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So I rented Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe from Gamefly the other day. While the game is a good game, its not a great game, due to way to many drawbacks:

• Like all superhero-based video games, not all of the superhero's powers are available to you. For instance, all of the flying superheros can't fly, and some superheros have been seriously neutered, like Green Lantern.
• The story is kinda weak, the concept is an interesting, but not well executed well upon.
• During Story Mode, you cannot do Fatalities or the DC equivalent, Heroic Brutalities.
  

While reading Sean Moore's blog post on performance improvements to ActionScript 3.0, I decided to chime in on another one that has drastic performance improvements:
In AdWonder, we use SharedObjects to persist local data (settings, local ads, etc..). So when it came time to start optimizing the latest version (9.4) for performance ( a major theme of this release.. faster, easier, smarter ), we noticed that opening the SharedObjects had the biggest drag on performance! Almost 100ms for each instance (this adds up as you can imagine). So, all of you ActionScripters out there, if there's a SharedObject you are storing data in, open it once, and store the SharedObject instance somewhere to reuse it. You and your users will love you!

It'll be in OBS as soon as its done building. I bumped the version up to 1.50 (from upstream pidgin-facebookchat)

My brother Scott just called and let me know that my mom just died about 30 minutes ago.. life blows...

My housemates have created a comic strip that I think everyone will like. (I do the techy stuff....)

So yeah.. while working on some new build automation stuff here at work (EyeWonder), I discovered an interesting error in IBM DB2 (IBM Data Client 9.5.0):
1. If you are attempting to create a database remotely using the DB2 command line processor, the DB2 client crashes.
If you get this issue, install the fixpack 3b for 9.5 on the client (not the server!) and the problem goes away. It's a bug in the DB2 command line processor.

I migrated my blog to Movable Type last night. All of my old posts, beside from one, got migrated over. I still need to figure out how to get a per-category atom.xml to provide to the various planets... I'll do that tonight most likely.

If you are a BellSouth customer and you migrated to AT&T Yahoo!, remember that you have new mail servers:
POP3: pop.att.yahoo.com
SMTP: smtp.att.yahoo.com
If you have it added to a cellphone, just remove and readd it. For Blackberry users, as a side benefit, you get real push email support

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