Another relaxing afternoon. I’ve spent a little time working with Google SiteMaps, so hopefully Google will be able to crawl the site more easily.
I’ve been watching the first season of Six Feet Under. It’s morbid, but fascinating.
WoW is just as fun as I remember it. Maybe I can get in an extended session within the next few days.
I really like World of Warcraft, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to resist the urge to play Dungeons & Dragons Online. Maybe one game will win out over the other if I try both. I have too much free time on my hands right now.
World of Warcraft has won for the time being. I have a character on Frostwolf and another on Detheroc. The one on Frostwolf will probably be my main. You get three guesses on his name, but you’ll probably only need one. He’s a human paladin. The one on Detheroc is a Night Elf Druid and might be deleted if I don’t like him.
I haven’t done anything with either character yet, but tonight after 24 that will change.
My dilemma right now is whether or not I should play World of Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons Online. If I don’t decide on something soon, I may play neither and put off MMORPG’s for a little longer.
I’ve played World or Warcraft before. Unfortunately, it came around the same time as Everquest II, so I didn’t get to play WoW much. I did have fun when I got to play. I really like Blizzard games. The game performed well on my system. I liked being able to work alone at times. I liked the fact that you could get in a quick session and feel like you’ve accomplished something in that time. The look of the game wasn’t my favorite, but it worked. I only know of one person for certain who is still playing the game, so I would have to play mostly with strangers, which isn’t really a big deal. I still have my copy of the game, so I wouldn’t have to buy another one.
I don’t know whole lot about Dungeons and Dragons Online. My computer is starting to get close to the low end, so it may not handle this game as well as WoW. From what I’ve heard it’s hard to make progress if you go solo. Fortunately, there will probably be a lot new people near the same level as me since it is a fairly new game. I think some of my friends are playing the game right now, so that would be a plus. I don’t own a copy, so I would have to buy one.
It’s been about a year since I’ve played an MMORPG. Hopefully I’ll be back in the mix soon.
Money Magazine and Salary.com researched hundreds of jobs and compiled a list of the top 50 best jobs in America. The factors they considered are: 10-year job growth, pay, stress levels, and “other factors”. You can view the list here.
The number one job on their list is Software Engineer. YAY! That’s the job title I hope to have soon. The teaching job was never meant to be permanent. It’s looks like my Master’s in Computer Science might actually be worth something one day.
The average annual salary is around $80,000 and the job growth is 46%. The grades they gave Software Engineer are:
Stress: B
Flexibility: B
Creativity: A
Ease of Entry: C
Sounds good, huh?
I am very excited about the new Pearl Jam album coming out next month. Yes, they are still making music. The self-titled album is their 8th studio album and will be released on May 2. It’s their first studio album since late 2002. I’m going to pre-order my copy now.
The first single, “Worldwide Suicide”, has been available for free download on http://bootlegs.pearljam.com for the past few weeks. It’s an anti-war song, not a song telling everyone to kill themselves.
What’s really cool is how much I’ve heard that song on the radio around here. I would’ve expected it on the MSU station, but I’ve only heard it on two completely different stations. I think those two are owned by the same company, but it’s nice to know there are still some stations around here that are friendly to Pearl Jam.
The phrase “Fighting crime in a future time” has been in my memory and pops into my head at random times (not very often, though). I don’t think I knew where it came from until tonight. I was in Blockbuster and saw C.O.P.S. on DVD. This is an animated series that aired from 1988 to 1989 (yes, I’m that old) and has nothing to do with the reality show Cops. It’s one of those things that come up that make you think of your childhood and the good old days. I’m sure I’ll rent it eventually, but I wonder if I’ll even like it. We’ll see.
Check out the new Coppermine-powered photo gallery. It even has some pictures that weren’t on the site before the move.
longklaw.com had to move. Let’s hope this new home works out better than the last.
People that use Movable Type know the importance of the file mt.cgi. You can’t really manage your blog without it. After I made that last post I decided to delete a bunch of junk comments. Apparently mt.cgi was using up a lot of resources so my hosting company changed the permissions on that file to 000. I contacted them and they told me that they couldn’t allow me to execute that file again. I checked and discovered that mt-comments.cgi was also set to 000. I guess that’s one reason I haven’t gotten any comments lately. I have no idea how long that had been the case.
I decided to take my business elsewhere. I had several little annoyances over the year and a half that I’d been with them, but I ignored them because the hosting was cheap. At least they created a tarball with those two files so that I could retrieve them.
Now I’m in my new home. I’ve heard that this company is very friendly to Movable Type. I thought about going with a new system like Geeklog, but I decided to stick with what I know for now. Everything should be about the way it was except that all the links at the top probably don’t work yet. I hope to fix all of that over the next few days. If you notice anything else, please leave a comment here.
Today is test day so this entire week has been a pretty easy and also pretty boring week for me. Somehow the students got the idea last time that it was ok to talk during tests and not listen to me when I tell them not to. I had to put a stop to that. Threatening people really does work. My classroom has been so quiet today that I can actually concentrate on bloglines, netflix, updating this site, etc.
A student gave me a Snickers bar today. I think it’s a lot better than getting an apple. She doesn’t even know how much I like to eat chocolate candy. She has a high A so there’s no real need for her to suck up. All students should give their teachers chocolate candy instead of apples.
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