Day: November 3, 2005

Er, oops…

D'Arque Bishop

Those few of you who keep up with my site via RSS might have briefly noticed some weird garbage posts. I apologize for that, as I was testing posting via the Blackberry. I think I straightened out the whole getting it to recognize that it’s me part, but unfortunately the script that actually converts the body of the email to the post doesn’t like anything other than plain text, and despite what I thought earlier, Blackberry devices don’t send in plain text. *sigh*

I just downloaded a plugin for WordPress called “Postie” that should alleviate that problem. I’ll probably end up testing it tomorrow, however; I’ll be leaving for dinner and poker in about ten minutes.

Oh, well… hopefully this new plugin will work out much better for me. :-)

Paul Anderson to direct Castlevania movie…

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http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117932196&categoryID=13&cs=1

Steven Paul’s Crystal Sky Pictures has bought the rights to long-running Konami vidgame franchise “Castlevania” and has set helmer Paul W.S. Anderson (“Alien vs. Predator”) to adapt and direct.
Paul and Crystal Sky president Benedict Carver will produce along with Anderson and Jeremy Bolt, who are partnered in Impact Pictures.

Pic will focus on the origins of Dracula and the uprising of the Belmont Clan, a vampire-slaying family who supposedly become humanity’s last hope.

I’m going to give Anderson the benefit of the doubt for now. True, his Alien vs Predator was poorly implemented. However, I liked Event Horizon and Mortal Kombat, and I didn’t think Resident Evil was the steaming pile of dogshit everyone seemed to think it was. It could definitely be worse: Uwe Boll or John Leonetti (the director of Mortal Kombat Annihilation) could be directing it.

Then again, I’m not really rabid about it because I’ve never played any of the Castlevania games. If I get a Nintendo DS, I’ll change my mind, but until then… *shrug*

Hmmm… (testing followup)

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Well, I ended up needing to correct a bug in one of WordPress’s files, but other than that, the post via email thing went off without a hitch. I should say, almost without a hitch; apparently it won’t replicate over to LiveJournal unless I edit and save the post in WordPress itself. Oh, well; when I’m on vacation, those people who want to read my posts will have to just watch the main D’Arque Cathedral site instead of keeping an eye on the LJ friends pages. :-)

Today should be a relatively quiet day all told, up until this evening. It’s poker night with the usual poker crowd, so hopefully I can earn a little extra spending money tonight. :-) As for this weekend, I’ll probably get into Quake 4 and spend some time with it. I’ve played Bloodlines quite a bit over the past couple of days, and I’m really enjoying it. It’s too bad the company who developed it went out of business; I certainly wouldn’t have minded getting an expansion pack for it.

Finally, for your amusement, my new desktop on the main PC. Yes, it’s a Quake 4 wallpaper with a WindowBlinds theme. :-)

Anyway, time for me to check on a few things here…. fun fun.

Testing this thing out…

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Well, this should be interesting.

This particular post was done via email. Apparently WordPress has the
capability to do posts via email, so I’m giving this a brief try
before I bother implementing it full-time. I have no idea whether or
not this will synch to LiveJournal as well, but if it does, well…
even if I had felt like paying for a full LJ account for this access, I
don’t need to now. Oh, well…

Now I just need to figure out how to post from the Blackberry, and I
should be good to go when on vacations and the like. :-)