The Mothership

As nice as it is to visit friends and family, it’s still nice to be back in your own home, too.

Plus, one lesson learned: don’t take along on your trip more big, heavy books than you could possibly read even with copious free time…

I only just noticed that they finally revealed what the 23 new runewords on the 1.10 Diablo II ladder are, and it’s about time. It was a bit unrealistic for them to have expected us to discover them for ourselves when you consider that there’s around a *billion* different possible combinations when you consider six-socket items, and that many of the runes are very rare. When something like a Zod rune only has a one-in-137-million chance of dropping, you’re not going to waste it on trying some random combination that’s very, very unlikely to turn out to be one of the undiscovered runewords…

You’d better not mess with my undead priest now that’s he’s acquired his newest weapon:

Word around the office is that there was a shooting this morning at the convenience store I stop at on the way to work most days, just a block away from the office. And, a coworker saw the nearby train platform closed one day recently due to a stabbing.

Being on the edge of downtown, this isn’t exactly one of the best neighbourhoods, but it hadn’t seemed that bad before…

It took a bit of fiddling, but I finally have DVD menus working for the TV shows I’m capturing. There are tools available for putting together the menus interactively, but I wanted something a bit more automated, and it’s not like I’m going to spend a lot of time carefully painting beautiful pictures for each one.

Now I can finally start burning TV episodes, since I didn’t want to have them all as one big stream where you’d have to fast-forward or rewind to the right starting point…
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Last night, for the first time, I had to tell a telephone survey that no, I could not participate in their survey because I’m *too old* for their range.

*sigh*

Well, throw one more onto the list: World of Warcraft. I actually started about a week ago, but didn’t really have much time to play or think about it recently.
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Forget the 8-buns-vs-10-hotdogs problem. What really needs to be solved is the 30-minute-washer-vs-45-minute-dryer problem…

Let’s see… Apparently there are 373 or so blog entries on this site, each one with a unique URL.

There’s also an RSS comments feed link for each entry, and although it’s not explicitly linked, some crawlers are following the trackback URL as well, for another 746 URLs.

Plus, entries can be referenced by date. I pretty much write only once per day, so that’s another 373 by-day links, plus 16 by-month links.

And, of course, various other miscellaneous links. 16 categories, two main page feeds, and the main page itself, for another 19.

That makes a total of at least 1527 different URLs just within the site itself.

It’s no wonder then that web crawlers make up the vast majority of server hits…

It looks like Steam is still generating a lot of controversy, and what would a gaming-heavy blog be without yet another uninformed opinion…

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Even I forget what I have and what I’m working on, so collected here is a list of all of the games still on the pile: (Updated 05-29-2006)

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