onetimesilence

Life is hard; it’s even harder if you’re stupid. -John Wayne

If you enjoy the history and lore of Azeroth, then you would probably love to check out the short stories located at the World of Warcraft website.

Varian Wrynn: Blood of Our Fathers

We saw the smoke from my mom’s house. I thought that it was right down the road.
But the more we drove the bigger and bigger that smoke got. We ended up south of Magnolia.

Walton Fire from Michael Scott Cooley on Vimeo.

 

We’re no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of
You wouldn’t get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling
Gotta make you understand

Ooh ooh
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We’ve known each other for so long
Your heart’s been aching but
You’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know what’s been going on
We know the game and we’re gonna play it
And if you ask me how I’m feeling
Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
(Ooh)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)

We’ve know each other for so long
Your heart’s been aching but
You’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know what’s been going on
We know the game and we’re gonna play it

I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling
Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

I found this article today from a fellow who was proud enough to disclose the social disruptions that keep him from his work during a typical day.

When a man regains consciousness in a Voltron battle lion after an “accident” he has to decide does he live a few more minutes or try to tell the world what happened… the end is only the beginning.

This evening I sat down with hopes to hit the 100% completion mark in Red Dead Redemption.

I played this game slowly throughout the last 6 months, but only now am I considering the status of my game fulfillment.

After last night’s twist, I’m still trying to pick up the pieces. I didn’t like the end of RDR, and now I want the RDR chapter of my game-time to end.

I’ve started using an extension for Google Chrome that makes it even easier to listen to the music that I want to listen to right from my browser. To those of you who are brand new to the internet and to streaming music, I want to introduce three products to you. The best part is that they are all free.

1. Google Chrome

Download it now. And stop using Internet Explorer. I mean it. Even with the updates to Internet Explorer 9, IE and Microsoft are simply not following the rules and it makes for a sloppy internet. Unfortunately, we have to keep IE for those emergency situations where websites are poorly built to support only IE. This is a bad case of “if Johnny jumped off a cliff, would you?” …many websites jumped.

Google Chrome has a very simple user interface, it takes only a few minutes to find your way around, there are plenty of keyboard shortcuts to help speed up your work, it’s safe, and it’s fast.

2. Pandora

If you love music, love to listen to the radio, and love to discover new music, Pandora should be on your list of favorite tools. You can set up a free account at Pandora’s site and start listening now. This is all done on the website and no download is necessary.

Update (2011-10-13): They just enhanced their website as well. It’s even better than before!

You type in a keyword, artist name, song name, or genre to start the player. It will find “like” music and stream it to your player. As the songs play, you can give them a “thumbs up” to suggest that this song play more often, and you can “thumbs down” to keep the song from playing anymore. The site does have advertisements placed between every few songs to counter the site usage. But they are not obtrusive advertisements.

3. Pandora Extension / Anesidora

Once you have Google Chrome up and going and have seen Pandora in action, you’re ready for the next stage.

Google Chrome has a Web Store where you can download add-ons to Google Chrome. Some are free downloads and other cost (usually) a small fee. This allows to extend the capabilities of Chrome.

Update (2011-10-13): the extension was recently taken off of the Chrome Web Store. It has been uploaded to another site by the creator. The name has also been changed to Pandora Extension.

Robert Alten created an extension of Pandora to work with Google Chrome. This extension is called Anesidora Pandora Extension.

It creates a small icon next to the address bar to hold your Pandora music player. This way you don’t have an extra tab open in your browser. It pulls the info from Pandora right into the extension.

You can also sync the songs you played with your Last.fm account.

Want a quick game to pass some time away? Here’s a little game I found today. It progressively adds more challenges to add to the complexity of the puzzles. It should keep you going for a bit.

I’m actually stuck at the moment. I spent about 5 minutes on one level. I’ll jump back to it soon.

http://bartbonte.com/portal/impasse.html

I noticed today that I didn’t have to use my authentication number while signing into World of Warcraft.

Oh No! It’s broken! I’ve been hacked? What’s wrong.

Actually, it seems that they’ve tried to make it easier for us to use the athenticator. If you are logging in from a location that is common to your account, it bypasses the security code. I tried this a few times to be sure. I logged in from another location to check and it asked. Then I came back to my main gaming spot.

After logging in a few times it eventually asked me for my code again.

So maybe Blizzard is just cutting down on the frequency of security code requests from known locations.

Does this make you feel safe about your account? Are you happy with this change?