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For some reason today, while sitting at work, I decided it was time to get my hair cut short.  For those that didn’t know, I had grown my hair very long over the course of 2 to 3 years.  The barber was in shock that I wanted it cut due to the way my hair naturally curls when it is long.  I pretty much wanted short hair thanks to the super hot summer and the tons of maintenance long hair requires.  So, within a half hour, my hair was made short.  I donated my 10inch segment of hair to a program for cancer patients so it could be put towards making a wig.  I like the long hair but this year’s weather doesn’t like it!

Looks like I’m about to work a 6 day work week starting Monday.  I don’t mind the overtime much since I don’t get it very often but it means only one off day to fool around with.  I haven’t been posting here as often as I should because I can’t seem to think of something to post that would be of any interest.  Maybe I should just come up with a rant about something or post something educational.   Then again, I love my lack of motivation, hah!

Well, looks like blizzard has started the cataclysm beta testing for WOW.  MMO-champion.com has been posting some nice information now that the NDA has been lifted on the expansion.  I look forward to possibly getting into the beta myself so I can get some face time with the stat and talent changes.

Well, after some guys at the office mentioned about going to Blizzcon this year, I figured I’d go as well since we could all car pool there.  As of 11:01am this morning, I got my tickets for Blizzcon so looks like I’ll need to make plans for the trip in October since that’s when they are having the convention.  It’s pretty exciting to think about since I’ve always wanted to go.  I’ll have to gear up my camera for pictures and what not so I can possibly share them here.

My friend Zancarius(alias Ben to those that know him) has found something online that might help break up some nights of boredom.  He found a fix for the old Tribes 2 game that allows us to finally play that game again online.  The game used a crappy concept of requiring some auth server to be able to play it online.  When that auth server went offline, it made the game totally useless.  They didn’t patch out that auth server check for the cd key so the game had no way of being played online.  Enter TribesNext.  Seems a guy came up with a ruby based fix to allow us to play Tribes 2 again.  And if you didn’t have it before, now you can download it and play it for free with his fix.

I haven’t had the opportunity to try all of this yet since I’m work but this all sounds promising since I always liked Tribes in the past.  Had some great multiplayer matches in that game but their company went down the wrong road and tanked the series and themselves.  I can’t run a linux server with this fix but I can run a server under wine since the windows server should work just fine.  I might post back later about what progress I/Ben have with this.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the game Pacman.  The only way I found out was from a coworker that went to search something up on google.com.  They had changed their logo to a pacman ish logo.  I found that it had a mouseover which mentioned the anniversary and if you click it, you can actually play pacman in the logo with your arrow keys.  Now that is cool!

That’s right, May 5th was my birthday but I don’t actually feel another year older.  I do feel wiser though.  Wise enough to know to take vacation from work on my birthday, haha!  It was a nice vacation and birthday.  No stress to deal with and I actually felt good about it.  For the past few years, I can only remember how stressful my birthdays have been since I’ve always worried about other stuff that I didn’t have to worry about.  Go figure!  Maybe with age I’m starting to worry less about things.  I have a habit of putting the weight of a problem on my shoulders and it can be unhealthy at times.

I have vacation coming up next week and everyone advises that I go out of the area for a little bit.  I’m torn as to what I want to do.  Course, due to my ill timing it seems I’ll be flying solo no matter what I choose to do.  It’s sort of depressing but so is the life of me.  Grin and bare it!  I’ve got a few ideas from coworkers but not sure which I’ll settle on.  I should just compile a list and look each up and see if I can afford a trip there or not and then plan it out the rest of the way.  We shall see though.  I have an entire week to make up my mind yet!

Windows 7 has all kinds of neat perks and tricks that anyone can take advantage of if they know where to look or do to use them.  Since beta, a friend of mine had wrote a few blog posts about Windows 7 and ways to tweak or use it.  You can find him and his rantings here.  I would have linked to every article but it’s better if you actually browse through his site since he has quite a few useful articles on all sorts of things.

The boys over at maximumpc.com have also done something similar about windows 7.  There’s quite a few pages to what they posted but its all good info.  If you haven’t checked these 2 sites out and you have windows 7, then I guess you need to haul click-butt over to them now!

I haven’t had much to post about lately.  It’s been so busy with work and company that I just haven’t had the time for much else.  Next week I should have something to put up on here.  Until then, hang in there!