http://nvirt.com your #1 source for confusion and delay Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:41:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For some time I've been needing another 360 for another entertainment center and I've had a voucher for a new unit just sitting in my lap. The thing is, I couldn't take advantage of the damn thing until Monday because since Christmas it's been impossible to find 360 Pro units ... http://nvirt.com/2008/02/19/falcons-flocking-to-big-box-stores/ I've been toying with whether to reinstate AdSense and I've come to a conclusion. "Not right now" is the short answer. This mainly has to do with the current state of NViRT and the fact that a reemerging/struggling publication such as ours would be worse off with ads mucking up ... http://nvirt.com/2008/02/15/a-word-on-adwords/ It all started with the new header image I whipped up two days ago. It must have got my mind stuck on giant robots or something. I say this because when I went to Borders the next day, this fantastic piece of required reading caught my eye and just had ... http://nvirt.com/2008/02/06/the-time-will-come-are-you-prepared/ Inner turmoil at its best! A very thought provoking music video with a really cool effect that, in itself, takes the emotion of this song to a whole new level. I forgot how I even came across this song in the first place. It might have been one of those ... http://nvirt.com/2008/02/04/emily-haines-our-hell/ A while ago I wrote about the XFPS 360 units that allow you to connect a keyboard and mouse to your Xbox 360. These boxes man-in-the-middle attack a wired 360 controller's protocol to bypass the 360's peripheral security. Once connected to the 360, the XFPS unit allows you to plug ... http://nvirt.com/2008/02/02/xbox-360-keyboard-and-mouse-round-2-2/ ...Unless you're somehow blessed with divine righteousness and the very fingers of Jesus himself. I like to think of myself as a reasonable man...a somewhat OCD reasonable man, but a reasonable man nonetheless. However, there a few things in this world that make we want to don a green fedora, ... http://nvirt.com/2008/01/29/wanna-protect-your-psps-screen-sorry-too-bad/ Despite my fierce love for most things Metroid, I was extremely disappointed with Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Gathering all those keys made the whole game feel like a giant fetch-quest, and I hate fetch-quests. I also hated being in Dark Aether. I mean, I didn’t expect the Ing to dwell ... http://nvirt.com/2008/01/25/metroid-prime-3-corruption-is-unsurprisingly-a-damned-good-game/ You don't have to tell me. Yes, I know there are a million people out there that want their iPhone to be a teleporter too; or magically grow 3G tech with software updates. Fortunately, this is a different type of wish list. A list of wishes, if you will, that ... http://nvirt.com/2007/07/29/a-realistic-iphone-wish-list/ These are the original instructions from the cable I built back in November. This "howto" was originally posted on my personal blog so if you think you've seen this before then your probably right. Using a bud's component cable I duplicated the pins with a regular AV cable from Nintendo. My ... http://nvirt.com/2006/11/28/making-practical-wii-component-cables/ What you say? What happen!? As it turns out our old hoster set itself up the bomb. We are in the process of transferring as many of the useless articles as we can but the old hoster *coughrackforcecough* is so unusable at this point that it is impossible to hold a connection ... http://nvirt.com/2000/01/01/move-zig1-2/