2012 in Review

The end of the year is upon us.  The world did not end so we have 2013 and beyond to look forward to. But before we do let’s take a look back at 2012. (For reference, here’s my 2012 outlook and 2011 review) Life By far the biggest change of 2012 Read more…

I Hate .rar

Seriously people, why can’t you compress your files into a .zip file like everyone else? Anyone can open a .zip file. But I can’t open a .rar file without getting a separate program. I don’t want to install random free program with who knows what attached to it or buy Read more…

2012, Here We Come

After yesterday’s look back at 2012, today we’re going to look forward to 2012. What does the year have in store for us? Games My outlook on games in 2012 is pretty limited. SWTOR is out and I expect that to be the main thing I play, at least for Read more…

2011, We Hardly Knew Ya

Apparently, at the end of the year, it is a common practiceto look back at the previous year and forward to the new year. Not one to buck tradition, unless I feel like it, here is my look back at 2011: Games Highs SWTOR Released: I’m still having a lot Read more…

Six Month Review

Today marks 6months since I began this diversion into Blogdom. It has been an interesting experience. I love numbers so let’s take a look: At the 3 month mark things looked like this: 1174 Unique Visitors 76 RSS Feeds 4861 Pageviews 216 Comments 114 Non-Spam Comments Now, 3 months later Read more…

Name Change

I decided to change the name of one of my posts. It was title Star Wars Beta News because it was about the lifting of the journalist NDA on SWTOR.  However, I was getting dozens of spam comments on it every day. My spammed comments went from 130 or so Read more…

Revenge of the Spammers

For a month or two now, since I installed an IP ban program, the number of spam posts have gone down significantly.  The number of real comments was climbing well ahead of spam comments. Last night, they fought back. The ban program tracks attempts to access by banned IP’s. Yesterday, Read more…

Three Month Review

Today marks three months since I decided to try this blog experiment.  This almost marked post number 100, but will be post 102. I’ve made it a point to try and make a post every week day. Sometimes I’ve done more than one, sometimes I’ve done some on the weekend. Read more…