta-game which helps you acquire some new achievements (and some new armor as well). So you want to collect all the skulls to make this easier… or just to brag that you got them all.

As I mentioned earlier, there are also terminals hidden throughout the game that give you more insight into the Halo back story and add to the overall story arc as well. These terminals also unlock an achievement (called Marathon Man) so you’ll want to find all of them as well. Some are easy to stumble across while others are very difficult to find and will only work if you complete a certain series of tasks properly. I’ve only found three of them in-game on my own and those were completely by accident as I was just working my way through the campaign.

That said, here’s a video I found last night that details not only the location of the first 12 skulls but also the location of all the terminals needed to get the Marathon Man achievement. The video does a great job of showing you not only the locations of everything but it even breaks it down by mission for you and gives you all the info you need to make sure you can get each item. Here’s it is:

Now that you know where to find the first 12 of the 13 skulls, here’s a video showing you off to get the 13th one:

The best commercial on TV today…

Mike — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:01:34 +0000

Like most people I watch TV every day and, as a result, I see hundreds of commercials every year. Rarely does an ad really stand out to me as funny and creative but this one for the new Domino’s Oreo Desert Pizza is absolutely brilliant and funny in a way that just has to be seen:

Random thoughts from today…

Mike — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:04:20 +0000

Today is the sixth anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11/01. A few cowardly terrorists took the lives of over 2,700 Americans that day… let’s not forget that. But let’s also not forget that it was terrorists, not Muslims, that did this. I say this because I’ve heard more than one person today talking about “those Muslims” who caused so much death six years ago. The ignorance of some people astonishes me.

On the plus side, as of today I’ve lost 24 pounds! I’ll be making a more detailed post on this later but I just wanted to mention that since I’m SO close 25 pounds now.

I’m already tired of hearing about the iPhone, Britney Spears on the VMA’s, and anything having to do with politics in general.

Halo 3 is only two weeks away as of today… I can’t wait! I’ll be making a more detailed post about it later tonight to celebrate the two week countdown.

The Cincinnati Bengals won last night on Monday Night Football! Watch out Cleveland… we’re coming for you next week.

Site move completed!

Mike — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:19:07 +0000

The server move is now complete and this site is running on the new hosting! It’ll take a bit for things to smooth out since the cache software has to rebuild it’s indexes but things will be faster in the end. Also, the new server should allow me to use some plugins and options in Wordpress that my previous hosting made difficult to implement, so look for some new features very soon. Tomorrow I’ll update the last few days worth of diet updates and post a copy pieces that I’ve been working on over the last day or two during the move. Thanks for hanging in there folks!

No updates for a bit…

Mike — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:11:39 +0000

I’m moving this site to a new server over the next couple of days so I won’t be doing any updates to the site (including the daily diet updates). As soon as the move is complete I’ll make another posting to let you know. Hopefully the move will make the site not only faster but give me plenty of room to grow over the next year or so as the traffic picks up. Thanks in advance for your patience!