As I remove MySpace and add Plurk to my own Mitchelaneous side bar, I thought this would be as good of a time as any to bring up the fact that you should not be afraid to socialize and meet new people. Sure, some places build a fan following because of great content but great content alone can not win any popularity races.
You have to get out there and proverbially pimp your goods.
Let people know at least a few places where they can follow you or be your friend, and they are given a few more “gateways” to get back to your blog and content. Think of it this way, which am I more likely to be friends with:
The guy who’s web site I never knew about because he doesn’t push it out in the real world
The guy who is trying his best to make friends, and inform the public he’s out there and ready for his close up
I’m not afraid to mention anybody who wishes to can add me as a friend on:
Don’t be afraid to promote your favorite social web site profiles. By not doing so, you are missing a good chance not only to make a few friends but get some free press for your own web site. Don’t be a wall flower, be that comfy chair everybody likes to sit on.
I’ve been out searching for a program that will allow me to quickly color code the folders on my Vista machine. The only problem is, I can find a lot of good programs that work with Windows XP but this must be a harder task to accomplish on Vista.
Here are a few of the Windows XP programs I have tried (all good solutions by the way) that just haven’t gotten the job done thus far.
So I am asking you, do you know of a good Vista folder customizer out there? I need something that would allow me to quickly change the colors to kind of help organize things a ‘bit in my PC. Better yet, how do you organize your “My Document” folders?
Over the past few days I have been playing a lot of the Wii’s Zapper games. The light gun attachment for the Wii is a lot of fun to use, and I wanted to make sure I got my money’s worth on the deal. Here are some of the best Wii Zapper compatible games I have bought thus far:
Link’s Crossbow Training
Yes! Finally Link gets his name in one of the Zelda games! Ok, this one I didn’t have much choice about due to the fact it came with the Zapper itself but I do have to say it is much more fun than I thought it would be. Having the anticipation that it would just be a demo title showing me "how to use" the Zapper it ended up being an entertaining "pick it up when you have nothing else to do" game.
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
I have been a fan of the Resident Evil series, even though this is my first actual game in the series to own. This game’s controls kind of makes you feel like the Zapper was a second thought (due to the fact you have to move your hand up on top to hit the "A" button a lot. Other than that it is another cool "on rails" shoot’em up that ends up being very entertaining.
Go through some of the historic places from past Resident Evil games and shoot a lot. That is this game in a nutshell.
Ghost Squad
Now I am not usually a big fan of the Army/Police first person shooter type games but for some reason this one looked as if it might be a lot of fun. I have not gotten to spend much time with it yet but from what I have played it looks great. There are also a lot of side routes you can take so one level never has to be the same twice. Another great thing about it is you change your weapon type up as you go to suit the situation. Tons of fun.
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
This title, as the name tells you right off the bat, gives you both House of the Dead 2 and 3 to play with your Zapper.
The voice acting in this game is so bad, it’s good. I’m a big fan of your campy horror movies though. I missed out both of these days the first time around but now I get to finally see what all the buzz was about. You would be amazed how gratifying blowing the head off a zombie really is.
Any More Games for the Wii Zapper?
From what I have seen, only other one I’m missing is some army/war game (Metal of Honor?) but that really isn’t my cup of tea. Know anymore Zapper ready games I should pick up for Wii?
Back a few weeks I decided I’d upgrade to DirecTV’s HD lineup. This of course meant I would have to get two new boxes for my house (one regular DirecTV DVR and one HD DVR) and a new dish. Ever since then I have almost been kicking myself because DirecTV’s customer service has… well, totally sucked.
Back on June 4th I setup the order and they said they would be here to set it up on the 13th. Oh goodie I said, can’t wait to get it up and running. Well, about 9:00 AM on the 13th they said they wouldn’t be here cause they didn’t have enough techs working. Fair enough, it was Friday the 13th afterall.
Next they were suppose to show up Monday, the 16th. I got excited again because I thought I’d get to watch WWE RAW on my new TV in high definition. Oh goodie I thought again. Well, Monday about 1:00pm (an hour after their deadline for being here) I contact DirecTV to see where they were at. The first person I talk to doesn’t have a clue but she gives me a local number. Call the local number and I’m told they still don’t have enough techs to work in the area, and they move my install date again… to today.
So here we are. Will they show up? Will I have to call them to see why they haven’t shown up? Should know sometime this afternoon. Overall though, I have to say I am pretty disapointed with DirecTV’s customer service in a whole. What if I was a new customer? Heck - Dish Network is looking kind of nice by now. Wonder how good their tech support is?
Update: Still nobody, and they got 20 minutes left to get here to meet their “promise” of behing here from 8AM - Noon. Posted about it on their user forums too.
Looks like DirecTV deleted my thread without reason? Wasn’t anything bad there - just going over what had happened thus far. Once again, DirecTV ends up with two thumbs down as far as customer service goes.
The digital version of the newest Ping! Zine magazine is out (paper version coming to a mail box near you soon!) and I have one new article this time around.
In this issue I tackled moving from web host to web host. What you need to do before, during and after the transition when changing web hosting companies.
Hello civilized world! Since Thursday, I have been without power due to the big storms that crossed north Texas and Oklahoma that night. Best report I have heard thus far was 80 mph winds but I have a feeling it was a lot more than that.
Also with the way things were torn up around here, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there was some tornadic activity that night as well. Last night I finally got power back here, so I am slowly getting caught up with all that I missed out on. Here are a few photos of the damages:
Everybody around here is OK which is the most important thing, but I might be cutting down and carrying off limbs and trees for a month or so trying to get the outside back to normal.
As I remove MySpace and add Plurk to my own Mitchelaneous side bar, I thought this would be as good of a time as any to bring up the fact that you should not be afraid to socialize and meet new people. Sure, some places build a fan following because of great content but great content alone can not win any popularity races. 
I’ve been out searching for a program that will allow me to quickly color code the folders on my Vista machine. The only problem is, I can find a lot of good programs that work with Windows XP but this must be a harder task to accomplish on Vista.
Yes! Finally Link gets his name in one of the Zelda games! Ok, this one I didn’t have much choice about due to the fact it came with the Zapper itself but I do have to say it is much more fun than I thought it would be. Having the anticipation that it would just be a demo title showing me "how to use" the Zapper it ended up being an entertaining "pick it up when you have nothing else to do" game.
I have been a fan of the Resident Evil series, even though this is my first actual game in the series to own. This game’s controls kind of makes you feel like the Zapper was a second thought (due to the fact you have to move your hand up on top to hit the "A" button a lot. Other than that it is another cool "on rails" shoot’em up that ends up being very entertaining.
Now I am not usually a big fan of the Army/Police first person shooter type games but for some reason this one looked as if it might be a lot of fun. I have not gotten to spend much time with it yet but from what I have played it looks great. There are also a lot of side routes you can take so one level never has to be the same twice. Another great thing about it is you change your weapon type up as you go to suit the situation. Tons of fun.
This title, as the name tells you right off the bat, gives you both House of the Dead 2 and 3 to play with your Zapper. 
Back a few weeks I decided I’d upgrade to DirecTV’s HD lineup. This of course meant I would have to get two new boxes for my house (one regular DirecTV DVR and one HD DVR) and a new dish. Ever since then I have almost been kicking myself because DirecTV’s customer service has… well, totally sucked.
