April 2008 Entries
It's that I need to add a /usepmtimer switch to new Windows installs, otherwise recorded audio comes out like this due to the CPUs desynchronizing:
So now Episode Twelve gets re-recorded... I suppose this is a blessing in disguise, since last week's Ep12 was nearly eighty minutes long!
Due to circumstances mostly beyond my control, Mark and I recorded what should have been last month's podcast just a few hours ago. I haven't cut it together yet, but should have it edited and uploaded by the end of the week. We had a lot to say, so this one's a particularly long 80 minutes unedited. By comparison, our unprocessed episodes usually come out to around 67 minutes and edit down to about an hour.
In other news, I've developed a cheap system in which I can archive original and finished podcast tracks losslessly. Having lost eight episodes to a...
It seems that I've become a bit lax with the blog. Plenty's happened over the past week and a half, though I honestly haven't had the motivation to write any entries lately.
I finished Halo 2 a bit over a week ago. Obviously, Halo 2 is a sequel - and that dismayed me somewhat at first. There have been many attempted game series that couldn't survive a sequel, let alone two or three, notable exceptions including the classics (Mario, Zelda, StarFox, and so forth). Halo 2, impressively, managed to get things right in this regard.
One of the first things you'll notice...
So, for the next two months I have an Xbox on loan from a friend. Provided I don't damage it, I can keep it free of charge until June, otherwise I owe him $50.
I seriously can't believe I'm saying this, but Sony actually has a better design than their competitors for once. The Xbox takes up more floor space than a laptop and stands as high as a Gamecube in the process. The PS2, meanwhile, packs even more components (or in this case, space for components, as the PS2 doesn't ship with a hard drive but includes an internal drive...