Archive for August, 2008
Free MMORPGs?
It looks like some Germany-based company is starting a semi-WoW clone, except it’s free. Runes of Magic was reviewed by Kotaku where they outlined the similarities in brief between RoM and WoW. Then they started to talk about the differences. Some of the differences sound pretty interesting. For PVP, they have something called “server wars” where people [...]
Chicken “Chalupas”
I do love me some Chicken Chalupas. Thanks to Scott for introducing me to this recipe back when we were roommates. (He’s rather organized about collecting recipes and was really good at finding recipes that took less than 30 minutes of prep and 30 minutes of cooking, and were tasty to boot!)
Ingrediants:
1 package of Flour tortillas (6-8 [...]
Unfair law protects dogs, but not renters
http://www.weather.com/weather/newscenter/alerts/?alertId=641278&dbSeq=null&cameFrom=national
Heat advisory
/O.CON.KMTR.HT.Y.0009.000000T0000Z- 080830T0100Z/ EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-SANTA CLARA VALLEY…INCLUDING SAN JOSE- 403 AM PDT FRI AUG 29 2008
…HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR THE EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS AND THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY INCLUDING SAN JOSE…
NEAR OR RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM 95 TO 105 ARE FORECAST AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON [...]
Goal for August, Final Update, and Goal for September/October
My Goal for August is complete.
Now, to set a goal for September…thinking about this for the last week really stretched me. There are a number of things that I know which I could blog about, but the problem is that every one of those things is considered confidential piece of information. Access to and usage of [...]
My Desktop & Wordpress
A couple of posts back, I talked about possibly putting a Wordpress blog on my (work) desktop for work notes. One of the problems that I’ve been having with the work implementation of Wordpress is that I cannot manage files (or upload them) to the wordpress installation, and the spell check function in the wordpress [...]
Settlers
Settlers has finally come to Steam. Perhaps I can talk some of my friends in to picking it up. The MetaCritic review is mostly promising. Granted it didn’t rate higher than Half-Life 2 or Halo, but it still came in with a fairly solid, middle-of-the-road score. I managed to snag one friend in to Steam with [...]
Vin Diesal says there will be sequals
Despite the fact that Riddick is less than a household name, he’s still uber cool. Vin Diesal seems to agree and has promised that there will not just be one more movie in the series, but two. The question for him is not if there will be two, but if they will try to film [...]
Web Design Blogs
As I am working more and more on my blog, I find myself searching for useful tutorials and information on both design, code and CMS management topics. I found that SmashingMagazine.com has a wonderful list of 100 Wordpress themes, which all appear to be free. (Although, I’ve not validating that they’re all compatible with the [...]
VOX BBQ
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Originally uploaded by x11tech
Fun was had by all at the VOX company BBQ. Even the kids got in on it by smacking the pinata around.
Traveling Faster than Light
As interesting as the article is, the commentary is more interesting:
Hi, I’m a great modern scientist. When my theories of the universe only account for 4% of what I observe, I automatically just assume that my understanding of the 4% cannot possibly be wrong…therefore I’ll just insert fudge factors for “extra mass” and “extra energy”…then [...]
