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If you happened to be on Twitter last night and following Major Nelson (http://majornelson.com) you may have seen the announcement of the new Resident Evil 5 - Limited Edition Red XBox 360 (http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/02/24/officially-announcing-the-resident-evil-limited-edition-console.aspx). Well, I've been in the market to pick up a new 360, since my old one was a pre-HDMI model and only had a 20gb drive and this was the incentive I needed. It was the same price as the normal Elite model but came in Red with the red controller, a copy of RE5, a copy of SF2 and a premium Theme. None of these extras are stuff I'll actually use, but they may make good gifts or trade-ins :}.

Anyways, we pre-ordered..... now I just need to figure out how we'll setup the 2 consoles :}

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Well, as it time wasn't a tight commodity as it was I've been asked by a friend to help co-author a book. I can't really say to much at this point other than my input is scheduled to be completed in mid April. With that in mind some of my other activities may take on a "back burner" role. I'll do what I can to keep things moving along but alas there are only so many hours in the day.

I'll post more on the book info later when I get the "ok" to do so. Till then please give me a little forgiveness if I'm not completely on top of things.

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Well, who would have thought that if I would have just went and spent 2 minutes and Googled the stupid error I was getting that a solution would have been found <smack>. Thanks to Julian Bucknall (http://blog.boyet.com/blog/blog/twitter-notification-broken-with-graffiti-1-2/) for previously getting the error, and finding the solution.

All things should be good again... nothing to see here, move along now.

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Broke down and did my part to help spur on the economy. I picked up a new(er) vehicle yesterday. If you go to the photos section (http://darkfalz.com/photos/) you'll see pictures of a similar one. It's a 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser. I'm digging it...it's a nice ride. I traded in my Honda Element...a vehicle I really liked too. Anyway...thought I'd share with you all :}

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Well, it seems like there is more issues with the auto-twitter stuff I was doing with the site. The posts are erroring out with a "The remote server returned an error: (417) Expectation Failed.". I'm looking into it but there may not be any auto-twittering until it's fixed. Sorry 'bout that.

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Sorry to all those that happened to get the tinyurl links from my old blog posts that linked to a mirror site I had setup. There was a slight defect in the way I implemented the auto-twitter interface from my blog. I THINK I have that all cleaned up now but I guess this post will be the real test.

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I was listening to a few podcasts today and realized that there's a new phrase starting to take over the airwaves. Most of us are common with the "Jumped the Shark" phrase (if you gotta ask you need to do a search on it) but it seems like there is a new phrase that means the same thing that's taken over. "Open source moment" seems to be so sweetly replacing it.

I love it.....

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Hey all. I'm still piecing together the stuff for Darkfalz Radio and could really use a nice clip/tune for an opening track. I can't pay anyone but will definitely give you some advertisement. If you are interested feel free to shoot me a line and we'll see what can be done.

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Ok, I'm a big fan of not having to maintain 100 logins and 100 passwords and as such I like the idea of a single, unified, identity for the Net. The old Microsoft Passport tried this (and pretty much failed) and then the Microsoft Live account stuff took it's place and to be honest it's been great. Then I start to hear about the "OpenID" initiative... sounds like the same thing, or am I wrong? Only...it's worse. You go and get this wonderfull OpenID but now what? You see a list of sites on the OpenID.Org  OpenID.net site listed but you can't actuall use your OpenID on these sites... everyone requires you to sign up again, so what's the point?

Am I missing something here? Why the heck to you go get this great unified ID when you can't actually use it anywhere? I know that if you (for example) sign up on Yahoo than your login is your "OpenID"....great, but try to login to Wordpress with it....doesn't work untill you register all over again...so it's done nothing for me.

I can only assume I'm failing to see some great aspect of this, so please....share....

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Well, my initial plans for recording Episode 1 have meet with difficulties. While I am able to record fine with a single input (one mic) I have yet found a decent way to record multiple inputs for the group recordings. As such I'm still working out the technical pieces for the first, group, recording. With that in mind I may put up a short, solo episode later this week. There are a couple topics I want to cover plus it will be a chance for me to try out some other pieces/etc...

Hopefully something will be up before the week is out.

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