Website may be up and down over next few months. I'm currently doing a complete overhaul of everything. Going back to simple individual .htm pages, new overall site theme, sanitizing and cleaning up html of all pages and blog posts, attempting to implement a new tooling and publishing system etc etc.

Just killed the Lich King with my guildies for the first time since being away from the game for the last few months. The LK fight is a pretty technical fight that can go south very quickly if anyone in the raid makes a single mistake. But we got him down and we had 6 out of 10 people in the raid never complete the fight before, AND no one died during the encounter. woot !

Below is a quote from what I posted in raid chat after we killed the lich king.

"I'd just like to say relish this moment. You have just killed the end game content for this expansion, at level with apropreate gear ...
of the 40,000+ known toons i've discovered on this server only a very small percentage will actually complete this content. Congratz wuhoo :D"

It's a pretty good feeling knowing that your raid group has killed the end game boss for an expansion at level and wearing level apropreate gear for the content. That in an of it self is an achievement.


Netflix comes to canada

Published 10/15/2010 by createdbyx in News | Video
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I have started using the free one month trial for netflix and wanted to write a review of the content selection that they offer. Although there selection seems large but it is also decieving.

They frequently list movies based on search results and my personal preferences, but I am noticing that many of the movies listed are not actually availible for viewing.

Some of the movies that are listed but not availible for viewing

  1. Pretty Woman
  2. Erin Brockovich
  3. All Smallville seasons
  4. Stargate Atlantis/Universe/SG-1 Seasons
  5. The Lawnmower Man
  6. The Long Kiss Goodnight
  7. GI Jane
  8. FirnGully
  9. Point Break

I tried searching the site for information regarding why movies are listed but unavailible for viewing, but could not find any information. A bing/google search did not provide any information either. I am wondering if some of these unavailible movies will become availible after the one month free trial ends and I have actually been charged for a month of service but we will have to wait and see.

It is frustrating to search for a movie and be presented with a successfull search reasult but discover that the movie is unavailible to watch. If it's not availible why is it even in the system with a description of the movie to boot? There is also no date stating when the movie will become availible.

I will be making follow up posts about the netflix service here in canada, and hopefully there selection will improve within a resonable time frame.


Srsly Kewl & I R Back!

Published 10/15/2010 by createdbyx in Mushrooms | News
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Came across this video looking for Magnetic powered generators :P

Well i'm back from picking matsutake muchrooms, and still getting stuff organized. This years season did no go so well compared to last years, but that's just how it goes sometimes. Made about $9,000 CAD in last years season and only $470 this year. Which is a shame really cause there were plenty of mushrooms but either the depot(s) were shutdown, or the prices per pound were only $2.

Anyhoo seeing as how I did not do much picking when I was up there I did have more time to get some work done on my various XNA projects. Pretty much have them all converted over to XNA 4.0, which was a pain because xna 4.0 framework contained breaking changes.


Hiking video and Mushrooming

Published 8/17/2010 by createdbyx in News | Video

Just some video I took during a hiking trip up Thornhill Mountian.

Also I am leaving on august 18 to go mushroom picking again so I will not be back until about the end of october.


Awsome F1 Simulator

Published 8/13/2010 by createdbyx in Games | News | Video
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Sweet in home simulator rig !

 


This is definitely one of the coolest augmented reality videos I've seen yet.



Came across this really cool video

Published 6/25/2010 by createdbyx in News | Video
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Came across this really cool video all done with miniatures. The visual style is really engaging. It makes me feel like I'm watching some future version of a sim city video game.


Alot can be said about ...

Published 6/11/2010 by createdbyx in News
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Many people have seen this animated gif around the internet.

But a lot can be said about it as it relates to being a computer programmer ...

  • It starts off nice and calm, steadily typing away and generally getting work done.
  • Shortly there after for a brief moment the pace quickens as if to to suggest a great idea is under way.
  • Quick typing turns to mild frustration. Perhaps because of performing multi line copy/paste re-factoring that can quickly become strenuous without the right addons or IDE.
  • Soon frustration sets in, and coding results in button mashing as yet another failed aproach is realized.
  • Frustration builds and merges with past frustrations that quickly transform into mild anger. Anger towards insufficient tools, language limitations, and the realization that a computer is just a over glorified calculator, you still need to tell it to how to equate every step of the way. IE: 1 + 1.
  • A vocal outburst can be seen. A scream of a thousand thousand hours of endless coding. And it still does not work right.
  • Teeth clench to bite off the noise. In the next instant self preservation switches off. The hands welt and bruise, the bones of the wrists and arms begin to shatter and explode upon impact.
  • There is no turning back at this point. With arms no more then stumps, only the face remains.
  • The forhead splits, teeth slip there roots.
  • The eyes that have looked upon millions, no billions of lines of code are next to go. 
  • The remaining skull and jaw bones shatter upon impact.
  • Leaning back, exausted and bloodied, bearly concious, moments from death, it is over. No more frustration, no more stress, the last of many projects left unfinished.
  • Gravity takes over and pulls the lifeless corpse down upon the keyboard that recorded countless keystrokes.
  • As the remaining blood leaks out, and the last spark of thought to cross the mind is that nothing had been acomplished.

All that remains is the blood, sweat and tears that now cover the souless machine.

But all is not lost. For this is but an imagining. Thus the image resets and begins a new. An endless repeating loop, each iteration invoking further reflection.

 


Nightmare week

Published 5/17/2010 by createdbyx in News
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This last week has been a nightmate trying to get two websites running under the same hosting provider but finally after much frustration I have this site back up and running for the most part. There are still a few lingering issues to be ironed out, but i'll get to them when I get to them. Other then that have not done much. 

Waiting around for XNA 4 to be officially released. After this week of friggin around with my websites I've been longing to get back to some desktop/game programming.


Robo Erotica/Art

Published 3/29/2010 by createdbyx in News
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Came accross this video on youtube and felt it was worth bringing attention to. I normally don't post such content but I think it is one of those videos that draws your attention and it is something I can really apreciate as an art piece.


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Name of author Dean Lunz (aka Created by: X)
Computer programming nerd, and tech geek.
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