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Just realized I haven’t posted anything on the blog lately, which got me wondering why that was. Especially with all of the new GDC news - the blog should be exploding with info!  Long story short, I have just been busy I guess.  Doing some major code changes at work during the day - and filling my nights with some coding as well :-)  You might have seen me respond to one of your support requests at 360voice (boy you guys submit alot of support requests!), or you might have noticed the recent rollover changes on your challenge page on the 360voice front, and in relation to 360friendspot - it went through some pretty major (background) changes which I am working on it here and there - we are still battling a DNS issue - so if you cant see the site (like me at the time of this posting) its because somehow the DNS got out of wack again  - so I had to ask ZaaM to update it again, I really am begining to hate DNS issues.

I also just re-built a LAMP server in my house to play around with - mostly to try out Ruby on Rails.  It’s a bit different but interesting.  If I ever really get a handle on it, maybe some new tools will show up using Ruby on Rails

Finally my wife accepted a new job, starting tomorrow - so we have been reorganizing the office - mostly taking out her work stuff that she no longer needs - and rearranging my desk area with the new found space. 

Well another week has come and gone, so its time for another update in the world of Dave, or Squidpunch if you prefer.  I played a few new games, and some old favorites.  Decided to finally drop my fear of CSS and dive in, and picked up another cold from my kids - that’s it in a nutshell, but you want the details you say?  In that case read on.   

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Yeah monday is long gone and another ‘Status Report‘ got overlooked.  Actually I didn’t overlook it, I just really didn’t have much to post about, and my previous post was the last week’s Status Report - so clearly it was a slow week for my posting.  I couldn’t have status reports back to back now could I?

So for all you blood thirsty hounds just dying to get some input on the live of he who punches squid, here goes, a mini status report update on whats on my mind

So as you know I put a call to arms out about the chat pad, ok maybe not a call to arms, I just wondered what people thought about it since it was on sale, and I am a sucker for a sale.  I was pleased to see people actually replied, as for my decision - well I ended up buying one a few hours after posting that.  I have been enjoying it, and even filled out a quick bio on my xbox profile - alot easier with the chatpad for sure.  Not sold on actually using MSN in game, but I did try it out, and it worked ok, I tend to have MSN, AIM, Email, some forums, and a few windows of code open on my laptop while gaming anyway.

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 Yeah, yeah the weekly always posted on monday status report has rarely been weekly - and often not posted on Monday - funny how that works eh?  Perhaps thats why I avoided making myself fit to a schedule such as this, blogging always ends up bottom of the list of things to do, and often I feel like I don’t have alot to say, but for those of you anxiously awaiting information on ‘the one that punches squids’….here you go.

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It’s here…..the end of 2007, got any special plans?  Personally I don’t have anything going on, probably just some gaming - depending on if Xbox Live is working or not will decide if its online or offline gaming - and if its xbox 360 or the Wii. :-) 
I am doing a 2 week update because I skipped over last week, the quick version is I was sick, kids were sick, then I was sick again, crazy server problems at work - and lately xbox live issues, December is busy enough but these things caused even more waves!

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Well…well…well another week and almost another skipped status report?  What gives?  I figured I better get in gear and make this week’s status report, which will include last week as well but might be a bit short.  Things are still a bit crazy - December always is, but this is getting ridiculous.

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Another Monday, another status report.  This week seems to be a pretty big entry, after looking it over I seemed to have gotten quite a bit of gaming in, and even a little coding.  I also threw up a little section about me/my family as a person rather than a gamer - for those of you that really do actually want to know more about the guy behind the gamertag.  Hopefully you actually like it, otherwise I am wasting quite a bit of time typing all this stuff up!

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So for those of you that come to my blog to get a little nugget of information about how the puncher of Squid’s ticks, I have a special treat for you.  Twylyght Myst was kind enough to interview me for a U360 Gamer Showcase, head on over and check it out - and let me know what you think

Well  here you have it, another Status Report.  Who knows if any of you even care to read these things or anything on my blog to be honest, but whats a blog without posts?!  This week was less eventfull than the last, but that’s to be expected I suppose.  It was Thanksgiving here in the states - so I spent a bit of family time with the extra time off I had from work.  Maybe I should start keeping notes on my gaming, news events, etc to complete these posts - it probably would be a lot easier than relying on my memory - or searching source sites about the last week
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So at work every friday I have to write a Status Report of what I did workwise that week - it’s not a new concept most of you probaby have to do something similar.  That combined with the facts that my gamertag starts with an S, and I can’t think of anything really catchy for these little weekly updates lets go with “Squid’s Status Report”.  The last one was off the cuff just to try and get myself used to blogging a recap type article, call it practice if you will.  From now on I will probably post these sometime durning monday, it might seem like im ripping off Deacon’s Monday Morning Scripted, but it just makes sense to post it after the weekend - which is the most likely chance of more gaming or things going on to blog about so there you have it, and here is the first ‘official’ status report.

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