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I love this game!

I got a Wii several months ago based on the reviews I had read for Zelda. However, something about that game just didn’t click with me the way I had hoped. I enjoy it, and one day I’ll finish it, but I found that I wasn’t enjoying my Wii as much as I thought I would and that trudging through Zelda was probably the cause of that. So I set out to find a game that didn’t require as much work and would give me some quick satisfaction as I blew up a bunch of stuff. Enter Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the continuation of one of my favorite games of all time. Did I mention that I love this game?

I enjoy the balance of shoot ‘em up first-person action and problem solving that Corruption offers. I dare say that it may be one of the best games that I’ve ever played.

Visual Studio is the first and only IDE that I’ve ever used. It makes my life easy and miserable all at the same time. Here’s a little gem that I see on a regular basis:

Study this for a moment and you’ll find several usability issues… a popup dialog that states it’s a “background thread”… a cancel button that’s disabled… the list goes on.

I’ve always found it unpleasant when I have a number of files to upload and the website I’m at only allows one file upload at a time. If you have multiple files to process it can seem like an eternity. Just ask my wife when she’s uploading all those family photos to her blog.

One possible solution is to place several file input controls on the page (say five) thereby reducing the number of roundtrips to the server, but that is still an artificial limit. What I wanted was a control that would dynamically allow any number of files to be uploaded all in one shot. Something that would increase usability and not take away from it.

Here’s what I came up with:

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