My best friend Janell is always getting text messages from work, but I'm betting they would NEVER text this message to her...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060804/od_afp/britaintelecomjobs
Friday, August 4, 2006
Thursday, August 3, 2006
When I was Eighteen...
I've gotten my new WoW character, a paladin, up to level 18 and so far I'm still holding interest. It will be instance time soon for him. The Deadmines are calling. I'll probably get him run through there twice just for the drops and XP. I'm a little behind on the quest curve I think. I've completed all the yellows and have nothing but orange (more difficult) quests. So I might need to grind up to level 19 before I go much further. I've had this problem since early on actually. At level 11, the quests suddenly jumped to level 15... with nothing in between! Had to run down to another starting zone and pick some up there. I might have to do the same thing here except I'll be running WAY over to Darkshore and Ashenvale, the Night Elf starting zone. :/
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Asteroids
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Cynically Challenged
Sometimes I think my office mate has some SERIOUS issues up top. He flies off the handle so easily and when he does it's so extreme that the rest of us are wondering where he's getting all this stuff from. Like just now, we received a letter from one of our partners that listed some approved products and what not. It was just their normal monthly email listing any changes.
Well Binky over here flies all off the handle thinking they are trying to screw us because some products aren't approved...products that we specialize in...and that this email is just a slap in the face from them. In fact, the products are in the system and just haven't made it to public consumption yet...but binky over here is thinking they're deliberately sending out emails to us that they are NOT going to approve them.
And he gets so cynical about everything. He thinks everyone is trying to screw us over and that everyone we try to do business with is just out to abuse us. And unfortunately, he's our first line of marketing... not a good face to be putting up front...
Well Binky over here flies all off the handle thinking they are trying to screw us because some products aren't approved...products that we specialize in...and that this email is just a slap in the face from them. In fact, the products are in the system and just haven't made it to public consumption yet...but binky over here is thinking they're deliberately sending out emails to us that they are NOT going to approve them.
And he gets so cynical about everything. He thinks everyone is trying to screw us over and that everyone we try to do business with is just out to abuse us. And unfortunately, he's our first line of marketing... not a good face to be putting up front...
Monday, July 31, 2006
Exit & Entrance
July is winding done...finally. Can't say I really enjoyed this month all that much. It stirred up a bunch of emotions in me that I thought I had buried long ago. I return to old projects though... like this blog, so that's given me some therapy.
Tonight is another HF chat. I'm torn as to go or not. I'm really starting to WANT to play WoW so I might just boot up the ol' laptop next to the desktop and put the HF chat on the laptop while I play WoW.
Tonight is another HF chat. I'm torn as to go or not. I'm really starting to WANT to play WoW so I might just boot up the ol' laptop next to the desktop and put the HF chat on the laptop while I play WoW.
Going In Slowly
I'm not being too cautious in posting this so soon... but I think I might be getting back in to WoW with a new character. I'm trying a paladin...he's got mana, but doesn't use much of it so it's kinda fun. :) All I know is... all day today, I've wanted to boot up my laptop and go in to WoW and play... and I'm at work! LOL
Ditty fer Fiddy...Part 2
A few days ago, I received my Dell DJ Ditty MP3 player. Gawd it's tiny... I know that was one of it's featured selling points but dayum!. This thing is about the size a large block eraser we use to use in elementary school!
As far as functionality goes, my feelings are mixed. While the price was right at just under $40, the Ditty is lacking several mainstream features that other players offer... most notibly the Music Library itself. Oh sure, there's a Music Library option on the menu... but it just opens up the play modes for either Audiobooks or Music and that's all. There isn't a way to select an artist or album. So skipping through your music becomes a chore if you have the thing filled to capacity, which is approximately 150 songs or so.
But skipping through tracks causes another flaw to show up... and I know it's not just my player or a defective one-off sort of thing. Skipping rapidly through the tracks causes the player to stutter... why I'm not sure. But only a complete power-off and power-on sequence can stop the stuttering after you've skipped through too quickly or just bypassed too many songs. I know it's not just my player because my Mom has the Dell Pocket DJ (the one that was above the Ditty before it was discontinued) and when she skips songs it does the same thing.
So if you LOVE the music you are putting on to the play... and don't plan on skipping tracks... and just want to listen to music on a player that is no-frills with a very cheap price tag, then the Ditty is for you... but there are plenty of other players out there that are just a bit more in price with a few more user friendly features.
As far as functionality goes, my feelings are mixed. While the price was right at just under $40, the Ditty is lacking several mainstream features that other players offer... most notibly the Music Library itself. Oh sure, there's a Music Library option on the menu... but it just opens up the play modes for either Audiobooks or Music and that's all. There isn't a way to select an artist or album. So skipping through your music becomes a chore if you have the thing filled to capacity, which is approximately 150 songs or so.
But skipping through tracks causes another flaw to show up... and I know it's not just my player or a defective one-off sort of thing. Skipping rapidly through the tracks causes the player to stutter... why I'm not sure. But only a complete power-off and power-on sequence can stop the stuttering after you've skipped through too quickly or just bypassed too many songs. I know it's not just my player because my Mom has the Dell Pocket DJ (the one that was above the Ditty before it was discontinued) and when she skips songs it does the same thing.
So if you LOVE the music you are putting on to the play... and don't plan on skipping tracks... and just want to listen to music on a player that is no-frills with a very cheap price tag, then the Ditty is for you... but there are plenty of other players out there that are just a bit more in price with a few more user friendly features.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Relying on Trust
Take this post with a grain of salt, but I think I've kinda figured out why I'm not into WoW as much as a use to be. Yes, I'm bored with it (doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...isn't that the defination of something?) but there is something else. It kind of fits in the real world too. Not sure I'm taking my real world emotions into the game or if I'm taking my virtual world feelings with me when I leave, but it's basically this...
I've lost trust in people. Granted, there are 1 or 2 people I still trust implicitly, but the population as a whole? It's never been good for me to trust anyone. I usually wind up getting burned. So i've slowly been drifting toward the realization that the only person you can trust is yourself. I think I've brought this depressing reality with me to WoW. It takes 40 people to successfully complete high-end instances in WoW. And not just 40 warm bodies but 40 people who know their jobs, have spent time getting geared, know what's expected of them, and can get the job done without causing issues. And all 40 of these people need to rely on each other... that's 39 other people counting on you to do your job and you're counting on them to do theirs.
WoW is classified as an MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online (booku peeps online at once) role playing game. As such, many of the aspects of the game physically required you to deal with people... to trust them... to group with them... and hope they do their jobs and not screw you. It's the one aspect I've never really liked. I'm a loner, a "do-it-yourself" kind of person. Physically working with others I've never met just doesn't work well for me. It's caused most my WoW characters to be abandoned when groups start become a necessity to advance further.
Now, for those that know which characters I play... yes I have a level 60 Hunter and a level 60 mage. But you want to know something? I didn't get either of those characters to 60. I abandoned my hunter around the mid 40s and my best friend Janell played it up higher. I abandoned my mage around level 50 and again Janell brought it up to 59 and a half. So why do I play now in a 40-man raid? Simple... I'm a much smaller aspect of the raid. There are usually 4 other mages there... and 1 out of 40 means I can blend in a whole lot more than 1 out of just 5.
I've lost trust in people. Granted, there are 1 or 2 people I still trust implicitly, but the population as a whole? It's never been good for me to trust anyone. I usually wind up getting burned. So i've slowly been drifting toward the realization that the only person you can trust is yourself. I think I've brought this depressing reality with me to WoW. It takes 40 people to successfully complete high-end instances in WoW. And not just 40 warm bodies but 40 people who know their jobs, have spent time getting geared, know what's expected of them, and can get the job done without causing issues. And all 40 of these people need to rely on each other... that's 39 other people counting on you to do your job and you're counting on them to do theirs.
WoW is classified as an MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online (booku peeps online at once) role playing game. As such, many of the aspects of the game physically required you to deal with people... to trust them... to group with them... and hope they do their jobs and not screw you. It's the one aspect I've never really liked. I'm a loner, a "do-it-yourself" kind of person. Physically working with others I've never met just doesn't work well for me. It's caused most my WoW characters to be abandoned when groups start become a necessity to advance further.
Now, for those that know which characters I play... yes I have a level 60 Hunter and a level 60 mage. But you want to know something? I didn't get either of those characters to 60. I abandoned my hunter around the mid 40s and my best friend Janell played it up higher. I abandoned my mage around level 50 and again Janell brought it up to 59 and a half. So why do I play now in a 40-man raid? Simple... I'm a much smaller aspect of the raid. There are usually 4 other mages there... and 1 out of 40 means I can blend in a whole lot more than 1 out of just 5.
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