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I guess Sony updated the PlayStation Network avatar thingy (they call it a "portable ID" - whatever).

So here's my updated version:

Get your Portable ID!

Aw yeah. 1 Platinum trophy.

Slashdot has a very interesting story about a poor system administrator who was fired for running SETI@Home. You see, the evil management types found it to be a waste of their resources, claiming that it caused $1 million worth of damages!

Doesn't sound very fair, does it?

Now let's throw in the part where he downloaded porn at work and stole equipment. The SETI@Home thing was just one part of what was apparently a pattern of shoddy work.

But "man fired for stealing and doing a poor job" really isn't news, is it? It's only interesting to people who live in the local community.

Claim that it's all about SETI@Home, though, and you can probably get some good nerd rage going.

In Stargate Universe, they recently attempted to dial home to Earth by using the power of star, creating the wormhole from within the star.

The very next episode, they mentioned that solar flares can cause the wormhole to bounce back and travel through time.

So, wouldn't dialing from within a star contain a somewhat heightened danger of accidental time travel? OK, so solar activity is somewhat unpredictable, and presumably varies from star-to-star, so the risk might be somewhat limited.

Man, I managed to completely miss this, but Geocities has shut down as of today. I remember when I put my first website up on ... OK, not on Geocities, but on a local ISP. Using hand-written HTML.

But still with a bit too much annoying-graphical flair. (Specifically with the over-patterned backgrounds. Yes, I know I did that here last Christmas, this Christmas will be better. I hope.) So, here it is, my tribute to Geocities closing down.

I mentioned it. That's my tribute. The end.

I've been playing around with the HTML5 <video> element. This is a test of a script that should - hopefully - use the <video> element first, and then fallback to a Flash player if that isn't available. You may recognize the video as one of the Omnislash Version 5 videos.

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Yet again, another video on the subject of Omnislash Version 5 being a little on the overpowering side. I like this one better than the last.

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This post is more to test posting video than anything else. In short: Omnislash Version 5 is a rather evil ability that Cloud gets.

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Just to let people know that I really do have something, here's a screenshot:

I feel like I should post something since I haven't in ages. Yes, I'm still alive.

I've been surprisingly busy for the past few weeks (especially considering it's summer), so I've made essentially no progress on anything.

But I do hope to post a demo or screenshots or something for Astral Supremacy since the countdown clock ran out.

I've got a countdown timer running.

I wonder what it could mean?...