Gay News

I like to visit the Sydney Star Observer’s (SSO) website a couple times a month to keep abreast of what is happening in the gay community there but usually I end up shaking my head at just how petty and stupid people are.

This time there is an ongoing uproar about the police presence during Sleaze Ball, . . . → Read More: Gay News

IE7 Quirks

I’ve overcome the majority of my problems with IE7 and the page layout is correct, but there is one minor issue remaining.

I have a div named main that contains two divs named content and sidebar. It has nothing else in it. The problem is that main has a background colour and borders that aren’t correctly displaying . . . → Read More: IE7 Quirks

Oui’s Gift

Oui was sick with the Flu on his birthday, and still is, but was generous enough to share his sickness with me. I know he didn’t do it deliberately (or did he?) but I feel terrible enough to take medicine. So last night I took some psuedoephedrine variant and not only did I have immense difficulty . . . → Read More: Oui’s Gift

Skippy, the Phenomenon

I’ve started a new category that will be reserved solely for Youtube videos Oui has found and enjoyed. Today’s entry is the most recent that I expect everyone except Oui was previously familiar with.

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Me and My Katamari

Just keep rolling

I didn’t post about this yet, mainly because I’ve been preoccupied playing it, but I think I am in love all over again. I don’t remember the original game being so hard, but at least there are different modes this . . . → Read More: Me and My Katamari

Playing WoW With and Without Family

My brother and his kids are still chugging along on WoW and I put in the occasional few hours with them, but I still find playing with them incredibly dull.

Just last Monday Oui and I were helping my brother with some group quests in Icecrown and the results were not exactly what we had hoped for. Firstly, roll call:

  • Ferag – 80 Fury Warrior (my brother)
  • Tardin – 80 Shadow Priest (Me)
  • Udmarge – 80 Discipline Priest (Oui)

Despite having Oui on his Horde toon, because none of his alliance toons were high enough, I wasn’t expecting any trouble, but my brother surprised us once more by dying about 3 seconds into each fight (I had been trying to heal him) after which Oui would pick them up and tank while I dps’ed.

So to summarise:

  1. Warrior dies near-instantly
  2. Discipline priest tanks
  3. Shadow Priest DPS’s

I was the only person filling their traditional role!

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To Fix Or Not To Fix

In building the website for my work I’ve experienced a hiccup or two, but it is up and running (www.cibus.co.th). Since opening it up to customers I’ve disovered that the site doesn’t render correctly in any Internet Explorer below 8, and even that only works in compatability mode.

So the question I’ve been tossing around in my . . . → Read More: To Fix Or Not To Fix

My Weird Sleep Patterns

Whenever I go to bed at a reasonable hour lately I somtimes have very vivid dreams. They’re not vivid in a way that everything looks real, it’s more that everything feels real to me emotionally. Unfortunately most of my dreams are incredibly depressing and even though when I wake up I know they’re not real, the . . . → Read More: My Weird Sleep Patterns

TV Updates

I haven’t posted about my television viewing lately, so here’s an update:

Fringe

Remains awesome and loving every moment. Everything seems to be heading to Peter finding out he is actually from an alternate universe and that Walter kidnapped him. I really like that they don’t mess about in this show. Other shows feel like they are dragging . . . → Read More: TV Updates

MMO Rivalry

While I play WoW, I also play Lord of the Rings Online and once upon a time I also played Age of Conan (I stopped because the game itself isn’t very interesting). If you’re like me and have stepped outside the confines of WoW you will have found quite a lot of animosty and derision directed at it from the wannabe MMO’s, and when I say that I mean they wish they were as successful as WoW.

WoW has it’s shortcomings, as do other MMO’s, but it is said to be cartoony, childish, too easy, the playerbase is full of kids, the graphics suck, etc. The list of insults is endless and they generally serve to highlight the inherent insecurity of players, similar to the console wars (ie PS3 vs Xbox360 vs Wii), but occasionally someone will say something that’s true. Unfortunately I can’t think of any examples right now so I’m instead going to mention a few things about LotRO.

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