more of the same shirts

I opened up another store at printfection.com. Just testing it out and see if its any better than cafepress. It seems they do have more options and more colors.
Here's my link for the turtle shirts

UPS customer service awesome

This is one of the few times where someone is going to say something good about a company:
I sent in a friends Xbox to Microsoft. I was supposed to get it back on Thursday, but I was at work. So they left a note and everything and was going to try and deliver it on Friday. Well I called and tried to make pickup arrangements but the driver wouldn't be back to the pickup office before they close or I got off of work. So they ended up giving me the driver's name (Travis) and cell phone number so I could meet up with him after I got off of work. Everyone on the phone was really nice and helpful and they were very personal (as in they called me back a few times after trying to setup different arrangements). Needless to say I met up with Travis at a gas station on my way home (after going to the wrong gas station) and picked up the package. Everyone was REALLY nice and helpful and I just wish I would have thought at the time to offer to buy him lunch or something.

Fall 2009 Dashboard Update

I went to play COD4 tonight and low and behold it started to download an update. Apparently I was selected to participate in the beta test of the new dashboard update. Overall it looks pretty much the same. Most of the changes are minor. I have a new "channel" called Xbox Preview. In there lists the new features which are:

• Party Reconnections
• Streamline Party Invites
• Gold Member veterans-your gamer card shows how long you've been a gold member
• Subscription notification
• fixing invalid windows live ids
• better account recovery
• avatar props-it seams you unlock these from games
• avatar marketplace-you can buy clothes for you're avatar. some look pretty cool, they're 80mp for say a pair of steampunk glasses. which I HAD to buy, but thats IT, damnit.
  
• Avatar awards- it seems you'll be able to unlock clothing and the props from getting certain achievements in games. Which seems a lot better than having to buy the damn clothes.
  
• watch netflix in a party
• browse netflix content faster based on previously watched
• better playback
• shows what you are watching in the Friends channel
• ability to override display formats for dvi and hdmi
• user ratings for all game content
• Games on Demand-xbox originals, and it sounds like they may have xbox360 games to download. also game manuals for games on demand on xbox.com
• DRM stuff- seems you still can take your profile to someone else's xbox, buy a game, then recover your profile on your account and redownload the game and you both can play.
  
• community games are now called indie games
• launch a game from the achievement browser
• achievement tracking- an all games view which shows a summary of achievements from all games played
• better achievement browser
• more "links" for common items such as, downloads, redeem code, auto sign-in, create profile and recover gamertag
• warning if no audio when sending a voice message-small feature but definitely will keep me from looking like a dumbass.
• time stamps on memory area-such as for saved games
• friends list sorting by activity, gamertag, or online status

So far nothing too big. So don't expect some grand like the jump going to NXE; this is a mild update. I would really just like to see more free stuff, or a way to see all the free stuff.

Downloaded episodes not playing correctly on Xbox360

For episodes you download from groups DOT or XII, re-encode them with GotSent so they play correctly on the Xbox360.
For about a month now, some groups have been releasing tv episodes that were encoded differently and they do not play correctly on the Xbox360. When playing one of these videos it will play about 2 mins then the video stops but the audio continues. The only way to fix this problem is to either wait for another group to release the episode, which usually doesn't happen, or re-encode it. I've FINALLY found a REALLY easy solution for Xbox re-encodes. GotSent
You can use other methods for better control over quality and all that, but this is SUPER fast and really easy. Handbrake was taking 30 minutes for a 45 minutes show, and it still didn't work or looked horrible. GotSent took less than 3 mins and looks like the original and plays fine.

New Shirt

Just a quick little shirt:

If you can't tell, this is a SkiFree shirt; the old Microsoft game. Got the idea from joking around with Chey and thought I would actually make it.
Game can be downloaded here.

And I still need someone to fix my layout ;)
And a way to hack an IBM thinkpad 760xl bios password without an eeprom or sending it away, preferably for free.
Mame roms
Nifty Psx to Parallel converter
TrackerChecker-Checks to see if private trackers are having public registrations.
Just awesome-and my current project...sort of.

Hooray for Raffstar!

So, Raffstar isn't a sham after all. I actually did receive my $25 Victoria Secret e-giftcard, which has to be used online. But either way, my girlfriend is very happy.

Updated Raffstar bot

Every once in a while you need to go and delete the old giveaways and add the new ones as they end and put new ones up. Just edit the giveaways.txt with the urls.

Dammit

Well scratch the call out for a Futurama Soundtrack cover. I'm working on finally installing Vista and ended up partitioning my other hard drive without thinking. And of course the Futurama Soundtrack was on there, along with about 40gb of other downloaded stuff. But the soundtrack is the only thing I really cared about. So, hooray for blind ambition and stupidity.

*UPDATE*
I tried and tried to recover the files, but no go. I did recover SOME music, but they were the tracks from the second soundtrack (from seasons 3 and 4). So it looks like there won't be a Futurama Soundtrack (at least from me) unless I get enough response to redo it. It consisted of 34 tracks containing music from the series and actual songs used in the series. Such as the Grunka Lunka song, and MMM Bop by Hanson (Anthology of Interest I, where Bender jumps on their concert).
:(

IE Sucks/I suck and other randomness

Well it seems my blog is broken in IE8 and probably others I suck and I have somehow killed my layout. I can't remember enough html/css , and am too lazy, to properly fix it. If anyone out there in internets land could help, I could provide a private tracker invite in return, or an e-hug, or possibly money, most likely $1. Or maybe something else if I can think of it.

random links:
Dreamspark - Now offering free certification in certain Microsoft courses for students. (or former students ;))
Free Mothers Day Card
Demonoid- is still have open registrations.
Rush Discography - torrent
Watchmen Motion Comic - torrent

*SUBMISSIONS*
I also need album art for a Futurama Soundtrack. If anyone would like to create one and send it in, I will include it in my Futurama Soundtrack. (that I've slowly been working on for years). Just submit it to tweaq2.0@gmail.com. The best one (or only one) will be included in the torrent.