Topic: Daily Drip
Welcome back to NESpresso. I know I've been pretty quiet last week as the web activities are conserned, but I have a good reason.
At 12:29 PM CDT Sunday (June 21st), my grandmother died & pretty much took the week off for bereavement. Her funeral was Wednesday with the family, but the major fireworks haven't really gone off yet (as far as I'm conserned) since there's still the issue of her will & the settlement of her estate to deal with. As much as I'm trying to stay OUT of the matter, I have a bad feeling that there will be some bloodshed (figuratively speaking... hopefully) before everything is settled.
In light of all the events this week, I hereby dub the summer of 2009 as "The Summer of Emotion" as emotions seem to be running high in my family as well as the rest of the world. On top of my personal loss, there's been some major losses in the world... Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's side-kick), Fara Fawcet (70's supermodel, original "Charlie's Angel"... pardon the possible misspelling) & Michael Jackson (If you have never heard of him, you're either 5, living a hole since 1965 or dead). Michael Jackson's death is the only major one that's received major media coverage... so far 2 days worth of coverage now between NBC (Thursday for an hour) & ABC (Friday for 2 hours). There's also another local death nearby of a person that I'm unfamiliar with, but my parents are more likely familiar with who died on Wednesday... I know it just seems depressing this week, but it's more of a coincidence than anything.
On more optimistic news for "The Summer of Emotion", this Saturday marks the 2-week warning for my younger bro's wedding... not to mention that next Saturday is the 4th of July. However you consider a wedding (bad or good), you're probably right to some point. My younger bro & his soon-to-be wife have been seeing each other for about 5-6 years now (that I can remember)... so it's about time they've finally tied the knot. While there are some things that my (soon-to-be) sister-in-law that I don't agree with, but I can get along with her with little problems.
The only major update online with me is the release of Puzzle Pirates Unofficial Omnibus version 0.503 Silver, which includes about 2 months worth of updates & new features in the game that were introduced since version 0.402 Bronze. You can pick it up from Game FAQ's, Super Cheats or Neoseeker (as they're the ones who are actively hosting the guide... considering it's pretty much the ONLY MODERN guide for Puzzle Pirates right now). Feel free to grab a copy of it for your personal use or even use it as a reference for your own Puzzle Pirates guide as the Creative Commons license I use allows derivative works... as long as your work is non-commercial. You can even steal a copy & post to your website, but I like to know who's hosting my guides so that I can add you to my update lists.
As for my Twitter activity, it's still a bit hampered since my Twitter Plugin for Pidgin(MBPurple) took a hit with the "Tweetpocolyspe" with version 0.2.1 (portable) that has been noted. Version 0.2.2 has fixed the major issues that would make Pidgin crash, but it's still has some bugs that are making it extremely annoying that I still have it disabled... so I'm only using the website for my tweets until they get MBPurple fixed well enough to use it again. It has crossed my mind to switch back to Trillian... but that program hasn't received any major updates & Trillian Astra is still stuck in alpha / beta testing & the plugins that I want to use may not work as well as I want them too (or at least without having to cough up the cash for "Pro Version"). That's pretty much the main reason why I'm sticking with Pidgin... more networks, likable features (like tabbed IM windows), free plugins (some assembly / installation work required) & it's completely free since it's open source.
That's all for this issue of the Daily Drip... I'll try to have something more interesting, but don't count on it.
