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Where have I been?

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There has been a lot of questions/emails/text messages/phone calls wondering where the hell I  have been.  To sum Monday January 4th at 230pm up, I formatted my MAIN hard drive in my laptop… How the hell did I do this?  Somehow windows swapped the 0 and 1 drives around and I was not paying attention.  I was playing with my daughter and I was giving her 98% of my time.  For the last 72+ hours, I have been running programs on my server to TRY to get my information back.  IF I can revive anything, I should find out tomorrow night (Friday).  Until Friday, I will HOPEFULLY have some great news.  OR I have to revert back to December 22nd.

Andrew

the NEW Section_86

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Well, I am done waiting for Podpress to put out an update for their plugin.  I now have lost 3 more iTunes feeds because of podpress and I will put up with it anymore.  I will be removing the plugin, which breaks the site, and start over with the Blubrry PowerPress WordPress Podcast Plugin.  Right now,  I am running WordPress 2.5.1 with Podpress 8.2.  They are great, but I cannot use new plugins and new themes.  The only way around this issue is to upgrade the entire site, which can take 6-8 hours to complete.  So sometime this week, I will be taking http://www.section86.com/ down for the switchover.  Please follow Section86 on twitter for all the site updates.  We are looking at July 31st for the design release (and yes I completed the NEW design lol).

Another and basically the REAL reason behind the switch, we are adding three new shows to the site; Whiskey N’ Waterbeds, Misfits Radio, and Defiant Actions.  I want to expand Section_86 so much that we are releasing shows everyday.  I am in this for the long haul and I love maintaining this project.  What is going on with Vertebreaker!?  Well, we have 4 more shows taped and we will decide what goes on from there.  I am not saying we are done with the VB project, but we are improving the show all around.

If anyone has questions or concerns, contact me @ Andrew@section86.com.  Thank you for all of your support!!!

Andrew

Funny Comments from digg.com

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I went to a wedding recently and the bridesmaids started talking with the grooms great aunt (roughly 80 years old). They were talking about being young professionals and how its tough to get the guys to see you as an equal and the aunt interjected the following: “Learn how to drink scotch. If you can drink scotch and know the different brands, men will see you more as one of the boys and will include you more” They thought this was great advice, but all had the same reaction, scotch was gross. The 80 year old aunt admitted she didn’t like scotch at first and “it took some getting used to… you know… like anal sex”

Jack and Jill, went up the hill, each with a buck and a quarter.
Jill came down with two fifty,

..slut

She was reluctant at first, not understanding why we just couldn’t keep having normal sex, so I had to employ my persuasive powers:

Jaime “But…I’ve never done it.”
Tucker “I’ve never done it either; it can be our thing.”

Jaime “But…I don’t know if I’ll like it.”
Tucker “You won’t have to worry about getting pregnant.”

Jaime “But…I like normal sex.”
Tucker “Everyone’s doing anal. It’s the new black.”

Jaime “But…I don’t know…it seems weird.”
Tucker “It’s the preferred method in Europe. Especially with the runway models. Don’t you want to do runways in Europe?”

“Anal’s great for when your constipated, it totally loosens you up.” -Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Funny Stuff!

Andrew

from: digg.com and Tucker Max

Truth to Go Daddy

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“I love the fact the employees at go daddy know how to speak and understand english. It is also great that i talked to a nerd. Nerds = KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT! Rep=USES A BOOK OR COMPUTER AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT DNS or HTTP STAND FOR… Thanks for the great support!!!”

That is what I put in the comments box after the rep helped out.

Andrew

Today’s Today

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Wow; what a wild day!!! Today I accomplished a lot… I finished most of my projects that I have been working on. One of those is the NEW 86 Productions. I FINALLY decided on the design and theme. I know that I have already paid someone to revamp the entire network, but I think this will hold us over until this August.

I was also able to purchase most of the items to finish the basement. I purchased the plans for the bar (which is friggin awesome!), miscellaneous items hanging on the walls, dry lock paint, custom table plans, extra lightning, and the epoxy for the basement floors. One thing I learned about being a home owner is the extra responseability in taking care of your property. I know we need to finish the upstairs, but we are so close in finishing the basement. Well, I guess we are almost done with the kitchen (for now at least). Plus I am dreading the day we finish the floors on the lower level;lol!

Finally, I mowed the lawn (which was WAY over due) and headed over to my aunt and uncle’s to drop off Mike’s birthday card. All in all, I was able to complete and bunch of tasks. SHIT!!! I forgot to hit up the PO Box…

Finally; Finally, I have some GREAT news!!! Blake from section86.com had his podcast “It Burns When I Pee” reviewed on Bubba the Love Sponge’s show!!! FUDGE YEAH!!! Congrads Blake!!! This is a great step for you and our little project Section_86.

A big thank you goes to everyone who has supported all the talents/hosts through the last 2 years. It has been GREAT and I hope we continue this project! Now if we can only get paid. LOL!

Until next time, take care.

Andrew

***RUMOR*** XBox 360 Spring Updates ***RUMOR***

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Xbox LIVE
1. Option to delay sign-in to Xbox LIVE upon booting console (to allow user to set Online Status).
2. Option to promote Child Account from Family Settings.
3. Disallow Child Accounts (over 18) to override Family Settings by launching Privacy Settings through a title.
4. Option in Family Settings for Child Accounts to enable child-oriented/non-mature advertisements.
5. Introduce a group chat (4) for Private Chat and conferences through Video Chat.
6. Support to indicate media being watched to gamercard status (video content from Marketplace only).
7. Extend height for Bio field in Personal Profile, easier navigation through text.
8. More fields present in Personal Profile – recent achievements, interests, games, movies, links, custom section.
9. Compact Personal Profile for new fields (navigating to field will open it up).
10. Mandatory option to delete duplicate titles from gamercard (excludes Games for Windows – LIVE). User disconnected from Xbox LIVE when booting any title until action complete.
11. Option to remove payment information from gamertag.
12. New payment methods for international users.
13. Download History on Account Management better organized – games, genre, type, download date, miscellaneous.
14. Long descriptions of items on Marketplace can be scrolled using right stick.
15. Better organization of free content on Marketplace.
16. Option to ‘ping’ when testing connection.
17. Allow re-connection to Xbox LIVE if Ethernet cable is re-inserted whilst powered on.
18. New strip colors available to developers, staff gamercards.
19. New corner icon available to ambassadors.
20. Re-introduce Messages button for Inside Xbox updates only.
21. Option to store up to 10 messages permanently on server (excludes invites, status messages).
22. Increase character limit for text messages between friends only.
23. Option to disable invites from non-friends or all players.
24. Option to disable invites from titles not on gamercard (excludes demos).
25. Option to have smaller items moved up in Active Downloads.
26. Automatically re-connect to Xbox LIVE if disconnected unexpectedly (set intervals).
27. Option to download gamer picture (if available) from a gamercard being viewed.
28. Display random tips to replace static text on Xbox LIVE and Games blades.
29. New button on Marketplace for optional dashboard features – uses Storage Device memory.
30. Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID.
31. Option to purchase Membership for charities (includes benefits).
32. Integrate file-sharing for selected titles on Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows – LIVE.
33. Disable notifications to friends of user repeatedly signing into service (set period).
34. Option to see ‘snippet’ of text message in notification.
35. Windows Live Mail integration – includes support for Xbox LIVE Vision.
36. Web feeds integration – text, images, audio. Includes support for specific item codes on Marketplace.
37. Option to display gamer picture or standard picture as display picture in Windows Live Messenger.
38. Support for headset, Xbox LIVE Vision in Windows Live Messenger.
39. Support for limited ‘winks’ that display on dashboard interface. Option to disable ‘winks’ and ‘nudges’ added.
40. Notifications separate from Windows Live Messenger to Xbox 360 notifications.
41. Disable multiple languages from being used in any Xbox LIVE editable fields.

Games
1. Option to delete titles from gamercard with 0 gamerscore and 0 achievements (excludes some titles that will be re-added to launch another title).
2. Organize My Games at the Games Library section better (includes disc-based titles) – sort by genre, platform (Games for Windows – LIVE), percentage completion.
3. Support to display friends leaderboards for disc-based titles.
4. Show dates of an achievement unlocked when comparing.
5. Preload Games Library upon dashboard bootup for faster access.
6. Game updates now shown as items in Memory, increased amount of updates on Storage Device.
7. Option to delete game updates, removed ‘cheat code’ as no longer needed.
8. Support for more titles to display banner when accessing guide in-game.
9. Option to re-introduce awarded gamer pictures from titles that do not have their own re-introduce feature (requires saved game).
10. Disable gamer pictures from being awarded from trials.
11. Support for titles to store installation data on Storage Device for faster loading.
12. Synchronization to achievements offline/online that were deleted and then re-added from developers.

Media
1. Option to hold LT and RT for rewinding/fast-forwarding video content.
2. Option to delete individual music tracks from storage device.
3. Option to rip music CD at different quality.
4. Copy non-protected files (pictures, music, videos) from USB storage devices, CDs and computers to proprietary storage devices.
5. Support for menu, top-menu features on video content downloaded from Marketplace.
6. Section added for audio delivered through feeds (podcasts). Option to stream, download to Storage Device.
7. Support added for video titles/description to gamercard status.

Dashboard/Miscellaneous
1. Option to navigate quickly out of several menus back to respective blade home (applies to Games, Media, System).
2. New blade trim styles added.
3. Introduce expanded Inside Xbox as a portal to news, weather, entertainment, help and community features.
4. New sounds for various functions (notifications, blades, navigation).
5. Calibration options for display/sound.
6. Calibration options for motion sensor devices.
7. New effects for Xbox LIVE Vision and dashboard background.
8. Disable changing of Theme when on Memory to prevent ‘hanging’.
9. Preload recent, limited items upon dashboard bootup on Memory.
10. Faster loading of Themes section on guide.
11. Option to see what items will not work offline due to DRM license changing from Memory.
12. Option to automatically associate new DRM to items downloaded for free.
13. Indicate ‘charging’ status on guide when Play & Charge kit is connected.
14. Option to change text colors on guide to better contrast some backgrounds.
16. Language improvements.
18. Word censor updated for fields.
19. Privacy Settings/Family Settings updated for new features.
20. Voice, picture messages can be read at Xbox.com (Gold accounts).

And of course microsoft is not commenting on these “rumors”.

All information taken from an article on kotaku.com.

Andrew