EVE Online
I decided to finally quit World of Warcraft. It wasn’t that hard of a decisions, I haven’t raided seriously for quite some time and I just found that I wasn’t playing it very much. I didn’t see a reason to keep paying 15 bucks a month for something I wasn’t using. Plus, it takes up a bunch of space on my SSD so good riddance!
However, I did decide to start a new game: EVE Online. I know its been out for a long time but I never tried it before. Most of what I had read about it made it look really cool so I decided to try it out. I’m on the 14 day free trial right now and its AWESOME. Holy shit. I totally regret not trying it out before.
The beauty of EVE is that anyone can play at their own pace and accomplish whatever they want. You can be an industrial giant or a lowly pirate fighter, lone wolf style. I obviously haven’t gotten that far yet but I am really digging the gameplay. I bought my first ship (A FRIGATE WHATWHAT) and have been outfitting it with all sorts of cool stuff.
I think anyone who is interested should check out www.eveonline.com and watch the video they have on their site. It is a nice three minute intro to what the game encompasses. I’ll be sure to post more about EVE as I learn more. I have been reading a few wiki’s but they haven’t been as helpful as just clicking around in the game. The learning curve is ridiculous but I like that in a game. It makes it more fulfilling to learn whats going on.
Still with the malware!
I just updated to WordPress 3.0 so I hope that solves whatever issues are going on with my blog. I had another “malware warning” from Chrome today when I logged in to make a post. I ended up checking the last post I made and someone (a haxxor I’d imagine) inserted some malicious javascript line into the body. I deleted it and I think I am good to go now. Still frustrating.
Anyhow! Life has been moving and shaking lately. The little lady and I went and shot the Kimber on Saturday at a local gun range. It was really fun. Don’t worry, I used the .22LR conversion kit that I have for it so that A didn’t have to shoot a big, mean 45ACP as her first time shooting a pistol. She did really well! I am glad she is on my side. We also managed to make it to the gym both days this weekend though we failed to motivate last night. Hopefully tonight we get off our collective asses and make it over there.
This weekend, I have some big things planned. Gonna install a 12″ sub in my car! I have the wiring ready to go I am just waiting on the box and amp to show up. I will take lots of pics and stuff when that all comes together. Phew!
Ok, back to nonlinear electrokinetic theory. My brain needed the break! Ready to rock now, woohoo!
Some sort of Malware!
Apparently, WordPress blogs that are hosted on the RackSpace cloud are having some issues. That also appanerently includes MY blog. Alas, poor Okpok! But fear not, I have figured out what to do.
Chrome told me that my computer was at risk by going to Okpok. I must say, I am in love with Google Chrome. It has been an awesome upgrade over FireFox.
I did some Google-Fu and found the following link:
Attacks on WordPress Blogs on RackSpace
The hackers gained access to a bunch of blogs and made a spoof user named called “Amin”. Sure enough when I checked my blog, I had the fake user name. I deleted it. However, I still had some infection. I did some source code investigation and found that in one of my posts, a javascript line had been placed. I didn’t know where to delete it from my blog files so I just deleted the post itself. That seemed to do the trick. No more warnings from Chrome and my blog is happy again. Yay!
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Bob Etheridge D-NC, you stay classy.
You stay classy, Congressman Etheridge! See the linked video for him attacking a college student who asks him “Do you fully support the Obama agenda?”
I have to say, good job to the kids for not fighting back. This is the kind of media that needs to be out on the internet. Spread it around. I hope more than anything, North Carolina’s 2nd District realizes what kind of hot tempered man they have elected.
Back with a Vengeance.
I am starting up my old blog again. More than anything, this is just to keep myself in line with some of the small changes I want to make with my life. Namely, I want to start learning again. I feel like I have sort of stagnated over the past few months with learning new things and I want to fix that. Also, I have started swimming again. I figure, I might as well have somewhere that I can post my swim sets so I can look back over what I have done.
The first item of business is learning. I read a blog post recently Your high IQ will kill your startup. This got me thinking. While I don’t agree completely with the author, namely because a person with a high IQ has a tool and if they DO train to use it, they will be much more of a force than someone who just trains with their hands. Think of it as engines. A person with a four cylinder under the hood is disadvantaged to someone with a V12 purring away. Now, the four banger can be tuned and built up and turbo’d and all sorts of stuff and could probably keep up with the V12 monster if it were stock. Well, what happens when the owner of the V12 does all the same prep work to their engine?
Exactly.
So anyhow, that got me to thinking and so I want to start with a few things. Number one: I am going to start trying this new site called 750 Words. It is pretty much a way to jump start the creative juices everyday by just writing 750 words, or three pages. I have heard good things about it and it is pretty cool for anyone that is looking to generate some free flowing thoughts each day. I am also starting to really learn HTML and CSS. While I could depend on a program to generate websites for me, I thought it would be fun to learn it myself. It has been a fun adventure already, I won’t lie.
That is about it for now. Oh, my swim set this morning:
200 Warmup
25×4 sprint, 5 breaths between
25×2 skulling
25×2 sprint, 5 breaths between
25×2 egg beater only
200 Cooldown
All in all, not a bad set for having not swam in about, oh, a million years.