7th Sphere

Make sure to upgrade your wordpress..

October 23, 2007 – 1:55 pm
Or you might get gayed with 44 pages of bullshit spam like I did..  Maybe that should be a wakeup call to actually post in here. The main problem is, whenever I think of something that I want to post, I am always driving in my truck, going to sleep, or just somewhere that isn't good for posting an entry. yah. thats my excuse.

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Wii Chip Fun!

May 5, 2007 – 4:25 pm
A couple of months ago, they announced that a Wii mod chip had been developed. For those living under a rock, a mod chip in a video game console allows you to do some pretty sweet things that the manufacturer never intended. My modded Xbox went from being a sometimes used game console to being the hub of my living rooms media center (how did I ever live without it?). While modding the Wii doesn't currently unlock the potential of what the Xbox did, there are still some pretty handy things that made it worth it to me to take the plunge. These include the ability to run homebrew apps, backup my games, play backed up games, and then the all important ability to run games from other regions. My Chip Choice: Wiikey At the time of writing this, there are a few choices out there when it comes to available mod ...

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Gamefly Review - Part 2..

April 9, 2007 – 4:36 pm
Ok, so about three weeks ago, I signed up for gamefly as I posted in this blog. My initial reaction was that it was a pretty cool service, but lacked the almost-instant gratification that Netflix gives you. With Netflix, you are looking at a very low turn-around time - for where I love, usually a couple days tops. Gamefly on the other hand only has one shipping location, and it's in Los Angeles. Needless to say, shipping to New York is a bit slow. So that being considered, it really didn't feel like it was worth the $21 a month right now. I can't blame it all on gamefly either, I am using it for my Wii.. and right now there isn't a ton of releases coming out to keep me satisified.. so, I ordered a modchip =) more to come with that.

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My daylight savings time theory

April 1, 2007 – 9:12 am
So I got a new conspiracy theory. The reason that the government added three weeks to daylight savings time isn't because they want to save energy (pssh, since when does the government want to do that?), but because the world is warming, and they want it to seem less obvious. If you have been looking at the weather in the country in the recent weeks, there are already temperature records being broken.. friggin Chicago pretty much dinged 80 degrees in mid-march. Even the temps here in Buffalo have seemed a bit ahead of schedule. The cycle of days is one of those things where the human mind processes it, but it is much more subconscious than conscious. By making the days longer earlier in the year, many people won't make the connection of the world getting warmer because the temperature seems to be following the light cycle that they have been ...

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The smart way to buy a new gaming PC.

March 20, 2007 – 1:14 pm
As a PC gamer, one of the unfortunate realities is staying up to date with the latest and greatest hardware can be an expensive but necessary evil. Getting major FPS drops? You can surely bet that someone with some more bling in their box is going to pick you off, drop their spell a split second quicker, or just straight melt your face. Even if your not hardcore or competitive, there is nothing worse than shelling out $50 only to find out that the minimum requirements should have been a lot higher, because it pretty much sucks on your machine. This article tries to break down the best way to buy a new computer, and keep a computer current so that you aren't stuck in some of the situations that I mentioned above. One of the most common things that I see are gamers who want to go out, drop $3000 ...

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Just signed up for gamefly

March 14, 2007 – 5:24 pm
How come they couldn't have things like netflix and gamefly when I was a kid? It's definitely better than dropping $50 a month on a new game, or even $50 every other month. The only cons against the idea is that #1 - you don't own the games, and #2 - you can only have two out at a time. Well, in response to #1 - ever try to resell a game? You get jack and shit for it. In response to #2 - I don't have anywhere close to enough time to require an archive of console games to play anymore. If something is that fucking good, I will drop wait until some other poor sap fell for #1 and buy it on eBay for $20. So yah, I started my trial month today, I will let you know how it goes.. Tiger Woods Golf on the way!

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random thought

March 3, 2007 – 12:29 pm
Does listening to coldplay really make you gay?

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History of 7thsphere.com (part 1 of ??)

February 26, 2007 – 4:16 pm
In 1995/1996 I got my first real Internet connection, not AOL or Prodigy, just a pure 14.4 baud connection through PPP and a TCP/IP stack. When we signed up for the service, they included a bundle of Internet applications. Mostly it was stuff I already had (Netscape, Eudora, etc), but there was one program which I had never heard of - mIRC. Little did I know that this single program would open up a can of worms that would change my life more than I would have ever thought. After using some BBS' in the year before, I was really taken in by the vast world of Internet Relay Chat (IRC). At first I did what any other 15 year old would do - I downloaded a shitload of porn. But after the porn fix was satisified, I found that there were thousands of people all connecting in such a wide ...

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so this is what it comes down to.

February 26, 2007 – 9:50 am
Wow.. it's only been about five years since there was actually something posted up here. I have struggled over the past few years trying to figure out what the hell to do with this space, as the 7th Sphere name is still floating around out there. Unfortunately, this is what it all came down to - another fucking blog. Not that that is necessarilly a bad thing, I do the occasional interesting thought or idea that I would like to comment on. The only goal I really have for this is to actually use it.. if a thought comes to mind, go ahead and post it.. I think you will get little bits and pieces of my life up here, as well as thoughts and on what 7thsphere.com used to be. The people involved did enough cool stuff back in the day where it still needs to be mentioned..

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