External Factors Destroying Experience

By Ben, on September 6th, 2009%

For the past two weeks Oui and I have been experiencing higher than usual latency in WoW making the game practically unplayable and in a moment of weakness we tried out Smoothping. While it did seem to stabilise our latency it didn’t provide anywhere near the benefit advertised and most importantly it didn’t give us . . . → Read More: External Factors Destroying Experience

Randomness Is Fun

By Ben, on September 3rd, 2009%

Today’s random MSN Messenger conversation stared with Oui asking me how to spell something and ended with “BITCH! GET MY KATAMARI!” from me, all in a matter of about 10 lines.

Oui went for an interview yesterday and they must have liked him because they offered him the job on the spot, begging him not . . . → Read More: Randomness Is Fun

Aussie ISP’s Suck

By Ben, on September 2nd, 2009%

When I first got onto the internet dialup was king, the information superhighway was a twinkle in someones eye and broadband wasn’t even a word (it still isn’t). The slow speeds made me hesitate with every mouse click because I was constantly concerned about the amount of time it would take for wherever that click . . . → Read More: Aussie ISP’s Suck

PS3 Hitting It’s Stride

By Ben, on August 31st, 2009%

If you haven’t heard the news: God of War Collection – Blu-ray Disc Compilation Available This Holiday Season!

All I can say is FUCK YES! This gives me hope that they’ll possibly do the same for ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.

. . . → Read More: PS3 Hitting It’s Stride

The Curse of Monkey Island

By Ben, on August 31st, 2009%

From Grumpy Gamer, blog of Ron Gilbert (of Monkey Island fame):

WoW Tip #1

By Ben, on August 30th, 2009%

During a raid recently it came to my attention that there are people who don’t know how to tell if a mob ability can be interrupted. I can’t recall exactly when Blizzard added in the ability to distinguish between abilities that can and cannot be interrupted, but here you go:

Example: Ability cannot be . . . → Read More: WoW Tip #1

Drupal’s Steep Learning Curve

By Ben, on August 27th, 2009%

While I don’t think I’ve mastered Drupal I’m past the worst of the learning curve, but there were a number of things that I never saw explained anywhere which caused me many a headache. Many a time I would update some css but after uploading and forcing a page refresh the changes wouldn’t appear and . . . → Read More: Drupal’s Steep Learning Curve

My Torrents Are Slooow

By Ben, on August 26th, 2009%

I’ve noticed since yesterday all trackers to the torrents I’m downloading of various televions shows have gone offline or aren’t working. Has anyone else seen this or is it just me (if it’s just me I need to make a phone call to my ISP.

It’s not that my torrents aren’t downloading though. DHT, Local . . . → Read More: My Torrents Are Slooow

Sitemaps And Drupal

By Ben, on August 25th, 2009%

Most people don’t realise it but there is a standard out there for reporting to various search engines such as Google and Yahoo what pages they should and should not index, including the ability to give weight (importance) to individual pages. In Drupal a module called XML Sitemap has always handled this and I’m happy . . . → Read More: Sitemaps And Drupal

Drupal 7 Is Cool

By Ben, on August 24th, 2009%

The upcoming release of Drupal 7 is seeing some major changes in the look and functionality due to the attention that has been given to the user experience. Like WordPress, Drupal 7 will have an administration theme which will take away many of the layout, design, and customisation headaches that currently exist.

When Drupal 6 . . . → Read More: Drupal 7 Is Cool

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