FROM: Javamancy, the Weblog
It’s been rumored, then talked about, for a very long time, and finally Zuck’s Facebook is taking that penultimate step forward: its S-1 registration has been filed with the SEC.
It’s now available on EDGAR for public perusal. 
In case you’re wondering about all the gab between Astro Gaming headset owners about customizing their speaker tags… Here’s something that Astro offers to help you do some customizing of your own, by creating your own snazzy trio.
Check out the Tag Customizer (still in beta, as of this writing) and start designing your own custom tags.
P.S. The ‘Customizer can also let you design A30 custom tags, too!
It’s snowing! It’s snowing! It’s snowing!
Okay, it’s not an impressive, huge-flake kind of snowstorm… more like a moderate-size flurry-storm. But nevertheless, it counts.
(Not even sure the photos will properly show the precipitation as it’s coming down…)
Yesterday, with a bit o’ fanfare, WordPress 3.3 was released. This is the “Sonny” release, named after Sonny Stitt.
For a bit more detail on the changes in version 3.3, see its Codex page.
Sometimes, it’s nice to just have a few of the objects in question side-by-side to visually compare the differences in size.
Comparing the "old" Xbox 360 form factor with the new version, with an old vanilla PC box nearby for additional comparison...
Andrew Nacin has posted on his blog ( http://nacin.com/2011/12/07/wordpress-3-3-field-guide-for-developers/ ) about some tips ‘n gotchas with the new WordPress 3.3, now in RC2 form.
If you’ve never heard of Basetrack.org before, it’s a war journalism blog about the US Afghanistan operations, as told through the eyes of the photojournalists in the field that have been chronicling the Marine 1/8, as they were deployed and the aftermath. Rather than just a staid, sanitized “pop” war coverage, it brings a more personable view to it is worth checking out.
Even Jane Wells has posted about it! (Although, from the perspective of how WordPress was used, technically…)
And here’s the video from WordCamp San Francisco, where Teru gets a chance to talk about Basetrack.org:
Okay, okay, I went with the purple... but it really DOES look better than the silly blue...
Yes, I know, I know, the standard black Astro A40 is my “regular” one, but when Astro Gaming announced the Saints Row 3 versions, I just had to get the purple one!
I never thought I’d mention Call of Duty or Modern Warfare, with something like my favorite scribble-bed, Moleskines, together… And yet, here they are.
MW3's content-packed journal, flanked by my red Moleskine notebook and my black Moleskine graphbook.
Yes, you finally get to see my current brace of bona fide Moleskines– I’m in my red-colored cycle for the lined journals, and the black spined-type cycle for the graph books. The notebook in between my Moleskines is, of course, the commemorative Moleskine-like journal included in the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition set. It actually strongly resembles one of the black-covered squared Cahier format, albeit with really tiny grid rule, in case you’re interested in getting your own and starting your own writing epic about Modern Warfare 3. 
Yep, I got it.
Sometimes you just have that hankering for the action that the Call of Duty franchise is renowned for. Modern Warfare 3 looks like it won’t disappoint, even after the hot prestiging action and ice-cold zombie blasting that Black Ops has become well-known for. And if you know me, you know how much zombie-slaying I’ve done.
So, on launch day, I picked up Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3… the Hardened Edition.
Steve 4:44 PM on December 12, 2011 Permalink |
If you look at the very upper-left corner of the image, you may spot something bluish… That’s the front-bottom bezel plate of a… (anybody care to guess what it is?)