Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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You might know me from my twitter spam, or a stepchart or remix video from youtube, or commenting on a post on some random blog somewhere. I do the majority of my blogging on my music blog boylikesmusic and write-ups on international wota.
You can drop me a line with the boylikesmusic contact form.
For some older stuff, check the archives or dipity. I also lurk the steam community, and even have my own destuctoid c-blog. My favourite web services include last.fm, picasaweb, delicious, and groovestats. Some other things you might be interested in might be flickr, stickam, myspace, and imeem.
Enjoy!
- You are now reading johpan's personal blog. Thanks for stopping by!
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
TweetDeck
I’ve never really been on a Twitter client hunt before. Know why? It’s because TweetDeck is awesome. I can’t remember how I came across it but it’s my favourite way to keep track of what’s what on twitter.
You start of with 3 columns: All Friends, Mentions, and Direct Messages. From there, you can make groups of people you’re following to have their own column, add a twitter search column for terms or hashtags, or even link up with other social networks and watch the updates on TweetDeck.
Lately, I’ve been using it to follow the TV shows I watch. I’ve added #castle and #criminalminds columns and find some interesting people. Through the #castle hashtag, I found out that there was a book signing for Heat Wave in LA at the same time the episode was going on here in Toronto. Also, yesterday, I found out that Castle’s been extended to be a full-fledged 22 episode season. The news really travels.
I actually just added the #criminalminds column about 15 minutes ago. I’m sure I’ll find out some things I wouldn’t have known before the end of the night.
TweetDeck.
It’s awesome.
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Please reblog this to help strike a blow against pediatric cancer. I will post on Sunday exactly how much I’ve raised by doing this!
Friday, September 11th, 2009
a quick add-on
If you notice to the right, in the stats section, there’s a new little widget showing off the status of home.johpan.com. Some of you might know that I run a few things on my home web server. If for some reason you can’t access any of those things, check here to see if the server is online or offline. Shoot me an e-mail or something if you need something from it and I’ll get back at ya when I can!
Too much technology for one person to handle? I don’t think so.
Coming up next, a chart of how everything’s wired up.
A Summer of Games!
As a student, I still get to enjoy my summers (kinda) and not have to deal with any school work (again, kinda). This summer has been especially enjoyable since a lot of my summer earnings have gone towards gaming.
I made a post on my old blog about getting Zoey, my gaming PC. That was back in March and really kicked off my latest era in gaming. The gaming portion of the summer started with the purchase of a new monitor, the Samsung SyncMaster 2243 - a 21.5” widescreen LCD that can handle 1080P. Left 4 Dead never looked so good. Also, I went and got the SteelSeries 3H USB headset for gaming communications. I have no complains about either.
I don’t think I’d be able to remember all this stuff if it wasn’t for my raptr account. It’s kinda like steam but goes beyond just steam based games. If you like personal gaming statistics and to be able to keep track of your library without doing much work, I suggest you give it a shot! My Steam account also helped because of its account transaction record. Maybe I should keep some receipts in the future…
The game purchasing began with Street Fighter 4 for the PC. I wanted to get a fightstick to go with it but for $100CAD… that’s a bit much for such a specialized controller. A friend told me about $50~60 Hori sticks on Amazon. I might have to look into those.
Then I went and got Mirror’s Edge. I wrote a review on raptr. It’s nothing flashy but I got my 2 cents out there. I’ll probably reiterate some of it in a future BGR.
I forget the order of things but I got Call of Duty: World at War off Steam because of the 50% off deal and I couldn’t pass it up. I don’t regret it at all and this one’s definitely gonna be featured in a future BGR.
Another sale item over at the Steam store was Droplitz. It was my first BGR. You know what I think of it. :3
Then for some strange reason, I started playing PS3 again, probably due to the slim coming out. My sister actually let me borrow it and I’ve been playing on my new monitor. I went ahead an bought the PSN games everyone’s been raving about — Noby Noby Boy, Flower, and Fat Princess. All of them are quite fun to play and will get a BGR iin the future.
Today, I purchased Dead Space for the PS3. I haven’t stuck it in yet but I intend on having a very scary long weekend with it.
Looking ahead into the Fall, the games that come to mind that I’m really waiting for are Need For Speed: Shift, Gran Turismo Portable, Bayonetta, and CoD:MW2. I’m sure I missed a few but Oh well. They’ll come to me when they come to me. They’ll come to you via BGR once I get around to playing them.
Until then, hold tight!
