http://themeticulousgeek.com Life, rantings and small portions of not too useful information Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:18:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The powers that be probably won't like it all that much but programming remains an art. To those who want to argue that it is a craft instead I say: a craft is just a special form of art. So we are both right. That doesn't have a lot to ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/12/07/about-being-agile/ Couldn't resist creating this. I seem to have been spending too much time over at knowyourmeme lately. In other news, a big post is coming up soon. I just don't know about what it is going to be yet. http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/10/21/extreme-advertising/ About a year ago, my brother and I were playing Guitar Hero 3 on PS3 and really wanted to play Rock Band instead. Unfortunately, the game was nowhere to be found for that particular system but we did manage to find it for the Xbox 360. So, instead we bought ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/09/14/achievement-unlocked-rrod/ Finally! After waiting eagerly for months and checking the XBL videos at least every two days, the good news has arrived: season 3 starts the 25th of August! If you don't know what The Guild is, go check that link now even if you are not a gamer or not ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/08/20/more-the-guild/ Below is some JavaScript code to see if the syntax highlighting is working. $(document).ready(function() { $('.with-default').focus(function() { if($(this).val() == $(this).attr('default')) { $(this).val('').removeClass('with-default'); } }).blur(function() { if($(this).val() == '') { ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/06/25/syntax-highlighting-test/ To: dick Re: Meeting today Our meeting today really went well, don't you think? At one point my blood was boiling and I was almost ready to punch you in the face. Fortunately, common sense and the lack of fighting skills prevented that. But enough kidding, I seriously do enjoy discussing technical ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2009/02/09/to-dick/ Rythm games rule! After playing a good deal of Guitar Hero III and Rock Band for the last two months, Guitar Hero World Tour finally arrived Wednesday last week. The included tracklist is cool and pretty extensive. Unfortunately though, within a week I encountered some game stopping problems with the ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2008/11/28/guitar-hero-world-tour-controllers/ One game that I remember fondly from the NES era is Sunsoft's Batman. Not because it was a great game, even though it was, but more because it had such a kick ass soundtrack. I have been searching for that soundtrack without success for quite a while now until I ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2008/09/23/batman-nes-ost/ Now that everybody and their cat has blogged about Google's new puppy I just cannot pretend to run a technology oriented blog and ignore it. Chrome is amazingly awesome and incredibly annoying at the same time. To be clear, there is really not much wrong with Chrome itself but being ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2008/09/04/chrome-kicks-ass-damn-you-google/ Let's face it - Nintendo's Virtual Console is great. It's like having every console that ever existed (before the PSX at least) plus a classic arcade machine and a C64 all tucked away neat and tidily in that cute white box that we all know and love as the Wii. ... http://themeticulousgeek.com/2008/08/25/old-school-fuckups/