Thanks goodness its the weekend

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TGI (fri|s[au][tn][u]?[r]?)day

New Content for WoW...great :P

While Eliah from WoW Insider can't wait for the next patch, there is no sense of urgency here. I'm in the middle of leveling my second character which I started in November. While I do take pleasure in leveling, I have more fun in endgame. My first main dinged 60 pre Burning Crusade and had a good six months of end game raiding. After that Burning Crusade debuted and I lost interest while running the leveling treadmill back to 70. Last November I returned to WoW when a friend started playing and rerolled Horde on a new server. Thank goodness 20-60 has been greatly speed up, but there is still the obvious 60-70 grind ahead of me. Now I'm coming to the realization that when I finally do reach 70 (sometime this summer) Lich King will nearly be upon us. That means 10 more levels... Woo Hoo. So at the time being-  I'm 44 which would mean I have 26 levels to endgame, but its starting to look more like 36. Now Sunwell Plateau I'd love to see, but I'm not high level enough to appreciate the new content yet. All I know is the sooner the 2.4 is released the closer they are to releasing Lich King. So the dangling carrot game goes on as I push forward. When will I reach engame?  Who knows.

 

Retro Servers anyone?

Today is brought to you by the number 6

6 is how many of my butts it would take up to fill the whole cushion of my office chair.

 

Pictoral representation:

 

 

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more RSS wikipedia

As a follow up to my old post, I recently noticed you'll only see comments of the changes, not the full description of comments in the rss feed. This means if whoever made the change doesn't explicitly state what he changed in the comments your left guessing of the edit. I'll look more into this when I get more time.

If the shirt fits buy it

For years I've dreaded clothes shopping. One reason is nothing ever fits my jokey-esqe statue. Picking up shirts and pants excitedly and then trying them on only to be disappointed was the norm. Now the things are different. Now I shop in ...

 

(drumroll)

 

The Boys Section. There are two big advanatages here. First I find clothes that actually fit and secondly I can pay a fraction of the price for them. However there are downsides. The only people in the boys section are usually 10 year old boys and their moms.The other big problem is the boy's section of a deparment store is usually on a whole other floor then the men's section. This presents a difficulty when finding a fitting room. You either have to haul your clothes downstairs on the escalator or enter a fitting room decorated with clown and sailboat paintings. After surviving the fitting session your faced with the cashier. I feel awkward buying kids clothes, so its nice to have another person with you when you approach the register. I usually say something like "How long till Brian will outgrow these pants?". Anything that hints that the clothes aren't for you. What I don't recommend is bribing kids to come to the register with you. Especially children you run into the kids dressing room. If the parents catch view your intentions may appear less than innocent.

 

Overall the experience is not easy, but you'll be celebrating as you leave the store with clothes that fit at bargain prices.

RSS + Wikipedia Change History = :)

I'm sure most people by now are familiar with Wikipedia. If you don't then your probably over 40 or live in a third world country. What you might NOT know is about the Change History (tab in top right corner). When you click this you'll see a list of recent changes. Highlight two adjacent versions and click 'Compare' and you see the differences. Why is this so great? Well its a good way to keep track of items your interested in. Now I knew about Wikipedia and Change History for some time, but I didn't know is... its syndicated. WooHoo! Sooo just subscribe with you favorite news reader to the the Change History (RSS link is in the bottom left hand corner) and voila you have your own custom news generated from Wikipedia changes.

Here's an example.  I have an interest in knowing when Xbox Live releases new arcade games. Because Microsoft does not syndicate this info.. at least as far as I'm aware. I found a wiki entry for a list of released arcade titles. Now after subscribing to the change history feed. I'm notifed every time there is a change to the article. This keeps me up to date of new releases and I don't have to check the page every day. Its Magic. Web 2.0 FTW.