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   Well, I am remodeling my website again. Nothing new for those of you who faithfully visit my website each week. This is my fourth design that   has been posted on the internet and my fifth or sixth time to recreate it only to decide that it wasn't good enough. If you have any suggestions or comments that you would like me to hear you may feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]. In case you are wondering about the name of my website, the inspiration came from one of the official Halo books. The book that I got it from is called Halo: The Flood and follows the storyline of the game. Echo 136 is the designation of a UNSC Pelican dropship that is briefly talked about when it drops off some supplies to the UNSC troops and the Master Chief. Thanks for looking at my website and for your patience while I work on it.
     Posted at 10:14

   I have been working on my Pocket PC section so be sure to check it out. I have included some information about the Asus Mypal A620 which is the Pocket PC that I currently own. There are also some new themes for those of you Pocket PC owners out there who are looking for some new Today themes.
     Posted at 14:31

   While checking out halo.bungie.org, I was informed that there is a movie of a fellow Halo user beating the fifth level: Assault on the Control Room, in just over 7:00, it is pretty impressive, so don't miss out on the action. You can see the movie here.
     Posted at 19:43

   Wow, cool, I am updating my website in the mall. how exciting. If you want to play games at the mall, you can play at GameNet at the Post Mall.
     Posted at 14:17

   Sorry about the short and confusing update. I will now clearly descibe the events of today for you. First, at about 9:30, my Dad took my older brother Daniel, and I to a sporting club in Monroe that his friend is a member of. There, his friend gave us a quick safety talk before helping each of us through a number of beginner stations that he had set up on the grounds owned by the club. We were the only people there probably because of the weather, and the only weapon we shot this time was a 20 gauge shotgun that he had. It was a lot of fun and I was rather suprised at how well I did for my first time as well as how little kick the shotgun had.
   After spending about three hours with the driving to the club and shooting there, we got home to eat a quick lunch so that my younger brother Elisha and his friend Matt, could go to the Post Mall with my and and I. Our only purpose was to check out a store called GameNet which supposedly had a number of PCs set up for playing games or using the internet. We got to the store and played for an hour and a half of just Call of Duty against each other. The time went fast but we were very pleased with the service and the computers. It is a good deal for an occasional treat to oneself but can be rather pricey if you go often. We got home at about 16:20 after stopping to get something to eact at Wendy's and to drop off Matt. This week is definately one of the best ever for me. For, those of you who went to Florida with band, I don't envy you in the least!
     Posted at 17:54

   While doing my usuall check on halo.bungie.org (which happens to be one of my favorite websites), I noticed that one of the updates told about a website that had Halo Lego creations on it. I checked it out and some of the models are pretty impressive. Master Cheif was given a custom paint job and armor by a few people and all of the creations were very creative. Click here to see the index of pictures on HBO's (halo.bungie.org) website. Now if only Lego would make some official sets for Halo...
     Posted at 19:43

   The BIG question- Is theis font size to small? E-mail me you answers at [email protected]. If no one says anything, it will stay at this size. But this font size will allow me to fit more on each page without making it to long.
     Posted at 10:05

Bummer! Our last vacation for this school year is over, now all we have to look forward to is finals. Well, I had better get back to work on my english independant reading project that is due this Tuesday. Congradulations on your drivers permit Mike Ingmanson, try not to kill any people who did not heed the warning that you posted on your website.
     Posted at 13:24

   Wow, today might not be so bad after all. If my Dad feels up to it which he probably will, he plans to take Elisha and I to The Punisher (apparently he wants to see it to). We are hoping to go to the 15:20 showing so that will be a nice break for my work.
     Posted at 14:15

   I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I got to go to The Punisher. The bad news is that the movie was more of a comedy than a comic book movie. Some of the things shown were just too rediculus, but I am not completely dissatisfied with the movie because there was a lot of action to keep it moving and there were some pretty funny parts. I don't feel like writing a review for it so don't go looking for my review of it here. I mean it!
    Posted at 17:59

   I just updated both the Links page and the Related Websites page on my website. Please report any broken links or e-mail me if I am missing any great websites that belong on here at [email protected]. You can send me your opinion of this website also.
     Posted at 18:35

   Yehaw! Elisha and I were finally allowed to order our Awesome Gaming Rig (gamer talk for an incredible PC) last night at 22:30 and it should arrive at our house in about a week and a half. If you would like to make contributions over $100 for it, we will be happy to create a username on it in your honor. Just kidding! Although it di take a big chunk of money from us, we prefer to be the sole owners of the machine. In case you were wondering what componants we ordered it with, you may the page of what we chose to have it ship with here.
     Posted at 16:03

   It's that time of the week again... The next Red vs. Blue episode of the Blood Gulch Chronicles was released late last night and unfortunately I have not been able to watch it until now due to the fact that I needed to run some errands with my Dad and that the SBC server was down most of this morning and into the afternoon. Episode 31 which was released yesterday to the public is entitled, "Room for Rent" and as always, is the same high quility that I have come to expect from our friends at Red vs. Blue. Click here to visit there website and download the free public version of it. Well it's time for me to enjoy some more Halo!
     Posted at 18:42

   Well, it once again feels like it should outside and it is nice to have the weather that we are supposed to have for a change. I have a few things to say:
     #1- I have decided to add a guestbook. You can expect to see it within a few days.
     #2- I am also planning to add a new page onto my website that will be updated once a month with my best finds for the current month. Some of the topics that will be on it will include but not be limited to: Star Wars related find, Halo related find, PC Game, PC Demo, Downoad, Pocket PC Program, New or Updated Pocket PC Program, Movie, Bike, and Website. If you would like me to add another category, you can e-mail me at [email protected] about it.
     #3- My final website updating idea for now is to add some things to the halo related page. Some of the new things added will be a computer sound theme for either Windows for Mac operating systems, deleted songs and voice outtakes from Halo: Combat Eolved, and the manual for the game in .pdf format.
     Posted at 14:21

   Tomarrow I will only be in school until about 10:30 because I have to leave to go to Middleburg Heights, Ohio (5 minutes outside of Cleveland) for my cousins wedding. Going on this trip is very likely to prohibit me from using a computer as much as I would like to so my website may not be updated again until Sunday when I get back or the next day on Monday. I will be sure to include all of the details in me next update. New in this next will also come updates that start at the top of the page going from newest to oldest, not how I have it set up now (oldest to newest).
     Posted at 14:13

   For all of you Halo fans, there is a contest being held by halo.bungie.org and mythica.org to get the fastest time for each level. Submit you video of you beating any level in record time and win. The winners for each level get their movies combined to make one big movie of Halo being completed in the fastest time yet. Get more details here.
     Posted at 16:55

Thursday, April 22, 2004

"Green, clean, and extremely mean."