Just a simple list of stuff I'm looking forward to in 2011.
Video Games
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
The Ace Combat series is the best flight combat game series in existence, bar none. Now, mind you, early previews have raised some red flags - most notably the shift of the game to the "real world" versus a fictional world - but I have every confidence it will be an excellent game. Probably not a day-and-date purchase, though.
Lego Star Wars 3
Initially I had written this game off since it takes place in the Clone War years (the domain of the prequel trilogy), but it sounds like they've gone above and beyond the previous Lego Star Wars titles and added in a lot of neat features. Still, not a full ticket-price purchase.
Bulletstorm
A game unabashedly designed to be fun, a shooter not even pretending to be anything but brutal fun. Frankly, it sounds awesome, and the dev crew has clearly embraced the absurdity of it and amped it to 11. Should make for an excellent rental.
Dragon Age 2
The original was not without many (and rather serious) flaws, but BioWare is a superb company and I don't doubt that they've listened to the fans and made adjustments accordingly. Pre-order already placed.
Shogun 2: Total War
I suck at strategy games, especially of the real-time variety. I mean, I really suck at them. But, the total war series has always been one I've wanted to try, they just needed to head into a theater of combat I actually cared about. Japanese Imperial era fits the bill nicely. I'll be waiting for a good sale price, but definitely looking forward to it.
Portal 2
Portal 1 was everything the hype said it was, and more. Is Portal 2 worth $60? I don't know, I'll be waiting on some reviews (or I'll rent the 360 version, most likely), but I strongly suspect this will be everything we've been waiting for.
Red Faction: Armageddon
The Red Faction games are more fun than they have any right to be. I wasted dozens of hours on Guerrilla... and then wasting more hours on the PC version, too. Like Bulletstorm it's not really about story, but it should make for some awesome destructive fun. Definite rental, possible purchase.
Mass Effect 3
Bioware's Mass Effect series is my favorite set of games released since Final Fantasy 6's Super Nintendo came out in 1994. The end of the trilogy is my most anticipated release -- movie, book or video game -- of 2011. Period.
Batman Arkham City
The original Batman: Arkham Asylum was a game that took us all by surprise with how great it was. Can lightning strike twice? I'm thinking yes.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
After the disaster that was Final Fantasy 14, Final Fantasy 11 lived on as my MMO of (occasional) choice. The Old Republic will most likely break that. Yes, I will be a Jedi, and yes, it will be awesome.
Movies
Pirates of the Caribbean 4
Okay, so Pirates 2 & 3 weren't all that great, but I enjoyed them thoroughly (the trick is to ignore the thing masquerading as a story and just roll with it), but it sounds like 4 is on the right track to recovery. Streamlining down to just Johnny Depp and Geoffry Rush for the core cast is probably a good call (though I question how effective Sparrow will be without a straight man to play off of), and adding Ian McShane (of Deadwood fame) as Blackbeard is genius. I'll be along for the ride without a doubt.
X-Men First Class
X-Men 3 and Wolverine were rather crap, so I'm a bit leery about this one, but at the end of the day it's still X-Men, so I'll give it a look based on how the reviews turn out.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
This is the English remake of the Swedish movies/books known collectively as the Millennium trilogy (all of which were excellent). I fully expect this to be an absolute train wreck, but my morbid curiosity will likely result in a rental.
And that's it for movies. Short list, to be sure. For reference Captain America, Thor and Green Lantern do nothing for me. And although Pixar is putting out Cars 2 next year, which I will watch and likely enjoy, it's not a franchise I much care about (make a series called Planes and we're golden, though).
Honorable mention to "Song of Ice and Fire", which is an HBO series based on George R.R. Martin's excellent fantasy series. Normally I don't go for TV too much, but I'll be grabbing these off Amazon as soon as they're available.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Movie Review: Red
Red
Earlier this year a movie was released based on a DC property. It was an action movie that told the story of a number of special operations forces who got betrayed by the US government and now are out to clear their names of all wrongdoings, and to kill the man who ordered their deaths. Not so long ago a movie was released based on a DC property about an ex-CIA agent who has a kill order placed on him by the US government because… well, there wasn’t really any good reason. The former movie was the entertaining, but forgettable, Losers and the latter was the entertaining, but much less forgettable, Red.
Now, bear in mind, I liked Losers quite a bit, but I freely admit a lot of that comes from my fondness for the source material (which is far superior). At the end of the day, though, it was a run-of-the-mill actioner with very little to set it apart (though destroying the jet with a motorcycle was pretty cool). Red, for all intents and purposes, is in the exact same situation, except it has two things going for it that Losers didn’t: Helen Mirren and John Malkovich.
Of the two Malkovich is the far more bombastic character; being subjected to daily doses of LCD by the CIA for eleven years can have that effect. He gets most of the best lines and the laugh-out-loud moments of the movies. You will either find him exceedingly irritating or wildly amusing. I suspect there isn’t much middle ground.
Helen Mirren’s character, though, is the one that interested me. Far too often hitmen (or women) are portrayed either as coldly-professional angst-muffins (see: Jason Bourne or the current Bond), or homicidal psychopaths. It’s pretty rare these days to see an assassin who is both at peace with what they do, but able to have a normal life outside of the job. Helen Mirren has that character here. Equally at home having ‘girl talk’ with Red’s resident damsel-in-distress, Mary-Louise Parker, or manning a mounted 50-caliber machine gun, Mirren is a likeable and engaging character. She steals pretty much any scene she’s in (yes, even the ones with insane Malkovich in them).
Of course that’s not to discount Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman – both of whom are on top of their game, but don’t seem to be doing anything particularly new here – and nor does Richard Dreyfuss (in a surprising role), but there’s nothing here for any of those named that puts them apart from any number of other films they’ve done (okay, maybe Dreyfuss is a bit against type). They all play the weary ex-operative roles very well, but that may well be because they’ve done that role a few times before.
If I haven’t talked about the story it’s because you already know the story, and can probably even recite each plot twist before it happens simply by reading the plot summary on IMDB. It’s a by-the-number affair executed about as well as a movie of this type can be. There’s good action sequences, particularly in the dock yard (which, incidentally, is also where Loser’s best sequences come into play, as well). The movie knows when to embrace its own absurdity, such as Malkovich facing down a middle-aged woman wielding an RPG, and when to play it straight. Sure it only gives a small nod to the source material (Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss and John Malkovich wouldn’t have roles in the film otherwise), but it’s a fun popcorn movie that’s worth relaxing to for an hour and a half.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
A Trip to the South
Traveling to Gaithersburg, MD on Monday afternoon I have to admit I had virtually no idea what to expect from the company that had paid for my trip and lodging to get out there for four days this past week. One of the workers there, who we'll call Mike (not his real name), was known to me since he had been a former Daniel Webster (DWC) student while I was there. His boss, Steve (also not his real name), was the main force behind all this and the man who had arranged my tickets and hotel rooms, but I had never met him and had only exchanged two or three emails with him.
I arrived at the office a little bit early, despite some dodgy Gaithersburg streets and poor directions. Walking in I found a well furnished meeting room with snack sized bags of oreos and chips'a'hoy cookies sitting in a bowl in the middle of a large table, and an HD television sitting at the far end. I wandered in, but encountered no one. I walked down one hall, aimlessly, and found no one... another hall, and still no one. I wondered if I had the time wrong, but peeking into two more rooms revealed Mike working away at a familiar looking computer console running the same air traffic control (ATC) training software that I had been using for the past year at DWC.
The two of us got to work pretty much right off, going over the plan for the rest of the week. The general gist is that we would work a joint radar exercise with Mike working the entire radar sector for ten minutes before we split into him running approach and departure control (feeder), and me directing the planes in on the last few miles of their arrival (final). It wasn't a particularly difficult problem, but it wasn't supposed to be: the purpose was to show off what the software could do, not what we could do. My portion of the problem started with a trio of planes essentially looking to land at the same time, and then getting three or four more planes trickling in as the exercise wound down.
The above is a rough representation of my first portion of the exercise. All three planes, left to their own devices, would pretty much connect in a spectacular aluminum shower somewhere northwest of the airport. My initial reaction was to throw Chataqua in front with Cactus behind him and close out with N1KA, with the next batch of planes arriving just as N1KA was lining up for his final approach. It turned out that this caused Chataqua and Cactus to come in too close to each other, so I ultimately decided to put Cactus in front, followed by N1KA and Chataqua bringing up the rear.
We ran the problem about five times and called it a night. Steve popped in at some point, as well as his boss, and we all went to dinner before retiring to the inn (except for Mike, who was local) and going to bed. The next day the problems would begin.
While trying to fine tune the problem we made some changes to planes that wouldn't affect me, but the tinkering would eventually cause N1KA to stop responding to anything. We ran the problem several times, even replacing N1KA with a new plane entirely, but we just could not get the plane to respond at all. Going back to a previous save worked for a while, but making one absolutely trivial change brought the problem right back to the forefront. Since we couldn't get it fixed, and we were trying to show off the program at its best, we decided to delete the plane entirely. This made my task (already simple) exceptionally easy. Sequencing two planes is practically the first thing we learn. We ran that version of the problem about ten times, including three times where we recorded it to be played on an iPad's video player, before packing everything up into a series of boxes and trucking off to Arlington, VA (my hometown).
Mike and I arrived in Rosslyn County late that night – Steve and his boss remained one more night in Gaithersburg – and checked into our new hotel rooms... with a free upgrade to suites (very nice) for reasons beyond my ken. If you've never had the 'pleasure' of visiting Rosslyn, picture this: someone transplanted a five or six square mile segment of New York City high rises, cleaned it up a lot, and then built a modern day hobbit shire under it. It's rather surreal. I stayed on the 10th floor of the hotel, which gave a beautiful view of Washington DC and the Potomac River, but just about every store in the area is built either underground or into the side of hills. For instance, there's a full Mobil station with stop'n'shop eatery built under a church, but still just a single, level turn off the main road.
It's a strange place.
The next day was relaxed by most standards, we had an appointment at the meeting room where we would present our program to setup our gear and make sure it all worked with the equipment we had brought. We had a few blips, but nothing serious. We ran the problem one time (now somewhere near our thirtieth total run, counting aborted attempts of trying to get N1KA to respond) and left. I spent most of the rest of the day reading.
Thursday, the day of truth, was when we would make our presentation to an unknown number of people working for a major aerospace company and certain ranking officers within the FAA. We arrived at our appointed time, only to find that the groups before us were running behind (no surprise) and so we sat around twiddling our thumbs for a good half hour before getting on with the show.
Testing the equipment quickly before the presentation revealed no flaws, so away we went. Steve's boss introduced us and laid out the point of the exercise, which took about five minutes, and then we started.
I had a very hard time looking professional, given that my task for ten minutes boiled down to “not fidgeting”, which of course meant itches popped up all over my body. Such is the way of things. The program started well, with the system responding exactly as it should... until Mike called up Chataqua 19...
Mike: Chataqua 19, Manchester Approach, descend and maintain 6000.
Chataqua 19: Say again
Mike: Chataqua 19, Manchester Approach, descend and maintain 6000.
Chataqua 19: Say again.
Audience: *muffled laughter* (though not malicious, more “yeah, I've been there...” chuckles)
Me: (to myself) Ffffffffuuuuuuuu...
Mike gave up for a bit before trying again. Same results. He decided to leave Chataqua alone for the rest of the problem. Suddenly I'm down to one plane. Now, normally I'd be thrilled. One plane? Are you kidding? Let me go home and get my cats, they'll direct this plane in for me... But not really in this case, since this was a great chance to do some showing off for the FAA. Mind you I wasn't wired with a microphone like Mike was, but still. Ah well, not that big a deal in the scheme of things.
The rest of the problem ran smoothly, with Cactus being sequenced in absolutely perfectly behind the last plane Mike controlled, some fifteen miles ahead of him (the ideal is to get them around three miles apart). I got one of my trickle jets coming in just as Steve determined that we were starting to lose the crowd, and had Mike shut it down. At the end of the day this is what I did...
Honestly I was a bit disappointed that I didn't really get to show off at all, but so what? I essentially got a four day paid vacation (plus three days spent at my parent's home prior to that) and a chance to play with the next generation of ATC training software that DWC uses. It was a great experience all around, and the real goal of the exercise – showing off the software to investors – was a resounding success as everyone in the room seemed genuinely impressed by what they saw. I might have asked to do things a bit differently if I were to do it again, but I'm satisfied with the trip on the whole.
I arrived at the office a little bit early, despite some dodgy Gaithersburg streets and poor directions. Walking in I found a well furnished meeting room with snack sized bags of oreos and chips'a'hoy cookies sitting in a bowl in the middle of a large table, and an HD television sitting at the far end. I wandered in, but encountered no one. I walked down one hall, aimlessly, and found no one... another hall, and still no one. I wondered if I had the time wrong, but peeking into two more rooms revealed Mike working away at a familiar looking computer console running the same air traffic control (ATC) training software that I had been using for the past year at DWC.
The two of us got to work pretty much right off, going over the plan for the rest of the week. The general gist is that we would work a joint radar exercise with Mike working the entire radar sector for ten minutes before we split into him running approach and departure control (feeder), and me directing the planes in on the last few miles of their arrival (final). It wasn't a particularly difficult problem, but it wasn't supposed to be: the purpose was to show off what the software could do, not what we could do. My portion of the problem started with a trio of planes essentially looking to land at the same time, and then getting three or four more planes trickling in as the exercise wound down.
The above is a rough representation of my first portion of the exercise. All three planes, left to their own devices, would pretty much connect in a spectacular aluminum shower somewhere northwest of the airport. My initial reaction was to throw Chataqua in front with Cactus behind him and close out with N1KA, with the next batch of planes arriving just as N1KA was lining up for his final approach. It turned out that this caused Chataqua and Cactus to come in too close to each other, so I ultimately decided to put Cactus in front, followed by N1KA and Chataqua bringing up the rear.
We ran the problem about five times and called it a night. Steve popped in at some point, as well as his boss, and we all went to dinner before retiring to the inn (except for Mike, who was local) and going to bed. The next day the problems would begin.
While trying to fine tune the problem we made some changes to planes that wouldn't affect me, but the tinkering would eventually cause N1KA to stop responding to anything. We ran the problem several times, even replacing N1KA with a new plane entirely, but we just could not get the plane to respond at all. Going back to a previous save worked for a while, but making one absolutely trivial change brought the problem right back to the forefront. Since we couldn't get it fixed, and we were trying to show off the program at its best, we decided to delete the plane entirely. This made my task (already simple) exceptionally easy. Sequencing two planes is practically the first thing we learn. We ran that version of the problem about ten times, including three times where we recorded it to be played on an iPad's video player, before packing everything up into a series of boxes and trucking off to Arlington, VA (my hometown).
Mike and I arrived in Rosslyn County late that night – Steve and his boss remained one more night in Gaithersburg – and checked into our new hotel rooms... with a free upgrade to suites (very nice) for reasons beyond my ken. If you've never had the 'pleasure' of visiting Rosslyn, picture this: someone transplanted a five or six square mile segment of New York City high rises, cleaned it up a lot, and then built a modern day hobbit shire under it. It's rather surreal. I stayed on the 10th floor of the hotel, which gave a beautiful view of Washington DC and the Potomac River, but just about every store in the area is built either underground or into the side of hills. For instance, there's a full Mobil station with stop'n'shop eatery built under a church, but still just a single, level turn off the main road.
It's a strange place.
The next day was relaxed by most standards, we had an appointment at the meeting room where we would present our program to setup our gear and make sure it all worked with the equipment we had brought. We had a few blips, but nothing serious. We ran the problem one time (now somewhere near our thirtieth total run, counting aborted attempts of trying to get N1KA to respond) and left. I spent most of the rest of the day reading.
Thursday, the day of truth, was when we would make our presentation to an unknown number of people working for a major aerospace company and certain ranking officers within the FAA. We arrived at our appointed time, only to find that the groups before us were running behind (no surprise) and so we sat around twiddling our thumbs for a good half hour before getting on with the show.
Testing the equipment quickly before the presentation revealed no flaws, so away we went. Steve's boss introduced us and laid out the point of the exercise, which took about five minutes, and then we started.
I had a very hard time looking professional, given that my task for ten minutes boiled down to “not fidgeting”, which of course meant itches popped up all over my body. Such is the way of things. The program started well, with the system responding exactly as it should... until Mike called up Chataqua 19...
Mike: Chataqua 19, Manchester Approach, descend and maintain 6000.
Chataqua 19: Say again
Mike: Chataqua 19, Manchester Approach, descend and maintain 6000.
Chataqua 19: Say again.
Audience: *muffled laughter* (though not malicious, more “yeah, I've been there...” chuckles)
Me: (to myself) Ffffffffuuuuuuuu...
Mike gave up for a bit before trying again. Same results. He decided to leave Chataqua alone for the rest of the problem. Suddenly I'm down to one plane. Now, normally I'd be thrilled. One plane? Are you kidding? Let me go home and get my cats, they'll direct this plane in for me... But not really in this case, since this was a great chance to do some showing off for the FAA. Mind you I wasn't wired with a microphone like Mike was, but still. Ah well, not that big a deal in the scheme of things.
The rest of the problem ran smoothly, with Cactus being sequenced in absolutely perfectly behind the last plane Mike controlled, some fifteen miles ahead of him (the ideal is to get them around three miles apart). I got one of my trickle jets coming in just as Steve determined that we were starting to lose the crowd, and had Mike shut it down. At the end of the day this is what I did...
Honestly I was a bit disappointed that I didn't really get to show off at all, but so what? I essentially got a four day paid vacation (plus three days spent at my parent's home prior to that) and a chance to play with the next generation of ATC training software that DWC uses. It was a great experience all around, and the real goal of the exercise – showing off the software to investors – was a resounding success as everyone in the room seemed genuinely impressed by what they saw. I might have asked to do things a bit differently if I were to do it again, but I'm satisfied with the trip on the whole.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Busy, Busy (and me in a pirate costume)
As I sit here in Rosslyn -- a county in Arlington, VA that is something like a proof-of-concept for what a modern hobbit village would look like -- I reflect on the coming days, and the the last week. Traveling to my old home city of Arlington has been an interesting experience, partly because of my adventures on this particular trip, and partly because I deign to make the trip as rarely as possible outside of family events and holidays. But this particular story does not start there.
On Thursday of last week, the 23rd of September, I traveled from my studies in Nashua, NH to the airport in Manchester, NH... but not to begin my travels to Arlington. No, based temporarily at Manchester was a wing of old World War 2 era airplanes -- a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator, a P-51 Mustang (training variant) and a T-6 trainer. I had, several weeks prior, booked a 30-minute flight on the B-17 in question, and after a brief walk around of the planes on display I entered said B-17 and took that flight. I will speak more on that adventure in a later post.
On Friday I returned to Manchester airport, this time with the intent to head for Arlington. Normally I make the hop from Manchester to Baltimore, MD, which then concludes with an hour long drive home (normally with one of my parents picking me up, so a two hour trip for them). This time, though, my flight was paid for by a third party, so I determined to fly into Reagan National Airport, which is mere minutes from my parents' home (it's so close that if I call my parents immediately after landing, they can get to the airport from home just as I exit the arrivals door). Having not flown into or out of Reagan in a long time I had forgotten how particularly unique that approach is. Depending on which side of the plane you're on you get either an excellent view of the monuments in DC and the Smithsonian, or a sobering view of the National Cemetery, crowned by the Lee House. Both sides of the plane are treated to an extreme closeup view of the Pentagon.
Saturday I ventured out to visit with my friend Bill Brooks, his wife and son, and his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. We departed from there to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, which was celebrating Pirate Weekend. We were all dressed up in pirate costumes, including Bill's two-year old son -- his stroller had a covering that made it look like a boat, with an included plush anchor, that was hand-designed by his mother-in-law... who also made most of the costumes (except her own, strangely enough). I shall saw, though, that it was NOT a good day to be wearing full-length sleeves and long pants... but my margin to complain is minimal since the women had it even worse. Nevertheless we braved the sweltering heat and had a merry time at the festival, with Bill's son winning second place in a children's costume contest.
Then on Monday I left Arlington for Gaithersburg, MD to meet up with a former classmate of mine and his boss, who were now part of the company that designed the radar simulation equipment that Daniel Webster uses for its air traffic control lab. That adventure is currently ongoing, culminating in a presentation before 30-odd members of Raytheon and the FAA tomorrow evening. I will write more about this later, though exactly what I'm allowed to reveal might be rather restricted.
After tomorrow's activities I will proceed back to Nashua for the foreseeable future, except for a stop in Boston on Saturday. The musical "Wicked" is currently touring in Boston, and though I've seen it in Chicago before, it is such an enjoyable musical that I have determined to watch it while it is relatively local. I plan to also enjoy the Boston Aquarium while I am there. I doubt I will post on it, but know that I am rather looking forward to the whole trip, despite taking place in Boston (I will be taking the train into town rather than attempting to drive through that cesspool of traffic jams).
And that is my past week in summary (excluding my frequent excursions to attempt to conquer the world in the newly-release "Civilization 5")
On Thursday of last week, the 23rd of September, I traveled from my studies in Nashua, NH to the airport in Manchester, NH... but not to begin my travels to Arlington. No, based temporarily at Manchester was a wing of old World War 2 era airplanes -- a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator, a P-51 Mustang (training variant) and a T-6 trainer. I had, several weeks prior, booked a 30-minute flight on the B-17 in question, and after a brief walk around of the planes on display I entered said B-17 and took that flight. I will speak more on that adventure in a later post.
On Friday I returned to Manchester airport, this time with the intent to head for Arlington. Normally I make the hop from Manchester to Baltimore, MD, which then concludes with an hour long drive home (normally with one of my parents picking me up, so a two hour trip for them). This time, though, my flight was paid for by a third party, so I determined to fly into Reagan National Airport, which is mere minutes from my parents' home (it's so close that if I call my parents immediately after landing, they can get to the airport from home just as I exit the arrivals door). Having not flown into or out of Reagan in a long time I had forgotten how particularly unique that approach is. Depending on which side of the plane you're on you get either an excellent view of the monuments in DC and the Smithsonian, or a sobering view of the National Cemetery, crowned by the Lee House. Both sides of the plane are treated to an extreme closeup view of the Pentagon.
Saturday I ventured out to visit with my friend Bill Brooks, his wife and son, and his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. We departed from there to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, which was celebrating Pirate Weekend. We were all dressed up in pirate costumes, including Bill's two-year old son -- his stroller had a covering that made it look like a boat, with an included plush anchor, that was hand-designed by his mother-in-law... who also made most of the costumes (except her own, strangely enough). I shall saw, though, that it was NOT a good day to be wearing full-length sleeves and long pants... but my margin to complain is minimal since the women had it even worse. Nevertheless we braved the sweltering heat and had a merry time at the festival, with Bill's son winning second place in a children's costume contest.
Then on Monday I left Arlington for Gaithersburg, MD to meet up with a former classmate of mine and his boss, who were now part of the company that designed the radar simulation equipment that Daniel Webster uses for its air traffic control lab. That adventure is currently ongoing, culminating in a presentation before 30-odd members of Raytheon and the FAA tomorrow evening. I will write more about this later, though exactly what I'm allowed to reveal might be rather restricted.
After tomorrow's activities I will proceed back to Nashua for the foreseeable future, except for a stop in Boston on Saturday. The musical "Wicked" is currently touring in Boston, and though I've seen it in Chicago before, it is such an enjoyable musical that I have determined to watch it while it is relatively local. I plan to also enjoy the Boston Aquarium while I am there. I doubt I will post on it, but know that I am rather looking forward to the whole trip, despite taking place in Boston (I will be taking the train into town rather than attempting to drive through that cesspool of traffic jams).
And that is my past week in summary (excluding my frequent excursions to attempt to conquer the world in the newly-release "Civilization 5")
Friday, September 24, 2010
And We're Back
My blog over in Crankyville is having some technical issues* that I need to sort out, so for the next bit I'll be back to updating here. Actually I'll probably just stick to updating here as it's a bit easier and I have a nifty app on my iPad which lets me make posts from there. Shiny.
*So I updated WordPress to the latest version which broke one of the plug-ins I had installed, however the break was so big that it actually affects the admin side as well... meaning I can't disable the plug-in. I figured I could do that manually by jumping into the mySQL database and hitting the toggle there, but apparently when I hit my bookmark I accidentally tagged my login for the entire websites administration rather than for my SQL administration... which have two different logins and passwords. So I'm trying to login into the admin using my SQL user/pass and manage to lock myself out of my website. Completely. I cannot access any facet of finite-eternity.com from my home network. I can from any other network, but since I don't spend much time on outside networks (at least, not in a capacity that gives me time to do personal work), so I haven't gotten the issue fixed yet. Hopefully I'll work on it some this weekend when I'm at my folks' place.
*So I updated WordPress to the latest version which broke one of the plug-ins I had installed, however the break was so big that it actually affects the admin side as well... meaning I can't disable the plug-in. I figured I could do that manually by jumping into the mySQL database and hitting the toggle there, but apparently when I hit my bookmark I accidentally tagged my login for the entire websites administration rather than for my SQL administration... which have two different logins and passwords. So I'm trying to login into the admin using my SQL user/pass and manage to lock myself out of my website. Completely. I cannot access any facet of finite-eternity.com from my home network. I can from any other network, but since I don't spend much time on outside networks (at least, not in a capacity that gives me time to do personal work), so I haven't gotten the issue fixed yet. Hopefully I'll work on it some this weekend when I'm at my folks' place.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Movie Review: The Losers
Posted at Blog of Inanity -- comments may be posted using openid or facebook profile.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
NHL Playoffs 2010 Round One
My absurd write up on the upcoming round 1 of the NHL Playoffs posted here: Blog of Innanity
You can now post comments using your facebook profile or open id. I'll see if I can figure out how to make blogger/blogspot work, too
You can now post comments using your facebook profile or open id. I'll see if I can figure out how to make blogger/blogspot work, too
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