So most of us have heard of the recent war of the motion sensor controllers.  On the current market we have the perhaps outdated veteran: The Nintendo Wii, now entering the race are the new challengers from Sony (Playstation Move) and Microsoft (Xbox Natal).  While the focus has very much been on how these new motion sensor controllers/systems will overtake the wii and provide experiences that the wii cannot there’s one thing that has had very little attention:  What is Nintendo doing?

As one of my friends pointed out to me the other day, Nintendo has always been at the forefront of innovation; first to the market with the wii motion controls, first to the market with the handheld DS with touchscreen technology.  Now that its domination in the motion control market is being challenged I’m wondering what Nintendo intend to do.  Could it be that they are so confident in their market position that they’re doing nothing? (Considering also that traditionally nintendo consoles target a different audience than the playstation and xbox)  Or could it be that they are working on something new and biding their time, waiting for the opportune moment to announce it?

I for one hope that Nintendo has something up their sleeve; some innovative technology that will shock the gaming world in a blizzard-like fashion.

So I’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of wordpress because I figured it’s time for a change.  I’ll be working on a new theme for this blog as well within the next week.

Finally managed to activate Akisment, lets hope it keeps all that spam away from this blog.  I will also be upgrading to Wordpress 2.8.4 within the next couple of days…

Well I’ve just re-designed this blog, given it a completel overhaul and I have to say I’m surprised I could turn out something this good.  Its probably one of my better designs.

Anyway, I’ve added a videos section and migrated my very small gallery from Gallery2 to nextGen Gallery because its so much easier to integrate into wordpress although its a bit harder to create an actual gallery page that displays everything.  Despite this I quite like it, its a lot neater than the Gallery2 in terms of install as well.

Tubepress is what I’ve used to integrate video into this blog, it’s quite a nifty little tool with a good level of cuztomisability.  As you can see it’s also widgetised so it can go in the sidebar.  Easy to install, easy to use.  A few simple steps and you’ve got quite a nice looking video feature for your blog.  I’d originally installed the all-in-one video pack but that proved to be too complicated for my purposes and didn’t provide the facilities to create the ‘gallery’ style page that I wanted (although I might have given up a little prematurely on it)

Designing this website has prompted me to use photoshop again and brings me back to the days of my digital space art and my 3d bryce renders.  A hint of things to come perhaps…

Wordpress has been fixed! So soon I’ll be posting more.

At the moment I’m still trrying to migrate my gallery onto this new server, the wordpress part of it is obviously done but I’d rather have images in my posts so until thats up and running it might be a while till I post anything.

In other news, I’ve just downloaded and installed firefox 3 and since I’ll be using it whilst migrating my gallery it might be up for a review.

So I’ve decided to convert to wordpress after having very little success with my own website coded from scratch (mind you it was a worth while excercise to learn php and mysql). I decided that with my limited time during recent times and probably in the future to come I wouldn’t have time to develop the system I initially wanted to and now instead I’d like to have an actual blog rather than a temporary WIP website.

So this blog Zephor.U will focus on games and technology; my reviewing of upcoming technology/things of interest and any game reviews/previews. I’ve recently taken to playing some of my old GBA and SNES games so those a glimpse back to the past might be among the first things I post here.

Also on the list is any projects of my own that I may undertake; I may post developments or notifications of anything I might start such as an AMV or a new Program. On my mind at this moment is an expenses database with a java frontend to help me manage my own expenses.