http://danpremo.com Internet, technology, sports, politics, Premo. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:15:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wednesday night I went to the Nine Inch Nails concert in Duluth, GA.  I took Cat with me.  I had fun.  It was a good show.  I took about sixty pictures with my iPhone, and put them on Flickr. http://danpremo.com/2008/08/15/nine-inch-nails-concert/ This is neat: DVD playback on the Nintendo Wii.  Of course, it comes by means of homebrew, which in the case of the Wii, is much easier than it should be. One thing I've noticed in the case of both setting up the Wii Homebrew channel and, now, DVD playback: Available ... http://danpremo.com/2008/08/15/dvd-playback-on-wii-neat/ I've been getting a 502 error on my Gmail account for almost four hours now: Temporary Error (502) We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers ... http://danpremo.com/2008/08/06/i-cant-get-to-my-gmail/ In other news, script.aculo.us becomes PoopyUrl.com.  WTF?  Here's to discarding the first and/or best use of the most clever URL technique I know.  I'm glad I stopped using del.icio.us four years ago. http://danpremo.com/2008/07/31/delicious-becomes-deliciouscom/ So I'm pretty anal. I didn't sign up for Facebook until about a year ago. I had long since graduated from RIT. Facebook started out as a social network for Harvard students, then it expanded to other colleges. For a while registration required a .edu email ... http://danpremo.com/2008/06/13/rit-alum-email-address/ The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008. Click the link, pledge to download, and you'll receive an email when it's available. http://danpremo.com/2008/06/12/firefox-download-day/ I thought this was worth mentioning.  I paid the ten bucks. http://danpremo.com/2008/03/06/nine-inch-nails-ghosts-i-iv/ Yesterday a Dashboard Update was released for the Xbox 360. The console now supports more file formats (i.e. Divx and Xvid) via sharing from a Windows PC. I have a history dating back to Vista's release of problems getting my Xbox 360 to play nice with my Dell, running Vista. ... http://danpremo.com/2007/12/05/vista-and-irony/ As some of you may know, Halo 3 was released on September 25, 2007. It was developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360. On October 5, 2007, Bungie announced that it would become an independent company, no longer wholly owned by Microsoft. The Internet lit up with ... http://danpremo.com/2007/10/12/luke-smith-and-irony/ Back in the day, I wrote a page in PHP that would allow you to try out all the permutations for Halo 2 multiplayer emblems.  Since Halo 3 was released, I knew I wanted to update the emblem chooser. The design needs some work, but I've put together a fully functional ... http://danpremo.com/2007/10/01/halo-3-emblem-chooser/