I have been offline from the twitterverse for a few weeks and I missed everyone’s icons going manga. After a little searching, I found FaceYourManga, the site that has generated many of the manga avatars on Twitter. You can see my first attempt at a manga avatar to the left.
There is also an anti-manga website called StopTheManga that has cropped up to report “offenders”.
Whatever side of the fence your on, I’m sure it’s a fad that will pass in short time.
I’ve decided to change my Twitter handle from ScottMahan to Raskull. I’ve used Raskull (previously Rascal, but too many people started using it as well) as my online gaming handle since the late 80’s and recently decided to start using it on Twitter. If you’re already following me, it won’t affect you. You’ll just see my new handle in your stream.
We’ve seen this Pokémon Diamond & Pearl beauty released in Japan almost two years ago. Rumors now have it coming to GameStop in North America. For $129.99 you get the Limited Edition DS Lite, a T-Shirt, 22 minute Pokémon Dungeon DVD, Grovyle Poster, and matching case. I already own 2 DS Lites (Limited Edition Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass and a standard Onyx) but this one is REALLY tempting.
If you visit the site more than once today, you may notice changes. I am trying out a few stock WordPress Themes to see what I like about them. Looks like I may have to do some coding and make a custom theme. That’s going to be fun. If anybody knows some good sources of 2 or 3 column themes with widgets, let me know.
Don’t worry gang. This will be short and spoiler-free.
No Frakking Aliens!
’nuff said.
… or what has to change to make the iPhone/iPod Touch a viable platform.
Dasme wrote an interestering article over on Nukoda.com about gaming on the iPhone. Here’s an excerpt:
I like many of you out there with a brand new iPhone 2.0 have been in love with the App Store. I’ve downloaded my fair share of both free and paid games, and have been amazed at the quality of the launch software. Like all things however, it hasn’t been a perfect experience.
I’ve collected my thoughts and gripes into one long post that I’m hoping iPhone/iPod Touch game developers will see and take to heart. While it’s likely that this won’t be seen by many, I want to speak my peace mainly so I can stop all my bitching to friends. Below you’ll find my three top gripes, and my solutions that would make iPhone/iPod Touch gaming a wonderful experience to be had by all… in a perfect world at least.
Read more here
This is a new record for me, at least in the past several months. Let’s see if I can go for 3 in a row? OMG, I just realized something. This post makes 2 Posts in 1 Day. Wow, I better pace myself.
I can’t be the only one having this problem. Here’s the scenario. I listen to my iPhone 3G in my car via a dock that is attached to a cigarette lighter adapter. If I leave it in the car, as soon as I re-start the car, it goes into landscape mode and won’t come out no matter how I twirl it. I am forced to shut-down and restart the iPhone 3G (out of the dock).
If you’ve experienced this problem, let me know. I’m going to go check the discussion forums at Apple and see if this is common or even a known bug.
EDIT: Nothing on this over at the Apple Forums. I’m going to try and recreate this scenario at home with a standard charger and dock. Check back tomorrow for an update.
I finally upgraded my WordPress blog (mostly so I could use the new WordPress iPhone application). Whew, that was painfull. I lost all my categories and had to do some fun MySQL work.
Now that I can update to blog from my iPhone, it is time to start blogging again. Right after I find a good 3-Column theme that supports tag (or I modify this one, Pride, with the new WP 2.6 enhancements). I am also thinking about converting my personal site from iWeb back to WP. I’ll do a little testing here with the WP iPhone app before I tackle that one.
More to come tomorrow!
The only feedback that I’ve been getting is from spammers. I’m going to have to install some kind of comment spam filter soon.
Stay tuned for info regarding how TechGeekBlog will soon relaunch.