As an avid gamer I have been following the next gen gaming talk as close as I possibly can. Sony not wanting to reveal too much before Microsoft reveals it's hand, and conversely Microsoft doing the same thing. Nintendo ran ahead with it's innovative step which somewhat combines the hand held portable market with the console market in it's Wii U.

Though much like Microsoft with it's Kinect add on for the 360, Nintendo is not taking the other initiatives to make this step much more intriguing. I saw an idea online for Wii U which could connect to a gaming culture that normally gets left behind and out, the Tabletop crowd (D&D gaming community to give a better description). 

Say we give it connectivity online and create a multiple game tabletop to play over a network, where in one person serves as the DM and the others move around in the dungeon. It could even be set up to be used locally with the players in the same room. To me this is a great idea as there are not many online table tops that work well. And making it electronic could revive the tabletop and bring it to a wider audience who are leery of a non electronic game.

"The postal service still has miles to go before becoming Amazon's courier of choice. The pilot program is limited to delivering a maximum of 200 packages per day to customers of 1-800-Flowers.com's sister brands, which sell popcorn, cookies, chocolate and gift baskets. Friess says the USPS is planning to add more retailers soon. If the test is successful, which he says the agency believes it will be, Metro Post will roll out to other large markets across the country.

Friess declined to speculate on whether the USPS' 214,000 trucks — what the agency calls the world's largest civilian fleet — could end up in the service of Amazon.

But he said he believed the USPS will start to look increasingly attractive to other companies exploring the same-day option: "We'd never close the door on ways to expand our revenue.""

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/07/tech/web/amazon-save-us-postal/index.html


I have to say this would probably help resolve many of the USPS revenue issues. Streamlining and changing some infrastructure issues within it would make this a good thing.

I don't normally like to comment about this type of news but it occurs to me that this could be the break that the postal service has been looking for. This would possibly keep the cost down for the regular consumer and if properly structured with Amazon's same day service some consumer delivery costs could be cut by using the USPS system, and save it for our future.

A music podcast by a friend

A friend of mine DJ, has just started a music podcast. He is open to many music genres, and although we don't always agree one the music we like, he is open and honest with his opinion. Check him out.

http://dj4vibesandstuff.podomatic.com

Just one podcast for now but from what I hear right now he is gonna be great in the next episodes.

A New Beginning

Hello All,

After a long absence and some searching through what I want to do with this, I have decided.

One of the many things I had planned to do with this blog is to bridge a gap that I see in the knowledge of regular people and those that are actually fixing their devices and computers. I started to take it in a direction that I am unsure if it lead to where I wanted to go.

There are other ideas I have for it rolling around in the deep recesses of my mental void.

I should have a new video and more posts to come shortly.

The Helpful Tech