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		<title>iOS Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently dived headfirst into iOS development. Um, about a year ago.  It&#8217;s going well.  More news on that as it develops.]]></description>
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		<title>An Event Apart, San Diego 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write this as I sit in the San Diego airport having just finished up another spectacular two days of code, design and content.  If you are so inclined, I recommend An Event Apart as the best damn web development conference, period.  My perspective during this AEA was quite different from the one I attended [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I write this as I sit in the San Diego airport having just finished up another spectacular two days of code, design and content.  If you are so inclined, I recommend An Event Apart as the best damn web development conference, period.  My perspective during this AEA was quite different from the one I attended in 2008, as I&#8217;m no longer working on a large external-facing site, but rather a large internal site.  As a result, I&#8217;m afforded much more latitude in my design decisions and am able to apply much of what I&#8217;ve learned.  I&#8217;m especially excited  since I&#8217;m just starting a project that can have a large measure of what I&#8217;ve seen implemented within.  Much respect and admiration to all of the presenters.  And much thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer for putting together this great conference and building this community of developers and designers.</p>
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		<title>Blog fail!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post title is relevant in more ways than one.  Basically, my lack of posting and the fact that my new upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 just saved my post draft, sans text.  Anyway, I vowed to never have to make a post like this one, but here it is: I suck at keeping up on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post title is relevant in more ways than one.  Basically, my lack of posting and the fact that my new upgrade to WordPress 2.8.4 just saved my post draft, sans text.  Anyway, I vowed to never have to make a post like this one, but here it is: I suck at keeping up on the posting.  Well, you can rest assured that in the time between my last post and now, I&#8217;ve been gathering topics ranging from more programming tips to my adventures with my newly acquired Apple TV.  So sit back and wait for the post explosion.</p>
<p>Well, really, you don&#8217;t have to sit there and wait, since it&#8217;s not going to be today.</p>
<p>Subscribe to the feed.  You won&#8217;t be sorry!</p>
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		<title>Game Review: Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you even kidding me with this game?  I played it for a while this weekend while my wife and the boys were visiting her family in northeastern Arizona.  I don&#8217;t like horror movies at all, mainly because I don&#8217;t like to be scared, but I&#8217;ll tell you what, I do like a good &#8220;survival [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-314" style="float:right;margin: 0 0 10px 10px;" title="wii_resident-evil-4-wii-edition" src="http://www.eriklopez.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/wii_resident-evil-4-wii-edition-213x300.jpg" alt="wii_resident-evil-4-wii-edition" width="213" height="300" /></strong>Are you even kidding me with this game?  I played it for a while this weekend while my wife and the boys were visiting her family in northeastern Arizona.  I don&#8217;t like horror movies at all, mainly because I don&#8217;t like to be scared, but I&#8217;ll tell you what, I do like a good &#8220;survival horror&#8221; game.  I had myself scared so bad that on Saturday night at 10PM (when I remembered), I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to go water the garden in the back yard.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m giving it a 10 out 10 on my completely imaginary and arbitrary scale of video game awesomeness.  The controls are easy to master, the puzzles aren&#8217;t overly difficult to solve and the arsenal you have available makes me cry tears of joy.  You know a game is good when it leaves a lasting impression on you.  For example, if I ever hear a chainsaw in the distance again, I will probably drop to the ground, curl up in a little ball and weep uncontrollably.  It&#8217;s <em>that </em>good.</p>
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		<title>Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean series</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 01:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First movie: Genius. Second movie: Meh. Third movie: WTF? How many different guys is Keira Knightley going to kiss? They really went out of their way to kill this franchise. (And yes, I only just got around to seeing the movie.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First movie: Genius.</p>
<p>Second movie: Meh.</p>
<p>Third movie: WTF? How many different guys is Keira Knightley going to kiss?</p>
<p>They really went out of their way to kill this franchise. (And yes, I only just got around to seeing the movie.)</p>
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		<title>Sofa Wars IV: A New Couch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So about 2 months ago, I came down stairs with Trevin on a Saturday morning to bask in the glow of Disney channel characters at his normal wake-up time of 6:00 AM.  My extreme tiredness coupled with the size of my frame resulted in me throwing myself onto the couch as soon as the TV [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So about 2 months ago, I came down stairs with Trevin on a Saturday morning to bask in the glow of Disney channel characters at his normal wake-up time of 6:00 AM.  My extreme tiredness coupled with the size of my frame resulted in me throwing myself onto the couch as soon as the TV was playing Handy Manny.  I instantly heard a snap in the couch and began thinking about how I could blame it on Trevin.  When Erica woke up I ended up taking the blame (you owe me one, Trevin) and we pretty much left it until a couple nights ago, when we flipped the couch and took a look.</p>
<p>Let me digress for a moment by saying that Handy Manny makes everything look easy.  I mean, for him everything is easy and I hate him for it.  Seriously, an elevator breaks down, apparently due to one solitary faulty fuse, as if elevators are no more complicated machines than a wheelbarrow.  Manny gets stuck in the elevator so how does he get the fuse?  His freakin&#8217; tools run to Kelly&#8217;s hardware store for him.  Does Kelly have an obscure fuse to an elevator?  Apparently, yes.  Why wouldn&#8217;t she?  A simple storefront in a small-town has anything this guy could want, but I doubt Home Depot carries elevator parts.</p>
<p>Anyway, so we flip the couch and there are two cross beams that just came loose.  No problem.  I can wedge them back in there, screw them back to the frame and I don&#8217;t even need a talking hammer to get it done (though it would be nice).  We tried to wedge them back, but they wouldn&#8217;t budge, since much of the wood is bowed.  So I decide to get some more stuff together and try the next day.  So last night, I get the couch flipped again and I push and tug and get that wood back to where it goes.  And then the beam splits.</p>
<p>At this point, I&#8217;m not so happy, so I rip both beams out of the couch.  Luckily, Erica had saved a 70&#8243; 2&#215;4 that I used to create new beams.  I even needed both of them to be 34.5&#8243; so it was a close to perfect as possible.  My wife is so smart!  Anyway, to make an already long story a bit shorter, the couch is now sturdy and supportive, albeit a little less comfortable than when it was newly purchased.  I should have taken some pictures so I could share my experience, but I was too busy cursing Ashley Furniture to think to do that.</p>
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		<title>The first Intersect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Intersect was less successful than subsequent generations.  This handheld supercomputer was capable of identifying anyobject in the world (except for &#8220;pancakes&#8217; and &#8220;biscuits&#8221; &#8211; which is what I was having for breakfast the Christmas I got this) in no fewer than 20 questions.  Yeah, impressive right? &#8220;I&#8217;m getting a flash!&#8221; &#8220;Animal? Vegetable? Mineral? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first Intersect was less successful than subsequent generations.  This handheld supercomputer was capable of identifying anyobject in the world (except for &#8220;pancakes&#8217; and &#8220;biscuits&#8221; &#8211; which is what I was having for breakfast the Christmas I got this) in no fewer than 20 questions.  Yeah, impressive right?</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting a flash!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Animal? Vegetable? Mineral? or Unknown?&#8221;</p>
<p>Awesome.</p>
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		<title>Five Things I Hate, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 2 of my serial hate-itude towards different things. 1. Jack-in-the-Box drive-thrus who make you pull around before you get your food. You&#8217;re not fooling anyone.  I know you&#8217;re trying to put up some artificial drive-thru stats. What would you do if my response to the &#8220;Can you pull around?&#8221; query was &#8220;No, I won&#8217;t.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Week 2 of my serial hate-itude towards different things.</p>
<p>1. <strong>Jack-in-the-Box drive-thrus who make you pull around before you get your food.<br />
</strong>You&#8217;re not fooling anyone.  I know you&#8217;re trying to put up some artificial drive-thru stats. What would you do if my response to the &#8220;Can you pull around?&#8221; query was &#8220;No, I won&#8217;t.&#8221;  I&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;d give me some tacos with some extra saliva.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Alltel Chad ads.</strong><br />
Yeah, I get it Alltel.  You think every other cell phone provider is a Dungeon&#8217;s &amp; Dragons geek.  That&#8217;s great.  But guess what?  You&#8217;re hardly a company anymore since Verizon bought you.  So stop advertising and <a href="http://www.eriklopez.net/complaints/five-things-i-hate-a-series/" target="_blank">put some energy into getting the freakin&#8217; iPhone</a>.</p>
<p>3. <strong>Limited Flash support on the Wii<br />
</strong>Really? I think the first thing I&#8217;d have said when developing the browser for the Wii would be &#8220;I&#8217;ll bet people are gonna want to watch Hulu on this thing.&#8221;  And I get the whole &#8220;Flash SDK not being available for non-computer browsers&#8221; thing, but really, Opera and/or Nintendo couldn&#8217;t persuade Adobe to release a modified SDK for them?  They&#8217;re freakin&#8217; NINTENDO.  The largest software entertainment company EVER.  I&#8217;m thinking they didn&#8217;t even try.  Which brings me to my next complaint&#8230;</p>
<p>4. <strong>Limited Flash support for the iPhone<br />
</strong>I don&#8217;t even own an iPhone and this problem irks me. *shakes fist at Apple*</p>
<p>5. <strong>When Twitter loses my tweets</strong><br />
I realize Twitter is a free service.  But it&#8217;s awesome.  And I demand perfection from my free, awesome web services.</p>
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		<title>The Wii update of Wii updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Nintendo finally fixed the horrendous &#8220;512MB of Wii storage space&#8221; problem last night.  With the release of the Wii System Menu 4.0, it is now possible to both use SD cards greater than 2GB (up to 32GB) and to store and launch downloaded games directly from the SD card.  This is great news since [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, Nintendo finally fixed the horrendous &#8220;512MB of Wii storage space&#8221; problem last night.  With the release of the Wii System Menu 4.0, it is now possible to both use SD cards greater than 2GB (up to 32GB) and to store and launch downloaded games directly from the SD card.  This is great news since I&#8217;m down to about 90 or so blocks of internal storage.</p>
<p>To make this post less boring for most of you, I&#8217;ll try to get some pictures of the enhancements later since I didn&#8217;t think to snap any.</p>
<p>Google Image Search&#8230; you have failed me for the last time.</p>
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		<title>Thanks, Dockers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-promotion at its most confusing. Thanks, Dockers.  You&#8217;re a true pal.  In case I haven&#8217;t told you lately.  Thanks for the support.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cross-promotion at its most confusing.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-272" title="dockers" src="http://www.eriklopez.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dockers.png" alt="dockers" width="354" height="835" /></p>
<p>Thanks, Dockers.  You&#8217;re a true pal.  In case I haven&#8217;t told you lately.  Thanks for the support.</p>
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