Rock Band Library

So, I was thinking about how much my Rock Band library has grown since I got it. In fact, it's starting to become difficult to get an overall picture of what songs are available by using the on-screen menu. I thought it would be useful if I had a list like a Karaoke Bar of all the song I had... So, I made one up. Turns out, I have 224 songs available in my Rock Band 2 game, counting the imported songs from Rock Band 1, my downloaded songs, and my imported songs from track packs. That's a lot of songs! Want to see my list?

Here it is!

I know my list will grow by at least 1 more... because Kenny Roger's "The Gambler" is due to come out sometime, and that's going to be awesome!

So, now I just need people to come over and play.

The Worst Disappointment In The History Of Human Civilization

You know what makes me mad?

The fact that when Season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica comes out on DVD, it won't fit on the same row as the rest of them. Who do I blame? Universal for making the packaging too big, or Ikea for making the shelves too narrow?

Chuck Renewed For Season 3!

... and there was much rejoicing!

NBC renewed my new favourite show, Chuck, for a third season. However, right now it's just for a shortened 13 episode season with an option for 9 more, but that's far better than getting cancelled. Now all it has to do is gain a little traction from this "Save Chuck" movement so it can get an extension and more seasons. It's going to be a mid-season show and won't start until after the Olympics... so expect to hear more from me then.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to check this show out and borrow my Season 1 DVDs, let me know and I'll get them back from Joel.

My Experience With Internet Telephony

Right now, for work, we're doing telephone travel surveys for Stratford. Because Stratford is long distance from Waterloo, I had to look into options to keep calling costs down. Travelling to Stratford every night wasn't an option (milage would add up), and I didn't want our surveyor names to show up on call id. So, the best option seemed to be using the internet.

I first looked at Skype, since they're the best-known service, but they charge a connection fee of 6 cents each time you call a real number on top of the 2.9 cents per minute. Bell Internet Talk is the service that I ended up using, which uses Windows Live Messenger. As a service by itself, it worked decently. Quality was good and it was also 2.9 cents per minute without the connection charge per call. The problem arose when I tried to create 5 new hotmail accounts for my 5 surveyors. After 2, Microsoft blocked my IP from creating more hotmail accounts (presumably to prevent spammers), so I had to create them from other people's houses.

Once I got the accounts created, I tried to put money on the accounts (since it's pre-paid). After the first 2 accounts worked fine, I was unable to add money with my credit card anymore. I did manage to get around that (through endless chat sessions with customer service) and set up the accounts with money and set to automatically recharge to my credit card.

Well, as soon as the auto-recharges started happening, my accounts kept getting locked, and no amount of unlocking the accounts and chat sessions with customer service would help. I think that my credit card was raising red flags, since I've never used this type of service before. But even when I tried other cards, my account would still get locked.

So, my conclusion is that phone calls over the internet aren't a bad way to go... just don't try and get 5 accounts going at once.

New Star Trek Movie

I went to see the new Star Trek movie this weekend. My verdict is that it is all kinds of awesome! And it looks like it raked in a tonne of money this weekend. Here's hoping that it will bring about a sequel or two with this "rebooted" version.

I so have to see it again.