May 2007 Entries
Our regular gaming group has recently decided to pick up City of Heroes for our regular Tuesday night games mostly because grouping requirements in D&D Online are simply too unwieldy. I had canceled my DDO account relatively early so I haven't been in the Tuesday night games for a while. Well, City of Heroes is another matter entirely and I foresee being a regular attendant.
Yay! CoH!
Now, you have to understand that City of Heroes is one of my favorite MMOGs and one I only stopped playing because I lacked a decent super group to play with. It's also one of...
I've been reserving judgement on Windows Media Player and the whole Digital Rights Management issue for a couple months now. I mean, when Microsoft updated to version 11 and people began complaining about how adding the DRM made it less stable and prone to lockup, I figured this stuff would be worked out and that at least it provided a baseline capability that people can use as a starting point.
Until today, that is. Judgement has been rendered and Windows Media Player is officially found wanting. Not just wanting. It is not merely inadequate. WMP 11 has officially, in my...
My oldest daughters are to the point now where they are large enough (physically) to mow the lawn. I actually had to put off this next stage in molding my children into proper minions because Teleri is such a shrimp. Since her sister Aerin takes after her mother's side of the family and is larger than her older sister, this means that I get to train two future henchgirls for the price of one.
In that spirit, here are the three main tips for lawn mowing efficiency.
A square is by far the easiest shape to mow. Since...
Every organism has parasites. Institutionally, organizations have them as well. You've probably seen them at companies that you work for or at churches where you worship. Maybe we need a different word for them, but their function is simple enough—like any parasite, they sap the strength of their host to fulfill their own selfish needs. And before the contrarians speak up, I'm not talking about symbiosis here, either. You get that, too, but at least with the symbiots, you get some value in return. The distinguishing feature of the parasites are that they take without giving anything of value...
Hypothetically speaking-of course.
It's the latest blog meme and I got tagged early this time by Eeps Meeps and Ipes. The Blog Apocalypse asks you to image what you'd post if you knew ahead of time that it'd be your last post ever.
Now, I'm a relatively introspective person in general, but I'm not a huge fan of introspecting on demand. What I'd post about would probably depend on the reason why it was meant to be the last blog post ever. My goal would be to look forward. I'd spend time spelling out the remaining things I regret but be careful to...
I've always been one to jump on technology bandwagons early. The latest is Twitter. It's a logical step up from Instant Messaging in the same way that blogging is a step up from email—a broadcast, single update push protocol with subscriber opt-in. In its way, this is brilliant. Still, you gotta wonder about a service that has it's subscribers calling themselves Twits... follow RabidPaladin at http://twitter.com Technorati tags: Twitter, Personal, Exhibitionism
Well, I created a new post over at my new IT blog. If you're here for the IT stuff, pop on over... Yes, I am having a tough time adjusting...
One of the cardinal rules of creating a blog you want people to read is to keep it well-focused. That generally means keeping to a single topic, at least mostly. Personally, I'm too ADD to only post on a single topic, so I've been struggling. I've wanted to post mainly on technical and professional topics and want that to be my main audience. On the other hand, having 10 siblings and being married to a woman with 8 means that blog posting is a really easy way to keep them all informed about what's going on with our family and...
Suweeet!
Technorati tags: Personal, Star Wars, quiz
Developers hate it when someone changes the requirements in the middle of a development project. What few have realized yet is that they've gone and changed the requirements to be a developer right in the middle of our careers. An Unnecessary, But Illustrative, Story The summer of 1994 found me in Mesa, Arizona, new-minted diploma in hand, getting ready for my first real job. A couple days before I was to report for the new position, I received news that the job that I had pulled my wife and baby daughter into the gods-forsaken desert for had, well, been eliminated. Not a happy...
For many significant events in my life, I remember when they occurred by where my family was living at the time. We were in an un-air-conditioned house in Phoenix, Arizona in the summer I first read the Lord of the Rings. I clearly recall both the library and the corner I'd sit in at home while I read it. I devoured the whole trilogy in a couple of days and I remember that it as a friend in an area where I had none.
It'll come as no surprise, then, that I jumped at the chance to play the new MMOG,...