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Just a real small update here, more-so because of lack of news rather than free time. I've just been working at UDF mostly - also been having a lot of fun with "Road to Glory" in NCAA 10.

Lastly I've been brainstorming for my CMS, slowly working on tidbits for testing purposes - I hope to get a design started by someone soon. In the meantime I'll work on some basic structure ideas and possibly start on the SQL as well as preliminary work on some of the "connect" features.

Stay tuned to InsaneVisions.com this weekend, I'll very likely be posting a blog about AdaptCMS 2.0 and some of the ideas in work for it.

Actually I've been back since Sunday, but haven't had the time to post until now. On Friday I went up to Geneva on the Lake. (Geneva, Ohio - near Cleveland) for my cousin's wedding and got home around 3-3:30ish on Sunday. At 6 that night I worked 6pm-1am and then yesterday (Monday) a family friend took my mom and me on errands. After that I went to work and today I talked to an old friend and picked up NCAA. A busy past few days.

Talking about NCAA, I'll have some impressions up shortly. I'm hoping for a good game as I skipped last years and wasn't super impressed with 08. (good, but not great) But with plenty of Birthday money and wanting a game to play, I figured I'd give NCAA a shot after seeing some good initial impressions.

In other news, with the launch of this site I'm continuing to almost re-start my web presence. There are plans in place to attempt to sell (or simply let the domain expire) of more than half my websites. This includes 24 Quotes (will be sold), Bengals Chatter (likely), Dynasty Wizard (unfortunately....likely) and GTA IV Universe. (if I can't sell, will let expire)

With those gone, that just leaves this website, AdaptCMS.com, AdaptBB.com, Adapt Software and Insane Visions. The reason for this gutting is either lack of interest (like GTA IV Universe) or no time for it. (like DW) The good news is that I can proceed with re-launching all the remaining sites. This is no coincidence of the work (currently brainstorming) for AdaptCMS 2.0, as the CMS will my top overall project.

Anyways, stay tuned for news on that and some impressions on NCAA 10.

It's been quite possibly as much as two years since my last video game review - I don't play games nearly as much and don't have as much interest in reviewing them. However with my blog now focusing on multiple things, you can expect to see video game reviews time to time. (mostly 360, sometimes reviews of games and sometimes demo's)

That said, I was able to spend a decent amount of time on COD: WaW recently and came away impressed. I had wanted to rent this for a while, but finally got the chance to. First let me say that I did not get to play online - I know that's a significant portion. However I played single player and liked it quite a bit.

First off, it's quite apparent the increased quality in graphics. The inclusion of the Japanese side is also a welcome addition, making it US vs. Japan and Russia vs. Germany off and on throughout the campaign. The addition of the Japanese side bring numerous new addition including the fearsome banzai charges and snipers in trees.

Most people would agree that Christmas is their favorite time of the year and it is, without a doubt, mine too. But the fun part is of course getting ready for it.

Without going into details, this will probably be the nicest Christmas I've had in years and I'm very much looking forward to it. I just got up the tree (a 4 footer) and decorated it with ornaments along with lights on the tree and on the balcony, I'll take pics and post them here once I can find my camera USB cord.

Of course now I have to get presents...my dad (very tough), my mom, going to get something for my grandmother (a mystery book) and then a present from my mom and myself to a family friend and then one for my best friend, Andrew.

Continued...

As posted on IV, I finally went for my GED and should know the results this upcoming week. I also started yet another site, Bengals Chatter. Basically just a blog on the happenings of the Cincinnati Bengals, nothing super special. :p

Work on AdaptCMS continues, I'm really looking forward to releasing the Lite and Pro version. The original version has not done that well, unfortunately and I think that the script is a very useful tool with web developers, Lite and Pro will help a lot to show off AdaptCMS to many more people.

Pretty much it. I'll be doing a tutorial and will be kicking off a beta for AdaptCMS Lite hopefully in the coming week or two. I'm still trying to sell XBOX360Universe, awaiting payment from an interested person, may try and sell another site or two to cut down the # of projects so I can possibly make a new script. :) That's all for now.

A lot of games have been released on XBOX 360, but most aren't what I would consider truly "next-gen" games. Quite a few feel like last-gen games and even though COD3 was a very good game, it still didn't have many aspects of the game that felt like "next-gen", however Call of Duty 4 is completely next-gen. The single player campaign will be the most intense of probably any game you've played and compared to previous COD games, much harder, I think.

Graphics are of course absolutely stunning and just jaw-dropping, especially the RPG's. It does seem to miss a few things, but nothing that's that big. It's just so much more polished and I've yet to play online! I'll have a review up at realmofgaming.com soon.

Ah, decisions, decisions, decisions. Make a free version of AdaptCMS? Sell a few sites? It goes on and on. At this point It looks like there is an excellent chance of AdaptCMS Lite happening. I think it would just be a good thing, with a delay of one year and changing it to a pay script before the delay, really hurt the hype and anticipation. Having it free would also have a much bigger audience.

Project wise I am looking to do another script, possibly making the "File Explorer" seen at my old site "ScriptHost4Free", an open source script.