Thu Tu’s Blog

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/10/elderly.robbed.ap/ A guy pretended to offer to help an old woman. He then punched her in the face and took her purse, netting 33 dollars in cash.
Loser mugger. This reminds me of the time in kindergarten or elementary school when my grandmother was walking me to school. This guy starting walking with us and acting [...]

Super Paper Mario for the Wii will be available on my birthday, April 9. I just preordered it from Amazon. I could get it cheaper from Costco but then it might sell out and who knows when I can get it.
Admittedly, I wasn’t interested in the game until tonight. I saw the word Paper in [...]

This year, Coppermine Photo Gallery is going to participate in Google’s Summer of Code as a mentor organization. Students can submit their applications via the GSoC web app between March 14-24, 2007. Students will get $4500 at the end of the summer.
I will be the organization administrator on behalf of Coppermine. I’m really looking forward [...]

I’ve installed a Wordpress plugin that will switch the theme to a Wii Friendly theme when the user-agent is Wii. Thanks to Winksite for the Wordpress Wii Edition plugin.

Sony execs and fans are doing all they can to differentiate Playstation 3 from the Wii, to the point of saying PS3 shouldn’t be compared to the Wii. They’re right. I didn’t consider buying a PS3, so Sony didn’t lose a customer, but Nintendo gained one.
From all my Wii posts, I might come across as [...]

Tonight, when I used my wiimote to turn on the console, it didn’t respond. The lights blinked at the bottom of the wiimote but then they would turn off. This has happened a few times where my wiimotes would stop communicating with the console.
The first time, I would try to resync each wiimote. I later [...]

Last weekend, I went to the 25th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-off with some coworkers. It’s about an hour away. Before going, I didn’t have much expectations. I didn’t think that I would be able to discern the difference in good clam chowder. I love clam chowder so I figured they would all be [...]