good news everyone...

so i have actually managed to figure out a way to chart our progress, not unlike the the line graph that we have running over at 360voice. if you have not seen our challenge there yet, here is your chance. it is still set at 30 days, which we have discussed a little bit and as a whole, we seem to be ok with that.

the downside of the site not being able to extend the end date is pretty obvious. essentially, it would mean that we will have to manually track our progress via alternate methods. as luck would have it, i have discovered such a method. more on that in a moment.

the upside to having to start a new challenge every so often is this, we have room to expand to people who could not join us initially. the more people involved over the long run, the better. in fact, i may even make the challenges shorter, perhaps 14 days, so that people can do more of a jump in/jump out thing.

of course we will continue using both gamerDNA and 360voice to track our rising totals, but the solution to an overall total is on the horizon. so no worries there. cast not a blind eye at this

apparently, i can create a line graph that is strikingly similar to the one that is on 360voice. two snags that i have run into so far. for one thing, i have no idea how to obtain or manipulate data from my Xbox so that it will automatically convert and store it into a file that can be used for the graph. so i will have to do all entries manually. which isn't as bad as it seems, since will be just obtaining the information from the 360voice site, as they do have collection capabilities. secondly, i have yet to figure out how to embed it on the blog. this is a bigger problem than the first, but one i plan to fix during my next off day.

some things that may change during the creation/manipulation/update...shun process. i have to figure out how to make the points more visible. the points do, in fact, reflect the current total via rollover. also, i have to figure out how to get rid of the whole decimal point thing that is going on there. i am not sure if that is an unfortunate side effect of the software i am using, or if something can actually be done about it. only time will tell.