Talk Is Cheap

Chris Hash’s WoW account was hacked… again.. most stuff in <Autonomous Collective>’s guildbank was gone.. I reported the incident to the GM’s and our stuff should be restored again soon I hope.  Go go $6.50 peace of mind, shipping included.  Anyone that doesn’t have an authenticator yet is, well.. just silly.  That’s a nice way of putting it.

I removed Hash’s two toons from the guild while the jerk on his account was online.  I can’t remember him having any other characters in the guild.  Threecard and Fourtune were the only ones, right?

If you aren’t gonna run noscript in Firefox (or the equivalent in IE) then at least keep your operating system up to date with patches and most importantly.. keep Adobe’s FLASH PLAYER UPDATED.  Java too if you have it installed.. especially if you insist on using friggin porn sites.  Shame on you for that.   You can become infected with keyloggers injected into your system by visiting sites with harmful flash embedded in them that exploit vulnerabilities in un-updated Flash players.

Use Spybot Seek and Destroy and Hijack This and a good Anti Virus.. even a free one, many of which are better than ones you pay for *cough* Norton *coughsucks*.. keep em updated and scan.

If you just can’t be bothered to keep your computer as safe as possible from predators (it’s not just your wow account, but if you bank online.. retirement plan online.. jeez you are just asking for it..  well get an authenticator at least for 6 bucks for WoW.  It alone won’t stop somebody determined from hacking you if your machine is vulnerable.. but it really is a big enough deterrent that most folks aren’t going to go to the lengths necessary (timing man in the middle attacks against you while you log in on your compromised machine) to save your account.

Quick and funny little Discovery channel-esque WoW machinima.  Made me chuckle, especially the moonkin trying to fly.

Going back to Zul’Gurub over and over pays off! I got the Swift Zulian Tiger today! That fight with Hight Priest Thekkal is annoying! I’m done with it now though with this SCORE! Not He-man now I’m She-man!  eeww.. that doesn’t sound right at all.

Still no raptor from Bloodlord, not sure that I’ll bother anymore as it was never my goal.  It was always the tiger that I wanted and the Razzashi Raptor was just something to go for while I was already there.

There’s a lot so it’s kinda hard to pick a top one.. it’s also kinda hard to say it wouldn’t be:

“I’m gonna light you up, sweetcheeks!” – Millhouse Manastorm

Jason, check out the pure avoidance (dodge, parry, miss) and the one for Stoneskin Gargoyle at bottom.  All include correct diminishing returns for all, even miss (huge DR on miss) at:

http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f120/44685-block-cap-pure-avoidance-macros.html

John A.  Here’s the links to those two sites..

www.worldofmatticus.com/tag/talent/ talents to take and why, for disc and holy

www.plusheal.com is a great resource for all healers.  Good forum discussion.

I’ll apologize for denigrating your newborn son already.. I just couldn’t resist.

Well boys and girls…..the contractions are about 4 minutes apart so I think the baby is coming today. Wish us health and luck. I’ll probably be back on sometime this weekend, but I don’t think I’ll be doing anything longer than a quick heroic for the next week or so. I’m so excited….crap…wife aggro…..bye!

That would be me!  Every day before my vacation, I’d log into mountaindewgamefuel.com site and rack up as many points as I could.  I considered it my daily quests =) and it paid off.

Without any notification, email, whatever.. well my name was listed in the official list of winners for the mouse drawing I had entered for on 07/05/09 but I never checked there each day to see if I’d won.  I always figured they would just send me an email saying as much.. but no.  They just sent me my new Razer Deathadder gaming mouse in the mail!

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It’s not the fanciest-smanchsiest mouse out there.. but it’s a great shape and size for me and the texture of the top is.. well hard to describe.. like a really really fine suede type buffed feel to it even though it’s plastic.  For free it’s an awesome mouse =)

The amount of gold you can earn per day from click through stuff has steadily increased… right now it’s sitting at 800 gold (points) per day.  I found a nice set of links for all the click throughs so I don’t have to actually go to all the facebook/twitter/myspace/other partner websites/etc to get the click points.  There’s about 450 points of videos that take about a minute to click on all of too.

The chance of winning a Mountain Dew t-shirt or a messenger bag are pretty high.. but I spent most of my points on entries for the hardware stuff.. mouse, speakers, keyboards and a 100 or so for the Alienware laptop they give away one of each day too.  There’s usually 2 or 3 million points entered for the laptop though so I don’t expect my 100 to win that ever.

I had resisted merging my warcraft account with a battle.net account.. but I did for the promotions and the battlebot pet/fuel.  I figured that it wouldn’t be long before they required it anyway.  The login trouble that plagued so many the last few days was only striking those that had not merged their account with a b.net account yet.  A change from the early days of the merged accounts that had initially had login issues.