Fun with tech
So as we speak, or more accurately I type I’m still in the middle of some updates to both my blog and the site. I’ve added a feedburner plugin to make handling rss related tasks easier and to work around the retarded security features that silverlight has installed (Seriously I can’t make a web request for an xml file without your permission what kind of idiot thought that up).
I’ve also changed the theme of the blog to be a little more clean and less resource intensive and will probably be tweaking it for a while to come. The main site should soon have a silverlight blog reader even if there are still some bugs to work out (I know the text looks like crap but it’s not my fault). Internet Explorer is also being very annoying and not processing style sheets the way it is supposed to so I have to do some rigging there as well.
In other software news, I find it hilarious that someone actually got a research budget to produce songsmith at Microsoft. If you haven’t looked this up there are a ton of youtube videos showing it butchering different songs. On the opposite end of the scale I am so far very impressed with the Live Mesh and WIndows 7 Betas so I suppose all this proves that in a company a big as Microsoft you get a full range of projects and talents.
I don’t think I can put into words how good the latest episodes of Battlestar Galactica are and I am stunned at how hard they are running towards the end of the series and they have definitely grabbed my attention again and I’m waiting on the edge of my seat to see what they’re going to do next week.
Finally on the gaming front I’m almost done Gears of War 2 so I’ll probably have some wrap up thoughts when I do.