It's been a bit of time since my last post.  As usual things are hectic.  The theme behind this post is "Stuff" since that's all it's going to be.

First on my list of stuff is the video game tournament for the festival.  We, and by that I mean one of the many people other than myself who are helping to make the festival a success, have found an outfit to run a Guitar Hero III competition.  The group is called The Rock Star Challenge and they appear to have a pretty nice setup going.  This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for and I'm glad to see that someone appears to be turning it into a viable business.  You can find details for the event here.

Next is a site I recently came across called gigoit.  It's basically a Craigs List for stuff that may be too valuable to throw away but that you don't want anymore.  The idea is simple:  Say you have a set of old snow tires which you no longer want.  You post them on the site and other people can search for them and come pick them up.  You can't charge or barter for them so it is simply an alternative to throwing them away.  It's good for the environment, good for old parts which are no longer available, good for non-profits etc...  The downside appears to be a lack of participation, at least in the US.  I had to search in a 500 mile radius to find anything, which renders it pretty useless.  This is another example of a very useful application that probably won't ever realize its full potential.

Another site on my recent addiction list is vNES.  This is a Java based Nintendo Entertainment System emulator which runs in your browser.  They have a collection of 2K+ old school NES games including one of my old favorites, 1943 which I'm spending WAY to much time playing.

I also want to recommend checking out Jason Kolb's blog.  His blog is well written and IMHO dead on.  Subscribe, read, enjoy.  You'll be better off for it.

TTFN