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Site: Pardon our dust...

blackwind — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:14:41 -0700

In preparation for sweeping changes to come, some sections of blackwind.org have been temporarily closed. If you clicked on one of our links and were redirected here, chances are, you tried to access a closed section. Life's a bitch, isn't it?

Release: PODium 2.26

blackwind — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:19:38 -0800

PODium 2.26 has been released, it corrects a few long-standing issues, yadda yadda yadda, I never heard from her again.

Release: Yawtzee 1.50

blackwind — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:43:51 -0700

It took many the hour, but I've just released Yawtzee 1.50 with full Windows Vista support! Because this version requires a new dependency that you almost certainly don't have, you'll need to download the full installer this time around. If you grab the update and it doesn't work, don't say I didn't warn you.

Ah, Vista -- how I hate thee.

Release: bnChat 2.0.2

blackwind — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:38:09 -0700

My port of bnChat to the .NET Framework 2.0 was a hack-job at best -- I'll admit it. Well, tonight, I spent a few hours refactoring the program to take advantage of .NET's latest and greatest features. The result? bnChat 2.0.2! Sadly, this release is completely useless for the time being, as Blizzard has (temporarily?) disabled chat client connections to Battle.net. So... carry on, I guess.

Site: Welcome to blackwind.org!

blackwind — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:51:29 -0700

Well, it took just over 11 years, but I finally did it -- I rolled up my sleeves, greased up my typing fingers, and snatched blackwind.org from the depths of the discarded domain pool earlier this morning! As you might expect, this domain will be the new home of bwProductions, and XS has been permanently laid to rest. Forget about my haphazard mixing of latin roots, forget about my senseless use of square brackets to further confuse and bewilder my audience, and forget about your total inability to even *recall* such claptrap, for this is the dawn of a whole new era...

(...of inactivity.)

blackwind.org - Simple, to the point, and always slightly to the left. Catch the wave!

Personal: Rock the vote!

blackwind — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:42:25 -0700

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.

Release: bnChat 2.0.1

blackwind — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:07:40 -0800

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.

Release: Yawtzee 1.45

blackwind — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:25:31 -0700

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!

Personal: Xbox 360, here I come!

blackwind — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:47:41 -0700

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).

Site: Standards compliance, anyone?

blackwind — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:48:24 -0700

I'm pleased to announce that, after a *major* site-wide overhaul, we're now fully XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2 compliant! What does this mean to you, the end-user? If you're using an alternative browser (such as Firefox or Opera), you'll now see what the rest of us do in Internet Explorer -- the site as intended. And, uh, that's about it. Not particularly exciting news, I know. Nonetheless, when you spend ~18 hours working on something, you don't want it to go unnoticed. So... enjoy?

UPDATE (10/12): Since this post is so desperately in need of a little spice, I'd also like to announce that I've added an easter egg to the site. It's accessible on every page and it's well worth finding, so what are you waiting for? Last one to find it is a rotten... EGG!