Well, I promised you that I was working on something big... and today I am here to deliver!
I have been hard at work on my new technology centered web site: www.timverry.com.
If you have enjoyed reading this blog, I encourage you to take a look at my new website and consider following my posts there as my postings here are likely to be sporadic at best.
Thanks for your time, and happy holidays everyone! :D
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Steam Recommendations
As I was browsing around the Steam store for Christmas gift ideas, I noticed that the Store tab now has a new recommendations section. As far as first impressions go, it was not that accurate, for me; however I'm sure that their algorithms will improve over time.
Steam also lists the games that your Steam friends play most and any personal recommendations they have made.
Speaking of personal recommendations, you are able to recommend games from your Steam games list that can either be open or a recommendation to a certain friend.
What are your thoughts on this feature? Do you think the recommendations are accurate?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
PHP and Such
So I promised a non-digital lego related game, and I'm here to deliver. I haven't had much time to post anything new due to school, work, and attempting to code a website. I say attempt as I haven't done this since the Writers Hall website, which needless to say, was a while ago and I'm a bit rusty. Like a 50 year old nail next to both an oxygen tank and a nuclear reactor.
I've been reading a great article by Enrique Ramirez which has been helping immensely. Especially with all the CSS stuff that i had a tough time getting straight when it was fresh in my mind! :P You can find the article here, and I encourage you to give it a read if you're at all interested in HTML 5.
I've been reading a great article by Enrique Ramirez which has been helping immensely. Especially with all the CSS stuff that i had a tough time getting straight when it was fresh in my mind! :P You can find the article here, and I encourage you to give it a read if you're at all interested in HTML 5.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Hold LMB. Walk. Click RMB, move and click RMB again. Rinse and Repeat.... O wait, wrong strategy!
The strategy I want to utilize here is to write a blog update, not finish my city in the sky in Minecraft! Ooops!
Needless to say, I have been playing a lot of Minecraft. I thought BrickBreaker was addicting, but this... this is a whole new world of addiction. Hardly an excuse for the lack of updates, I realize; however, it's the best excuse I've got :p
In tech related news, I will soon have my own domain. More updates soon, I promise. I can't promise; however, that they won't be Minecraft related! :p
The strategy I want to utilize here is to write a blog update, not finish my city in the sky in Minecraft! Ooops!
Needless to say, I have been playing a lot of Minecraft. I thought BrickBreaker was addicting, but this... this is a whole new world of addiction. Hardly an excuse for the lack of updates, I realize; however, it's the best excuse I've got :p
In tech related news, I will soon have my own domain. More updates soon, I promise. I can't promise; however, that they won't be Minecraft related! :p
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Minecraft!
It is now 11:48pm as I am writing this blog post. After a rather long day at work, finally getting home, and now relaxing I decided I wanted to jump into a game of Minecraft!
Interestingly, I was greeted with this page:
Interestingly, I was greeted with this page:
Basically, it states that the developers server has gotten so bogged down with requests that he's had to disable portions of the website! I suppose I'll just have to wait to register so that I can save all my crazy buildings :p.
For now, the developer has announced a steam-esque "free weekend" for the normally paid for version of the game. If you haven't already, now would be a great time to check it out! Just head on over to the website.
As always, happy gaming!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Comcastic!
So I am (finally) switching my ISP. And I'm going with Comcast, not ATT. The funny thing is that ATT keeps sending me flyers advertising that High Speed Internet is available in my area; however, my address is still not available to sign up for High Speed Internet on their website. Needless to say, I’m a bit jaded at that.
Now that I’m back in school (taking classes on campus and online), and attempting to publish more media to the web, I am in need of a faster internet connection. Also, since I am sharing this connection with someone who watches entirely too much bachelor-themed shows than I can keep track of online, it helps to have more bandwidth available.
Monday morning Comcast came to install the internet. Naturally, they were late :p. However, Comcast offered me a $20 credit to my first bill. As they showed up about 10 minutes after the latest scheduled time, it was more than sufficient a gesture. Since I own my modem, and had used it before it was, I’m told, considered a re-connect to their network. It was mentioned to my girlfriend that they don’t get credit for reconnects so they weren’t too happy about that. Not that it’s my fault, I did tell them I owned my modem when I signed up. Anyway, I have my desktop computer and my router in a corner of the living room by the balcony entrance. There is a coax jack in that same corner; however, Comcast no longer uses those lines as they are ran through the outer wall, and they stopped using them last year. Instead, the coax jack is across the room from the computer along the opposite wall. So, for now, I have a white coaxial cable running across my living room. At some point I’m going to get a longer cable and run it along the baseboard. Until then, I have a nice reminder that I have a much faster connection to the internet. :)
How much faster is it though?
Lets compare:
Now that I’m back in school (taking classes on campus and online), and attempting to publish more media to the web, I am in need of a faster internet connection. Also, since I am sharing this connection with someone who watches entirely too much bachelor-themed shows than I can keep track of online, it helps to have more bandwidth available.
Monday morning Comcast came to install the internet. Naturally, they were late :p. However, Comcast offered me a $20 credit to my first bill. As they showed up about 10 minutes after the latest scheduled time, it was more than sufficient a gesture. Since I own my modem, and had used it before it was, I’m told, considered a re-connect to their network. It was mentioned to my girlfriend that they don’t get credit for reconnects so they weren’t too happy about that. Not that it’s my fault, I did tell them I owned my modem when I signed up. Anyway, I have my desktop computer and my router in a corner of the living room by the balcony entrance. There is a coax jack in that same corner; however, Comcast no longer uses those lines as they are ran through the outer wall, and they stopped using them last year. Instead, the coax jack is across the room from the computer along the opposite wall. So, for now, I have a white coaxial cable running across my living room. At some point I’m going to get a longer cable and run it along the baseboard. Until then, I have a nice reminder that I have a much faster connection to the internet. :)
How much faster is it though?
Lets compare:
Monday, August 23, 2010
Unlocking my Blackberry
I finally found a new home for my old Blackberry Bold 9000. I originally stopped using it as I was running out of memory for music and videos and the trackball stopped working. Well in the sense that i could scroll every direction but up, anyway :p. After reading forum posts and talking to my friend i tried cleaning the trackball unsuccessfully.
Apparently, however; it was just my bad luck combined with my once trusty blackberry giving me a good excuse to upgrade as when i got the phone out of its box and charged it up the trackball worked perfectly.
I was a bit jaded at that. It would be my luck that the trackball works as im selling the phone.
But that quickly subsided as my friend was in need of a phone upgrade (their old phones batter was nearly shot and their charging cable was frayed), so i was happy that the trackball was working for them.
Since she is a T-Mobile customer we hit a small snag in that my blackberry was locked to ATT's network, so i would need to unlock it in order for it to work on T-Mobiles network.
Apparently, however; it was just my bad luck combined with my once trusty blackberry giving me a good excuse to upgrade as when i got the phone out of its box and charged it up the trackball worked perfectly.
I was a bit jaded at that. It would be my luck that the trackball works as im selling the phone.
But that quickly subsided as my friend was in need of a phone upgrade (their old phones batter was nearly shot and their charging cable was frayed), so i was happy that the trackball was working for them.
Since she is a T-Mobile customer we hit a small snag in that my blackberry was locked to ATT's network, so i would need to unlock it in order for it to work on T-Mobiles network.
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