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Xbox360, Playstation3... oh and Wii

"First we have the xbox360 with it's all powerful power PC architecture
Then we have the playstation with it's immense cell processors and blue ray disks.
Then we have the cute nintendo Wii... aren't you cute, yes you are.. ok back to the real gaming platforms"



This is the impression I usually get when reading about the next gen consoles.
The only new gen console I am considering buying, (who am I kidding, I am going to buy it) is the Wii.
So after reading articles on the new gen platforms, I think of myself as the minority in the gaming market....
Until I read the latest slashdot poll that is..


Your E306 Console War Pick?


Wow, out of the 60,000 geeky slashdot voters, over 1/2 of them picked Nintendo...!
Sony and Microsoft could not even beat the joke vote.
(Sony = 15%, Microsoft = 11%, Joke Vote = 22%)




I wonder if the Wii will out sell the 360 and the playstation?

posted by Matt @ 12:09 PM 5 smartassed remarks

Deep knee rock squats, 7 or 8! ... in a row...

And now for a post that does not in any way relate to the title.

Google Calendar coolness.

Google calendar has been around for a few weeks now, I had not really used it much, other than to put in reminders to tell me to feed the neighbors cats while he was on vacation.
Where I noted the ability to get it to SMS me notifications (cool). For the time being I stuck with e-mail notification.

This week, I decided to put in weddings, On-call, and vacations.
Then Evites.
I am pretty impressed with it, not really surprised (It is Google, I expect the app to be impressive)
It is VERY easy to add events, navigate, edit, view data. And it's all very snappy (quick).
And I can use the same calendar, at work, home, at my parents, etc.

As I am putting in Chantalle's B-Day celebration (today), I noticed the "Add Guests" option... what's this... look out Evite!

So I try it out, I invite my work, and my old yahoo account to the bash, (of course they are already in my gmail contacts, and show up the same way that they do in e-mail).
It asks me if I want to e-mail the recipients, and then shows that both recipients have not yet responded.
My yahoo account gets a cool looking email that lets me accept, deny / view the invite.
I thought it might let me do it right from the e-mail, but it does require 2 clicks to accept.
Logging into my work e-mail was a little more interesting. I get a full on outlook meeting request... with the option to accept, deny, tentative, then it puts it right into my outlook calendar! Cool.
Then my google account gets an e-mail indicating that the user "already" accepted. Unfortunately google calendar didn't seem to pick-up the acceptance, but I blame the screwy rogers e-mail migration for the problems, hopefully they will be fully migrated soon.

One last thing to note, you have the option of sharing your google calendar.
So lets say Ryan forgets when Adam's wedding is. Ryan can log in and take a look at my (hopefully read only) calendar. (You also have the option of just showing just free / busy times)

***Update***
Guests can "Discuss this event" just like blog comments in the invite!..

Later
M

posted by Matt @ 11:24 AM 3 smartassed remarks

Lurker

What's a good response to being called a lurker?

Creating your own blog of course..

Makes... sense..

(Image search google for lurker... find cool 8 ball pic... makes sense...)

posted by Matt @ 4:23 PM 4 smartassed remarks