Woohoo!

So I am officially promoted and start my new position on Monday. Pay increase is nice too.

Paper Crane

Origami update, wow I'm a little obsessed with this thing.
So a new picture has leaked, and it looks like the real deal. The main thing is that it shows the Window's Vista Media Player, and not XP's. So my original assumption that it was running off Vista was right. I guess the full announcement will come thurs.

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So apparently a bunch of High School students made a diesel/electric hyrbrid sports car that gets 50 mpg, and goes from 0-60 in four seconds. The kicker is it runs on soy beans. A Philidelphia auto class took parts from other cars and put them together to make the car. It's looks pretty impressive. It also makes me wonder, what's wrong with the auto industry? And maybe lobbying does have an enormous sway ovver the continued use of oil. I guess Exxon won't be happy with this.

I know this vehicle does not meet proper vehicle standards, and that soy is more expensive then gas, but the idea of a biomass deisel engine combined with an electric motor does sound like a good idea. Also that if the Go Yellow: Corn idea or Soy, becomes more mass marketed it could in fact end up being cheaper than gas, and be renewable.

More new here:
Tree Hugger's Article

Finito

So Oblivion has officially gone gold! What does this mean excatly? What it means is that the final version of is complete and has gone off to manufacturing. No more delays, the game will come out on the week of March 20th. Also I won't work 29 days straight for a while.

I have not been promoted yet, I'm still waiting on that. Right now I am testing Pirates of the Carribean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow. It's a run around and kill pirates type thing, with simple, easy puzzles. It's um... yeah... Actually, I'm sure it will be ok. throwing exploding barrels at Pirates is kind of fun.

Well that's all for now. I'm going back to the dangerous death defying job of being a game tester.

Origami follow up

So what's the new info on the Origami? That it's unveiling will be on the 9th?

That was weaker than Apple's announcement of it's uninnovative iPod speaker on tuesday. Yay! Oh right they also announced a Mac Mini powered by intel. There are already power pc powered mac minis.

Oh actually there is one correction to my comments about the origami, and that it is not using Windows Vista, but just Windows XP. I was somewhat dissapointed by this since Vista looks pretty interesting, and has lots of cool new features they are adding to it.