The writing is just as good as when Futurama was cancelled. Â Much better than Family Guy when it came back. Â I need to go back and actually buy the other DVDs…
Archive for November, 2007
Something Other Than Galaxy…
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
The following is my TODO list for the next week or so: (more…)
Super Mario Galaxy: A Review
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
I’ve already given a bit of thought on Galaxy after having taken a couple of days break from the purple coin quest. For my review, read on… (Thanks to Nina for letting me use her Coin and AURA rating systems)
WARNING: Galaxy Not For Completionists!
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
So apparently Nintendo actually made Galaxy suck. Â That’s right, I got 104 stars, beat Bowser to get the last, and then, as expected, out came ‘collect the 100 purple coins.’ Â Of course, having first collected purple coins in the process of unlocking the best powerup in the game, I figured that these purple coin stars would have said powerup, or at least be challenging and fun, but instead, it becomes a monotonous grindfest.
Best Bowser Line Ever.
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
“Not bad! I guess I chose the right guy to be my archenemy. At least you always put up a fight.”
P.S. 68 stars and JUST beat the Bedroom Boss. Â I want to clean up the Engine Room before heading to the center of the universe. Â I just like breaking the game where all 5 galaxies appear at once. Â It’s rather amusing that way.
Super Mario Galaxy Is Damn Awesome.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Really it is. A true successor to Mario 64, it looks like, and much more ‘Mario’ than Sunshine was.
Playing with Lilina…
Monday, November 12th, 2007
I’m currently playing around with the web-based RSS aggregator Lilina to act as a LiveJournal-less Friends page, and unfortunately, it leaves a lot to be desired. It does show promise however, but it needs a lot of polishing to get there.
One reason why I wanted Lilina rather than some other source is that I felt that I wanted a personal friends page that didn’t depend on LJ, should I end up transitioning entirely off, and secondly, no WordPress plugins currently do what I want (every one I’ve seen more or less adds ‘crosstalk’ by adding posts directly to this blog, or as a simple aggregator that JUST lists article titles).
Lilina, thus far, seems to be just right: a standalone program that is lightweight enough to act as a public friends page. However, it’s clearly very much alpha, and has issues to this end. Despite this, it seems to be the best available: Feed on Feeds is more like a desktop client than a lightweight browser, Gregarius is incredibly slow, and Zort doesn’t interleave articles from different feeds.
I’ve found quite a few minor bugs in just playing around with it for thirty minutes, and would definitely not recommend it unless you’re willing to get the latest SVN code and tinker with it to make it work (for one thing, it has a fundamental flaw that prevents Slashdot, of all things, from being successfully aggregated, and most probably many others as well).
I’ll keep tinkering with it perhaps, but I might just end up writing my own app, since Lilina’s design is a bit clunky.
It’s also reminded me that I need to upgrade the default installs of PHP and MySQL on this server up to 5 (for each)…
