World of Warcraft Visa

Yeah… there is a visa for World of Warcraft now. Its your typical rewards visa, except that in this case the rewards come in the form of game time. Yup, game time. Check out the application on WoW’s website.

Subfolder Dungeons

I was emailing my Dad back and forth talking about web design stuff and remembered that I have a bunchy of stuff hidden around my site in subfolders. Like little Dungeons where I keep unfinished projects. I wrote up an email to him to show them off, and thought I would post it up here as well for the beinfit of anybody who is interested.

http://www.indemnity83.com/female-rock <--- Easily my favorite design, was based on another site's look but I created the HTML and CSS completely from scratch. The page is completely driven with CSS. Its an extreemly good proof of the power of CSS, it was kind of the culmination of my CSS learning.

http://www.indemnity83.com/myspace/demo.htm <---- Something I started, and never got any further with. I was playing with a method for doing transparancies. The semi-transparent box in the middle is done by putting a background image of alternating white and transparent pixels.

http://www.indemnity83.com/ForgottenSamurai/ <--- The HTML on this one is horrendous and it still has a long way to go, but the final product I think looks really sweet. It started out looking like this: http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/ but I wanted it to match the theme of the game website that the discussion pretains to… so hopefully it looks an aweful lot like this site http://www.worldofwarcraft.com

Warcraft

I got my mount last night, pretty nice to be able to run around from place to place really fast. I unfortunately also ran out of coin too so I can’t train any of the new skills that require level 40. Yeah I know… its sad.

Comic courtesy of Penny Arcade, click the thumbnail for the full sized strip.

Leasons Learned (the hard way)

Friday was a beautiful day, first full day of sun in a very long time. I have Friday’s off from EDC, and spent the morning running around to some of my own clients but was done by noon. For the first time in my life (I’m almost 23 now) I actually paid for a haircut. For pretty much all my life my Mom has done a great job cutting my hair, but I wanted to try something new so I went to a pro. Kelli Purpura did a great job and I’m really happy with the new do, when I get a chance I’ll get a picture and link it here. I bought The Chronicles of Narnia and watched that Friday night. Tried to get Amy to come over, but she didn’t ever call me back .

Saturday is when the shit started to hit the preverbal fan. I woke up with a terrible sore throat, stuffy nose and watery eyes. The previous days breeze had blown about the tree pollens that caused my usually nonexistent allergies to flare up, but I stuck it out and by midday I was feeling better so I helped Nick put Keith’s old exhaust, tires and wheels on his car. And here is the lesson learned, sometime while I was under the car something must have fallen in my eye. I found out yesterday that it cut my eyeball (luckily not the cornea) and got infected. Sunday was miserable, I couldn’t really use my eye, any thing that made my eye change focus caused me pain from the swelling and I spent most of the day laid out on the couch with my eyes closed and basically a cool towel over my eyes. Monday I came into work, but ended up going home at 7:30 and my Mom picked me up from home to go up and see the doctor. That’s when I found out I had cut my eye (pretty simple procedure, the put a UV reflective dye in your eye and hold a UV light over it so they can see where the dye pools). I was prescribed Ciprofloxacin (sip·row·flox·uh·sin) Eye drops, an antibiotic to kill the infection and today (tuesday) I’m doing much better. My eye is still red, and a little swollen, but I can actually look at the computer screen. So, long story short and lesson learned, wear eye protection, especially when working underneath something.

Speaking of monitors, the 24″ of Juicy Goodness arrived yesterday. I was actually surprised to be able to run World of Warcraft at 1920×1200 with full detail at a decent frame rate (between 20 and 30fps). Again, as soon as I clean off my desk a bit I’ll post a picture.

P.S. if anybody can tell me what the heck the triangle in the chemical structure for ciprofloxacin means I would really appreciate it. Also, as a side note the “Side Effects” of this anti-biotic include Eye discomfort, itching, redness, tearing, elelid crusting, feeling as if something is in your eye, blurred vision, a bad taste in your mouth and sensitivity to light. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia).

24″ of Juicy Goodness

[fa:p:a=blog-images,id=1104075923,j=l,s=s,l=p]I did it, about an hour ago I placed an order for a 24″ Dell Ultrasharp Monitor. Nick and Mike (my roomates) are going to be buying my two old 17″ screens to help offset the cost. So why did I go with a single screen over my beloved dual-screen system?

In a word, “World of Warcraft”. OK, so not really a single word, but a single title. I find myself doing less programming at home now and more gaming. I probably cycle though every 6-8 months on this subject though so expect me to change again soon, I’m just fickle like that.

The second thing that made me think I could handle the single monitor living is that the native resolution of this screen 1920×1200 is large enough that I could tile Dreamweaver and Firefox vertically and still have decent room for each application. We’ll see how that works out though.

I obviously don’t have my monitor yet, but I did a quick google search for some pictures, and I think this picture does a great job of demonstrating just how big a 24″ monitor is. The screen to the left is a 17″ monitor, likely the size you are looking at right now.

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