G4 has again been named the official broadcaster of E3 2009, and with only a month to go until keynotes, I’m definitely excited. Let’s just hope I don’t relive the fiasco that was E3 2007 on the same network. See my rant for more information on that.

G4 promises to provide over 22 hours of content, including five keynotes, hands on demos, interviews, and Steve Wiebe with another one of his live Donkey Kong high score attempts. If you’re unfamiliar with Steve, then be sure to check out the documentary: The King of Kong. It’s a great film. Other than that, additional details on the broadcast can be found at the following link.

G4 Named Official Broadcaster Of E3 2009 – G4tv.com.

You might be wondering why I took the time to write this, after all, my Vista machine tells me when there are updates available, right? Wrong. For whatever reason, these updates have yet to be included in an auto update. Well then you just might assume that these are not overly important updates. Wrong again. Why are you always so wrong so often? The notes for each update are as follows:

• Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB938979) – This is a performance update. Install this update to improve the performance of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Additional information about this update can be found in KB Article 938979. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

• Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB938194) – This is a reliability update. Install this update to improve the reliability of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. Additional information about this update can be found in KB Article 938194. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Sources have been notes as saying that part of this update fixed glitches with video drivers. This will hopefully lead to fewer lockups during my ever so important gaming sessions. I realize that the updates I listed were specifically for the 64 bit edition of Vista, however the same updates are available in the 32 bit variety. Take a look, and game on.

I personally work with code all the time. Whether it be html, php, or any of their related file types, anyone who finds themselves working with things of this nature has a best friend named notepad. The problem with notepad is that it really hasn’t had anything added, well, ever. I would recommend anyone wanting to check out a great replacement for notepad check out notepad++ found at http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net. This introduces easy to use tabs, which for someone working with more than one document is truly the best addition a notepad like program ever saw. Couple this with a feature which automatically detects the file type, and then provides sections of interest you can click from the function list to immediately jump to different sections of your document, and you have the best notepad program I have ever used, ever.

Excerpt from http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net:

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it’s a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there’s no guarantee that I’ll implement it.

You’re encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language.

I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.