Well, I had my first PS3 event. Nothing too major and kinda a good reset for the system.

So, here is what happened. I applied the latest upgrade after 50+ days idle (sometimes I hate my job). Figured, blow off some steam and play some GTA IV (Karl’s official game of blowing off steam). Update there as well, cool. So, then my TV goes blank… WTF!!! WTF!!! arghhh!!!! Power down, power down!! Beep! WTF is beep!!! Red light, oh no!!! Power…ooooooh….soothing Sony sound…mmmm….GTA IV loads up…ERROR….ERROR!!!….ERROR??!!! quit game….my savegames….all…say…GTA IV…oohhh grid savegame where art thou??!!….Neeeeiiiiiiinnnnnnnn!!!!!

So anyways, I had to format my drive and my PS3 works fine again. But I guess it’s a good excuse to earn trophies…and I have my PS3 back so yay!!

This morning I received a wierd text message:

1010100227

FRM:SYNERGYBANK
SUBJ:NOTICE
MSG: Your SYNERGY BANK account is closed due to unusual activity, call us now at 18669282990.

As far as I know, at least one other ATT customer got the same message. Wierdly ATT customer service had no clue what I was talking about and kept reassuring me that there was no fraud on my phone account. The even kindly offered to transfer me to billing to reassure me of this. Useless.

My next consideration was to call Synergy Bank, who seemed aware of the problem and got the call in number from me in order to report it to the FBI. Finally, closure.

Important thing to do in this case is NOT call the number and NOT give them any information. Synergy Bank seems to be aware and working the issue, you may want to give them a call and give them the number on your  version of the SMS.

I am kinda concerned that SMS is now being used for evil, even more concerned that there isn’t some sort of process for ATT to take care of issues with their network being used for this sort of thing.

Remember it is always important not to call the numbers in these messages and give any information. Instead, find a confirmed number for the company if it can be verified to be legitimate and inform them of the message so that they can take action.

Well I am on my way to the family reunion. Rented a car and hit the road, stop 1 visiting family in Stone Mountain, GA. Got here yesterday after my flight, took the suggestion to stay the night since I was falling asleep on the couch and have mountain driving ahead of me. My uncle treated me to a pretty cool restaurant down here called ‘Nava’, good food, good times. Kinda ready to hit the road. Will post more and add pics as the trip progresses.

I have finally moved in to my new apartment. It is awesome, or will be after I unpack. I am loving the space I have there, the staff is nice and all in all it is the kinda place I think I could enjoy living in. The move was crazy as all moves are, but it is over.

This weekend, was one of celebration for many reasons. Independence/freedom was definitely the bigger of the two ideas worthy of celebration. But my small win was finally integrating the Newton dynamics library with the Irrlicht 3D engine.

The libraries do integrate pretty well, the only issues I had were with some of the subtleties. In general, it is simply a matter of figuring out how to translate between Newton and Irrlicht’s matrices. This is actually accomplished very easily with a memory copy. I fought improper placement of the x, y, z values but once I figured out where they should be, the libraries made the problems minimal.

Well I messed this up, now it is back. I deleted the database by accident.