If it hasn’t been pounded into your skull yet that Nintendo is overachieving, selling hardware and software at alarming rates in Japan and the United States, maybe the Kyoto-based company’s quarterly results will make it clear. Nintendo posted net sales of 1.3 trillion yen (about $12 billion USD) for the nine months ending on December 31, 2007, up about 85% from the year prior. For the full fiscal year, up on March 31, Nintendo is expecting 1.63 trillion yen in sales, unsurprisingly a big gain over the previous year.
Net income as of the end of the year, also known as the Bottom Line, was an impressive 258.9 billion yen (a bit over $2.4 billion USD), an impressive near-doubling of profits from the same period prior.
Nintendo pointed to strong sales of the Nintendo DS, which sold 24.5 million units worldwide in nine months, and the Wii, responsible for 14.29 million units sold. More staggering numbers, if you can stomach them, are available at the company’s Investor Relations page, as is a Mario sprite in a business suit. Enjoy!
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Corryn, Wek + Mrs. Wek, Ron, Keith, James, and I all froze to death for the midnight Burning Crusade launch at the Richfield Best Buy. It got to a blistering 1 degree F in line.
Shortly after we got home and posted our complimentary maps of Azeroth on the wall, my super awesome paladin with his super awesome blues from BRD has conquered the dark portal along with everyone else!
Over the winter I’ve finally taken the plunge to overthrow the Blizzard interface entirely in favor of community addons. Before this site existed I mused about how neat some addons could get if some good project organization were to occur. This seems to have come true as the valuable and well made addons are organized very well, most using a nice code repository, like SVN. What this means for the enthusiast is that addons authored in such a way are presented in a fashion where they can be aggregated automatically whenever a new release has been prepared– no waiting for the author to upload the package somewhere. Let’s face it, most programmers aren’t the best publishers and in a world where it’s usually one or two people working on an addon it’s a pretty Good Thing to have such technology at one’s disposal.
Cue my personal mix of Addons:
Hit the photo above to get at the fullsize image along with a gallery with other images.
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I’ll restate my mission statement for this site by saying, “I’m one of those guys who generally hates blogs but has one anyway.” This is to say that I think I have some neat stuff to talk about and if there were more people that followed my interests that kept a site like this, I’d probably hate blogs less. Thing is, I’m lazy when it comes down to keeping a log of my activities and so are most others that follow my interests. I’ll continue trying to be a part of the solution, not the problem. 
With that, here’s one of those items that I said I was going to publish for the kind visitors last summer. I give you the skark poker table.
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June 2, 2006 - The factual evidence of the redesign of the Gameboy DS has been sacked since the time of writing. Obviously people know that the newly redesigned DS is currently selling in the US as of this message. Nintendo sucks for thrashing this posting back and forth.
Well, I’m glad I didn’t buy one yet.
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Given the story that WAS here was about how the Nintendo DS was potentially being redesigned soon, I felt it appropriate to remove that story since it was denied by authoritative sources.
What a better way to remove that story than to replace it with news that I got a DS from Corryn as an early valentine’s gift! Guess what her early valentine’s gift was? Guess who the better racer is at Mario Kart??
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I’ve turned up a LOGD (legend of the green dragon) game on my webserver. I have named it ‘Sauloth’ (eventually I’ll configure this to be the name of the endgame dragon thinger.).
Find it here. The keys underlined on the left are actually keyboard hotkeys; you rarely have to click.
