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I’ve made a few site updates to the Utilities and Playlist pages.  They are far from complete, but at least I’ve got a start.  I’ll update more as soon as I can, but I have some house contruction to get hot on.

You may have noticed a few changes to the website.  I have the links to the utilities up on it’s own page again, so all of you who used those links have them again.  Let me know if you run across one that no longer works.

Another change is that you see my Xbox LIVE Gamercard complete with pathetic gamerscore.  My excuse is that I started playing 360 games late; I’m a die-hard PC Gamer.  But I ran across a little game called Crackdown that has me hooked.  I haven’t played an Xbox game that has latched on to me like Crackdown has; Including Halo.  For those of you who don’t know what Crackdown is, it’s a sandbox game much like Grand Theft Auto, but you are the good guys.  The gameplay is fantastic, the visuals are cool, and the achievements are fun and challenging.  If you don’t own an Xbox 360 but love the GTA series, buy an Xbox 360 and get Crackdown; you WON’T be disappointed.

I’ll have some more updates relatively soon, including links to the gallery, my playlist, the About page, and more.  I’ll also have a less pathetic Gamer Score by then (I hope).

Not much time to comment on this right now, but you can check the press release at Gamerscore blog. Tycho over at Penny Arcade is suspicious, but I think, if implemented correctly, this will be a good thing for PC gamers. My son has a Gold LIVE account for his Xbox 360, so there really isn’t a compelling reason for ME to throw down $50 bones for another Gold membership. This might be the hook for me to upgrade from Silver to Gold. We’ll see.

But, I hope to be able to post more often. I just got accepted to the Microsoft Windows Home Server Beta 2, so I’m currently installing that. It’s a pretty exciting concept and I’m looking forward to seeing what it’s all about.

I’m going to make this the home page from now on, so all of you folks who are acustomed to using the links that I have on my website, apply a little peer pressure so I get off my ass and finish the new site up.

I plan on posting some more a bit later, maybe later today…depends on how boring work is.

…that I will have this website that I can update easily and keep up-to-date for family and friends. This site would be useful for people who frequently ask, “what can I do to make my computer work better…I keep getting these pop-ups.” I would have links to some of my favorite websites and utilities; it would have a photo album for my family to see some of the 5 gazillion pictures we have taken over the years; and it would be a place that I could just ramble about nothing.

Alas, I’m not sure if this site will ever exist, but I’ll continue to try to work on that goal. Wish me luck.