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Kudos to Blizzard!

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Downloader for Warcraft III

I gotta hand it to Blizzard. They, for the most part, really know how to take care of their customers. I purchased the old Warcraft III and Diablo II games years ago. At this point the original CDs are just about unusable, for example I figured out I could still play Diablo II, but only if I could start a new game within 6 seconds of the main menu appearing. Now blizzard has set-up a system to allow those of us who have bought their older games to enter our old CD keys and download a non-CD version of the same games. They were definitely under no obligation to do this, but they did it anyways. It just goes to show you that Blizz really does care about their customers, even the older ones who may not have bought anything from them for a while.

I only have one gripe and it’s not even Blizz’s fault. In one of the recent updates to Leopard, Apple removed the 256 color mode (which these older games rely on) for their computers with NVidia cards. So for now I cannot play them, but rumor has it that the upcoming 10.5.5 update is supposed to restore that function and allow these games to be played again.

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An exercise in excess

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

WoW:Burning Crusade Stock Update to 2.4.0

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Shame on CNN…and they wonder why people stop watching

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Dugg on Digg: CNN asks You tube to pull the orginal Bill Maher statement on Ken Mehlman

Although I don’t agree with Bill Maher(or anyone for that matter) outing people that haven’t decided for themselves to come out as being gay. Attempting to rewrite history is bad too. In this day and age it’s impossible, whether you like it or not, to erase something once it is out in the open. All that you end up doing is drawing more attention to it and causing a bigger brouhaha than you would have had before.

In other news Ken Mehlman will be stepping down as RNC Chairman in January as was announced today.

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Yahoo Mail Beta should have been an Alpha

Monday, October 16th, 2006

Yahoo Mail Beta and Safari

In a day and age when there is such a push for web standards I find it inconceivable that a major internet company can’t design a new interface that will work in a majority of the major browsers. Some may argue that Safari is not a major browser because it’s current market share is in the vicinity of 3.5%. Fortunately or unfortunately Apple’s OS X is still a major player in the consumer OS market and OS X’s primary built-in browser is Safari. Yes I could use Firefox or Internet Explorer, but when I am on my Mac I prefer to use Safari unless I absolutely have to.

Browser incompatibility isn’t the only reason that Yahoo’s new Mail Beta needs some work. I tried it in Firefox on both my PC and my Mac to disasterous results. The new interface would be better termed as Yahoo Mail Billboard, as in the billboards you see driving down the freeway. There are so many ads that the interface is cluttered to the point of confusion. To make matters worse, in order to maximize their advertising dollars various areas of the page continuously reload themselves and their rotating ads. Since the ads are continuously changing you would expect that Yahoo would be careful about each of the ads keeping a uniform size….they weren’t. The end result of this mess is a page that appears to be having a seizure, each time an ad reloads and changes size the page has to readjust to fit the new size.

The verdict: Yahoo, please please please remove this embarrassment and wait until you have it fixed before you attempt to roll it out again

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