PlanetSide Movies I forgot to mention these kick-ass movies somebody has made of PlanetSide in action. These movies do a great job of showing the epic battles (Eternal Strife and Ruinous, specifically) that take place in the game – something that hasn't been seen in any other FPS game to date.
Happy Ending Things have been crazy busy at work lately. Last week, I pulled a 60-hour week and this week is approaching that. This past Wednesday, I had a 16-hour shift doing some geo testing and Thursday I got out at 11 PM. That's a lot of OT (and double-OT!
Shifty Ah, just got back from my longest shift to date working at SOE. 13 hours and some change – which still doesn't hold a candle to the 20-hour shift I pulled to get DEN ready to launch 3 1/2 years ago (woah, it's been that long
DSL update ah, my first post from home since the 18th.. looks like our DSL problem has been "fixed" for now. the tech's explanation – the wires were at fault, and they were replaced. hmmm... if that's the case, then it's really strange that our
!DSL my DSL connection here in SD is still out, after trying everything to get the modem to sync – plugging it into a UPS, trying a new ethernet and phone cable. nothing. it's just shitty service. so we called tech support again and they put down a trouble ticket
DSL woes (again) even here in SD i can't get away from pacbell/SBC/prodigy/yahoo's sucky DSL service. it was pretty much out all of last night (and this was after an SBC tech came over to take a look at things), and it's painfully slow
12 Hours Just got home from another long day at work. I've already clocked in 39 hours for this week which is cool. I only wish tomorrow's paycheck could have included this week's hours since I was short last week for being sick. Ah well. Things
Carting Ways We got news at work that our entire department will be temporarily moved to another (smaller) area for about a month while they tear down and reconfigure the QA office space. The bad news is that our workspaces will be smaller than before, to the point that they will be
You had to be there... Someone at our St. Louis office said they found one of these flying outside of their windows.
IE6: Quick Easy Cache!!! Hmmm... I've been noticing that IE6 pulls from cache, unless I post a new blog entry. I had updated my journal info (the stuff on the right side margin) days ago, and the page appeared fine in Mozilla, but IE6 would always pull the old page and it
underactive.net Is Online Well it should be, in theory. Might take a while for the name to resolve properly. That and the fact that Earthlink's "static" DSL service isn't really true static IP -- it's PPPoE that's supposed to give you the same
Not April Fool's w00t! Today, I got the new hire and benefits info package from HR. So as of tomorrow, I will be a full-time permanent SOE employee! :-D
Server Update Well I just finished tying up the loose ends here on the new site. The gallery has been plugged in with the new site graphics, and I removed the placeholder stuff in the blog page. Too bad nobody can see it since I'm still waiting for my Earthlink
Server Up (kinda) Well I went back up to my parents' house yesterday to take care of some things and I also decided to take the server home with me. The plan was to replace RedHat 8 with Gentoo, but since I only spend at most 1 day in LA, doing a
r3mix.net Well I figured I'd keep a running journal offline since it might be awhile until I get my DSL connection back up. I was just playing around with LAME and found that it had this new option (--r3mix). So I looked into it and there's a
Surprise Wow! I got in to work today and my buddy Rob presented me with a bday gift – an import DVD of this Japanese movie called Battle Royale. This came as a huuuge surprise and I couldn't thank him enough. He said it was in return for me encoding
Mozilla Evangelist Looks like I was able to convert the guys on my team at work to using Mozilla as their primary web browser. It all started when one of the guys complained about those annoying pop-up ads and I couldn't help but gloat that I never get any. I
It's about freakin' time... I just read an article on CNN about Dell moving to eliminate floppy drives from their PCs. All I have to say is – finally!!! Although I think there's an error with the article. I don't know what this "A: drive" stuff is about. Isn&
Shuttle Columbia If it wasn't for the advent of personal computers, I could see myself working in the field of astronomy and space exploration. My fascination with outer space started in the 3rd grade. I used to go through my parents' encyclopedia and read through all about NASA'
Hell no! I just realized I've got exactly one week left of being 29. After that it's the big three-oh for me. =(
Hell yeah! 'Nuff said. I'm gonna get my exclusive 10club front seat tix for here in SD. It's gonna be a rockin summer!!! =)
The Sandwich Nazi Today I had lunch at this place the guys at work call "The Sandwich Nazi". After going there for the first time today, I can see that he's not much different from the Soup Nazi that was on Seinfeld. And just like the Soup Nazi, the
sealab 2021 So a coworker of mine got us all into watching this show called Sealab 2021. It airs late nights on Cartoon Network, and it's some pretty damn funny stuff. What they did was take this old educational Hanna-Barbera cartoon (Sealab 2020) from 1972 that taught kids about the
Mark and Brian So this morning on the way to work, I found out by accident that I can get 95.5 KLOS here in San Diego, which means I can listen to my morning show again. I'm stoked! The reception isn't perfect, but it's very tolerable.
Fire in the Valley So I'm almost done reading Fire in the Valley, and it's made me appreciate the people and events that were the driving forces behind the personal computer revolution. And I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but I have to give Bill Gates his
