James Skemp's StrivingLife

This will cover September 26, 2011 to approximately March 25, 2012.

See also year 5, part 2.

Plan changes

After many years, on October 7, 2011, I dropped DVDs from my plan. I'm running low on time to get to DVDs with all the great games being released, and the price jump is a bit more than I'd like at this point.

The times

09/27/2011 (T) - MRNOS.
09/28/2011 (W) - Received and watched Castle: Season 3 (2010): Disc 3: Episodes 11 and 12.
09/29/2011 (R) - Watched Castle: Season 3 (2010): Disc 3: Episodes 13 through 15. I'll drop it off tomorrow.
10/01/2011 (Sa) - MRNOS.
10/03/2011 (M) - Received and watched Castle: Season 3 (2010): Disc 4: Episodes 16 through 18.
10/04/2011 (T) - Watched Castle: Season 3 (2010): Disc 4: Episodes 19 and 20. I'll drop it off tomorrow.
10/06/2011 (R) - MRNOS.
10/07/2011 (F) - Received next movie.
10/08/2011 (Sa) - Watched Castle: Season 3 (2010): Disc 5: Episodes 21 through 24, which finishes the season on a bang. I'll drop it off Sunday or Monday. (I did the latter, but since it's Columbus Day, mail isn't going out.)
10/09/2011 (Su) - Per the advice of Bill Kummer, watched Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) streaming on my Roku. Giving it 2 stars because while the beginning credits were nice, Rutger Hauer and the main female character were both underutilized.
10/10/2011 (M) - My DVD availability is no more. I now only have streaming access.
10/11/2011 (T) - Watched Mythbusters: Season 7 (2009): Episodes 1 and 2 streaming on my Roku, after trying a couple other shows out.
10/12/2011 (W) - Movie received by Netflix.
10/14/2011 (R) - Watched Mythbusters: Season 7 (2009): Episode 3 streaming on my Roku.
10/15/2011 (Sa) - While initially being turned off from the series, watched High School of the Dead: Season 1 (2010): Episodes 1 through 6 streaming on my Roku.
10/16/2011 (Su) - Watched High School of the Dead: Season 1 (2010): Episodes 7 through 12, streaming on my Roku, which finishes the series. 3 of 5 stars, but it would have easily gotten 4 for great animation and a good dub, had the fan service not been so strong.

When I moved from my custom system to WordPress to BlogEngine.NET I never did end up copying over all the old comments on my posts. Heck, I don't even think I moved over all my posts.

But since I'm sticking with DISQUS I decided to move all my BE.NET comments over to DISQUS, and over the last few hours have been making the necessary changes and performing the necessary cleanup. 

I found a great extension that generated the XML for me (thankfully), but since I'm me I'm actually going through and removing the extra comments, so my data source is clean. And that may not have been the best idea ...

But, I have to believe it is for the best.

I picked up an electronic copy of jQuery Mobile by Jon Reid a little while ago and have been slowly making my way through it.

I've finally gotten to the point where I wanted to try creating a jQuery Mobile version of my video game listing.

View the jQuery Mobile version of my video games listing.

In addition to jQuery Mobile, this also uses oXygen XML Editor, for taking the original XML source and transforming it via an XSLT 2.0 solution to generate the HTML.