Raiders of the Lost Blog

Like the Windows utility I posted, Desklickr will automatically change your photos from a source such as Flickr.  Keep the latest pictures of Maddie on your desktop!

There’s a great freeware application I found today called John’s Background Switcher. It lets you change your desktop wallpaper automatically, and you can pull images from Flickr and other photo sources. I have it set to grab any of my photos tagged with “madeline” as the background.  Pretty cool!

First off, wow!  I love this game.  I haven’t been this engaged on a handheld game since Advance Wars and Warioware.  The game is a collection of riddles and puzzles, wrapped around solving a larger mystery.  A lot of these are thousand year old logic problems, like the classic on moving 6 creatures (3 hostile, 3 friendly) across a river without one side eating the other, or using a scale only twice, how can you determine which of 8 weights is the lightest.  It’s fun, and nice to dig the cobwebs out of the parts of my brain that don’t deal with child raising or information architecture.  Definitely check this game out if you have a DS and like puzzles, I really recommend it.  You can buy it at Amazon.

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is going to be made into a new syndicated show. Raimi, who directed all the Spiderman movies, also created the Hercules & Xena TV shows. Read more about it at the Hollywood Reporter. Pretty sweet! It’s been a while since there was any good fantasy or scifi syndicated shows, the glory days were back in the Xena/Hercules era.

Check out our new car seat, it’s called the “Cowmooflage” by Britax.  Great seat, these are really the best car seats around.