Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Yeah, I've gone and done it now...

I know that I said that I should resist the urge to subscribe, but I went ahead and did it. I subscribed to WoW.

Such a time sink...

But Ezryl, my Night Elf Hunter on Kael'thas, is now up to 21st level. Too much fun. Way too much fun.

*sigh* I'm such a nerd...

I've been playing on my MacBook Pro, but I'm about to have to take it in to have both cooling fans replaced. As I type, I'm installing on my AMD box so that I can still get a fix.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Coolest Feature in SharePoint Yet

Contacts lists in SharePoint provide a "Link to Outlook" button. Hitting this will cause the SharePoint Contacts to appear as a Contacts folder in Outlook. Pretty swank piece of integration.

Still trying to get my head around some aspects of SharePoint, as we'll have to start shuffling our Exchange Public Folder users over to it. The version of Exchange after 2007 is not expected to support Public Folders...

Friday, December 1, 2006

Ooh, bugs in the blogger beta

Timestamps on my posts are an hour off, even though I've specified CST as my timezone, and the archive folder shows the year as 2005. Hmmm...

About the Pirate thing...


No, not software piracy.

I spent about a decade as a performer at the Texas Renaisance Festival. The latter half of that time, I portrayed a pirate character named Thomas "Spyglass" McKinnah, Chief Gunner of the "Pride o' Bedlam". Since then, I've also fallen in with a group of pirate enthusiasts known as the Texican Privateers. Every year (except for '05, when the event was called on account of hurricane Rita), we've held a Bucanneers Beach Bash, complete with copious amounts of rum, playing very dangerous games with swords and gunpowder, barbeque (which is thoroughly piratical, but that is the subject of a future post), and stripping down them that arrive without proper piratical attire and selling them off as galley slaves.

Danger: WoW is Seriously Addictive

I already knew this from watching coworkers play, but then I signed up for the free trial. Huge time sink. If you see a dwarf paladin on Cenarian Circle named Glendohlin, that's me.

Must...resist...temptation...to...subscribe....