Categories
Mostly Everything

Mii Editor: Create and Edit Mii Avatars on Your Computer

The Nintendo Wii is more than a gaming rig. It’s by far the most versatile console to date, allowing you to not only download channels and surf the Internet, but also transfer data to and from your Nintendo Wii. By far, it is the Wiimote that boasts the most amount of seemingly complex technology crammed into one remote control. Not only does it work as a Bluetooth device, but also serves the function of an accelerometer and an optical sensor to determine where the Wiimote is pointing.

The Wiimote is also, to some extent, a flash drive allowing you to transfer information to and from your computer:

The Wii Remote contains a 16 KiB EEPROM chip from which a section of 6 kilobytes can be freely read and written by the host.[26][31] Part of this memory is available to store up to 10 Mii avatars, which can be transported for use with another Wii console. At least 4000 bytes are available and unused before the Mii data. Pokémon Battle Revolution also utilizes this memory. This function may also be included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, allowing the user to save profile data to the Wii Remote. [Wikipedia]

jayvee_fernandez.png

It is with this particular feature that I’ve been transferring, editing and creating Mii Avatars between my meager amount of Mii friends online. Here are some that I’ve made so far (topped off by … “me” above in my signature pink shirt), decided purely upon how easy I remember their faces:

On Social Networks

Transparency

Social networks are successful not because they inherently express who we are. They are successful because they project an image of how we want people to admire us, and ultimately, who we want to become.

Categories
Mostly Everything

One Laptop Per Child “Curriculum Jam” in Manila

They’re here. This is the official Wiki for the Curriculum Jam in Manila.

OLPC is organizing a Curriculum Jam in Manila, scheduled for the first weekend of October (5-7). We’ll be working with teachers around the world who are running Curriculum Jams in their countries at the same time. We’ll be creating learning activities – developing miniature classes (45-minute lessons) to teach (anything we want) to local schoolchildren, who will actually take the classes on Sunday afternoon and give feedback on how to make the learning experiences better. After the Jam, we’ll upload all the lessons plans we’ve generated to the internet and release them under an open content license so that other teachers around the world can do the same thing with their classes.

Participation in the Jam is free. To apply, click here.

I want to join. I’m excited. I’m actually at a loss for words to describe the profound feeling I have in me right now. It seems that you have to form a team to join this event.

Crocs, Revisited.

scutes_yellow_crocs.jpg

Even though this blog is described as “the pseudo personal blog about blogging, technology and stuff” it seems that the most popular post has to do with my fashion sense. Let’s revisit Crocs. Eek!

Categories
Mostly Everything

I want a Mii Parade!

Lookie here. According to this video’s details, this Mii parade consists of about 10,000 Miis walking down the virtual Miiground. I was too lazy to count as I lost it at about 5,294.

With my Wii address book barely filled up (I added up a few friends and sent them email from the Wii Console’s unique w[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]@wii.com address), I’m wondering if there others there who would gladly add me up to their friends list. Maybe, just maybe, we could do mundane things like parade our Miis and send email to one another using the built in mail system.

Anyway, this number should suffice:

Wii Friend Code 1647 7187 1691 1181

If you own a Wii and would like to add me up, feel free to do so. Post your Wii number too while you’re at it.