Archive for September, 2005

PSP 2.0 Downgrader

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

I’m happy to see that pspupdates.com is reporting that the PSP 2.0 Downgrader actually does work. After playing with the SOCOM beta some more, I fully intend to give Sony the virtual finger by downgrading to 1.5 and *NEVER* trusting Sony with updates again until someone hacks the newest firmwares. Sony has lost […]

Fireteam Bravo Fresh Out of the Bag

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

* WPG2 Plugin Not Validated *UPS just dropped off my beta UMD of SOCOM US Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo. I tore it open and snapped a pic of it to show off. I can’t want till I’m done with work to fire this baby up. I’m excited for some actual WiFi Infrastructure […]

We Made It

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

I’m glad to say we made it through the storm. We were extremely luckly that Hurricane Rita took a turn and didn’t directly hit us. However, it did hit our neighbors to the east but I am glad that it weakened a lot before coming ashore. It could have been much worse […]

My One Night Stand with Second Life

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

I was reading in AFKGamer that Second Life now has a free basic account. You can create a character, login, and do stuff with the free account. I figure what the heck and I signed up for an account just to see what the heck Second Life was about. I figured it […]

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to eBay

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

I’ve been looking to perhaps upgrade this server to something other than the crummy little box it’s running on. I have an older dual 433Mhz CPU system but the ABIT BP6 motherboard is dead. It’s one of those boards that was affected by that rash of bad capacitors in the late 90s. […]

Google Out of Order?

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

I noticed GoogleBot crawling the site and thought the order was funny. Shouldn’t GoogleBot be looking at the robots.txt file before crawling the site? That’s one way to get your bot in trouble.
66.249.66.227 - - [02/Sep/2005:15:46:04 -0500] “GET /2005/08/28/rss-problems/ HTTP/1.1″ 200 3079 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
66.249.66.227 - - [02/Sep/2005:15:46:22 -0500] “GET /2005/08/25/the-good-ole-days/ […]

U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

“Congratulations! You are now a beta tester for SCEA’s SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo for the PlayStation®Portable. As an exclusive public beta tester, you should receive the SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo public beta kit via UPS in approximately 29 days.”
Yay! So it looks like I’ll have something fun to play […]