Let's see what's in the old email...

"Grab a pint of blue milk and raise your glass to the sky as we celebrate the 6-Year Anniversary of Star Wars Galaxies™! Your account has been automatically reactivated* between June 23, 2009 and July 23, 2009 at 11:59 PM PDT, so simply log-in and join the in-game festivities for FREE as we celebrate the 6-Year ( Read more... )

This just in:  banks are run by greedy bastards.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/19credit.html?_r=1&hp

"Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those ( Read more... )

Whoops, only took 2 and a half weeks for Cryptic to revise their release date for Champions Online; moved from July 14th to September 1st.   Which isn't a big deal for me, really.  I'm interested in it, but not overly anxious for it immediately.

In this day and age of sports, I have long since accepted that that corporate naming of stadiums is here to stay.  There’s just too much money involved.  But what I would like is to see some thought put into these names, so they don’t sound so *obviously* corporate.

For instance, 3Com Park was an awful name that made no bones about being a ( Read more... )

The subject line of a recent spam email:

"Goddammit, reply now!"

That's a new one. 

So.  Champions Online has a release date; July 14th.

Originally conceived as a superhero game set in the Marvel Universe until Marvel chose not to pursue it, it's being designed by the developers of City of Heroes.  They got the rights to use the Champions IP, which I'm more-or-less indifferent about, only having played the pen-and-paper game a ( Read more... )

Okay, not really, but I'd watch it (no pun intended).

Just in case you hadn't heard:

49ers 27
Redskins 24

Nyeah.

As I may have mentioned, Star Wars Galaxies was my first MMO.  And, frankly, it sucked.

Well, not *all* of it.  There were some kernels of fun there, or I wouldn't have played it for a year.  The thing is, anytime I think about the game, I become perplexed at my recollections.  I still maintain a great deal of nostalgia for it; though it's not due ( Read more... )

Firefox has always been all kinds of awesome.  Tabbed browsing, less clunkier and more stable than IE.  I've had nothing but positive experiences ever since I started using it years ago ( Read more... )