Things to Do
Boxhead 2Play - Addicting 2-player stickman shooter game to kill time at school.
Crimson...[More]
Google Fight
Here’s a funny site I just came across. Basically it lets you enter two search phrases to compare and a little animation plays as if the two are duking it out. The winner is the search phrase that gets the most hits on Google. Also a nice way to see what site is more popular 
Example: Llama VS Potato
Nooooooooo! The potato won! :O
Some Random Story
So there was a short lil' guy named Bob and this tiny little kit-cat named Tom. Tom was hungry one day and Bob didn't have any water. Tom begged for food, but Bob said no so the tiny cat scratched him. Bob tried to call for help, but accidentally swallowed his hat.
A huge ugly dog named Jack came along, but his real name was Bob. Bob tried to feed the dog to Tom the lil' cat, but Jackbob tried to scare the cat. Bob then became angry and Tom got angry too. Tom didn't know why he was angry so he started chasing Bob around, but Bob was angry that Tom was angry because he was angry, so he started chasing Jackbob the dog.
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The Agenda...
Bah.. two days left of break - so much to do 
Quick list:
- Update Fort Wars (patch due any time + Aztec sucks, need to announce ladder etc)
- Castle…[More]
Coffee
I don't know why she bothers. Coffee is so disgusting. It's this brown, murky substance that, had it been anywhere else besides a cup that said "Drink", no one would consider drinking. It doesn't taste or smell good, and it certainly doesn't look appealing. People try to deny this, but notice that people who drink it often have it mixed heavily with sugar or cream - to hide the fact that it's so nasty.
Some people claim that they need the coffee to wake up; they need the caffeine. So wait, let me get this straight. They drink the coffee for the...[More]
Off for the Winter...
Winter break now obviously - can’t stay home the whole two weeks. :-/ I’m going to be off again - will probably be back Tuesday or Wednesday next week. I have no clue where I’m going - just another random road trip. Hopefully not as boring as the last.
Fort Wars Ladder
It turns out Elpea’s old ladder for Fort Wars has ALWAYS worked. We were working on an XML version for NOTHING. All we needed was to add &sFlags=0 to the address we were using. Argh!
Now splitting it so that we have an expansion and non-expansion version… Would be perfect to release on Christmas XD
House with Christmas Lights
Hello all - merry christmas!
Here’s just something you have to have seen at least once, if you haven’t already. I found it about a year ago - still very cool.
House Lights Synced with Music
Someone synced…[More]
Web Design Resources
Learning to web design from the ground up...
This site was my first real attempt ever at coding a website from scratch. I started this with absolutely no clue as to what I was doing, and to be honest, I still don't really know what I'm doing.For those wondering, I use nothing but a simple text editor to type all my code - type the code, yes. You really can't "program" your site if you're using a click-and-drag interface. At most, I'd use Notepad2, which is the same as Notepad on Windows except with highlighting. Anything extra is cumbersome.
The following are tutorial and resource sites in the order I found them. This site wouldn't be here if I didn't manage to find these. If you're just starting web design, you might want to bookmark a few of these. Once you're done with those and want to learn actual programming...[More]
Figured Out XML Parsing!
Woot! Finally figured out how to parse XML with PHP. Hopefully the Fort Wars ranking system (power rating/cuetech/whatever) will be up pretty soon! Big thanks to Elpea for helping me out here - and letting me bug him to death and figure this out. :p
For starters, I’ve set up an easier to read version of Ensemble Studios played games feeds: Game List
Dynamic too! Just change the number in the URL.
Interview
Here it is for those interested: AOE3Files Interviews pftq
Never had an interview before...
Complaints on Fort Wars
I’ve read and received various complaints on the recently released Fort Wars map. Some complaints are valid but many of them really hold no weight at all. These are some that I have seen or received.
In this version, computer players don’t select their spawn and get units.
First off, Fort Wars is a multiplayer map. Fort Wars has never been meant for playing against computer players. Even if they could spawn units, they would not be upgrading, buying, or using awards. Play online please. Is it not much more fun with human players in any case?
The store…[More]
New Avatar-Image
Just created this a few minutes ago. Not sure just what it’s supposed to be. I meant to make it for the guestbook background but it doesn’t really fit at the moment. Still it looks pretty cool.
What you guys think?
More Space For Site!
I just found out today that my host has upgraded the service from a previous 20 GB webspace with 300 GB bandwidth… to 200 GB webspace and 2 TB (2000 GB) bandwidth! :O Best part is I don’t have to upgrade my plan or anything - it’s already done. I’m definitely not hitting that limit any time soon. :p I’m still only using one GB of webspace.
AOE3: Tech IDs Collected
Elpea has finished finding all the tech ids. I’ve also found some pretty interesting new techs as well. Maps are coming! 
AOE3: The Warchiefs
Okay I’ve just gotten the game today, and it looks somewhat promising. A few noticable problems come up pretty quick though. Quicksearch at the moment doesn’t work well - every game goes out of sync. Another problem is somehow most custom maps have gone crazy so that’s going to take some looking into. I’ll have to try playing again later.
Internet Explorer 7
Got a message/button on my Yahoo Toolbar that now says “Get IE7 now!” So I went and got it. The install took nearly half an hour to complete on my 3.2 GHz P4 and 2GB RAM PC :-/. Well it must be worth it if it took that long to install.
I opened it up, and it went pretty smooth. The whole layout has changed and my Home page set to Yahoo and News. <_< Next thing I notice is that it still says “Get IE7 now!” Well I got it now go away! >_< Also it looks like the designers went for too high a resolution. The text appears very faded and stretched on 1024×768 but looks nice and sharp on higher resolutions - BUT THEN IT’S TOO SMALL!
Another thing is the Zoom. It’s somewhat pointless in my opinion. Ctrl+Scroll now changes the zoom instead of text size. What it does is basically collapse the entire page and force it into a smaller/large box. This ruins the page’s layout and doesn’t necessarily scale right at all….[More]