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Archive for April, 2007

Xbox360 Spring 2007 Dashboard Update

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, April 13th, 2007 in Console, Games

Microsoft is rolling out another spate of changes to the Xbox360 dashboard this spring (May 7th, to be precise), and they’re adding a hearty amount of new stuff. Along with a series of somewhat minor tweaks, fixes, and adjustments, some of the big new additions are:

Support for streaming DivX, XviD and H.264 movies from [...]

The Week In Review

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, April 13th, 2007 in Games, Life, PC, Randomness

Random bloggage is imminent. All hands abandon ship.
So here it is, Friday evening, and I’m about to sit down to a meal of home-cooked chicken fricassee. It’s the (welcome) end of another work week, during which I got a lot done and learned a good deal in the process. This weekend I’m [...]

The One Where Apple Becomes an American Citizen

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, April 13th, 2007 in Life

Well, long time no post. I see I’ve been neglectful in my site maintenance again. Which is really idiotic, because a lot of things happened this past week. Perhaps the most monumental occurrence of all took place on Monday, when Apple and I once again made one of our ceremonial pilgrimages to [...]

Search for $A, Find $B: Q1 2007 Edition

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, April 6th, 2007 in Site

And now, because I know you love it, and because I said I would start doing this quarterly instead of annually, here are the goofy search terms people have been using to find this site over the last three months.

dead or alive xtreme volleyball 2 christie’s breast (Last I looked, she has two.)
definition of oddball [...]

Thailand and China Photos Posted

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, April 6th, 2007 in Life, Photography

All the pictures from our trips to Thailand and China have now been posted in the photo gallery, for anyone interested in browsing through them. There are snapshots of food, my brother-in-law’s wedding, pandas, more food, weird cars, busy city streets, breathtaking nature preserves, still more food, and lots of family members and friends. [...]

Subaru, WTF?

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 in Auto News, Cars, Quick Takes

Dude, can someone please assure me that these AutoWeek photos of the 2008 Subaru Impreza and Impreza WRX are an April Fool’s Day joke? Please? …Please?
The sedan is bearable, still a tremendous step down in design (IMO) from the handsome previous generation, but truly, what in God’s name is with that hatchback? [...]

DVD Trek: The Search for “Shutter”

Posted by Pooch on Monday, April 2nd, 2007 in Media, Movies

As I wrote yesterday, the Thai horror film Shutter has been released domestically. I also wrote about how the Borders store I was at on Saturday purportedly had a copy (in fact, according to Borders Online, it was the only Borders within reasonable driving distance to even have one copy). So today, in an impulsive [...]

“Shutter” Region 1 DVD!

Posted by Pooch on Sunday, April 1st, 2007 in Media, Movies

Echoing a post made by Chief Oddball over two years ago, today I found out that the Thai horror movie Shutter has - at long last - found a Region 1 release, courtesy of Tartan Films. Reaper had informed me a while back that he thought Tartan was bringing this awesome film over, but today [...]