as everyone might know ive been trying to build a storefront well im 70% of the way there the store front is up and running and the testing phase is now over ive been testing it for several weeks now making sure i get all the kinks out of it before making it live. now i just need to start adding the products and turn on the payment portal. you will be able to use your credit/debit cards or paypal to make purchases.

you can head on over to http://www.joshbieber.com or http://biebs.no-ip.org and check out the site the link up top that states “store” im going to add photos and digital artwork to be available for prints to be purchased.

so what the store and keep an eye out here at biebs’ world for when the store is live.

Today is my Birthday

September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years). There are 93 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1916 – John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

Births

1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
1899 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen
1907 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman
1923 – Stan Berenstain, American children’s author
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American television personality

there were a lot more births and event these are just the one i have heard of.

just a quick update about what been going on. not a lot. i have not done anything really blog worthy and i feel bad for not writing more. its not like i dont have the time i do have the time i just dont have anything to write about. since ive been using twitter more and more (my page: http://twitter.com/biebs) its easier to pump out a 140 character statement than trying to write an entire blog post about nothing.

also if you head over to www.joshbieber.com you will see the artblog/store work in progress i have a store demo up and running its sitting at about 70% my goal is to launch it by jan 1 2011. ive been working on the site in my spare time. i will have it setup to take both paypal and credit cards by the time im ready to launch the site.

so until laters, ~biebs

Bentley explains the physics, chemistry and biology behind life’s everyday accidents, from stubbing a toe to putting diesel fuel in a gasoline powered car.

Your laptop mysteriously crashes. There’s a fresh red wine stain on the carpet. An overhead bird targets your windshield. Sh*t, as they say, happens – to all of us. But have you ever thought about why such accidents occur? It’s not just bad luck. . . What causes the mishaps that can ruin your day?
In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed scientist Peter J. Bentley tackles the realm of everyday disaster through a highly empirical approach informed by wit and humor. Bentley brilliantly explores accident on a molecular level, arming you with an essential understanding of what went wrong and explaining how to prevent future bouts of misfortune.
Science is respected, trusted, and according to Bentley, widely misunderstood. When your car engine is damaged by the wrong gasoline or the milk goes bad in the fridge, science is not to blame, but rather can provide an explanation. As he makes his way, mishap by mishap, through an imaginary day in which Murphy’s Law reigns supreme, Bentley reveals the scientific truths from which our daily aggravations originate.
Sh*t will always happen, and now you will know exactly why. Enter, if you dare, the most accident-prone day of your life. . .

You might ask yourself why i would read this book. well first of it was curiosity it got the better of me and i’m glad i read it too and glad i have added this to my personal library. Bentley explains why shit happens. For instance, he explains why we slip on soap in terms of what makes soap slippery, or why milk turns sour in terms of chemical changes in it caused by bacteria. I never expected much out of this i was just looking for something new to read needless to say i enjoyed this book. this book was genuinely funny; maybe because the bad day incidents were all well written in the second person, I imagined myself in the position of the character in the book. also as i was reading it i imagined the narrator from the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy was narrating the story haha!

There are 39 chapters in the book:

1) sleeping through the alarm
2) slipping on soap
3) cutting yourself shaving
4) toast on fire
5) exploding liquids
6) milk gone bad
7) wet mp3 player
8) bird droppings
9) forgotten bag
10) skidding on the road
11) diesel instead of gas
12) tripping on the curb
13) chewing gum in hair
14) rain soaked clothing
15) being lost
16) bee sting
17) sticking yourself with superglue
18) electromagnetic interference from phone
19) puncture
20) leaking pens
21) mistaken identity
22) torn clothing
23) opening an e-mail virus
24) jammed finger
25) computer hard disk failure
26) broken finger
27) dropping keys down the drain
28) pulled muscle
29) sparking microwave
30) broken glass
31) stains
32) chile pepper in the eye
33) food on the floor
34) lighning kills the tv
35) burns and blisters
36) scratched cd
37) broken tooth
38) stubbed toe
39) overflowing bath

for quite awhile now i’ve been running the homebrew channel on my Wii. this channel allows for homebrew application to be ran on the Wii. i mainly used it for loading up my NES emulator to play NES games on my Wii. well over the last week i’ve been wanting to hack my Wii to load my game backups from my harddrive, but i’ve been reluctant to do it in fear of bricking my Wii since my Wii is considered a “new” model made in 2008 to present. The issue with these models is you can not load bootmii as a boot option, therefore, if you brick your Wii no way to recover it. there has been some advancement on this front though with the introduction of priiloader.

i had watched several youtube videos and read several guides i still wasnt 100% sure i wanted to attempt this. that was until i found this guide: CompleteSoftmodGuide and with the help of a lifehicker guide for installing the usbloader and formatting my drive. i convinced my self i could do this. now ppl will say that this should only take 20 mins; it took me two hours because i triple checked everything.

so now i have a fully hacked Wii and ive installed some memory hacks that will prevent my console from being updated now and all my hard work getting deleted.