Target ruined my Wii!

How's that for a hard hitting headline? Ok, not exactly blacksmithing related but I don't have a better place to put this. The wife and I bought some fancy-pants LED lights for our Christmas tree at Target and the tree is kinda next to the TV. I also bought her a new Wii game (Boom Blox and it's awesome). Well we've been having a hell of a time with the Wiimotes acting all screwey. We were told that we probably need a new sensor bar and we should get the long one to fit our 50" TV.

There isn't a long sensor bar that I was able to find. But I did find out that the sensor bar isn't really a sensor bar, it's a UV emitter. Apparently it has LEDs on either end of the bar and the Wiimote senses these UV emitters then sends the info back to the Wii. People on the interwebtubes have videos of Wii games being played by candlelight (candles emit UV). See where I'm going with this? The LED tree lights that we bought at Target were interfering with the Wiimote. Unplug the tree= Wii is fixed= wife isn't frustrated with "Boom Blox"= life is good :)

Yet another

Well, I know nobody reads this because I have a tracking service (free, thank God). But I went ahead and added my hunting blog, just in case someone wants to read about my freezing toes and horrible luck. I also updated Brainbottle with some writing samples.

BrainBottle...

For those who may be interested in the more intellectual side of yours truly, I've started another blog that's designed to be for my writing... no, not that kind of writing. You won't find bad poetry or half assed fiction there... I keep all of that stuff on my local drives :) Ok, eventually I may post some bad poetry or whatever, but for now I'm trying to have a professional appearing online presence where I can post works that I've written and edited so as to have a "portfolio." To that end I'll be posting the three pieces that I had to submit as part of my WSU student writing portfolio. They definietly have the "I'm trying to be smart" vibe- but hey, I got an "A" on each of them so I guess it worked. The new blog is in the sidebar. As always, enjoy.

A few changes

I started thinking that the galleries on my page were a little too "wordy." So I removed a lot of the text and I'll feature pieces here. I plan to cross link pieces to the blog and the blog to pages that may have more pictures on them.

I also looked at some of the gadgets that are available and wasn't impressed. The art galleries (Dali, traditional Japanese, etc) are a good idea but the scroll bars, the fact that they're a mile wide AND that they have Google ads attached kept me from adding any of them.

I went and did it...

Well, for the first time in my computing history I've lost BOTH my login and password for my WordPress blog... so I moved the posts over here. To be sure, I've lost a password or two- some of them have to be so complicated that I end up requesting a new one every time I login to some sites (and as a rule I refuse to write my passwords down).

So, here I am. We'll see how this works.

I had to take alchemyforgenet because plain ol' AlchemyForge was taken in 2005. That said, the current holder of that address is not using it and they apparently last logged in in, you guessed it, 2005. So if you are or know the holder of that address, please get in touch with me becuase I'd like to have it to go along with the blacksmithing site I've run since 2004 and I've used the name Alchemy Forge since 2002.

UPDATE: I deactivated the old WordPress account and tried to open a new one. Everything looked fine until I tried to login with the new info- it came back AGAIN saying I had a bad user name... sigh...

UPDATE 2: I did a little searching around and apparently the problem was with a WP upgrade. I had my blog hosted through Yahoo so I didn't have anything local. Also, Yahoo automatically updated for me so I was blissfully unawares that anything was going on. Apparently in a recent upgrade the new WP software reset most people's password BUT the email that was supposed to be sent out to notify users was NOT sent- that's good work right there. I tried uninstalling WP, tried deleting some of the plugins, tried clearing my cache, etc and still no good. So that's done with. I think I'll stay here for a while though I'm going to look at a movable type blog to see how that's set up.