Guitar Hero

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:48:46 GMT

So, I had to go to Colorado this past weekend to help my mom move. While I was there my twin brother was telling me about how much fun this PS2 game called Guitar Hero was. I've seen it in stores, but it never really played it or had any interest in it. My brother talked me into playing a couple of songs and WOW. That game is a blast. As soon as I got back to town, actually on my way home from the airport, I stopped and bought it.

I get it home, hook it up, and start playing. By the time I get finished with about my second song, my wife and 11yr old son are both begging me to play. So, we start taking turns playing songs, completely consuming the rest of the day. What a blast!

Just in case you don't know what Guitar Hero is, it's a video game for the Sony Playstation2 where you have a controller that looks like a guitar, and you play a variety of popular rock songs by hitting the buttons on the frets of the guitar and strumming using a bi-directional button along with the music. If you miss a note, the song sounds bad, the crowd is unhappy and you loose. It's well worth the $80 in my mind. I find it fasinatingly fun.

I'm not a very big PS2 fan. I love my Xbox and Xbox360. So as far as PS2 games go, this is one of the best in my limited ps2 playing time.

As we were buying the game the manager at the GameCrazy in Frisco said it's coming out for Xbox360 in about a month or two. So, I'm going to go PreOrder it next time I'm in the store.

Check it out, it's amazing fun and addictive.

Later,

Mark

CF Newbieness and Hello

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:42:07 GMT

Well, Hello. My name is Mark Brown. This is my first blog, so bear with me.

I decided to start this thing because I'm learning some new skills. I'm a IT Manager, and am very familiar with pc's, servers, networks, blah, blah, blah. It dawned on me a few months ago that I needed to learn some new skills. On the advice from a friend, Mike, I decieded to learn Web Application Programming using ColdFusion. So, I figured, that sounds easy enough, and started. First problem I ran into was, I HAVE NO PROGAMMING EXPERIENCE. None. Ziltch. Nada. I've written a few batch scripts for login scripts on my Novell servers at work, but other than that I was clueless. Well, I'm still clueless, but an learning more by the day. You web programmers talk your own language. I'm Starting to understand some of it, but hey, life is just one big learning curve. Right?

Anyway, I'm about 6 months into it. I haven't been hitting it too hard, but have learned quite a bit. About a month ago I launched my family website, http://www.thebrownhomeonline.com. I did it with Coldfusion and it seemed fairly straight forward. It's got a private section that took me a while to figure out how to do the security, and the initial learning about frameworks to keep the maintenance of it easy were a bit difficult for me, but I eventually got it with some very generous help from Mike.

I've got a couple other projects I'm working on, which I'll talk about later.

Main reason for this blog entry is just to Introduce myself, and give you all a idea of what to expect from this blog.

What I'm hoping to accomplish here is to document my journey from total cluelessness in ColdFusion and web apps to my finished products. I hope to be able to help other newbies find good resources I've used, and/or document some of the hurdles I ran into throughout this process and how I overcame them. You'll probably also get to see some of my rants and raves on wide variety of subjects. Lucky YOU!!!

So, there you have it.

Later,

Mark

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Guitar Hero

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