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So there was a nice link on slashdot today, where Trent Reznor was telling people to steal his music because the media corporation that owned it were charging excessively high prices in australia. It’s in the first few minutes of this video.

I’ve noticed that video games are also becoming excessively expensive in australia, it seems that although the value of the US dollar is plummeting faster than a bad analogy, the prices for products from there seem to stay the same here. Typically you can buy a video game for roughly 50USD (65AUD~) and yet it is 100AUD in EB stores around here. What a rip-off. It’s still cheaper for me to import Wii games from the UK (by about 10-15AUD, even after shipping) because of a similar excessive pricing — and all without having to even get up and go to the store. Yay internets.

The most awesomely named wii game is being developed: Ninjabread Man. So awesome. Seems like the game was out on PC in 2005, but the wii version will no doubt be more cool. There’s a lack of cool sword games on the Wii, and definitely a lack of light saber games. I’d still love to play Bleach, but thanks to region locking *shakes fist*, that won’t be happening for a while, until the mod community can free my console. If you buy a wii now, I recommend purchasing an NTSC region wii from the US or Japan, and modding that, because it will be able to play PAL games. Purchasing a PAL Wii and modding it will get approximately 70% compatibility with NTSC region games. Blech.

Ninja Gaiden DS looks extremely impressive, this gametrailer video on kotaku has some footage of the fighting.. it looks quite like the XBox1 version of Ninja Gaiden, which was awesome to the max.

Lots of EB and Harvey Norman stores seem to have fury stands, keep an eye out!

Well, now that a blog is up and running, it would seem the appropriate thing to do is to write a post.

Wordpress software seems pretty nice, the post editor reminds me of the zoho editor.

So studying php is interesting; the language is quite simple and allows fast development, but I’m sure the horrors of php code written by novices is far worse than other languages. The language is not very solid, and it seems very special-case’ish in it’s handling of everything, for example: array(...)[key] is not valid — array(...) is not really a proper expression as it would be in other languages. Ack. I wonder how much value there is in just hacking things up in php, rather than following more correct software development procedures.

The wordpress interface allows you to edit posts in a ‘visual’ mode. It seems a little dodgy, for example, if you put a link, it gets the cursor stuck within the contents of the anchor tag. Writing code to handle style chunks like that in an editor is quite tricky. I once did something similar in Fury — how do you determine where a cursor is sitting, between two blocks of ’styles’ which contain no text? It is not really feasible to allow editing with such free style blocks, there is no way for a user to manipulate the cursor across those boundaries.