Just when you thought it would never come again, since the last promotion of its type was at the much higher $1.19 price point… McDonald’s [MCD] has finally decided to run its famous, limited-time 99¢ Filet-o-Fish promotional offer once again! Update: This offer will end March 14, 2010 March 7, 2010. N.B. Other related Javamancy posts [...]
February 2010
Earlier today, the long-awaited third DLC for the popular Borderlands game made its way to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for download. For many people, this is quite a surprise, given that there had been no formal drop date previously divulged. Nevertheless, this is a welcome release, and it evidently builds upon the successes from the [...]
Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage. According to Matt M., this unexpected downtime impacted about 10.2M (that’s millions!) blogs that are serviced by his WordPress.com service, including their VIP subscribers. Fortunately, it seems that WordPress.com is up and [...]
A scant couple of days ago, Subversion (the project) formally graduated from its incubation phase, becoming a full-fledged Apache project at subversion.apache.org. It seemed like almost yesterday that it had been accepted as a candidate by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)… In fact, it was in late 2009 that the proposal to join the ASF [...]
With all of the fun and hilarity garnered through both the single- and multi-player modes in Borderlands and its two DLC’s, it’s only natural that, with the availability of the listing of the new achievements for the upcoming third DLC, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx (and what is this love for two X’s?!?), we’d [...]
Just when you thought you’d be left wondering the ol’ wuzzup with General Knoxx, there’s more information on the new Xbox achievements to be racked up in the forthcoming third DLC for Borderlands. Oddly enough, I personally discovered this while running a simple comparison against a fellow XBL’er earlier today.
Just when you thought you’d be able to keep your fictitious game characters separate from your, ahem, characters, there’s a bit of bleedthrough, as reported at Destructoid, about General Knoxx and his newly discovered Twitter account. It looks like he’ll be taking a bit of a tweeting breather for an unspecified bit. It’s likely that [...]