Hearing reports of Grand Theft Auto IV sitting on shelves in Best Buy, and not having it reserved, I ran off to look.  On the way, I passed GameStop, so I thought I’d check if they had it first.  The boxes were lining the display case behind the counter when I walked in.  After all, every time I’d called them in the past three months, it’s been “Thank you for calling Gamestop where you can now reserve Grand Theft Auto IV, this is Brian, how may I help you?”

I was very politely told that if I didn’t have it reserved, they couldn’t sell me a copy.  I quickly said, “Okay, I’ll go to Best Buy, then, they have it sitting on the shelf,” and turned to leave.

“Uh, well, we’re going to get more copies in tomorrow.”  I paused.

“That’s okay,” I started, “Best Buy is right over there, and they have tons of them in stock.  You can’t just sell me one that you have?”

“No, I’m sorry, we only have as many as were reserved, but we will get them in first thing tomorrow morning.”  I couldn’t believe it.

“Well, they’re just sitting on the shelves over at Best Buy, so I don’t see why I should wait.  Thanks.”

So I went to Best Buy and you bet there they were.  They had a special table set up and everything.  It took me five seconds to find and five minutes to check out.  “Would you like a free subscription to some crappy newspaper?” “Can I see your ID?” (I’m 31) “Would you like to something something bestbuy.com something something something?”  Give me my damn game.

Installing now on the Playstation 3.  Finally a non-Japanese game that kicks ass.

Solution/Answer: On the blackberry device
Go to messages
Go to options
Go to Email Reconciliation
Modify the Delete On to either Mailbox & Handheld or Prompt.

Prompt will ask you if you want to remove the email from outlook.

I had to provide these directions to someone that wants to do this.  I personally think that having this enabled is a bad idea.  On the bb, it is way too easy to delete complete days of information with only a few taps of the button.  Dangerous for any user with butter fingers.

Another game?  Sure!  I’ll give you a game!

http://www.addictinggames.com/trickhoopschallenge.html

What I like about this game is the simplicity of it all.  You have a basketball, you have a hoop, get the basket in the hoop and win!  The catch?  your opponent has to do the same shot that you did, and it negates the point you shot.  There are two basic tricks I used when beating this game.  1. Always use the same shot.  Find something that you can do all the time and the computer can’t.  I found the simple throw the ball behind the net up in the air and land in the hoop to work for me.  Secondly, don’t miss.  If you miss, you lose.  That simple.  Especially at the harder boards.  Also, if you use multiple combinations, for example, wall and floor, you get more points.  I liked to keep it simple so I can always follow rule #2.

Any questions?  Feel free to comment below!

The next generation of Fantasy Baseball has been featured on Fox News Chicago.

Click here to watch it on Youtube

The traffic on the site has been quite high since then, and the 1900 season is turning out to be the best so far. Third teams have been added for players with Stadium Permits so there will be minor leagues for the 1901 season. Leagues will be having their first playoffs shortly.

http://www.simyard.com/

The concept of this game is very simple, you need to over power your enemy with floods of troops. A link to this wonderful game? Sure!

http://www.addictinggames.com/warlordcalltoarms.html
So far, my strategy is very simple, two swordsmen per line followed by two archers. This provides the arrow support to the ground troops. Two archers can kill a single archer easy and the swordsmen can kill the others. I will keep you posted with the later levels.

The second level got a little big harder but used the same strategy. I did notice that once you use a soldier multiple times, it takes longer to spawn him again. Keep this in mind when choosing units…

I also just noticed that the arrows tell you the amount of difficulty you will have. My suggestion is to attack the least difficult first, to build up your forces and take down the enemy.

After beating a few levels, I have realized, axemen + axe training make for a powerful combination.  They are fast and hit real hard.  I approve!

Subject		not able to change user ID in imail
Description/Question		Go to users properties, and click change user ID. Another webpage comes up, and you enter the new ID. Once you hit save, an error occurs.”Error Message. Coolaboration User not found”
Solution/Answer		The work around for this issue is to log in to the web client with the userid that needs to be renamed. Once logged in, the “Rename UserID” utility will work.

Well, I wake up this morning like every other and turn off my alarm. I take a shower, get dressed, and say goodbye to my wife. Just like any other day. I get into the car and notice that another DJ is playing instead of the one that is normally on. I think to myself, well I guess he took another day off due to his father. That DJ in specific has taken a lot of time off recently due do his father passing. He had just come back but maybe he needed more time. I don’t know.

The drive to the train station was uneventful, the same 0 cars on the road. I mean, how many cars do you expect at 4:50 AM in the morning right? Well, I pull into the train station, and notice that there is a spot a couple of rows closer than I usually get. Besides being extra tired today, I think, SWEET! A little less walking for me! Score!

Well, I get out of my car and walk to the parking terminal. I had forgotten what spot I parked in (AGAIN!) and had to walk back. I finally remember the spot number (502) and type it in to the machine and my reciept prints out. I had gotten a ticket once before and always make sure I check the receipt return time. At this point, I say, no. Denial sets in, as I am going, no no no no, what did I do, no. It can’t be, nooooo. I present you with exhibit A.

What first got me was the expiration time on the ticket. It says 5:14 PM. Normally, the tickets expire around 9 PM. Next, I look at the purchase time and I am completely floored. The time it says is 1:14 AM! I woke up 4 hours earlier than I was supposed to. I looked at the clock in my bedroom and just didn’t process the time correctly. I then never had another clock to look at. There is no clock in my car, mostly because my car is old and stupid. The DJ was different, because it was a different time slot. There is no one driving at 12:40 AM at night, equally so at 4:40 AM. It just baffles me of what happened. I am still stunned. Needless to say, I got back in the car, and went home. I asked my wife, why didn’t you tell me it was only midnight when I left….

So, I have always wanted a DVD duplicator so I figured I would do a search on Ebay and see what I could find.  Of course, I can never just “browse” at ebay, so here is what I bought…

4 Disc DVD Duplicator – Firewire

Pioneer DVD-RW Drives

You will receive:

4 Drive DVD Duplicator

2 Pioneer DVR108 8x Drives

2 Pioneer DVR105 4x Drives

2 Firewire Cables

Power Cord

 

- PC Required – Only 1 Firewire Port is needed! -

 

Review pending on how the thing works!

I just wanted to say, man does microsoft office mean busiuness.  I am installing office on a computer, and the first thing it does is ask for a serial key.  No more, install and wait 30 days for failure, nope.  Give me the damned key bitch!  I’m sure if I said I didn’t have one, the install would continue, but I am impressed with microsoft.  Personally, I don’t see why microsoft even allows the 30 day trial.  Either buy it or not…

(or pirate it…but I have legal copies so why go for illegal when the company pays for em?)