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What race of middle earth am I? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Rohirrim To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla

Reply to More from Sony's DRM kerfuffle in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Note - I did mean to say microsoft in the second para; I know WoW is run by Blizzard, but I covered them in the first paragraph

More from Sony's DRM kerfuffle in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

And the news about Sony's rootkit goes on. The Register has a piece on the use of Sony's DRM scheme to hide cheaters on World of Warcraft. And Mark Russinovich continues his reporting on this i

Reply to Sony and a rootkit - perfect together in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I've been seeing reports now of World of Warcraft cheaters using the "power" of this rootkit to hide the cheating programs from Blizzards Warden program. So it already is being used for malicious purposes...

Sony and a rootkit - perfect together in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Via a link from Instapundit comes this tale of Sony's latest DRM - and it's side effects. As a couple of people pointed out - this is probably illegal in a couple of jurisdictions, and downright STUPID to boot. I work in

This is weird in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

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The RPG Character Test in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Spellsword 51% Combativeness, 40% Sneakiness, 79% Intellect, 41% Spirituality Aggressive, but with the brains to back it up: You are a Spellsword! Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken after you’ve fulfilled certai

Another random update in Misc JoeUser Forums

I guess I haven't been inspired to blog recently. This didn't start out as a life-blog, rather, as a political safety valve. But with Bush's victory, I'm not getting nearly as inspired to post; I can rant in comments on other people's blogs (and I don't even do that much any more). Also, I haven't had as much time. When I started this blog, I was unemployed, and was t

Back from the land of no updates in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Well, no, not really. I just haven't been inspired and in front of my keyboard at the same time. While I like my job, the schedule kinda sucks a little. Also, almost all my free time has been taken up by Puzzle Pirates , a nifty little MMOArrrrPG. It's got some paradigm differences from most games in the genre

Fear the cute in Misc JoeUser Forums

"The Daily Kitten publishes a new kitten picture every day at 3.07pm GMT, (10.07am EST). We hope you enjoy it." - the intro for the Daily Kitten"

Yar! in MMORPG JoeUser Forums

I've been shanghai'd by Puzzle Pirates. Link . I've been hearing about it from random sources - including Evil Stevie himself - for a while. Finally a couple of friends of mine sucked us into it. The company that makes it just recently added a micropayments model to their previous (quite reasonable) $10/mo subscription model.

Some tips on picking out a cellphone in Misc JoeUser Forums

This started out as a comment on Citizen Smash's blog; his wife was asking for advice on picking out a new verison phone. The advice is based on that company's offerings Step 1 of cell phone purchasing; figure out how much you want to pay, what you need to do with it, what you want to do with it, what would be nice to have; in that order. Verizon is

Reply to Now is not the time to argue for higher taxes.. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Higher taxes do not necessarily lead to higher government income anyway; ESPECIALLY in the higher tax brackets. Tax evasion is expensive in most cases (especially if you want to legally evade taxes). But if your taxes go up, the incentive to evade taxes goes up too.

Return of the con-blog in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well, the first day of con was survived. We met up with a couple who lives in the area; DW met the wife of the couple via the needlework list she runs, but they are also gamers, and knew of some of my gaming friends. The end of the day was the Voltaire concert. 10,000 screaming goths, it seemed like. But it was fun, though a little low-key... We'll s

Reply to Second annual con-blog in Blogging JoeUser Forums

The cookies came thorugh fine and we ate some on the way.

Second annual con-blog in Blogging JoeUser Forums

So here I am at Icon again, and I remembered the necessary to get online from the con. (Forgot almost everything else but that - including my entire laptop bag - at home, but luckily my laptop, the power adapter for it, and the necessary to connect my laptop to my phone (no EVDO card for me) came with me. Once again, I preregistered, and once again was glad o

Me and my razor in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Razorblogging is apparently the theme du jour over at the laconic , peripatetic , Instapundit; and I've been kicking around the idea of razorblogging for a while myself (generally in the shower. Now there's a topic for another day... Showerblogging. Or maybe not). Anyway, I'm

Bunnies for nothing in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

We're hosting easter dinner this weekend, and it has inspired us to get some of the clean-up that we''ve been putting off for a while done finally. I finally got the Ivar shelving that I've been wanting since we moved in here 4 years ago, and our computer room is a much neater place. This before I've even sorted out stuff! Easter dinner is going ot be small.

Looking for a good free image-hosting site in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Anyone out there got advice on a place to host some images to link to from here? I don't want to use personal webspace from my ISP for a variety of reasons. Requirements. Must be free. Must not sell my contact info or spam me (I don't care all that much about ads on the host itself.) Doesn't have to have a large amount of space.<!-- Ju-Anchor-Footer-Start -

Reply to Whoah - this can't be right in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm now at #7. I wonder if the freshness of posts has a bearing on ranking?

Reply to Whoah - this can't be right in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Hey, I just thought it was funny. I am enjoying my day in the sun. One thing I founc interesting - I had an article a while back Featured (it was about Mr. den Beste's retirement) and despite picking up a crapload of pageviews and points, it didn't crack my top 5.

Whoah - this can't be right in Blogging JoeUser Forums

The top 10 blog sites link over in the nave bar shows me at #6, behind skinning the frog, and in front of Life as an Air Force Wife. And I have 2 posts in the last 2 months! Is that right? Or has a databse glitched? I know I got a couple of highly-ranked posts, but still... Also, another thing I've noticed - my Top Articles list on the right is much

I haven't been blogging much recently in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I haven't been blogging much recently. There's a couple of reasons for that, but the main one is that I haven't been insriped to. With that in mind, I decided to do a little post on what I don't, won't, or haven't blogged on in the past year: Firstly, my blogiversary. Feb 20th 2004 was my first post, if I remember my logs aright. I just forgot it until recent

Reviving the language in Blogging JoeUser Forums

In the spirit of James Taranto's (Of the Wall Street Journal) successful attempt to bring the word Kerfuffle back into more general use, I would like to bring the terms laconic and peripatetic back into daily use. (Definitions <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=l

Take a tour in Industry JoeUser Forums

A link to a very interesting story about how one company makes their motherboards. With gratuitous PCB pr0n