Pwnt By Facebook

Over the past week I've had some problems with my account on Facebook, a social utility that connects you with the people around you. My account has been "disabled" because I haven't "affiliated with my high school network within sixty days". But I am homeschooled so I can't join a high school network, there is no "Homeschooler" option of course, that would be to easy right? So I contacted Facebook about the problem I'm having (along with alot of other homeschoolers) and they respond with this automated message:

Unfortunately, your account has been disabled because Facebook does not support currently most homeschool networks. Our high school networks are based around a model of community verification. Because of their size, homeschools are inherently hard to prove an affiliation with. If your homeschool program provides an email address to its students, however, please let us know, and we will investigate the possibility of adding it as a network. These email domains are an alternative way for us to verify an affiliation with a school. You will need to email us from this school affiliated address and tell us the name and location of the homeschool. I'm sorry if our policies on this matter present any inconvenience. In the future, we will consider new ways to integrate homeschools into the site. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks for contacting Facebook.

I was furious after recieving this email. I felt like quiting Facebook but I have alot of my friends on it. So anyway, I cooled down and made a new account and dealed with it. So just a heads up to anyone who homeschools out there, Facebook will not be very friendly to you if your under 18. Hopefully I won't have anymore problems.

Wal-Mart Site to Store™

Well, about 3 weeks ago I ordered that Razor Pro Model scooter off of Wal-Mart.com and I finally picked it up on Monday. The scooter is very nice, I love the way its built and I will never get a Razor A2 model ever again after seeing how well this one is made. Another thing I will also never be doing again (at least for a while) is using the Wal-Mart "Site to Store" shipping feature. Although it may be free shipping to your local Wal-Mart it takes FOREVER. In my humble opinion I would rather pay a little more for standard shipping and have it shipped to my house in about 5 days rather than having it take 3 weeks to ship to the store and then still needing to drive all the way to the store and back to get the dang thing.

A Long, Hard, and Tiring Week.

Man, this last week has sucked. On Friday (4/25/08) our cable TV line got hit by lightning, causing some TVs and other things such as my Wii and DVD players to not work. Many of the things that were hit were on surge protectors, but they didn't seem to work. My parents have called our insurance company (West Bend) and are debating on filing a claim. Saturday (4/26/08) I called Nintendo about my newly fried Wii. They told me to try a different AC adapter on my Wii and see if it would turn on or not then call them back. So, I called my friend, Colin and went over to his house and tried using his adapter. I had no luck, it would just light up red and not turn on or eject the disc stuck inside it. So, I called Nintendo again on Sunday (4/27/08) and told them about what the results were. They said "Well, you can't control lightning really, so we'll send you a new one if you ship the old one back we can get the disc out." I was so happy and was so worried about getting a hold of a new one and I didn't know what to do. I'm so glad I called. Anyway, that was my week, and today I shipped my Wii to Nintendo.

Spring Finally Approaching?

Looks like spring is finally here and i'm glad. I've been on my scooter a couple times this year already and I can still tailwhip and do very high jumps, e.g., going down 6 stairs. But my scooter is in very bad condition from the abuse it has had in 2007, the current tricks that have been easy for me in the past are now hard because of how loose the handlebars are and other things on it. I've had many scooters in the past but they all have been the Razor A2 Models (except one that was a Airwalk that broke the same day I bought it). So now i'm going to be saving my money for a Razor Pro Model which has increased durability in the handlebars preventing the shakeyness that I have been having with the scooters i've had in the past. Once I get that Pro Model though, I know I can tailwhip a 3 stair.

Windows Remote Assistance

These last couple days have been fun, yet challenging. I have been trying to connect with my friend Chris, who lives in Florida via Remote Assistance. I must say, it was not easy, for we have came across alot of issues that didn't make sense because i'm on Windows Vista and he is on Windows XP. Also, we had some firewall issues at one point. We now have had sucess connecting to Windows Vista while on Windows XP and vice versa. Overall I am happy though as to what we were able accomplish and now we both have more experiance as to how this cool program works, thanks Chris!

Adventures With Guinness: Toy Rescuing

Yesterday I made a new "Adventures With Guinness" video, and it was a hit. I've been getting honors like crazy. I can't wait to see how much attention my upcomming video will get when I post it in the near future.

Getting Xfire to Work In-Game With War Rock

Well I was messing around with the coding and I figured it out people! Heres what you need to do:

1) First, you need to find your xfire_games.ini file! So look in your program files folder, find the xFire in that and look for it. If your on Vista like me -_- you won't find it there (C:\Program Files\Xfire\) but you will find it in C:\ProgramData\Xfire\ instead. Or you can always search for "xfire_games.ini" and you'll most likely find it

2) Next, you need to open that .ini file! Press Ctrl-F for search type in "warrock" and you will find two parts of code you will need to change.

3) Now you need to overwrite that two parts of code we just found. Copy the code (Ctrl-C) from here (you will need to click it =P) and overwrite the two existing warrock code in the .ini file. Now save the .ini file and restart Xfire.

4) Start War Rock and use whatever key binding you have set under chat tab in Xfire options and it should work! =D