Level 64 Attained

 Jason  Comments Off
Nov 072007
 

Grinded away all day today and got the remaining 60% of the xp needed to level Zsuzsu, my gnome warlock, to level 64 finally. I have the timing down again that is needed to grind away at mobs without hardly any rest so it’s basically grabbing all the quests in a certain area of a map and killing stuff until complete. Rinse and repeat.

I took the time to head into Terokkar Forest and get set up there with new quests, make an inn there my home, and head back to get my skill training. I’ll be ready to continue the push to level 70 shortly so that I can actually quest with my guildmates once again when the next WoW expansion comes out.

Site Changes

 Jason  Comments Off
Nov 062007
 

Well you might notice a few changes around here. I used to have 3 separate WordPress blogs on my domain. One was used primarily for personal and tech stuff, one was primarily used by my fiance to post her cooking exploits, and one was purely poker related.

Well neither of us really post all that much and each time WordPress would release a new version it was pretty much a pain in the ass to upgrade all 3 installs. So I decided to just go ahead and combine them into one blog. They all used the same theme anyway with just color variations. Some of my family doesn’t really understand my interest in poker but since I never really was trying to monetize that blog anyway, they can deal with hearing about it. For those of you who know me from the poker world, hopefully you won’t mind hearing more about my fairly boring life. If you had been subscribing to a feed, you’ll need to delete it and start again with the feedburner link to the bottom right.

Oh and Astin, I don’t know if you had ever stopped by my blog before but I think you and Stephanie could swap a few good recipes!

Alternative Blogging Tool

 Jason  Comments Off
Nov 062007
 

I’m posting this using the MarsEdit blogging tool. I actually have a license to the previous version of this software from a bundle but ended up using Ecto instead. A new version of MarsEdit has been released from a new developer that has taken the project over. It seems to add a few features such as Flickr integration that make it seem viable for me so I decided to give it another try.

Compared to Ecto 2, MarsEdit appears to be a much cleaner layout. Ecto 3 is closer but you have to appreciate the simple beauty of MarsEdit. For beginning bloggers there might be a little bit more of a learning curve with MarsEdit though as it does not appear to provide a rich text editing option. So you are creating your posts in HTML. It has a simple drop down with basic things like links and paragraphs to help you along though.

It’s too early to say for sure if I’m going to go ahead and pay the $9.99 upgrade price and start using MarsEdit exclusively but I’m going to give it a shot for the 30 day trial and see how it goes.

MMORPGs

 Jason  Comments Off
Nov 062007
 

Well I’m currently downloading the Mac client for Eve Online, which was released today, so that I can take it for a 14 day trial spin. I just signed up for a cheap introductory month for Pirates of the Caribbean Online. I still have my World of Warcraft account. They are all MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) that have a Mac client available. And that’s why I’m trying them.

I don’t want to have to boot into windows anymore, although I can if I need to. I want to play games in the genre that I enjoy and play them with a native client. I’ve played Lineage II, Planetside, Dark Age of Camelot, and City of Heroes. I am looking forward towards the new Warhammer game. However, I have not seen a single thing indicating that there is a Mac client in development. Very disappointing and I may even take the drastic step of just sticking with one of the games that I can play natively. I guess we shall see.

Vegas ‘07 Plans

 Jason  Comments Off
Oct 302007
 

Well it looks like I’ll be joining everybody in vegas. This week I’ll be purchasing my tickets from lovely DC to Las Vegas on Virgin America. I’ve been looking forward to trying this airline out and I’m even willing to sacrifice a longer trip with a layover in San Francisco to do it! As far as accomodations, they haven’t been finalized yet. I do plan on being towards the north end of the strip with the rest of the degenerates so that it won’t be far to stagger back from the Geisha Bar, et al. I’m really looking forward to the tourney at the Venetian as I enjoyed playing in their Deep Stack Extravaganza last time I was in town.Looking forward to seeing everybody there!

UPDATE: Well after taking a long look at the finances, what with a wedding to plan, Vegas is not going to happen this time around. Especially since I really should be taking some of my free time to go visit family. So that’s what I’m going to do. See you all next summer instead!

[posted with ecto]

Fantasy Football Sucks

 Jason  Comments Off
Oct 232007
 

Well so far this year my fantasy team has been horrible. The sad thing is that I actually made my picks live and was quite happy with my team at the time. Boy was I wrong. With only a single win to my name I am in next to last place in my league. I’ve started the wrong people the wrong week, released people that were underperforming only to have them break out the next week, and have had injuries to my starting running back and tight end. Let’s just hope that I can get back on track this week and finish at least close to .500.

Golf Scoring Program

 Jason  Comments Off
Oct 232007
 

I’ve gotten a program for my Mac to track my golf progress and calculate my handicap. It’s called Scorecard and one of the lead guys involved in the project is the owner of TheSandTrap, which is a very popular golf blog / review site / forum.One nice feature is that it lets you export all of your scores to a web page. Check mine out HERE.

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