Tontie

Check out this obnoxiously silly game called Tontie and see what you think. The creator of the game is multi-lingual and english is not his best, although the site and published text is pretty good.

You can also play Tontie in full screen.

Saying Goodbye to MonsterCommerce

The following was posted in a company-wide newsletter yesterday. I'm such a baby but it made me want to cry.

Tech Support wants to wish long-time Monster Jim Arconati the very best in his future endeavors. Jim's last day is this Thursday. He will be taking a Web Administrator position with the Ferguson-Florissant school district, which is three minutes from his house. His contribution to Support and customer service has been very much appreciated as well as working on the JumpStart program since its inception late in 2005. Best of luck ArcoJedi!

Trip to New York

Back in August, I took a long weekend trip to New York to visit my step-brother Lonny and his girlfriend Tami. It was great. I'd like to have more time for details to post about that trip, but I'll start by posting an index to a few details I kept on my Axim PDA and just now saved as individual entries.

• New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
• Start Spreading The News ...
• @ Lonny's Place (10:45pm Locally)
• @ Tami's Place in Brooklyn (10:26pm Locally)
• @ Lonny's Place Again (12:12am Locally)

Yeah, not much there right now. I'll update with more information some other night. I had a great time, despite the grumblings about how much my feet hurt.

PopCap Games - Bejeweled

Where Were You On September 11th, 2001?

I was still in bed when the phone rang. I worked evenings at Office Depot at the time. My mom's fiance, Frank Barker, had seen it on the morning news. Lisa was taking a personal day and she was still in bed too. We woke up and sat on the bed with Reese (who was only 2 years old) and Lisa (who was about 7 months pregnant with Olivia) and watched the television.

It was like the worst movie I had ever seen. And yet I couldn't look away.

BLOGGER SCREWED ME!

Normally, I'm a defender of Blogger as a great blog creator and content manager for beginners as well as experts. However, they've recently made some sort of change to their servers that has me pissed off. And I don't know that it really affects that many people besides me, and it's hard to explain,... well here goes.

First off, my main domain for most of my personal stuff is Arconati.us. This domain is registered with GoDaddy and I use many different subdomains to forward onto my various categorized blogs. Here is where the problem starts. Currently the home page of this blog is at -

http://arcojedi.blogspot.com/

- but I don't link to it that way. Most of the time, I link to it as -

http://blog.arconati.us/

- which I have set to forward to the proper spot. This still works with no problems. However, if I wanted to link to a certain page, such my recent post entitle Download Free 3D Snake I would link to it using the subdomain -

http://blog.arconati.us/2006/07/download-free-3d-snake.html

This would forward correctly, with only an extra slash after the domain -

http://arcojedi.blogspot.com//2006/07/download-free-3d-snake.html

Up until recently, this still loaded the page just fine, but at some point in the last week or so it stopped. The issue is that I have multiple links throughout my many sites and blogs and I also have many pages ranked in search engines that will no longer work. For example, try this MSN Search: site:arconati.us. Three of the 10 results don't work and who knows how many countless others.

I'm not going to gripe out loud through official channels because technically, this is free software. But it does kinda suck.