trying to believe

The guys over at the 10th Wonder podcast have quite a treat this week. James Kyson Lee, the actor that plays Ando on NBC’s Heroes, calls in for a great interview. Read More…

We are back after watching “The Fix” this week. We are really excited because this is a very special episode of The 10th Wonder. James Kyson Lee (Ando, on Heroes) joins us for a quick chat this week! Get strapped in and please enjoy this very special extended episode of The 10th Wonder Podcast!

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Tonight starting at 7pm Eastern, you’ll be able to catch 4 episodes of Heroes on the SCIFI Channel. (Check your local listings.)

• 7:00pm - 1×09 - Homecoming
• 8:00pm - 1×10 - Six Months Ago
• 9:00pm - 1×11 - Fallout
• 10:00pm - 1×12 - Godsend

Part Two of “How do you stop an exploding man?” was posted this morning on the Heroes website. Click here to view the interactive novel or download the printable version [PDF].

If you’re not familiar with the graphic novel, you should be! (You can read all of the past graphic novels here.) In most cases they pick up right where the television show leaves you and fill in additional back story between episodes.

Wow. Apple released the iPod shuffle in multiple colors today. I still love my little silver shuffle, though, I can’t lie… these colors are mesmerizing. Add to that, the fact you get the new headphones with these… Man… I love the color switcher they built into the site to play off the different colors.

Will we see an orange iPod nano soon? Or a RED iPod shuffle?

I love memes…. Even though I’ve already done this one, I figured: “What could answering this one more time hurt?” Thanks for the tag, Senia.

1. I used to wrestle in high school. I was in the Heavyweight division (215-275lbs). During my tenth grade year, I was wrestling a kid from Menchville High School in a tournament and broke his leg to win the gold medal. Said kid beat me in my first ever match months prior to our rematch. Beating him (in this way) was bittersweet.
2. I broke my arm when I was four. I was jumping on some boxes … specifically one containing a box spring mattress, and fell on a stone with my elbow.
3. I’m way into Heroes. Matter of fact, I started contributing posts to The 10th Wonder because I love the show so much. You should check that site out… I love it.
4. I lived in Germany for eight years, and all I learned while I was there was how to say the curse words.
5. I’m not really that great with words… I’m bad at communicating. (Imagine that!) But it’s something I’m trying desperately to work on.

Microsoft starts gathering IE 8 input - Microsoft has contacted a number of beta testers to seek input it will use to customize Internet Explorer (IE) 8, the next version of its Web browser. IE 8 is expected to ship 18 to 24 months after IE 7, which Microsoft released last fall, making Version 8.0 a 2008/2009 deliverable, if Microsoft sticks to reported plans. - Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet.com

Nintendo Pressroom

Jan. 29, 2007 - Today Nintendo adds four new classic games to the popular Wii™ video game system’s Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:

• Mario Kart 64™ (Nintendo® 64, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)
• Contra® III: The Alien Wars™ (Super NES®, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
• Bonanza Bros.™ (Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
• Comix Zone™ (Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points)

Well, the wii isn’t really conducive for writing long messages, but I wanted to see how this worked. The auto-complete feature on the wii could use some work, but it’s not too bad otherwise.

If you have a Wii, and would like to become “friends” … leave a comment and I will send you my Wii Console Code. Once they get online play in place, this will make the Wii even more awesome than it already is…

• Never Give an Iguana Viagra - I think this goes without saying.
• Hot on the heels of the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, comes the Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton. “Great. Liz Taylor is endorsing me. Can someone please find a way to shut this old bag up? I mean who’s next? Michael Jackson? Do I really need to explain this stuff to you people?” Classic.
• Need a flux capacitor for your DeLorean? Just do a search…
• Oooh… a Holy iPod case… Perfect for church on Sunday morning.

I’ve been messing with the site a bit, so if things look screwed up, forgive me.

Seeing as this isn’t that far of a departure from what I already had on this site, I’m considering this Version 13.1.0. I’m trying to clean up my templates, add some additional functionality that I’ve been missing, and add little enhancements here and there.

Right now, I’m adding a number of customizations that would be considered transcendent css… It’ll make the browsing experience in modern browsers a lot better than if you’re still using Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6 or lower, etc. The decision to go this route was dictated by browsing statistics on the site. Most people that come here use Firefox and/or Safari. Yes, IE accounts for a significant part of the traffic, but honestly… if you’re still using an older version of IE it’s time to upgrade. You’ll still be able to access the content here even if you’re using an older browser, but things might look a bit messed up. Take the good with the bad, I suppose…

This is Phase 1… Phase 2 will include the switch over to the Sandbox theme framework. Sandbox supports rich semantic markup, microformats, etc. and I can’t think of a reason not to use it… I’ve already started the process of converting the site over to Sandbox, so you can expect that switch to be made soon. The decision behind this switch is based on making the site more forward compatible. Mozilla has already announced that Firefox 3 will have built-in support for microformats. I hope the Internet Explorer team will follow suit with IE8. We’ll see.