Waaay Too Much Geometry Wars
October 02, 2007
I purchased my first Xbox Live Golden Coins last night. It was quite an ordeal telling Microsoft about my credit card which ended up bringing me out to a totally different looking 1999-era Microsoft site for setting it up. Once all was said and done I was able to add 2,000 MS Bucks to my account for around $25. Not too bad since it'll buy me at least three XBLA games. I've already purchased Geometry Wars which I played obsessively last night. I hit 193,000 points but alas, Citescape was down by the time I did so that never got recorded. Bummer. Hopefully they'll be up tonight so that I can get some new XBLA games or demos.
I'll probably be settling down for some Doom tonight, since it's got a nice campaign, and then deciding between Boom Boom Rocket or maybe Sonic. Everybody loves Sonic, right? I tried getting ahold of Chris via the service last night, but he was engrossed in Halo 3. I have a feeling that in order to ever see him I will have to get ahold of a copy. I just wonder how newb-rific I will appear on teh great Halowebs.
All-in-all I'm loving the fact that the 360 actually uses the Internets to communicate with people. There's no convoluted codes to exchange with people, all of the games seem to interact in at least some way, and XBLA just plain rocks. Oh yes... the wireless 360 controller is oh so nice. Om noms.
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steve 2007/10/03
Hi Jordan - I found your link_crawler on google and would like to work with it. First thing it does is require "open-uri", which I can't find anywhere.
Can you help out? And what do you think, does this work, sorta?
Thanks for any help!
Steve
Jordan T. Cox 2007/10/03
Hey steve. Open-uri is a part of the standard ruby distribution. It sounds like the library path on your system might not be setup correctly. Are you using Linux or Windows? The Windows install can get tricky if you don't use the installer and accept the "C:\Ruby" default. You might also have a really old version of Ruby installed... double check what you have against the latest available at ruby-lang.org. I believe it's 1.8.6 ATM.
The link-crawler app does work. My friend David actually setup a google code page (http://link-crawler.googlecode.com/) for it and is using it (I think). All it does is output links as it crawls though.
James 2007/10/03
Hey Jordan, you good for gaming on Sunday? Haven't heard from Draz yet, but this weekend looks like the one where we could finally finish up his campaign.
Jordan T. Cox 2007/10/03
Yup, I should be good for it. I should have tired of playing Doom with 12 year olds by then.