Well, in the three days since I purchased the Vanguard Saga of Heroes pre-release DVD, I’ve managed only to rigorously test out their patch software. Every time I load it up, there’s been some new huge patch that takes hours or even half a day to download.
According to the New York Times, Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft is on pace to generate over $1 billion in revenue this year. The massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game (MMORPG) has over seven million paying subscribers and is the first video game to reach such a large market in the history of Internet gaming. Just [...]
I live and breathe TiVo now, and can’t understand how I lived without it for so many years. Even though I decided to upgrade our TiVo with a larger hard drive a few months ago, I can’t get myself to try some of the potentially destructive backdoor codes. That said, there are a few less-risky [...]
I’ve been bitten by the Blizzard bug again. This time it’s the new World of Warcraft saga, a huge four-CD massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short. The predecessor, Warcraft III, never gelled with me, mainly due to its complexity and less-than-interesting playing, but WoW is a fun, engaging, and addictive timewaster.
Installation is [...]
My son’s preschool schedule:
6:30 - 8:00 Arrivals, greetings, health checks and directed free play
8:00 - 8:30 Story, songs, games, etc.
8:30 - 9:00 Morning snack, bathroom time
9:00 - 10:30 Morning songs, calendar, job presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Outdoor free play
11:00 - 12:00 More story, songs, games, etc.
12:00 - 12:15 Clean up and lunch preparation
12:15 - 12:45 Lunch [...]
Despite NeoPet’s poor privacy and spam policy for older children and adults, I must admit that I’m hooked! I can understand why children and adults of both sexes enjoy it — it’s got the fantasy aspect of faeries and mystic creatures, the feeding and taking care aspects similar to the long forgotten electronic gigapets, the [...]
OK, this isn’t normally to my taste, but I admit I laughed long and “hard” at this topic I found posted on the Indiana University Computer Science website. It stems from a question posted to the Usenet Oracle sometime back in 1990.
“Is I really hard playing rock?”
“Dear Sir or Madam:
The question you have submitted requires [...]
