The horse runs faster than the pony.
(I plan to reveal the answer to these clues on Monday.)
Clue #2
Is it logical or not?
Only the Vulcan truly knows
Clue #1
Slow down the rush of days
Look around as the world flies by
Push your comfort zone
Roll with the punches
(There will be a handful of clues over the next week or two. If you figure it out, please message me privately using the Contact link on the right hand side. Thanks.)
Search Engine Unveiling
I promised you a new website feature on Monday and I wouldn't want to disappoint. So without further adue, I proudly present:
As you clever people may have guessed, Boogle is my new search engine. Head on over to Boogle and give it a shot. (There is also a link in the right hand menu bar for “Search“.) Any resemblence to another popular search engine is purely… intentional. It's not quite perfect yet. For example, it gets confused on common words like “and”, “the”, and “if” so just leave them out of your queries. You won't get any fancy boolean operators yet.
I wrote this in about 3 hours using the Microsoft Full Text Search feature and ASP.NET. The full text search engine gives you features like searching for inflections of a word (type in “good” and get results for “better” and “best” as well) and searching for two words near each other. I haven't turned any of those nifty features on yet though so you're just getting the word you searched for. I do quite a bit of processing on the results returned as well. You can click the URL that is returned and head straight to the post. The results will also show your search terms in bold with a few words before and after it. The same search works for Jay's site as well. Just click the Firelane17.com radio button underneath the logo before you do your search. If you go to the http://www.firelane17.com/search URL, the radio button is automatically selected for his site.
There are almost three years of posts on the site now and it was getting increasingly difficult to find anything. Hopefully this will make life a little simpler at least until Google catches up with the act and indexes more of my posts.
iPod Update
I finished off the iPod project last night. When you sit down in my car you just see one small white cable that pops up from the floor near the cup holder. Plug that into the dock port on the iPod and voila! 30GB of tunes at your fingertips. I'm really happy with the way the project went. It could have been a nightmare but it was pretty simple. Check out the photos here.
Rocking the iPod
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The iPod installation was a piece of cake. Everything went smoothly and it's completely operational. |
Halo 2 RSS .NET Web Control
If you understood the title of this post, then you've got issues. But so do I so keep reading. I just wrote a web control that reads the RSS feed of my Halo2 Xbox Live stats from the Bungie site. It scrapes out the last 10 games I played and shows them in a list. If you mouse over, you'll see the results of the game. If you click on the link you'll be taken to the Bungie site and shown detailed stats about the game.
I based the code on a similar RSS web control reader I found on Andrew Baum's site. I modified it to read from the Halo site and changed the structure of things a bit. Feel free to take my code and modify it. You can download a ZIP file here. The code is all in the ASCX file.
Theater Project
Another theater update is posted.
Theater Project
A theater update is posted.
Another Geek Project
I've gotten a lot of questions lately about what my “next project“ is now that the movie is done. You may have already noticed the new link to the right there called iPod Car Stereo. I'll be chronicalling the potentially disastrous results of my attempt to install an iPod in my car.
Also, it looks like the battle over Terri is over. 14 days is about the longest you can live without food and water and that's how long Terri lasted. It makes me think that she was pretty healthy physically, but you can make your own judgements from that. Keep up the good discussion in the comments on the last post.