Tonight Barack Obama has become the next President of the United States of America. I’m speechless, and thrilled. I’m proud to say that I’ve been a part of his campaign. Hope is back for America.
Tonight Barack Obama has become the next President of the United States of America. I’m speechless, and thrilled. I’m proud to say that I’ve been a part of his campaign. Hope is back for America.
In the past I’ve given some pretty harsh criticism to other MMO games. They deserved it. Today I’m going to do something I’ve never done before – recommend a MMO.Warhammer Online (WAR) is the kind of game that your wife or girlfriend will make fun of you for playing. It’s a D&D style dorkfest that is as much a guilty pleasure as it is addictive to play. WAR puts you in the tried and true medieval era world that MMO fans have come to love and feel comfortable in. Elves and knights are here, and so are witches and dwarves. Orcs are present and there still aren’t enough people playing as healers. As for the story and enviroment, there is very little here that you haven’t seen before. The difference is that it is all done as well or a little better than before, and it just works.Unlike other recent MMO titles (Tabula Rasa, I’m talking...
My wife and I attended the Barack Obama Town Hall Meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia at Oscar Smith High School this evening. We are both proud to be a part of this campaign that we hope will bring about a better future for our country. As usual, Senator Obama was on message and personable. What surprised me was just how authentic he is in person, and how very knowledgable he is on so many different issues.Here’s some proof that we attended :(We’re at the top, flanking Obama’s head)You can view the entire Town Hall Meeting here. Our heads (well, most of them), are featured throughout 🙂
After spending some time with the Beta of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, I can say that it’s the worst in a long line of flops in the venerable C&C series.Let’s get this out of the way up front – I don’t care that this is a Beta. I’m judging it, period. I don’t feel that anything will be significantly improved or altered for release.Path finding is terrible, the unit abilities are a joke and you hardly have time to use them in battle because everything is over before you even realize it. The inability to zoom out to any level further than you could in the 90’s is a sad development choice by Electronic Arts. You can’t queue up buildings, meaning each has to be built and placed one at a time. Units often get stuck on each other or buildings, and the unit AI chooses targets extremely poorly. Your troops won’t fire on nearby...
Cryptic Studios formally announced today that Star Trek Online is back on track for release. I formally piddled my pants.
Delving deeper into my shaving experiments, I recently purchased a shaving brush upgrade from Crabtree & Evelyn. I was terribly disappointed with my Art of Shaving brush from the “Elements” kit. The brush is poorly made, has a rough texture and just generally feels cheap. The hairs were falling out before I even began using it. Stroking it is akin to brushing a long haired cat. Very disappointing, but I suppose that’s what you get for the money.The Crabtree & Evelyn Best Badger brush was highly rated and is generally considered a great starter brush. I was very excited when it arrived and used it that same day with great results. At first it was not much softer than the Art of Shaving brush, but after a few uses it relaxed and several weeks later the brush is considerably softer. There has been minimal hair loss on the brush as well. Overall I’ve been...
My wife was watching SpongeBob SquarePants while I was working on my computer and listening to Coldplay’s latest album. I looked up at the cartoon action and realized that the music matched the visuals! This is the result:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxuWE_5QWw
After months of spending a half hour here and a half hour there, I’ve finally resolved a problem that’s really been bugging me. I recently installed the beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and when I tried to uninstall it I kept getting “Error 1310 Error Writing to file C:Config.msi*.rbf” There didn’t seem to be any further troubleshooting information available, and I was having the same issue trying to remove some other programs. I tried a number of different things before finally coming across the easy, simple fix: rename the C:Config.msi folder. After I renamed Config.msi to Config.msi.old and restarted the uninstallation, everything worked normally.The files in Config.msi are roll back files, used by the Windows Installer. More details on what they do can be found here.