What is this place?

This blog is simply the home of a guy named Mike. Mike has many interests. Occasionally thoughts pop into Mike\'s head regarding those interests, and when they do, they show up here.

06 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments Posted In: Personal

If it looks like an update and smells like an update…

So months have passed, as usual, since my last post. I suppose it’s time I post something here again. Things have been going well in some way and not so well in others.

Good things

GrifballHub.com is still alive and strong. We still have a great friendship with the folks from 343 Industries and Halo Waypoint. We even have some of them participating in our grifball league, so certainly it would seem grifball will have a future and place in Halo 4 next year, when it’s released.

On another note, there’s a possibility I may be taking on a project that involves a series of websites for a large retirement community. If it does indeed happen, it should be a nice recurring pay day. I have to do a conference call with their marketing people in a few days.

The not so good thing

My favorite aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. Unfortunately she waited too long to visit her doctor when she wasn’t feeling well. She’s already at stage 4. The cancer has spread into her bones and lungs. She’s begun chemotherapy though and doctors did give some encouraging news recently, so we’ll see how it goes.

Not much else to report right now. I’ll probably return here in another couple months or so.

19 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments Posted In: Games, Personal

Highlight Frenzy on Halo Waypoint

If you’re a Halo fan, and more specifically a fan of the grifball gametype, you should check out Halo Waypoint on your XBOX 360 dashboard. Each month they feature a video series created by me, called Highlight Frenzy. It’s a top ten of grifball plays from the grifball matchmaking playlist. Episode six will be out soon. Probably around the end of this month, though with PAX and Halo Fest, that time could change.

19 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments Posted In: Personal

It’s random, but it is what it is.

Again long time no post. As always I have been busy with my other site, GrifballHub. We’ve been working hard on implementing some new features which will make our Good Games League significantly better. In the past team sign-ups, division and schedule creating and everything else, for that matter, were all done manually. That’s about to change. On top of the things we’ve already had, that means we’ll also have player and team stat tracking. That’s something I believe our community has been really hoping for.

Members of my website will also be heading out to PAX Prime in a week and attending Halo Fest. Our community manager will be making her second appearance on a PAX panel as part of the Halo Community panel. She will also be part of a private, media only get together for Halo CE: Anniversary, the Thursday before PAX. That means exclusive interviews with 343 Industries and kickass content for our site.