I am most certianly not impressed with this DREAD weapon system. A first gen Grand Arms could easily defeat this pitiful sytem. 50 cal at 8000 fps? Bah! It wouldn't even scratch the paint job.

GeekFesters: I really just realized that I'll be missing out on two consecutive Fridays -- I'm in Nashville this week, and my MRI is on the 19th (7:30 PM). And I don't know how long that whole thing is going to take. If it does take forever, do you think we could play -- possibly even for a supplementary fest -- on Saturday night or even any time on Sunday?

By the by, it's hard to do an audioblog when you don't like the sound of your own voice - ha ha.

Beck, (and any other bit torrent-ers) new show: Weeds. Here's the wikipedia on it. It's pretty good.

Me and my brothers are trying to get some people together to go paintballing this upcoming sunday, if you're interested give me a shout

Hoo... ray?

on the topic of Google Maps: - How to Make Google Maps EZ

i can't remember who i was talking with about lazer tag- but yeah, check out DIY LAZER TAG GUNS
from makezine.com/blog/

The whole thing seems like an elegant yet straight-forward way of doing things. That link about the xmlHttpRequest was exactly the part I was wondering about. About a year ago or so I made some websites that used some xml pages as a database and used the xmlhttprequest to gather info from the xml pages. The only thing was is that I could only get it to work on IE and on Windows... I figured it was because it was using Microsoft ActiveX, so I gave up on it. Looks like it can be done cross browser / cross platform though.

Ed, my first dip into Ajax was through this tutorial. It's one of those things that doesn't seem too complicated, but seems very powerful. I'm taking a look at the right way to use it before I dive into it.