• Get through atleast two of the books I’ve got sitting on my desk – Success! I read through two books this month, which is good because I’m generally really bad about that kinda things. I read Making Comics by Scott McCloud and Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress. As many of you may know, I am working on a webcomic right now (in my mind, more a graphic novel than a gag strip) and I’ve been looking to books for inspiration and ideas on how to make this comic better than all of my aborted attempts. I’ve read through both but I have not done all of the exercises in both. I think I’ll work on the exercises in the coming months.
• Get that old Toshiba laptop converted into a digital picture frame – Failure. I really didn’t work on this at all. Part of the problem is getting a PCMCIA wired ethernet card for the aging laptop (I’m afraid Wifi won’t work, or I’d use one of the Wireless cards I have).
• Get my room cleaned up. I mean, seriously – Failure. It’s actually gotten worse -_-
• Get my desktop upgraded to 8.04 – Success, after fighting with it for a week. – So I do a apt-get distupgrade like I normally do, and it worked, but Gnome system aps segfaulted and /var/log/messages didn’t provide me with anything useful to work off of. I installed Fluxbox and KDE, and they both worked fine and I actually grew to like Fluxbox after a while. I ended up just doing a fresh install because my OS was technically unusable. I haven’t had any problems with the new install yet. Serisously, tho, Ubuntu. 7.04 and 7.10 were rock sold and 8.04, your LTS, has been buggy.
• Get a colo setup at work and Build a new Windows box – On Hold – With me moving in probably less than a month, I need to put all unnecessary expenditures on hold. I maybe able to scavenge a temp colo, but that’d be it.
• Maybe do something not computer related? – Success! I’ve been on a transitional diet for the last week or so and I started exercising today!

So I did obtain two of the goals I set for myself. Go me! And now for some more goals!

• Read two more books from the stack – I’ve put my book spending on hold, but there are still a few there to get through. Here’s hoping I can get two of them read this month.
• Complete one of the two hacks on my list – I’ve mentioned the laptop digital picture frame, but I’ve also dusted off the Xbox Linux hack from back in the day. I’d like to get one of these two hacks done by the end of the month.
• Get an apartment – Pretty self explainatory, since I’m going to be moving Lansing sooner than later.
• Get that ergo keyboard for work – To prevent Zumayaequese injuries in the future.
• Stay on the workout plan – Seriously.
• Get onto a real diet – For Great Justice.
• Spend an afternoon and clear some stuff out of my room, for it is a mess.
• Post on this thing atleast 12 times in the next month.

That’s about it for now, Matt-fans. I did get bumped to second shift for my job. Beyond that, everything’s good. I was going to make a somewhat meaningful post, but I lost it. Next time, I guess.

I havent’ been working on the xBox project because my memory stick is dead and I haven’t had the cash to buy another one. I do have everything else I need (lan cable, Mechwarrior, usb to xBox dongles), the only thing I’m worried about is that my only USB keyboard won’t work. It’s a laptop style keyboard.

I need to move out of my house. Not because I’m wtfrebelling against my parents, but because I need to get on with my life.

Speaking of hard shots, I’m thinking about going back to school, but not UMF. I’m seriously considering ITT. Before you start spouting “zomg hax” comments, I want to do something with computers, UMF’s CS dept sucks and I want to do this without accrewing even more debt, so ITT seems like a logical choice.

I need to stop playing Video games and read more. And work on my website. And stuff.

Sorry about the rambly post, but I need to get some of this stuff of my chest

He left me with some music: Bob Marley, Slipknot, MXPX and some mix stuff. So, crap basically.

Pretty big list of save files, so here we go:

• 007:Everything or Nothing
• Amped
• Amped 2
• ATV: Quad Power Racing 2
• Backyard Wrestling
• Black
• Burnout 3
• Call of Duty: Finest Hour
• CDS 2
• Conflict: Desert Storm
• Counter Strike
• Crimson Skies
• Doom 3
• Driv3r
• ESPN NFL 2k5
• Full Spectrum Warrior
• Fuzion Frenzy
• Grand Theft Auto 3
• GTA: Vice City
• GTA: San Andreas
• Halo
• Halo 2
• Jet Set Radio Future
• kill.switch
• Madden NFL 2005
• Medal of Honor Rising Sun
• Metal Slug 3
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Midnight Club 3: DUB edition
• NCAA Football 2003
• NFL Fever
• NFS:Underground
• NFS:Underground 2
• Project Gotham Racing
• Rainbow Six 3
• Secret Weapons over Normandy
• segaGT 2002
• Sid Meier’s Pirates!
• Silent Scope Complete
• Soldier of Fortune II
• Soul Calibur 2
• Splinter Cell
• Splinter Cell 2
• Splinter Cell CT
• Splinter Cell CT vs
• Star Wars Battlefront
• Street Racing Syndicate
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4
• Tony Hawk’s Underground
• True Crimes: Streets of LA
• Turok Evolution
• Unreal Championship

The list of games kinda paints a picture as to what kind of gamer the guy was.

So, I’ve got the xbox, now I just need to get a copy of MechAssualt to get it installing.

I’ll use the blog to keep all of you readers (cricket noises) of developments.