Archive for October, 2007

12 Oct

Tickets Online

Nothing sucks worse than hearing your favorite band is coming to town and finding out that the tickets are completely sold out. Zickets is a new online ticket marketplace where you could even find sold out tickets for that awesome event you were hoping to see. All transactions are guaranteed, you will not be charged [...]

12 Oct

Fast Lane to Boredom

Recent patch notes on the test server indicate that World of Warcraft is going to make it faster to get from level 1 to 60.  Less experience will be needed per level and a lot of quests and critters that used to be tagged Elite will be downgraded to regular mode.  The goal of this [...]

11 Oct

Learn Japanese

I remember years ago I had acquired a Japanese import of a popular RPG for the Playstation 1. It was a fun game but since I couldn’t read the story, it became a bit of a chore to play. I picked up a Japanese/English phrasebook and that helped a little, but not enough to keep [...]

09 Oct

Tabula Rasa

I must say I’m a sucker for betas. Problem is I never get into regular beta tests and have to wait for the one or two weeks where the open beta takes place. Anyway, I downloaded Tabula Rasa on the weekend, 3gb download, and tried it out for a couple hours.The graphics are pretty decent, [...]

09 Oct

Shoot your Friends!

Way back in the days when I was still a teenager, me and my friends couldn’t afford paintball guns so we used the next best thing. Pellet rifles and pistols. Yep, young and stupid is a good way to describe it. It was fun but it was dangerous and I’m surprised no one lost an [...]

03 Oct

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal. I used to hate it. My little brother liked it so it couldn’t possibly be good, right? How wrong I was. At the time I was more into old school Rap (well, back then it wasn’t old school) Beastie Boys, Run DMC, etc. I smartened up a few years later, when I was [...]

01 Oct

Organic household items

With all the scares lately regarding toys and other items made in China (supposedly containing lead and other chemicals), it makes a good case for switching to and sticking with organic items. Bedding made from Coyuchi organic cotton is safe and durable. Being in Canada, we tend to have a lot of cold weather and [...]

01 Oct

I Gots Me a New Axe

While going through the Commonlands, slaughtering mass amounts of pathetic weaklings in order to get some low level quests, I found a Dull Stone Wedge. Upon examination, it became apparent that this used to be the head of an axe, and in order to sharpen it I knew that I would need some stones from [...]

01 Oct

Satellite Internet

If you live out in the sticks and all you can get is dial-up internet, I feel your pain. For the first several years that high speed was available around here, it was only available to those living in town. Where I lived at the time was just too far away, in a rural area. [...]

01 Oct

Stuck on Alts

I still can’t seem to leave the alts alone, it’s been a couple weeks since I finished a quest with Kal!  The bruiser is up to level 26, the wizard is now 24 and I’ve been working the tradeskills with him too.  I decided to turn him into a Sage so I can make my [...]