How to Win in Iraq

Capt. Travis Patriquin, who was killed last week in Iraq, put together a simple Powerpoint presentation titled "How to Win the War in Al Anbar."

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Buffy season 8 news

More Buffy season 8 news in this interview with Joss.

No button configuration for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on XBLA

Well, it looks like developers are happy to just dump old games on XBLA without any of the features we've come to expect in a modern game. Apparently, Midway will be patching UMK3 on XBLA, but they still won't add a button configuration option because it is "extremely difficult to implement." They can tack on Live functionality, but remapping the buttons is just too hard.

If you're also disappointed with this, go to http://support.midway.com/ and leave some feedback.

Early voting in Austin

Early voting is going on in Austin until Nov. 3rd. You can view the sample ballots to try and figure out what you want to vote for.

Anna Videos

I'm finally staring to pull some of the videos off of our camera to post some here and create some DVDs. Here is a video of Anna having her first taste of sweet peas.

New webmail login method

I've changed hosting yet again, and the webmail login is a bit different. When you click on the Webmail link, a login window will pop up.

The format for the username is username+eatdapuddin.com. So if your email address is joe@eatdapuddin.com, use joe+eatdapuddin.com as your username.

Once you've logged in, you are given a choice of webmail clients to use. You can use Squirrelmail like you used to use or choose a different one. You will be given this choice each time you login.

Buffy Season 8?

Well, it looks like we might be finally getting a new season of Buffy... in comic book form. Joss talks about it a little in this interview with Wizard

Time Warner not providing CableCARDs for TiVo Series 3?

Consumer Fury has a post detailing an email exchange with Time Warner of Raleigh, NC. In the exchange, Time Warner states that they will not provide CableCARDs for use with TiVo Series 3 (which comes out later this year).

CableCARDs allows devices such as TiVos and newer televisions to tune into digital channels without the need for the crappy set-top boxes from cable providers. Cable providers are required to offer CableCARDs by the FCC so hopefully this is just a case of Time Warner being a pain in the ass.

RIAA vs. The People

RIAA vs. The People is a blog that is keeping tabs on many of the RIAA's cases against their would-be customers.

The blog is run by two lawyers involved in the some of the suits, and they are currently looking for information pertaining to the use of file sharing by the major record labels.

Stop the Surveillance Bills

The EFF has posted an action alert about two draft bills in the Senate that would move legal challenges against government surveillance out of the traditional court system in the secret FISA courts. The Judiciary Committee may vote on this Thursday so act now.

Narbacular Drop

Some students at the game programming school, Digipen, produced this cool FPSish game, Narbacular Drop, where your only weapon is the ability to place two portals which you can then walk through.

This game is about a year old, but it is in the news because these guys were apparently hired by Valve, and a game based on this mechanism called Half Life 2: Portals, will be released with Half Life 2: Episode Two.

Narbacular Drop is free and short so give it a try.

Trauma Center

Finally picked up a copy of Trauma Center. This game has been sold out everywhere so I had to pick it up off of eBay.

The game has been a blast so far. For the time being, I think it's my favorite DS game. Now I have to track down a copy of Phoenix Wright.