Gaming news site Kotaku recently ran a few stories on Gaming Tattoos. Both tattoos are very well done and look great. More gaming tats are definitely a Good Thing in my opinion. Check them out! Also, don’t forget to check out my collection.
I was recently accepted into the Xbox Ambassador Program. I am very honored to be part of this special group. I’ve been a member of Xbox LIVE since 2004 and I enjoy helping gamers on LIVE and answering questions on the xbox.com forums when I can. Here is a brief explanation of the group from xbox.com:
What are the Xbox Ambassadors?
The Xbox Ambassadors are members of the community, just like you, from all over the world who love Xbox LIVE and are willing to help where they can. Ambassadors can be found on the official Xbox.com forums or playing on Xbox LIVE.
I was very excited to be accepted into the program to help make Xbox LIVE a better place for everyone. The Ambassador program is managed by DMZilla and MacheteBetty. The program is run in their spare time along with their official responsibilities at Xbox. Gamers should be appreciative that Xbox LIVE management has carved out a special team like this to help the community. In addition to answering questions on LIVE and xbox.com forums, we have “Ambassador Playdates” as well! Check the Xbox LIVE Dashboard on your Xbox 360 console for future events. We recently had a great playdate where Burnout Paradise was the featured game.
If you are interested in connecting with an Xbox Ambassador please see the list of all U.S. based Ambassadors (My gamertag, The PerfectCr, is there!). Also, be sure to visit the blog of Xbox Ambassador leader DMZilla. If you like, feel free to send me an invite on LIVE! See you out there!
I attended Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando Friday 8/13! Tons of fun. I took my two sons while my baby daughter had girls day out with Mommy. My 5 and 3 year old boys held up rather well. They are big Star Wars fans already (my doing!) so they were in heaven. They especially love the well done SW: The Clone Wars animated show on Cartoon Network.
Being a huge gamer one highlight for me was being able to briefly play Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Both were excellent and I have no doubt the finished games will be great. We also witnessed a live Sirius/XM interview with Matthew Wood, voice of General Grievous in Episode III.
Another interesting area was the Tattoo Pavilion. I was able to stop at several of the booths and check out some the excellent Star Wars tattoos. I saw Stormtrooper tattoos as well as Rebel Alliance and Imperial symbol tattoos being done. I also talked to one artist who traveled to Orlando from overseas. He asked me about my gaming arm sleeve and gave me compliments on it. It was great to receive compliments on my tattoo from another tattoo artist.
The Orange County Convention Center here in Orlando was a great venue. Everything was well organized and we didn’t have to wait in many lines at all. SW Celebration had previously been held in the West or Midwest so it was great to see it in the Southeast. I hope Celebration VI can be here too! After the break, check out my Flickr gallery of my SWCV pics!
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About two weeks ago I decided to bring back my blog. And by blog I mean an area to jot down random thoughts that are too long for Twitter and/or Facebook. I started PerfectCr.com in 2005 but got away from it the past few years. I first discovered WordPress when I saw the iPhone app. (iTunes Link) There was only one issue; my “old” blog used the excellent Serendipity Weblog System. Luckily I had performed a back up of the old S9Y SQL database knowing one day I would start back up again. There is absolutely nothing wrong with S9Y. In fact the software is very good, flexible, and open source. The lead developer Garvin Hicking is always on the forums ready to answer questions. However from what I’ve seen WordPress is a bit more user friendly. That paired with the simplicity of creating posts from the iPhone/iPad app was enough to get me to switch.
The next step was to search for a method to import my old S9Y database to WordPress. After performing some Google-fu, I ended up at Snowulf.com. Jon there had taken an earlier version of the importer and updated it to version 1.4. Just let me say Jon was extremely helpful. I bothered him on Twitter for well over a week as well as posting several questions on his site. He was patient and very helpful. Frankly I may not have been able to complete the import without his help. I performed the steps he outlines in his readme and the import went smoothly.
So here we are! I choose a minimalist theme and will continue to update some broken links in my older posts. Glad to be back and I look forward to adding more content as time passes.
That’s right! PerfectCr.com is back after a 2.5 year hiatus! Up and running with Dreamhost and WordPress. In the coming days I will be making this site look better and getting some photo galleries of all my gaming tattoos up! I am excited to be back on my dot com after being away from it for a while. More to come shortly….