Graftark Game design enthusiast and all around nerd/geek.

Time is not on my side… an update

Once again it has been a couple of months since I last posted here at my blog. I suppose that a little explanation is due (for my one sometime reader, thanks for stopping by). I have been quite busy between work and school. So much of my time is being consumed by work, with all the overtime and massive quantities of servers that need to be produced, that my classes have taken a very noticable performance hit. One might ask, "Chris, if you're so busy, why aren't you doing your homework right now?" I wish it were that simple you see, I'm actually writing this post from work, having a little break. I'm actually posting from my nifty new little device a Nokia N800, which I'll talk a bit more about a little later.

Nervous Reflex, my other website, has become something of a project as of late and I find that I am finally getting it to be what I want it to be yet it remains a bit out of reach. I set up an installation of WordPress MU that will allow users to create their own blogs right inside the site. This keeps in line with the original premise of the site's mission, to seek out and exploit strange new bloggers. To be honest I envision Nervous Reflex being a community of gaming enthusiasts; developers and gamers alike. I need to get some spam issues taken care of prior to opening up the site, that and find some decent themes. Oh! And a way to get most recent blog posts to appear on the front page.

Okay, now on to my new toy... err... tool. I had bought an older Toshiba laptop which I thought would cure my ever growing need, not need really more of an insanely nagging want. I soon found out that lugging around a damn near eight pound computer was totally the opposite of what I really wanted in portability. I always had the pleasure to talk tech with a co-worker and one of the gadgets he discovered was the Nokia N800. Since then it's been at the top of my wish-list until the day I had enough of that weighty monstrosity I called a laptop. If you read the older posts about my eBay crap-fest you know the trouble I went through just to get the thing sold. Here's the deal with that, I had done some research and I discovered that I could get nearly $400 for the laptop, which I did. At the time the N800 was selling for just under that but within the time it took to sell the laptop the N800 went through it's price drop and I ended up paying $270 for it, shipped. I made a profit! That was the first sign that this was a terrific purchase.

Right now I am writing this post on the tablet and I am loving this device. I intend to do much more blogging now that I can always have great tool for it in my pocket. I really want to write more at length about my experiences with the N800 but that will be at a later date.

Can I write efficiently on my 8125

Can I write efficiently on my 8125? That's what this post is intended to find out. I am using the Transcriber functionality built into Windows Mobile. I had to go through the alphabet and show it how I write my letters. It seems to handle it alright, thought_ don't think it will replace normal Keyboard use it is kind of interesting /X see how it reads my writing which is sloppy at best. ) did sterl off by editing the post as errors Come up but Shane decided that the best thing to do is just letit go. slhatway we will see just how well this interprets my writing.

I do have to mention how well w,hdows mobile handles spelling erroos. of Course. as Iwrite that a hand. full desi -cide to show up. See ing all these mistakes makes use wonder just how usefull all this is. It is quite fun though... (onqi vs zz precursors poros slice) -> Random Squiggles

Trying out Windows Live Writer

I happened to get a link to this Windows Live Writer beta, which is supposed to be a decent tool for creating blog content off-line. To say the least I was intrigued by the thought of having a stand alone application that I could use to write entries to my spartan blog. So here goes my test of the software.

Obviously, since you're reading this, the initial setup went well. The program asked me what kind of blog that Live Writer will be used with, since I use WordPress,  I told it "other" or whatever option it was that let me choose another blog type than the ones listed.  The next screen asked me for the web address and my username and password. Live Writer connected right up. I even got to choose whether or not I wanted to import the styles being used on the site so that I would be able to see how the post will look prior to it being uploaded.

It has already proved that it was worth the download already. We'll see how it performs later on down the road.

Mobile Blogging

I've had this pocket pc phone for quite some time and until now I never really had the impulse to blog from the phone. I decided to have a look into doing it but alas I have found nothing really that stands out as a decent windows mobile app to do this. Right now I have my pocketIE pointed at the blog and am writing this from there. I also want to be able to add photos from the phone so, I'm going to give that a shot.