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Club Nintendo Fail!

mike — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:08:36 +0000

Much like many people, I got a Nintendo WII for the holidays and much like most of those people I attempted to signup for club nintendo – club.nintendo.com. I say attempted because nintendo doesn’t seem to know how to run a java web application or they didn’t plan for the kind of hit their application would receive after the holiday rush. I have been trying to register my wii serial number with them to extend my warranty and create my family account all day only to be met with 500 error after 500 error. The worst part is that they didn’t even create a custom error page. It is the standard error document. You will also notice that there was a 404 when the server attempted to fetch the error page it is supposed to display. It is bad enough that they can’t keep their app servers running but because of the sorry error document handling, I FAIL YOU NINTENDO!

Sony and Divx Teaming Up!

mike — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:55:03 +0000

So in a press release by DivX, Inc., Sony will be integrating the DivX media technology in to the Playstation 3 Gaming console. This announcement seems to come only after the Microsoft Xbox360 officially outsold the Sony Playstation 3 in Japan on Monday November 12th. hmm…strange. I bet this is not the last of Sony’s fancy footwork to try and gain their market back. Honestly, if they would only come out with all of those amazing games that they have been promising for a year now I wouldn’t be so mad about the $600 I spent on the damn thing!

Technorati Tags: Playstation3, Sony, Xbox, Xbox360, DivX

Portal Vids

mike — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:14:43 +0000

If you haven’t played Portal…you should.

But this person played it WAAAAAAAY too much:

Part 1

Part 2

Technorati Tags: Portal, Video Games, Orange Box