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[ personal: rock the vote! ]

Not that I expect anyone to see this, but if you do and you're a fan of The Colbert Report, check out my post over at Colbert Nation. The gist of it is, the Hungarian government has created a site on which you can vote for the name of a new bridge they're building, and I wrote a program to hammer that site with votes for "The Stephen Colbert Bridge". Unless you hate America, we expect you to join in on the voting action NOW! After all, if you don't, the terrorists win.

UPDATE (08/20): As of August 20th, 1:00pm EST, Stephen Colbert has 3,558,559 votes -- 1.5 million more than his closest competitor, Hungarian hero Miklos Zrinyi.

UPDATE (09/08): It's official! Stephen has just won the second and final round of voting with 93,163 votes -- about 81,000 of which can be attributed to bridge2.exe. Throughout the entire campaign, I estimate that my programs have accounted for no less than 16,000,000 votes (or ~93% of all votes cast for Mr. Colbert). Once again, you're welcome, Stephen.

[ Posted: 08/16/2006 @ 08:42pm by blackwind - 8 Comment(s) ]

[ release: bnchat 2.0.1 ]

The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 has been released. To celebrate this occasion, I've updated all of our .NET 1.1 applications to .NET 2.0. Most noteworthy, of course, is bnChat 2.0.1, which features a much higher level of speed and stability than that of its .NET 1.1 counterpart. All bnChat users are urged to upgrade at their earliest convenience.

[ Posted: 11/08/2005 @ 03:07pm by blackwind - 0 Comment(s) ]

[ release: yawtzee 1.45 ]

After installing a fresh copy of Yawtzee on another computer for the very first time, I couldn't resist releasing Yawtzee 1.45. As it turns out, while the game gels like Magellan on my machine, it had a few funky quirks elsewhere that I never picked up on. Well, no more! Yawtzee should now look and act like I've always intended. May the peasants rejoice!

[ Posted: 10/28/2005 @ 04:25am by blackwind - 1 Comment(s) ]

[ personal: xbox 360, here i come! ]

After hundreds and hundreds of entries and many, many sleepless nights, I was finally crowned the winner of a brand spanking new Xbox 360 three hours ago! Now, goodness knows I'm not exactly the blogging type, but in this case... BOW DOWN BEFORE ME MAGGOTS, FOR I AM YOUR GOD!&@^%!@&*^%!$#^@! <insert thunderous orgasm here>

Ahem.

So, here's the deal. After screwing Canada over for quite some time with their USA-only "Win An Xbox 360 Every 10 Minutes" promotion, Pepsi finally launched the Canadian counterpart on October 2nd. Since then, I've been dropping one PIN into every hourly draw I've been awake for (and trust me -- I haven't missed a whole lot). Well, fast forward 12 days, and what do I have to show for all my hard work? An Xbox 360 Premium Pack, valued at $499CAD -- that's what! Or, the promise of one to come, at least. I won't be receiving it for another month yet, but I *will* have it before the system hits retail. Doesn't get much sweeter than that, does it?

For those who are wondering, I *will* be accepting sexual favors in exchange for a pre-release test drive. Bring your girlfriends, sisters, female friends, female cousins, mothers, attractive grandmothers, and conjoined twins down to Edmonton, and I'll see what I can do (if you catch my drift).

[ Posted: 10/14/2005 @ 04:47am by blackwind - 49 Comment(s) ]