I just wanted to reiterate some points I’ve made earlier to several friends:

1. RAID is not backup!
2. As a web developer, don’t trust your users (they think a user did it).
3. As a web user, don’t trust your online data. With this I mean webmails(gmail, hotmail), photos (flickr), videos (youtube), documents(blogs, wikis, google docs), etc.

You will also require note charts and separated audio for the guitar, bass/rhythm, and band tracks. I guess that is why people are reusing the songs from the older Guitar Hero games, since they already have the required audio tracks. For the opensource game Frets on Fire, which is more or less a clone of Guitar Hero, you can obtain hundreds of tracks ready for inclusion to Guitar Hero 3.

If you look hard enough in the usual spots, you can find a version of Guitar Hero 3, modded to include the songs from Guitar Hero 1, and Guitar Hero Rocks the 80’s. Here are some screenshots of the song list.

After having played this for the past few hours, I can verify that these tracks indeed are those advertised. There are some things that doesn’t work, though, like co-op career (the lead guitar and rhythm/bass guitar tracks are the same), and practice mode.

But it is really nice to be able to play some other songs, than the 70 included on the retail version. Modded versions will do, until the Wii gets DLC.

There you go, I had to stack several other scifi-series to match the total runtime of all the Star Trek series. As an interesting note, the slim, orange Firefly-sliver is smaller than the Star Wars-sliver. Firefly could really have used a longer run. The total timespan of all the chosen series are 65298 minutes, or 45 days, 8 hours and 18 minutes.

• The laser elevator – A very interesting idea, taken to the max. It involves squirrels!
• The iPhone SDK is out, get going making those apps.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl is causing trouble. Hope this will be fixed before the EU launch.
• The usual question, taken to another level.

I’ll meet you back here when the next installment is out. “When is that,” you might ask, after which I point you to the RSS feed for this blag.

Flocker is created on top of CodeIgniter, mostly as a test of this framework. So far it looks good. I have not hit a wall with it yet, like I frequently did when I tested out Ruby on Rails.

I’m seriously considering importing a bunch of these, if I can find enough people that will buy a few each. I think I can do it for 270kr per Wiimote, all duties and taxes paid. I will have to look further into this.

• Downloadable content. I niid™ those extra songs for Guitar Hero III soon, thanks.
• Bigger harddrive. To store the downloaded songs, of cause.
• Cheaper Wiimotes. To fully equip four players, you are looking at almost twice the cost of the console itself.
• Voice chat. What good are online games if you can’t yell “LAG” every time you die, or at least hear some whiny teenager yell it.
• Ability to mute voice chat.
• More C64 games in virtual consol. Oh, and start providing Amiga games as well, I don’t care about licensing fees, I just want to play Super Cars II.

Of cause, I want all of the above for free.

This is what happens when you don’t regularly tests your wind mill brakes. The owner of the mill is rumored to have said, that the power generated while it ran at this ludicrous speed, covers the cost of a new mill.

Wikipedia to the rescue!

Star Trek Runtime

That is 32534 minutes total! 22 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes nonstop Star Trek. Assuming an average life expectancy of 77.96 years, that would be 0.079% of one’s life spend watching Star Trek. Alternatively, a single episode or movie can be watched each day. Then it would take 714 days, or almost two entire years.

Maybe Star Wars is a better alternative? Just 6 movies. Those can be dealt with in a day or two. But I’ve already seen them, and it is Star Trek I would like to watch. Next question popping up is how to actually get to watch all this Star Trek. At the moment only TNG is being broadcasted on the channels I can watch here in Denmark, so I might have to purchase the DVDs.

A quick look around at the online stores to find some cheap prices for the boxsets gave this:

Star Trek DVD Prices

1425 €! That is a lot of money. But it buys approx. 200 DVDs of Star Trek, covering almost 23 days of footage, not including the extras. Double the time required if there are commentary tracks on each episode.

Next interesting thing would be to figure out, just how much shelf space is needed to store all these boxsets. I couldn’t find the dimensions of the cases online, so that will have to wait.