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Well Tristam almost died twice last night. 

Finally made his way over to Lion's Arch.  Time to plan his route through Kryta down to Sanctum Cay.  Figured to make stops at Bergen and Temple of the Ages with a slight detour to kill that pesky Galrath for 4,000 exp.

Galrath was quite smart to seek protection from the Cult of Verata.  Man those folks are nastty.  I don't know how many distinct mobs of them there are but I got them merged into one giant mob.  I tried pulling some but they all start coming down with the mesmer's quickly slowing me down to a crawl.  I barely escaped with my live.  Anyway I ended up sneaking by them (Almost killed Verata but he escaped) and dispatching Galrath.

Tristam made it to Sanctum Cay some time after.

Before bed I decided to go Charr huting in the North in Hard Mode.  I got the Seige Devourer (very cool) but still got stuck on a mob of Charr archers.  They wiped my party and then ganked me.  Even though I had 1,000hp, man it dropped like a ton of bricks.  I was hardly able to hit Guild Hall.  Man that was close.  If there was any sort of lag or my mouse slipped, he'd be dead.

But he's not and still kicking.  200,000 exp. 

Ready to do Sanctum Cay then Crystal Desert.

Thanks to Meclar for helping Ribs through the Tyrian Missions in hard mode.  I finally got the Guardian of Tyria title!





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Just an FYI:

Deaths due to mission failure (i.e. due to loss of a mission-critical NPCs or locations) or resignation (the "/resign" command).

Will not count as a death.

More info: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Survivor#Types_of_deaths

Where is everyone? Studying for exams or something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHm8BeyTTXI

Man that's good.  Not sure if it's staged.  I'm leaning towards staged.  Any case it's really good, Letterman is quite funny.

In honor of Xen bringing Godspire back in full NWN2 glory, I've updated the LM to the latest patch and included a few new themes!

You can always change your theme via your Profile.

If you see any Themes you think would be cool: http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/

Let me know and I'll install em.

Well Yahoo! is deciding to increase the price of renewing domains names from $9.99 to $34.95.

Needless to say I will be switching registrars shortly.  This may result is some downtime.

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Thank you for contacting Yahoo! Small Business Support.

I understand that you have some question on renewal of the domain. As
per the records for your account, we see that your next billing cycle is
on February 2009, and its true that you will be charged $34.95 for the
renewal of the domain as the domain renewal price has been changed.

Why $34.95 for renewal?

Yahoo! is a  reseller, and we are reseller for our parent registrar,
Melbourne IT(MIT), recently there was a hike in renewal price as well as
for a new domain price in MIT, that is the main reason as even we have
to hike the price for renewal of the domain.

Your service includes domain registration AND one domain email address.
You are charged $35 per year for renewal. We will no longer offer your
Yahoo! Domains service to new customers. We will continue to support
your existing service and it will be automatically renewed each year 15
days before the anniversary of your original billing date, at the
then-current price, unless you tell us to cancel the service

Please do not hesitate to reply if you need further assistance.

No problem, it was 5:30 in the morning, I needed something to do. ^^ Until I went to Newegg and lost $200. lol.

How did you manage that?

I just heard today that 4th Edition was released about a month ago.  Looks like an almost complete rewrite again.

Gone are many classes and races.  Feats take a backseat to "Powers".  Gone are spells as we used to know them as well as multiclassing as we used to know it.  Saving throws are different and even alignments were redone.

Glory to the Red Wings again!

Finally I can sleep peacefully.

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http://www.nikkoamerica.com/nhe/dvd_projector_video.html

I should be switching to a new ISP some time today.  Hopefully there won't be any snags!

I will be in Salt Lake City until Thursday.  Should a disaster strike the server it may remain down until I can get to it.  Just forewarning worst case scenario.  I don't expect that to happen.

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If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain.
If you see it the other way, you are using left brain.
Some people do see both ways, but most people see it only one way.

See if you can make her go one way and then the other by shifting the brain's current.
BOTH DIRECTIONS CAN BE SEEN


Experimentation has shown that the two different sides, or hemispheres, of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking. The following table illustrates the differences between left-brain and right-brain thinking:

Left Brain    -               Right Brain

Logical         -                Random
Sequential     -               Intuitive
Rational          -              Holistic
Analytical         -             Synthesizing
Objective          -            Subjective
Looks at             -          Looks at
   Parts                -              wholes

 Most individuals have a distinct preference for one of these styles of thinking. Some, however, are more whole-brained and equally adept at both modes. In general, schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain ones. Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.

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Some of you noticed that the forums appeared down for a few hours today.  In fact the website wasn't down, it merely wasn't listening on port 8080 the way it has for the past few years.

For the past couple of month LM has been on the default www port of 80, as well as 8080.  For some reason the site on 8080 was down.  I did not notice because I no longer go to that site.  

Please change your bookmarks for the site and remove the 8080 in the URL.

If for some reason you can not reach the site on the default port, then try 8080 again.  

Thanks,

Mo