The Matterhorn

Handy Baby Tips

matt — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:33:47 +0000

All sorts of these after the break!

Nintendo Made Trillions In 2007, Nearly Doubles Profits

matt — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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!

Investor Relations

Debian Etch irssi 0.8.11 packages

matt — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:22:23 +0000

I’ve taken the liberty of beating David Ashley to the punch with Debian Etch irssi packages since I just upgraded my machine from Sarge and wanted to clear out as much as possible in the way of pending sysadmin taks in the wake of the warpath of updates and fixes as a result of the distribution upgrade. The Debian patches from 0.8.10 have apparently been committed to the upstream source tree, so these .debs are essentially what you’d get when you compile from source (with the Debian-proper prefixes and such, of course).

With the loose hopes that Google will connect this post to someone that wants them, here you go:

irssi-dev_0.8.11-1etch1_i386.deb

irssi-text_0.8.11-1etch1_i386.deb

irssi_0.8.11-1etch1.diff.gz

irssi_0.8.11-1etch1.dsc

irssi_0.8.11-1etch1_i386.deb

irssi_0.8.11-1etch1_source.build

irssi_0.8.11-1etch1_source.changes

Harry Potter > *

matt — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:05:50 +0000

Well, here you have it. According to the New York Times, the world CAN be distracted, at least for a little while:

Today, ‘arry pottah is more interesting than sex.

Wait, what am I missing here? Maybe I should read the series.

Free Chai!

matt — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:55:30 +0000

I was awarded a free beverage on my next visit for informing the barista about Statler and Waldorf.

I rule.

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Will it blend?

matt — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:53:25 +0000

I feel the need to audibly appreciate why the Internet is great. This is why the internet is great.

Funny as it is, I believe this guy just sold me on his blender. Watch the rest of his videos, they’re priceless.

why Japan is better viewing

matt — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:49:19 +0000

We get American Idol. I want this:

Batman vs. Phanto

matt — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:11:07 +0000

gSyncit — sync an Outlook calendar (bidirectionally) to Google Calendar

matt — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:11:11 +0000

http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/gsync/

It Just Works. It was $10, but it’s FAR better than anything else I’ve seen for less than that. Far better than anything I’ve seen that was more than a ten spot, too.

Just so we’re clear I did try the Sourceforge project remotecalendars at http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars but it just didn’t work with outlook 2007… and I’m impatient. Besides, this daveswebsite.com guy made such an elegant interface I was convinced immediately. I’ll definitely check his site for future tools.

“Glad you could make it, Todd!”

matt — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:53:25 +0000

This is a great theme that Careerbuilder.com has going. Unfortunately I can’t embed this and no other sites with longevity seem to have this commercial published. It’s worth the click to Youtube, however.