Finally finished the Empress' nintendo controller. The Sam's-brand USB cables are a dream to work with. Now I need to find a series of projects that use the other end of them.

Now, after I clean up a bit, and maybe draw up some plans for the eventually-coming DUN DUN DUN GameGrid nintendo ports, I shall momentarily turn my video-gamey-geeking-out energy toward setting up a Battlefield Stats server. Sgt. R. Lee Ermey, (kevin) Lt. Dan / Gen. Tso, (my brother) Torkins, (patrick) Lt. Dan II /Joey Bleedsalot (my other brother) and Hannibal Smith (myself) deserve to have our in-game kills tracked and enshrined on a publicly-available site. The dogged fight against computer-simulated communism must be documented.

Right now, I'm sort of stuck between options. There's BFStats, which looks pretty and has intricate map breakdowns, but also doesn't seem to support Vietnam so well and generates insanely long pages. There's BF1942Live(demo is currently down), which has a serious bonus of showing the current players and levels, and appears to support Vietnam, but lacks any real long-term stat tracking. And then there's my current pick, select[bf] - it's got per-person detailed breakdowns, a bunch of different types of ranking breakdowns (thankfully all split to their own page) configurable CSS setup, and support for Vietnam (though apparently only the Linux dedicated server.)

Man, I have really really missed video games. Stupid school.

Anyway, I gotta see if we can get the damned XML logs going from the dedicated server before I try and get the stat thing up. But it'll be pretty damned sweet when I do.

[texaco has dental]