Root /Vault

• April 24, 2006
• James Skemp

Thanks to some great service yesterday, I've successfully logged into my Vault again, and am seeing actual data. I have a day and a half of data, but I'm already quite impressed with the user interface. I'm also extremely impressed by the feedback I've received from individuals involved in the project. This is definitely something that I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops in the near future. They've definitely hit on something big.

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Does in-game advertising really hurt video games?

• April 23, 2006
• James Skemp

Just for purchasing a discount card at a local video store (GameStop), I not only got a year of 10% off video games, I also picked up a free one-year subscription to Game Informer. Not too bad for $15. In this month's issue, Issue 157 (May 2006), there's a page of debate (yes and no) to the question of whether or not in-game advertising really hurts video games. In this post, I'll be looking at the two responses, as well as crafting my own response to this question.

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Status update on logging into my Root /Vault

• April 22, 2006
• James Skemp

Thanks to some great support, I'm now able to log in to my Vault.  Now that I'm in, I'll be bouncing around items a bit more.  There's also some great articles that I'd like to comment on, that revolve around the project, so that'll end up meaning new philosophy-related posts (instead of just the porting-over of old ones. Hooray!

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Essential Firefox extensions for the Web producer/developer

• April 21, 2006
• James Skemp

There's a handful of extensions for Firefox that I found absolutely necessary in my day-to-day Web production and development. Below, I've outlined the essentials, as well as those that are near the top of the crop.

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XML parsing with PHP (and ColdFusion) and /ROOT

• April 20, 2006
• James Skemp

Last night, I was working through a great tutorial that steps through how to create a basic XML parser in PHP. Unfortunately, what I was going to use it for (a local Attention Recorder parser) isn't going to be possible, since the extension's XML isn't quite valid. I was hoping to at least get /ROOT Vaults to work today, in that case, but no dice on support.  So, I'll be attempting to reset my password once again, in the hope that it was just a two day problem .

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AttentionTrust and problems with /ROOT

• April 19, 2006
• James Skemp

If my last post got you interested in the AttentionTrust project, and you downloaded the extension, are using it now, and are reading this on StrivingLife.net (whew, lot's of 'if's), then you may have noticed that StrivingLife.net is now a certified member.  What does that mean for you? First, that I agree with four principles that the AttentionTrust organization puts forward; 1. Property : You own your attention and can store it wherever you wish.

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Attention: Where do you put it?

• April 18, 2006
• James Skemp

In some way, I found AttentionTrust.org. Basically, AttentionTrust operates under the principle that your attention is both yours, and of worth.

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On Yahoo! Slurp, Googlebot, and msnbot

• April 16, 2006
• James Skemp

Being able to look at the statistics for a couple of different sites, with very different audiences, I've found one common thread, which is quite alarming. Before you go any further, it has to do with bots and search engines, so if you're not interested in either, you can probably safely skip this post.

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Google Calendar access?

• April 14, 2006
• James Skemp

For the last 10 minutes, while downloading the latest Microsoft patches from Tuesday, I've been trying to access Google Calendar. I'm prompted to login, after a long wait, and then I wait some more, only to be sent to my Google Account page. So, are they limiting access to the Calendar now as well? I like Google - it's the only search engine I use (and it's the engine most people use - for better or worse) - but they need to make sure they can handle the heavy demand's that their launches bring.

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Cross Sums Number Combinations Guide

• April 13, 2006
• James Skemp

Quite a while ago - back in May of 2003 actually - I began work on a guide that would display every possible number combination for cross sum puzzles. Since then, a number of people have corrected mistakes that crept in, resulting in a number of different versions of the guide over the last (almost) two years.

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