up beat game at Miniclip.com

long time since I posted anything ... but here's a good game I found!

Up Beat Keep the rhythm and rock the party!

Play this free game now!!

Chinese movies / serials ... mmmmmm

... ga! Can't talk now ... must watch movie ...

No, seriously, I'm watching this great Chinese serial that we got from Times Books. They sell all sorts of current and past Chinese movies, and discounts are available to regular customers. You can shop online and have them ship the movies to you, or you can goto one of their "fairs" or "exhibits" to buy them in person. If there is ever a problem with the disks not playable, you can call their customer service for help. You might need to know how to speak Chinese, though :) .

... now, back to our regularly scheduled program ...

The Sport of Drifting

Today .... (after posting that long post) ... I read a HowStuffWorks article (cause I was bored) ... about the sport of:

Drifting

Drifting is a sport that represents practically the epitome of oxymorons (like the vocab words?). It is a sport whose very premise is based on losing control. Now, that is not to say that this sport is easy. There are many techniques available for driving, including clutch-based techniques, lock-based techniques, and other techniques. Go ahead and read the HowStuffWorks article or the Wikipedia article on Drifting as a motor sport if you are interested.

Bored? Use a FeedReader

Did you know that ...

Do you ever feel really bored when online, with no webcomics to read, all blog updates read, and even tired of staring forever at your unchanging facebook / myspace / orkut page? Most of the time, people would revert automatically to playing a game available online at shockwave.com, gamehouse.com, onemorelevel.com, or other places. However, I use a different solution. Use a FeedReader.

What do I mean by that? If you are ever lacking in things to do online, you can use a n online feedreader (I suggest Google Reader) to subscribe to a feed such as HowStuffWorks.com, Slashdot, or Reddit. These feeds are always there, ready for you to read, yet still easy to setup and no downloading required. Just pop a few rss feeds from your favorite howto sites into the reader, and voila, instant reading material. The next time you feel bored, just head on over to your feedreader and go through all your accumulated items. If any seem interesting, just read it. If not, then try again later.

An alternative solution is to use a separate email account to subscribe to newsletters. My favorite sources include about.com (containing a virtual world's worth of information), PCMag, PCWorld, and other sister / brother sites. Free email accounts are available through many sources, although I recommend GMail (now available free and no strings attached, and no loops to jump for getting an account, either! :) ) for it's labeling capabilities, conversation threading (although that feature probably won't be used much just for reading newsletters), and excellent spam-filtering.

Finally, if you're really bored, you can always goto the Optical Illusions Etc. blog and stare at those pretty things until your eyes fall out. ::wink::

Well, now you know!

Miniclip.com

Did you know that ...

Miniclip.com is an excellent site that provides small games written in flash and shockwave by various companies. All the games are free to play on their site, although a few multi-player games require registering for a free account.

There are also many games available for individual download to your computer, and webmasters who wish to put miniclip.com games on their website can use the provided code and games to either put an entire game room on their site (as shown on the bottom of my blog), or just link to / embed individual games for visitors to play (as shown here).

Snow Line Help Santa Claus collect the presents.

Play this free game now!!

The miniclip.com website has good site design, although the flash and shockwave plugins need to be installed for a full experience of the site. The games available on this site are often updated, so in the future, I will probably post about some of the new games available there when I can't find anything that would be easy to explain in a single blog post.

Well, now you know!

edit:
Unfortunately, this blog template was too narrow for embedding the flash game directly into the post, so I have only included a link here. However, I have already downloaded the template for this blog, and am in the process of revamping it so that all widths use % and all corners are generated using Nifty Corners Cube, a very handy javascript tool for generating rounded corners without using any images! I hope to be able to use my new template soon :)

Also, I am aware that the miniclip.com Game Room isn't working totally correctly right now. I will try to find out what's wrong, then post the solution here ... actually ... never mind ... I just realized. To play the games in the Game Room, you need to have this site on the whitelist for all your pop-up blockers. Unfortunately, the Game Room does not allow you to play the games within this site, you have to play them on the miniclip.com site itself ... (sigh) ... what a pity :'(