Real Steel is awesome!

Real Steel is awesome!

by | Oct 27, 2011 | Updates

The film ‘Real Steel’ is a Hollywood film however a pretty good one for what my opinion is worth to anyone.

 

Having just watched it with a friend, I am glad to say that we both enjoyed it.

 

If they make a sequel to the film, I would definitely go and watch it. I’m very interested in these types of films.

 

I’ve also been eyeing up another film called “In Time”, although I didn’t enjoy Justin Timberlake’s performance in “Friends with Benefits”, “In Time” seems to be more science fiction as opposed to romance which is essentially what “Friends with Benefits” is.

 

Back to Real Steel, essentially the film is set in the future where instead of people boxing you have robots boxing each other out inside a ring. These robots are manually controlled however there are robots that are also automated and can do their own boxing moves to counter-act their opponents. What occurs is that this American guy was once a boxer himself however switched to boxing with robots instead as time moved on… I guess. He loses most of his battles and always ends up at square one. (i.e. no money and having large debts making huge bets on him winning his own games)

 

However he in fact has a kid who’s mother dies and he has to decide whether he takes custody however makes a back-door deal as the kids auntie wants to take custody arguing that the father is not fit to be a father. Though the auntie’s husband is quite rich and the father bargains a deal worth $100,000 to hand over custody of the kid to the auntie. Though the kid appears to be very smart (and cute according to my friend :P) and sees this back door deal being made however has no choice but to go through with it.

 

The kid then helps the father come back as a champion however at first the father loses a few boxing matches and again ends up at square one. Then the kid finds a robot in a scrap yard and manages to somehow fix it with the help of the fathers girlfriend! They manage to rise to fame with what was called a ‘heap of junk’ and they match up against the best robot in the robot fighting league!

 

But do they win or does their robot become mince meat?
 

I won’t give away the entire story! But it was definitely worth the watch!

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei5l3r1dV4I

 

p.s. I hate the WordPress editor! Had to manually include “  ” tags.

WYSIWYG visual editor not working for WordPress?

WYSIWYG visual editor not working for WordPress?

by | Oct 22, 2011 | Updates

I faced this problem on one of my WordPress websites and a simple fix was not so simple, so I completely replaced the WYSIWYG editor that comes as default with the WordPress installation. I looked online and it seemed people were looking for solutions to actually fix the editing part of the script. But why bother?

I completely replaced it with this:

(This completely replaces your old WYSIWYG editor. So if you have any problems with the defualt one, this one is a perfect replacement for it!)

I tried everything to fix the issue I had previous to installing this, but really this WYSIWYG editor is much better than the default editor. Here is a screenshot of it:


When I mean I tried everything, I tried everything bar-reinstalling my entire WordPress installation otherwise that would have screwed up the many plugins I have installed and the many graphical and back-end changes I made to the WordPress installation. But as you can see and if you have indeed experienced WordPress you will see instantly that there are more options with this editor while also being more pleasant to look at. 😀 (Win-win!) It totally overwrites your previous WYSIWYG editor which is what makes this “FIX” much better than fixing the default back-end editor.

So this is a perfect solution to fix your problem with your WordPress WYSIWYG editor.

My game is broken

My game is broken

by | Oct 22, 2010 | Updates

I usually play a game every night of this modification for the game Battlefield 2, however recently a new version of this modification came out (0.956 – Project Reality) and on this map called Burning Sands, I crashed and ever since this game has stopped working for me. I’ve done everything feasibly possible without installing Battlefield 2 to get this game working. I have un-installed and re-installed the modification as well to no avail as well as deleting the Battlefield 2 directory.

The problem

The splash screen comes up and that’s it but nothing happens beyond that, I believe the game itself freezes thus when I click on the splash screen, I then get a prompt telling me there is an error which has occurred with pr.exe.

The solution

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