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Ever since I saw this video I have wanted to make a charging station of my own. I opted for a Plastic box that is easily available in Family Dollar or CVS which cost me about $6, since I didn’t have a drill or pretty much any other tool mentioned in the video I used my trusty soldering iron to melt thru the plastic and a pocket knife to shave the rough edges. After 20 minutes of work here are the results.

The box	Inside the box
with wires and adapters	done, ready for charging

It was pretty easy and now I have a very functional and useful charging station which hides away all the messy cables and houses all of my gadgets in one place.

I was watching the Nintendo conference at E3 on G4 yesterday, boy was it boring, Reggie announced the Wii zapper and my first impression is that it looks kind of ugly, its a little like the blaster from the PC game Sin. The suggested price of 19.99$ seems a little bit expensive for just a housing. The video demo shows there is nothing like kicking zombie butt with a Wii zapper, hope the zapper will greatly reduce the unseemly key combinations used in certain games. The control system for the meteoroid prime 3 corruption looks great too. If the demo was indeed running on a Wii then that should silence all the critics of the Wii’s graphics capability, the demo looked stunning and builds upon the beauty of previous meteoroid prime series.

Most of the game release info was already on the net a few days back so most of the announcement do not come as a big surprise. While M$ is ignoring the casual gamer market by positioning its Xbox 360 as an elite gamer rig Nintendo is definitely alienating the hard core gamer. If you are an hardcore gamer then there is nothing exciting about the game releases except for Resident Evil umbrella chronicles and Meteoroid (I am an FPS guy). As rumored a new Mii channel to showcase your Mii creations was announced.

Finally a new title, a successor to Wii sports the Wiifit introduces a new controller I don’t know how much this one will cost I bet on a 40-80$ range for this one( pretty soon you might have to get an extra room for storing all these freaking Wii attachments). The goalie game demo looks great . I hope that the Wiifit does not build upon the Wiiplay package which was a poorly designed crapware. overall the Wiifit package tries to push the boundaries of what can be done with the Wii . The only saving grace of the whole event was Wiifit and is definitely going to be a big hit with people of all ages.

looks like Nintendo is just rehashing all the controller crap (Wii blasters and steering wheels) that have already been released by 3rd party manufacturers. one lousy channel that looses novelty after 24hrs and multiplayer gaming thrown in for some games as an afterthought, pretty disappointing I should say and as a side note please no more Mario games please, please, please………………………

Maybe I was expecting too much and thats why I was not very impressed. I was looking forward to the inevitable HDD support announcement, Wireless headsets, a keyboard attachment such as the thumb board for the 360 controller. Even a small update to the channel lineup (other the Mii channel) would have been more exciting . How about a simple announcement assuring everyone that production of Wii has been increased to meet the demand would have gone a long way.

I had to reinstall Ubuntu today and I was dreading the WiFi driver installation, fortunately I found this Ubuntu forum entry. The script allows you to detect and install the driver automatically. It saved me a lot of  time and frustration. I think this should be included in Gutsy Gibbon when it is released.

I had a lot of time on my hands today and decided to do some cleaning. I found this old suitcase that I had to throw out. I decided to make a laptop stand from the stuff I scavenged off the old suitcase. I ripped out the retractable handle and the wheels, I also ripped out the plastic legs that were on the suitcase. I then assembled all of them except the wheels into a triangular shaped stand with some wood screws. Here are the results of my half hour of work .

The suitcase.

The finished stand.

finally done!!!.