Ok everyone check this out….
It’s a little web flash game. Basically you have to use your mouse to help a drunk stumble home without falling over.
HILLARIOUS! 
My personal best is 88 meters.
Though I know a guy who has made it 141.
Enjoy…
Wow what a ridiculous week this has been.
I was sure I’d been at work for ten days straight by Tuesday at 10:15 am.
I have been crashing pretty early every night so I apologize for the delay in Blogging.
What time I DID have in front of the computer was spent tweaking the display of the video.
Speaking of which… to answer the question posed in the previous posting’s comments…
Why July 4th?
Well three reasons really.
1) I need some time to get the hardware and software I need to do this well. Also I’ll need to spend some time with it all in order to get familiar with the procedure.
2) Hype time. Just like the Sony PSP we’re building the anticipation to a fevered pitch before the release. Hopefully Both Dave and I coordinating this will get the attention of E! or Hollywood Minute.
3) I’m ALMOST ready to be on camera. About 5-10 more pounds to lose. 
In other news…
My co-worker here heads up our Digital Audio products. (MP3 / Personal Video)
He just bought the new Sony PSP. Well actually the lucky dog gets to buy such things on the company dollar as competitive shopping.
It’s pretty damn cool.
And I REALLY didn’t want it to be.
There’s another $249 product I’ll be drooling over.
Why are all my toys so expensive?
Seriously the screen and it’s picture quality are AMAZING.
We watched a bit of Spider Man 2 on it… WOW!
And the game graphics are incredible.
I’ve heard them compared to both the PS1 and the PS2 in quality.
But what ever they are I can you that when you shrink it down to that screen size…
the pixels per inch make the graphics look as good as any I’ve seen. ANYWHERE.
Truly a cool product.
Once it hits $199 I’ll consider it.
Well the site made some steps last night.
The two mini-banners (geoURL and XML feeds) are starting to come around.
The geoURL data is hindered as the geoURL.org site is down.
There is another service starting up (geoURL.info) that is hoping to pick up the slack, but they aren’t as large yet.
Hopefully both will be viable soon, as it’s a neat feature.
The XML data is finally making an appearance.
(Big thanks to “iamtgo3″ from ipdg3.com for helping me figure out a syntax problem.)
I’ve got several RSS 2.0 feeds at the moment.
More feature rich XML feeds will follow… someday. But I’ve not taken the time to plan out what to put in them and how to layout the files.
For now please feel free to use the RSS feeds, and let me know if you need any help.
Well happy Friday Gang!
(Gosh I’d make a swell third grade teacher!)
Anyway I wanted to make a REAL quick Blog to show two neat pieces of web gadgetry.
The first is … for lack of a better description… a zip code navigator.
It’s pretty neat, this guy has mapped the US zip codes and graphically narrows down the location on a map as you type it in.
If you click “zoom” before you start it’s pretty cool too!
The second is a name navigator.
It’s true name is the name voyager and it graphically maps the popularity of names over time.
Very cool in it’s own right.
Well those should give you some quality goof off time today.
Enjoy your weekend! 
Well Wiba (my pet web development project) has taken a drastic turn.
For the better I think.
Originally I thought Wiba would be a complete content management system.
Something like a .NET for php. But it didn’t take long for me to realize that this was both over kill, and redundant.
There are many great applications out there that do a good percentage of what I need.
Any good developer will tell you that if it’s been written once, doing so again is pretty stupid.
So now Wiba will we re-worked to be something more like a templating system.
Basically I want a system that will enable me to create sites for people that know nothing about web development, HTML, php, CSS, or any of the other acronyms out there. Many good applications exist for doing 70% of that.
Wiba 2.0 will focus on making use of those third party applications and still allow the site owner to point and click their way through site layout, design, and style decisions.
When its time to update the content.. that’ll be easy too.
This will of course take some time.
It is a complete re-work after all, but you’re seeing the first steps of that process here today!
DougMeade.com is now running on the first steps of this re-work.
You’ve probably noticed the new theme the site has taken, but that’s a tiny fraction of the changes that have been made.
(You can learn more about the new theme in the following Blog)
You’ll notice some subtile things at first:
- 1) You can register with the site now.2) Forms will remember your info once you register with the site.
3) The return of Eaton Web rankings, and web ring info.
But going forward there will be host of changes:
- 1) Polls2) Blog Trackback
3) RSS / XML feeds
4) The long anticipated return of the photo album.
That’s not to say we didn’t sacrifice anything…
- 1) The Blogger ping is no longer functioning on Blog updates.2) The PermaLinks for the Blogs changed (turns out they weren’t so Perma huh?!)
But rest assured, those things are being addressed, and the end product will be a stronger, more robust web application.
(Believe me it already is)
Stay tuned for more.