After only 8 weeks of being a resident of Azeroth, I hang up the reigns to my mighty Acherus Deathcharger, and barely even 2 steps into Northrend. Yeah, I got into the game, quite a bit actually. Picked up both Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King for cheap and enjoyed the majority of the leveling process… and now to be honest, I’m bored of it.

Kill 10 of these, go talk to him, pick up that, run over there. B-Average student of the RPG school. Then again, the instances and whatnot are more fun, and I can see the strategy elements that seem to eek their way into the higher level ones, but…. I can’t be arsed. Anyways, I got a new pet.

After a couple of weeks of absolutely hellish work hours and unnecessary stress. I decided to buy myself a Christmas present. Playstation 3 80GB with a boatload of games.

I have to say, I hate Sony, always held a sort of personal resentment towards them since the original Playstation. God knows why, probably a hang-on from being a ‘tendo fanboy. Regardless, I hate Microsoft more, plus with the PS3 being the resounding underdog of the 7th Gen consoles…. Its where I belong.

So the minutes of my life that work doesn’t magic away and those that individuals, held dear and anonymous, don’t distract and devour, are now spent yelling at poor unsuspecting Americans as I blow the heads off the silent majority.

GET A HEADSET A**HOLES! TYPING WITH A MINIGUN IS SUICIDE!

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So once again I have let my blog lapse into the murky pools of inactivity, and lo’ we have the obligatory update!

No longer a student, I have been forced out into the cruel world to fend for myself. Which (rather oddly) treated me quite kindly, two job applications, two job interviews, two job offers. I stared down one to where it bent in the undergrowth and took the other just the same, perhaps having the better claim.

So now I work developing and debugging financial software.

My EvE habit as taken a bit of a knock with mine, and several others, departure from Core Technologies. We all leave the corp in the very capable of hands of Tupacobra and wish him the best. I had the intention of hitting some Factional Warfare hard, but just never got around to it. In its place I’ve decided to swallow my pride and try…..World of Warcraft.

Ok, so one 4GB download later I have the client, and 20 minutes of slow progress bars I have it installed, and then….. 7 (count ‘em) patches….

Sorry if I’m used to the polished, significantly more impressive delivery system of CCP’s Eve, but why not just offer the UPDATED INSTALL BINARY for download. Eve, download one file, install, play. WoW, download one files, which downloads another file, which installs, and downloads 7 other files, and then play!

C’mon Blizzard.

This will be continued…..

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So i’m on a reasonably long bus journey and I’m bored so I decided to hook my shiny new Nokia N95 8GB as a bluetooth modem on Ubuntu Hardy.

For all of you who may be interested it was reasonably simple. Pretty much used the exact same setup I had before for my k800i.

Step 1.

Bind your mobular telephone to an rfcomm port via bluetooth. I used rfcomm0, but you’re free to use any number which takes your fancy.

sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

replacing nano with you editor of choice.

Here’s what mines looks like.

rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 00:1F:00:BB:97:7D;
channel 2;
comment "Dial-up networking";
}


Of course YMMV, especially on the channel.

sdptool browse AA:BB:CC:DD:EE

(replace with your devices bluetooth address)
This will list a load of useful crap, under which you may find a section about “dialup networking” and a channel number.

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(or small things amuse small minds)

N.B. This post was written several weeks ago and languished unpublished…. *shrugs*

So I’m back and blogging, after 4 months (a lot more if you don’t count the “I’m still alive” post in January), I think i shall have to blog and blog some more just to make up for it.

I’ve been keeping myself busy, Command & Conquer 3, EvE Online, and a small bit of University work….. I think i’ll leave detailing the Uni work for another blog post (for the sake of correct tagging :P )

So Command & Conquer 3…. got it last summer but only really got into online play a few months ago. Obviously I wasn’t very good to start with but now I’m a worthy challenge. Thanks to MONSTAAR for leading me through a few….educational defeats ;)

You’ll find me online as Aetherius, if you’re up for a good fight.

My next online gaming obssession is EvE Online, (and the word obssession is aptly used here). Been playing this for about the same time as i’ve owned C&C, and it is quite simply the greatest MMORPG in existance. For those who don’t know (and especially for those who don’t care) check this out. http://evetube.com/index.php?playid=240

I’m a director of an ever expanding industrial corp in eve, getting bigger and better every day and hoping to move into 0.0 soon, with the help of a few friends obviously.

Had to break from it for a while to focus on uni work but i should be back at it as excessively as ever soon.

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Its a been a while, sorry about that. For now suffice to say, final year plus christmas plus EvE Online equals very little blogging.

Expect a hefty update on some of the goings on soon.

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