Review: First Strike (Halo)

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First Strike (Halo)This book is the 3rd in the series and should be an enjoyable read for any Halo fan. First Strike tells the story that leads up the action experienced while playing the video game Halo 2.

Master Chief is the main character as you might expect, but there are other Spartans as well as Cortana and a few others from the first two books. While reading, you’ll learn some important pieces to the overall Halo story. The authoer, Eric Nylund, does a good job of weaving action with some of the backround info that is essential to the story.

If you enjoyed playing Halo and Halo 2, the book series is a great supplement. I give First Strike a B+.

50th

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I finished 50th out of 144 in the charity tournament in memory of Charlie Tuttle being held today on Poker Stars. Not too bad considering I didn’t get to my computer until a few minutes ago (I was out golfing), just after the 49th place player went out. Yep…I never played a hand and just […]

Poker Blogging Goes Big

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Two words sum up why poker in 2005 may be a victim of its own recent success:

Spoiler Alert.

With the main event climaxing this weekend, there is no way the new legion of poker fans don’t find out who the new champ is by Monday morning.

You could try to avoid it, to be able to maintain some suspense when the 2005 edition of the WSOP TV series starts up on ESPN soon…

…But that’s not going to happen when every media outlet has a poker columnist and a new cottage industry of poker blogging has emerged.

ESPN Daily Quickie

WordPress Database Backup Plugin

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Tired of having to manually backup your WordPress database? Do you even back it up? Worry no more…

Skippy has created an awesome plugin for WordPress. It’s called WordPress Database Backup. With a few clicks you can either download a backup of your database or have it sent attached to an email. It’s a very quick and simple process. In addition, if you have Skippy’s WP-Cron plugin installed, you’ll get a bonus option for the WordPress Database Backup. Under Manage->Backup in your WP admin screen you’ll have the opportunity to schedule a daily backup of your database.

I’ve been helping Skippy do some testing and I have to say that it has worked great so far. I’ve setup a seperate Gmail account that I’m using solely to store the backups of my 3 WordPress sites. Talk about a good use for all of those Gmail invites! If you’d like an account, just let me know. Each night at midnight, my WP installs fire off an email with a zipped up copy of my database. I never have to worry again about losing my posts and comments.