Archive for August, 2009
Happy Birthday, King of Pop
Posted by Matt Fowler in Uncategorized on August 29, 2009
Today would have been Michael J. Jackson’s 51′st Birthday, and in honor of this event I wanted to write a little ‘Happy B-Day/Memorial’.
For those of you who don’t know, Michael Jackson was found dead at his rented mansion at 100 North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles on June 25th, 2009.
To this day questions and concerns keep popping up about the King of Pop’s death, but as it stands it remains a homicide. (According to a Los Angeles coroner) Though manslaughter investigations are currently being conducted on Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray. This being because Jackson was being administered the drugs propofol, lorazepam, and midazolam at the time of his death.
Michael will be buried on September 3rd, 2009.
Supposidly, (Keep in the mind this is the Entertainment Business we are talking about, projecting that most of these accusations are completely and utterly false), Michael had a long time struggle with a pain medication addiction, to the point where he was having family members take out prescriptions in their name just to cope with his habbits. With that being said, it was known that Michael had slowed down the prolonged usage of these meds, but still not to a normal, healthy state.
I even received an email from VH1 yesterday saying that they had found “Marijuana” at Michael’s mansion. My only comment on that matter is the following: “So What if Michael smoked pot! I can guarantee he is not alone. Now, I’m not going to start the argument of whether or not Marijuana is “good” for you, because quite frankly that has nothing to do with this, but what I will say is it certainly had nothing to do with his death. So what if Little Michael got a little high every once in awhile? People are just trying to pull every little thing out of Michael’s personal life and exploit it. The man is resting and has gone to a better place. LET HIM REST IN PEACE!”
Please visit the Wikipedia page for more information.
With that all being said, Happy Birthday Michael. May God rest your beloved soul. I’ll never forget.
(Then again, how could you?)
Complete…
Posted by Matt Fowler in Uncategorized on August 20, 2009
Well, the new design is here. You are looking at it.
During the next few weeks you’ll see everything come back together and it will be my site 100% again. I just have a few stylesheet tweaks & edits left, along with getting all myold widgets re-configured, and then everything will be back to normal.
This new layout opens up my site to a whole lot more opportunities, which I wish I could elaborate on now, but it’s a secret. You’ll find out soon enough, trust me.
Please, leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I like it A LOT better.
Xbox Live Service Update: August 11th, 2009
Posted by Matt Fowler in Uncategorized on August 9, 2009
Apparently Xbox 360′s proud Xbox Live service is getting a complete update on August 11th.
From Xbox.com:
One of the amazing things about the Xbox LIVE experience is that it’s always getting better. The upcoming August 11, 2009 Xbox LIVE Update truly cranks it up a notch – with features that improve your entertainment experience and give you new ways to express your individuality and connect with friends. With this update, you can download full Xbox 360® games and play them without a disc, and you and your friends will be able to party watch movies online through Netflix! Dress up your avatar to impress with premium props and branded apparel from fashion labels. And this update allows every piece of game content on Marketplace to be rated, so add your personal ratings and see what others think is cool. But that’s just the beginning.
Seems like Microsoft is finally releasing some well needed features.
To highlight a few, “Games on Demand”, the new service from Microsoft, adding to the Xbox Live Marketplace, where users can now purchase video games, right in the comfort of their own home. This starts on the 11th, along side the update, but the same options of purchasing games will be available on the web too on August 13th. Along with that is Netflix. This was already sort-of gaining popularity through Xbox, but now it installs with the update regardless if you had it installed or not before. Let’s just hope that they don’t get too pushy with the Netflix member service. If I don’t want to join the service or rent a movie, please don’t bug me! Unless, of course, it’s free. I will always enjoy free.
And then we move onto the avatars. The poorly stolen / Wii knock-off avatars. I will give Microsoft props on this one, only because they did finally go just a little bit over the boundary with this update. Nintendo didn’t think of this — but something tells me a Wii Update in the future will present this — the avatars now has what Microsoft is calling “props” and “branded apparel” from fashion labels. The branded apparel isn’t all that interesting too me, but the props certainly opens up a wide variety for 3rd parties everywhere. Let’s see where it goes. Now, just how interactive can these props be? That is the question. We’ll find out soon enough.
Ratings. Something that I honestly never saw Microsoft allowing. They usually aren’t big on letting consumers know if the general public thinks a product is shitty. But, for some reason now the Xbox must be different. I think it’s a great tool. We can already “Submit Player Reviews”, granted most people don’t even look at those scores anymore, but all of the xbox live members out there never really got a chance to just completely down size a video game or movie (etc). But now we can!
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