http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog eighth time's the charm? Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:01:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that I have moved into the new house, I've been organizing things and finding old stuff that I'll never use again. What good is that stuff for? Selling on eBay! Today I'll add things to the eBay page as I find things to get rid of. Hopefully tomorrow I'll ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2009/01/03/ebaying-again/ Android Rocks! http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/11/13/another-test/ This is a test post sent from my T-Mobile G1 with the wpToGo app. http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/11/13/posting-from-android/ http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/08/07/woot-woot/ As you can see, I made some changes to the website. I was starting to get tired of my theme, so I found a new one. It's not made by me, but I like it enough to use it anyway. It's called PhoenixBlue. I just made some small modifications to ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/07/31/summer-cleaning/ Back in 2002, I wrote a guide for getting the game Zork Grand Inquisitor running on Windows XP. The game didn't work well without the guide because it was originally designed for Windows 98. I've been a fan of the Zork series for almost 10 years now. After receiving a ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/07/01/guides-for-installing-zork-games-on-xpvistalinuxmac-os-x/ After 19 months, the Wii is still hard to find. I'm not aware of any stores nearby that have stock for long after getting a shipment. There is economics at work here, plus the allure of a popular, hard to get item, but there's more to it. Nintendo is making ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/06/15/the-curious-case-of-the-wii/ This week on eBay: SOCOM: US Navy Seals (PS2) Tony Hawk's Underground (PS2) Undergrads: The Compete Series Viewtiful Joe (PS2) http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/06/08/this-week-in-ebay/ I can't not post this. iamchris4life has finally done it. He FC'ed Through the Fire and Flames in Guitar Hero III on expert, the first person ever to do so. (That means he finished the hardest guitar hero song ever, perfectly, no missed notes and no extra notes) He's been ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/06/06/my-hero/ I love YouTube and Google Video. Sure there's genius parodies of music videos, but there's important stuff too. Like a pivotal event in computing history, the demo of the first GUI by Doug Engelbart in 1968 ... ...and a retrospective of the origins of the little operating system that could by ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/06/05/the-history-of-computing-flourishes-in-the-youtube-era/ I've been meaning to do something like this... someone beat me to it. A robot that plays guitar hero. http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/06/02/guitar-hero-robot/ This week on eBay are three excellent items at super low starting prices. This week includes: Powerman 5000 - Backstage and Beyond the Infinite DVD, Tony Hawk's Underground (PS2) and Team America: World Police Unrated and Uncensored DVD (Widescreen). http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/06/01/ebay-deep-discounts/ This week on eBay, two excellent PS3 games, Spider-Man 3 and Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, plus an OXM demo disc that is special because it has 3 Rock Band downloadable songs, normally $3 on Xbox Live. http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/05/25/ebay-spider-man-3-ps3-untold-legends-dark-kingdom-ps3-and-oxm-issue-80-disc-including-3-rock-band-songs/ The latest eBay sales are up, Genji: Days of the Blade for PS3 and X-Men Legends for PS2. X-Men Legends is predecessor to the style of the recent Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game. I haven't played Genji because it was one of the games that came with the PS3 I got ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/05/18/ebay-genji-days-of-the-blade-ps3-and-x-men-legends-ps2/ This week on eBay are two great RPGs for PS3, Enchanted Arms and Oblivion. Both are excellent values for the length of gameplay they provide. http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/05/11/ebay-enchanted-arms-ps3-and-oblivion-ps3/ This week on eBay are two classic PS2 games, Okami and SSX 3. Okami is new and sealed (I decided to wait for the Wii version soon after receiving the PS2 version as a gift last year) and SSX 3 is used but in good condition. Both are excellent games, ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/05/04/ebay-okami-ps2-and-ssx-3-ps2/ I just wanted to let everyone I know that I'm not dead. I've just been busy with life. Things are going great in my life so I'm going to try and get back into writing on the website again. One thing that will keep me coming back here often is ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2008/04/27/ebay-starting-selling-virtua-fighter-5-ps3/ Ars Technica reports that Microsoft will be bringing a functional programming lanaguage to Visual Studio, called F#. The language is a functional langugage that is based on OCaml and will of course link in with .Net. I find this very interesting. Learning different programming paradigms (like procedural, object-oriented, functional, structured, logic ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2007/11/11/functional-programming-from-microsoft/ As many of you know, Ubuntu 7.10 was released last week. I wrote up a little guide for Jonathan on some things I recommend setting up post-install and he thought I should post it here. If you’re unfamiliar with Ubuntu, read this review of the operating system. So here’s the ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2007/11/01/ubuntu-710-post-install-guide/ This just made my day, week, month, maybe even year. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are reuniting. I'd heard rumblings of this around the net for the last year but figured it was too good to be true. Fortunately, their new website tells all. They're kicking it off with a five ... http://www.kevinbecker.net/blog/2007/10/24/bad-in-plaid/