Ranting Kenya

Just read this on an ARS Technica preview…

…You’ll be inside a space ship, and then briefly outside it. Thrilling stuff. Sadly, he doesn’t make it out alive.

That’s a possibility for the ending of the game, but not the only one. You need to survive this game as Shepard to play the third one… but it’s not going to be easy.

A possibility for ending the game?!?! Awesome. One thing about the first game (and basically all games), whether you go the “good” route or the “bad” one, you come out ahead anyway. Pissing off the wrong dude and him just flat out ending your game? That’s pretty awesome.

The game will also be awesome since it’s going to be darker. Makes me think of The Empire Strikes Back. Totally my favorite of the 6 Star Wars films. This game is going to rock.

I’ve made the plunge. Finally.

I’ve heard a lot about Twitter, I’ve decided to finally try it. It was Wired that convinced me. I figure if they can find some value in it, then I guess I’ll give it a shot. You can see it on my right hand side column.

I’m still holding out on Facebook though.

I’ve read a number of posts on various blogs making light of the actual people that are currently lined up for the iPhone at the NYC Apple store. By “making light of” I mean suggesting that these people are not the “ideal” iPhone customers that Apple wanted lining up first. I disagree.No, the first man in line is not like Justin Long in the Mac commercials. He’s not young, he doesn’t dress the same, he doesn’t look particularly creative, he doesn’t have a Pixar shirt on either.

But he is completely different (sound like the old “Think Different” Mac ads). Someone you’d expect to find in that line would be working on a Mac laptop, listening to their iPod, holding a picture of Steve Jobs, maybe even a life size cardboard cutout of him. He’s not doing any of those. He just wants an iPhone.

If this doesn’t signal the end to wireless devices as we know it, I don’t know what does. Repeatedly I’ve heard analysts (maybe even Apple, I can’t remember) say that the iPhone will sell out day one to all the early adopters and Apple fanboys. This guy doesn’t appear to be either. The iPhone clearly has a wider appeal.

What makes the guy sitting first the ideal Apple customer isn’t just that he has money to buy an iPhone, but because he’s different from the people expected to buy it. A new demographic for Apple to sink their teeth into. The Mac computer has picked up steam since the iPod, perhaps it’s about the accelerate further with new people getting exposed to the “Mac” religion for the first time.

Seriously, I didn’t see an iPod on that guy in line. I can hardly believe it.

I was checking out the new Dell lineup (on the Dell Canada website) of Inspiron laptops and desktops this morning when I noticed something interesting. When you upgrade either machine from it’s default OS of Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate, the upgrade prices are different.

Here’s a screenshot of the laptop (Insprion 1720):

And of the desktop (Inspiron 530):

You can click on either image to see a more complete screenshot.

Can anyone explain the $200 to $170 discrepancy? Does this mean that Dell is asking you to pay more for the same OS on a desktop computer instead of a laptop?

Well, what do you think? Now it’s a theme, edited from a theme, edited from a theme. Yeah, the code and CSS is getting a little lame. Maybe one day I’ll be popular enough to clean it up.

Previously I posted “Safari Now On Windows!” I apologize. That post title should have read “Safari, it’s on windows…”

I think perhaps I thought Apple would make it rock. Yes it is in beta. I know. Still, c’mon.

Basically I’ll use it to test web code, which to be honest is what it’s for obviously. Safari I suppose is a catchier name than “iPhone Web Application Code Testing Tool.”

This is just one of those things I run across that I just don’t know what to do with.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s conservative government took its drive to curb what it sees as homosexual propaganda to the small screen on Monday, taking aim at Tinky Winky and the other Teletubbies.

Ewa Sowinska, government-appointed children rights watchdog, told a local magazine published on Monday she was concerned the popular BBC children’s show promoted homosexuality.

She said she would ask psychologists to advise if this was the case.In comments reminiscent of criticism by the late U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell, she was quoted as saying: “I noticed (Tinky Winky) has a lady’s purse, but I didn’t realize he’s a boy.”

“At first I thought the purse would be a burden for this Teletubby… Later I learned that this may have a homosexual undertone.”

Entertainment News | TVGuide.com

To anyone asking for a Joost beta invite, here’s the official word:

Can I invite friends to join Joost™?

Yes! Keep an eye on the web site and blog in the next few weeks and you’ll see that you’ve been assigned special tokens that will let you invite your friends. In the meantime, we’re sorry but we’ve currently closed the beta test application form while we process the applications we already have.

I’m thinking, depending on the number of “golden tickets” that I receive, I may run a contest to give away the invites to Joost. I may also just give them away to anyone. Maybe once the invites are available, anyone will be able to get one anyway. We’ll see how things go.

Well, I have finally taken the plunge. As a web designer, one of the things you kind of need is a website. Crazy I know. Well, I have got my web-space care of dreamhost, and this blog care of wordpress. Now, I’m only just beginning to teach myself javascript, and php and mysql are on the palette as well. Thank goodness my HTML and CSS are solid (though I will have a few minor adaptations for XHTML). What that means is for now, I will have a wordpress theme, and it will likely slowly morph into a design of my own. Learning this in my spare time will certainly take time. Here we go…