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Entries from January 2008

FlixFlops

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

My friend Jay IMs me a lot with weird movie titles he finds browsing Netflix’s new releases feed. They’re always interesting and sometimes the titles make you want to watch out of sheer potential for hilarity.
Of course, actually watching a terrible movie and making it funny is a tough process, but I think Jay’s got […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

Review: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ll just start this post by saying that I love my Nintendo DS. It’s by far the most fun I’ve had with any handheld console, and it beats out a few of the “real” consoles I’ve owned. I know some people still enjoy their original DS model (usually called a DS Fat), but in my […]

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Tags: Games

First post.

January 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well, it’s taken a while to set up, but I’ve got WordPress running now on this new hosting, a Xen Virtual Machine running at slicehost. The backing engine is nginx with FastCGI and PHP. A fun tech experience to set up and one I’ll blog about soon. Also, lots of other things to do: add some […]

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Tags: Miscellaneous