8 Days a Geek

Corey Haim was taken to the hospital in Burbank, California and pronounced dead at 2:15 AM (PST) from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 38. Throughout his career he had a history of prescription drug abuse, and a history of sobriety. It was something he struggled with in his life. At this time there’s no definite cause of death, the police say it’s most likely accidental. Whatever it is, he went too soon. We here 8 Days send our condolences to his friends and family.

We’ve lost a Lost Boy. (Too soon? Maybe.) And yes, while he technically wasn’t one of the “lost boys” in that movie… well, most of you get it. He’s the kid on the left in the picture. He was a teen idol in the 80’s, along with Corey Feldman. Over the past five or so years he was involved in a few different shows and movies, and was starting to get more and more involved in the movie industry. Check out Wikipedia and IMDB for more details.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to find a channel that’s going to play The Lost Boys.

Hey there, Robin! I’ll always love Mark Hamill’s Joker. There can be no other.

[source] [Screencap from IMDB.com]

The new trailer which debuted in front of Alice in Wonderland has finaly made it online, tell us what you think. Click Read More to see the trailer. Read more

A new Trailer showing a better look into War Machine, Whiplash, and for all those fans of the cartoon the suitcase armor! This is really shaping up to be as good as the first movie I’m already excited what about you? click read more to view the trailer. Read more

UPDATE: Everyone can start coming out of the bunker now.  No official word has been put forth by Sony but it appears that PS3 systems affected by this bug are beginning to work again.  No patch or firmware upgrade was needed.  If your PS3 has suffered from this bug leave a comment telling us of your ordeal and if it started working again for you.

ORIGINAL STORY: For a day now PSN, the Playstation Network, has been of the fritz; throwing the error 8001050F and telling PS3 owners that they have been signed out of PSN.  However, if you own a model older than the new PS3 slim Song has advised that you don’t even turn it on.

We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.

Some of the problems encountered include:

-The date being reset to Jan 1, 2000
-Loss of trophies (this is the worst from what I’ve seen)
-Not being able to play games rented from PSN before their due dates

We’ll keep you updated but as Sony says, they are working on the problem.

I have disconnected my PS3 from it’s network so-as not to encounter any of these issues, but without PSN what use is a PS3?  Here’s to hoping for a quick solution.