Archive for July, 2008

Looking for a tank

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

With my transatlantic World of Warcraft group having reached 60th level and hit the Outlands the XP race, caused by the increased experience gains between 20th and 60th levels, has been slowed. There is less risk of racing ahead of the group by a few levels, where even those ...

Beginning level two missions

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Penny Ibramovic checked out of space station Haatamo to jump to strange new systems, to seek out new agents and new clusters of rats to kill, to boldly go where everyone else has been some years before me. My choice of agents offering me level two missions first took ...

Mission progression

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Penny Abramovic's Salvaging Enterprise is continuing quite nicely. The recent recovery of two alloyed tritanium bars and three melted capacitor consoles amongst all the wrecks, which just happened to be floating in space near my Caracal with the smoking launchers, made over two million ISK alone, and that was ...

It's not easy being a manager

Monday, July 28th, 2008

At least, it's not easy being The Micro-manager. My leadership qualities in determining the best visual interface for added value are met with hostile resistance. And I find the lack of dedication in my team when reprioritising external activities needs some face time. I sense a team-building exercise is required to ...

City of Heroes to be supported in Crossover Games

Monday, July 28th, 2008

It looks like City of Heroes and City of Villains are about to get some dedicated attention from the Crossover Games team! At the moment, the games run well enough using Crossover Games on the Mac, but instead of only seeing general improvements through incremental changes in the codebase ...

Gathering intelligence on rats in EVE Online

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

I mentioned before about trying to find out some intelligence on the enemy ships I am fighting in EVE Online, but didn't really make much progress of my own. I tried finding some ship scanners to help me inspect the systems of the ships for valuable data, and looked ...

Wall-E

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

After the amazing Kung Fu Panda I had high hopes when seeing the more highly rated Wall-E, Pixar's latest animated feature film. The opening scenes don't disappoint, as we are shown visually amazing photo-realistic depictions of a bleak city-scape to introduce us to the main character and his world. ...

I found my coffee

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

A little over a year go I got an espresso machine. Although I like coffee-flavoured ice cream and sweets, I had never really got in to the habit of drinking coffee before, probably because it seemed to me more like getting in to a habit than enjoying a drink. ...

No more defunct hosting

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

I recently received another reminder that my hosting service was overdue for payment, having ignored the previous reminder. As my frustration was short-lived and I realised I bore no ill-will to the company, and that judging by the status reports their support service appears to have returned to the ...

The Micro-manager

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

After seeing Melmoth's Brute wreak havoc at the weekend in City of Villains, mostly by running through the carnage in his wake simply trying to keep up with him, I was in awe. The destructive power and speed with which the mobs were flattened was mind-blowing. I reasoned ...