Archive for September, 2005

Microchanges in Air Density?

Posted by Lance on 28th September , 2005

Ok, I know that I’ve only been doing Ditlog for a few weeks, but my morbid curiosity is welling. Is anyone out there reading? Kindly drop me a comment with any constructive criticism or a quick blurb on what you like. Sorry to wax self-promotive, but I’m trying to gauge whether my efforts at Technorati [...]

Training Cats and Dogs: Part Deux

Posted by Lance on 28th September , 2005

Ok, I have to apologize. I’d never intended Ditlog to devolve into a episodic, stream of consciousness journal of the Misadventures of Erilar the Hunter. I mean, who wants to read that? It’s like the old geek joke about hanging out at the gaming convention and the slightly disturbingly weird uber-geek who won’t stop following [...]

Training Cats and Dogs

Posted by Lance on 27th September , 2005

Played another great WoW session a few days ago, but didn’t have time to blog it. After upgrading my gear, I needed to spend some time on my trusty companion, Zuel the hunting cat. I first headed down to Stranglethorn, to a little island off the east coast called Jaguero Isle. There lurks an elusive [...]

The Edges of Blackrock

Posted by Lance on 22nd September , 2005

Well, last night was another great session of WoW (see yesterday’s post for even more goodness)! Spent the evening questing in Burning Steppes, and actually finished picking up all of the pre-requisite quests for Blackrock Depths. First endgame dungeon, here I come! After returning from their successful Zul’Gurub run (in which they took down the [...]

Whirl of Warcraft

Posted by Lance on 21st September , 2005

I’ve finally found some time to spend playing WoW the last two nights. I’ve been working on the house like a dog, and was starting to get twitchy. Monday night, I tackled my level 52 hunter quest in Azshara – searching for the furbolg hunter trainer out in the sticks, hunting some wild stags for [...]

WoW Companion

Posted by Lance on 16th September , 2005

I wanted to turn folks on to a cool website/program called WoW Companion that lets one upload the data from their World of Warcraft character(s) and display them via the web. WoW Companion uses a Java app to autogenerate (and then host) a webpage that looks like the character pane from WoW. It even lets [...]

One Point Seven!

Posted by Lance on 13th September , 2005

It’s patch day, kiddies, and I’m happy – my main’s a hunter!

The GeezerHorde Grows!

Posted by Lance on 13th September , 2005

Zug, zug! World of Warcraft players from my RL gaming group, along with folks from Geezer Gamers, have started a Horde guild on the Windrunner WoW server. We’re up to 9 players and growing, not too bad considering we’ve only been at this a few days. We were all looking for a group of players [...]

TavernCast

Posted by Lance on 9th September , 2005

After some prodding from my wife and my tech-savvy friends Ken and Jim, I’ve been getting into listening to podcasts over the last month or so. What a great new technology. I mean, before podcasting, what were the odds of finding a talk radio show about a topic as audience-specific as video games, or sci-fi, [...]

Dark New Day

Posted by Lance on 9th September , 2005

While I’m touting music, I have to push one more band – Dark New Day. Our hometown has a huge annual 10-day music festival called, simply enough, Musikfest. My wife and I had volunteered to work as ushers at several shows, including Seether with Crossfade. The second opening band turned out to be Dark New [...]