Logaan’s Site

So, where I work… hang on, I start entries with “so” too much….

At work, we have locked down the code, gone through several bug fixes and started testing. Its high time I (and my fellow developers) got some holiday… looking back, some of us havn’t had holidays for over 3/4 of a year!

 Now I have nothing planned for the 12 days I have coming up… I am somewhat of a work a holic, as I often get bored and probably won’t play games on principle. I do even get worried that those at work might need to get hold of me…  this really can’t be normal >.<

I am quite the avid coffee drinker, quite attached to my mugs and I have a particular one that I hold special… coffee just doesn’t taste right otherwise.

But it got knocked over onto the patio only a short while ago and cracked >.<

I will miss it so, however, I have found one of its clones and I have plans to import it into this country!

Watch this space!

(BTW, anyone have an ebay account I can borrow?)

Is it just me or is the right desktop background hard to find?

I can probably put up with the same one for about a month before I feel I need to change it… then I spend the next month looking for a new one. I also have some strict rules that I usually abide by, needs to be “art” in my eyes

 It can’t be too dark, can’t be too light. Can’t be too simple, or too complicated.

I won’t accept product placement or movie images unless all the “crap” is cut to a minimum.

Can’t use a game wallpaper for a game I havn’t played, or a movie I havn’t seen

Can’t be a sport I am not interested in, or vehicles I really know nothing about (ala: Cars :P)

… guess im really picky

So I play World of Warcraft and have no life… well.. a life.. and its a eSocial life i guess (or iSocial?)… anyway… today has been weekly maintenance day! No surprise there but, I play on a famously nicknamed server Lagdrassil.

This server is most famous for its tendency to be laggy for no apparent reason… even when its not reporting lag… it must be a feature!

Today was a prime example, hours after weekly maintenance was finished got home and logged on. Within seconds I was exposed to complaints about the server… bombarded by online-offline messages… that, was the first hint. Shortly after getting on, I joined up to a group to go into an instance (Black Morass to be exact, you know, end of the Karazhan attunement chain etc, whole load of fun for a Warrior but not for the poor sod playing the Mage).

So after struggling through what seemed like treacle… i managed to grab a lift down to Gadget. Going afk for 5 mins it takes to get there to relieve myself and stock up on water before the run, i come back to find myself still flapping stationary in mid air over Bloodhoof Village… I cry for help in vain; “Someone get me a ladder!” but sadly my fellow guild mates are suffering a similar fate. Stuck to the floor, unable to open mail, banks  or bags.

After various restarts, and stuttering attempt, it finally takes the group 2 hours, just to get into the instance. After that it went quite smoothly, well, we did two attempts but didn’t manage to complete it. (The Shaman respecced to resto and was under geared, and the Warlock had a power cut, and the Rogue had lag… apart from that we wiped on the 2nd (hardest) boss each time)

 Ah well… give it a few days and it will be back to normal… just in time for the next weekly maintenance!

I play a level 70 Tauren Warrior, in a small raiding guild called the Mournreavers. Great guild, brilliant people, great atmosphere, everything you want from a guild.

But, like I have seen quite a few times back when I played Guild Wars, and in the odd clan I have been in, you get round to the old Polictical slandering stage. Now this was going to be a big rant.. but I have calmed down somewhat.

I still have not worked out a way of mitigating such events, if I could, I would run the best guild around I think. As it is, I really don’t want the hassle, and I think my good mate J does a very good job at running the guild. Not soft, not harsh…but fair and doesn’t take shit.

I’m not even sure “Politics” is the right word, its more like “arse covering whinging and finger pointing”! Usually starts off with the boss (and its not usually his her its thier fault), but they have a talk, and would like to see a bit more activity. They might interrogate one or two of thier underlings to find out whats going wrong, maybe pushing something they want to happen, and this is where everyone looses sight of the fact that this is a game, and it starts getting all “Political”.

Then you get the whinging and stuff and thats where it all goes down hill… and if you aren’t careful.. everything falls apart. Especially if this is all said in game.

Whenever I get into such a situation, I call time out… i leave the game a post a message on the forums or through email… setting down how i feel, what I want etc. I also try and see if from someone elses point of view and overall, I get to read it, so I don’t say anything rash… 9/10… this calms the situation.

But just… how do you stop this? I guess you could write down a really strict policy and procedures… but you are already taking the fun out of the game with the rules… I guess this is a natural process that guilds go through and you find out who the loyal members are, from the ones that really are there for thier own benefit and not thinking of others.

…. I think the rant was better… made it hard to read with censoring turned on

So, I was looking at customising the blog a bit more, when low and behold I saw this, at the bottom of the page.

Which goes to here: http://browsehappy.com/

A site talking about how “IE is a security risk”, and this pisses me off. Now don’t get me wrong, I will concede that IE has had its own unique problems.

But if you look you will find that all the issues highlighted that affect IE somehow, also get patched in Firefox not long after… its Windows… so stop fucking slagging IE!

Its not just Windows but *User ERRor!*, users should be schooled better not to click on “that link” or get fooled by popups or just get better bloody security software!

 Yes I use IE, as I am a creature of habit! But I know what sites to goto and what not to, so why can’t I just be left alone to use IE!

Didn’t stop this happening: http://www.alexsays.co.uk/040107/ :P That was a slip of the tongue, honest.

  Continue reading ‘Fucking IE Luddites!’ »

So after testing some themes, I finally decided on one I like. This one (ofc)

I am still customising it, and I imagine I will be fiddling with it for a long time

This site has been sitting on its arse for far too long, and its about time I did something with it. So, I am going to try my hand at blogging again. (I had various attempts on blogger that didn’t last long at all)

But this time is different for sure! Spurred on by M$ and the odd developer blogs around the place… I will soon turn this into a repository for my crazy ramblings!

Once I have it looking a bit better ofc ;)

Logaan, out

“I try to save a life a day… usually it’s mine!”