Outspoken Therapy

Patch 3.2 – New Argent Tourney Quests Part 1

So, I’ve jumped in and am doing the new Argent Tournament quests/dailies. To make this short and sweet, I’ll give the co-ords as I find the quests:

Icecrown:
The Black Knight’s Curse: Go to the GY in the Tourney grounds, wait for the the two NPC’s to chat, wait for the assassin to turn on you, kill the assassin. **NOTE: you can also get a hit in when someone else is smashing him and you’ll still get credit.
The Black Knight’s Fate: [61.5, 22.8] Kill Dr. Kohler, get letter.
You’ve Really Done It This Time, Kul: Head to [62.9, 20.7] and kill the NPC’s, collect the keys, and open the gates; Open the cage at [60.8, 23.1] to free Kul the Reckless. **NOTE: on the same platform as The Black Knigh’t Fate
Taking the Battle to the Enemy: [62.9, 20.7] You can do it in tandem with You’ve Really Done It This Time, Kul
Fate of the Fallen: Icecrown – Valley of Lost Souls [50.4, 36.3]. Pick up the gems, click on Fallen Hero’s Spirit, use relic
Battle Before the Citadel: [49.6, 37.6]. Find and kill Commanders. You probably want to group up for this one
Threat from Above: [46.4, 32.5]. Group up, head to coords, kill Chillmaw and bombers
Among the Champions: [71.7, 24.5], at the Tourney Grounds. Joust with the Champions.
Get Kraken [got sidetracked again]

Hrothgar’s Landing(North of Icecrown):
Drottin Hrothgar: Head to [50.8, 16.1] in Hrothgar’s Landing, blow the horn, kill Drottin.
A Leg Up: Fly North of the Tourney Grounds until you come to Hrothgar’s Landing, head to [43.4, 29.8] I found a bunch of Kvaldir and Legs here

Storm Peaks:
A Chip off the Ulduar Block: This is where I stopped for tonight. I’ll update the rest tomorrow.

**EDIT – this is gone. It has been replaced

I hope this helps you out! Happy Questing!

Trying to leave VizaWeb and don’t know how? Here’s how

The time came to renew my domain name so I started the usual process. I went into my account page for my registrar (VizaWeb) and was going to go through the tedious process of renewing through PayPal. I get to the appropriate domain name, try to renew and whatdoyaknow: it’s locked.

O.k., that’s all fine and dandy. It’s locked. So, I go through the procedure of unlocking the domain, click the appropriate buttons, and bam…still locked. Thinking I’m a bit of a meat head, I try to unlock again…still locked. I scratch my head and (try to) contact support.

This is where it gets messy. I emailed support about 3 times over the course of 3 weeks and didn’t receive a response. Finally, I tried phoning their tech support line, only to find that the phone is disconnected.

Crap. That’s not good. That’s not good at all.

Well, apparently this isn’t an entirely uncommon situation for VizaWeb. Just Google them and see what comes up. It’s ugly.

So, I resolved that I was going to get to the bottom of this rather than whining about possibly losing my domains. And I figured it out. After a few hours of phone calls and web searches, I figured it out. Sooo…for those of you who have gotten this far, this is what you do:

Navigate to publicdomainregistry.com and fill out the form to submit a Support Request. Apparently, PDR is the parent of VizaWeb. I was a little apprehensive at seeing another form, but these guys got back to me within a few hours. Here is the email I submitted to them:

Hello,

I’ve tried to renew my domain name at what I thought was my current host (VizaWeb), but all my domain names are locked. My current host is not responding to any of my communications. My attempts by phone turned up a disconnected phone number, and have never gotten any reply to my attempts via email. I’ve made some calls and have found that my domain names are somehow linked to public domain registry.

Please let me know what the next steps are to unlock/renew/transfer my domain names away from Vizaweb.

Thank you for your time,
James Holmes

Within a few hours, they unlocked my domains so I could transfer out of VizaWeb. I can now say that all my domains are safely transferred out of VizaWeb and I’m much more relaxed for it.

So, if you want to get out, get a hold of these guys, they made it quick and painless.

The Soldier’s Way

When I go home
People ask me – Hey…
Why do you do it man….why?
You some kinda war junkie….

I won’t say a god damned word.

Why?

They won’t understand.

They won’t understand why we do it.

They won’t understand it’s about the men next to you.

and that’s it….that’s all it is.

Facebook blocks PirateBay links?

Facebook blocks PirateBay links

**Note, there is some content here that would be considered vulgar and probably should not be viewed by minors. If you’re a responsible parent, you should not let your spawn read this.

So, I hear today that Facebook has jumped on the censorship wagon. A colleague comes up to me today and casually says this to me: ‘Hey, did you hear that you can send stuff from PirateBay on Facebook?’.

What?!?

I think he was a little taken aback at my reaction.

The warning, if you can’t make it out in the picture, is as follows:

Warning: This Message Contains Blocked Content

And it goes on to try to justify itself by adding:

Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users

Now, using my super human ability to be able to see through BULLSHIT, I highly doubt our ‘get as much as possible for free’ Facebook culture has ever reported abusive behaviour from PirateBay…you know, considering they don’t contain porn or anything nefarious like that. Could this possibly be some knee jerk reaction to the recent decision handed down in Sweden?

So, to further test the limitations of PirateBay as opposed to say….a torrent site that deals in only pornography, I decided to run another test with my previous Facebook buddy.

These are the two torrent links that I sent (or tried to send) to my buddy:

PirateBay:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4864012/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_Ebook - BLOCKED

Porn Torrent Site:

http://www.porntorrents.ws/torrent-18-years-old-bitch-fucks-her-brothers-friend:618417 - ALLOWED TO PASS

Hmm…

So, by that account, if I’m a 14 year old kid who is trying to find a book – that most likely can’t be found in school libraries – and I want to share it with a friend on Facebook, I can’t. But if I am a 14 year old kid who is addicted to porn and wants to share the above link with friends…well, let’s have a porno party.

My point being is this. If you want to block torrent sites from your free service, that’s your choice. But if you want to only block certain torrent sites and not all of them, well, enjoy the can of worms you just opened up because now you’re a content filtering service and you have to watchdog everything.

I think I’m going to go delete my FaceBook profile right now….well, I probably won’t, but I can tell you this – I will not be using it until this problem gets rectified…well I probably will. But I won’t be happy about it!

Damned internet addiction.

Oh, and Facebook sucks my balls.

Disqus

Now I’m playing with the big kids. If you haven’t noticed already, I’ve updated my commenting system to jump ahead to the 21st century. Watch out fellow bloggers, I’m on the move.

Unfortunately, this upgrade seems to have wiped out all my old fashioned-ly posted comments, soooo…I start anew. I don’t know what I’m going to do having lost my whopping 15 comments, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

Enjoy the upgrades!

I hate sand castles

I almost peed my pants when I saw this picture.

I hope you enjoy the pee in your pants.

Bye Bye Snap Shots

Soooo….I was really excited when I happened across Snapshots on some other blogophites site. Naturally, like a lemming to the cliff I went, and immediately downloaded, installed and reveled in the new shiny-ness popping up on my blog.

Well, the shiny-ness has dulled to a polished glow, and I’ve quickly gotten mildly annoyed with the incessant popping-uppedness of these ridiculous bubbles that seem to have crept up everywhere.

When I see the telltale magnifying glass on the end of a link, I now feel like I’m in a mine field and have to gingerly navigate through the sentences of each paragraph in order to hold onto my sanity by the end of the article.

So, in an effort to make mine, and everyone elses life a little less hectic, I’ve removed said Snapshots from my writings. Read in ease my friends, read in ease.

Pirate Bay…day 3 hijinks.

The first 2 days were circus like and interesting, but I didn’t really feel compelled to post anything. Today though, a bit a brazen genius. I’ll sum it up like so:

He asked if they could pick up the check. “They refused”.

http://torrentfreak.com/g-defense-090218/

Reference can be enjoyed in the last paragraph of the article. Brilliant.

I’ve done a good thing today :)

I’ve done a good thing today. That’s what BBBS of FE (that’s Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Fort Erie to the lay person) say anywhoots. And you know what, I feel like I’m doing a good thing.

Through some gentle prodding from Todd and Zoe, I’ve signed up for the Bowl for Kids Sake happening on February 28, 2009. I had plans to go play poker with John (sorry John) but I think this is a much more worthy cause. I do feel guilty for bailing on John’s poker night (sorry John) but I think I’d feel much guiltier if I bailed on this (sorry John).

So, now down to the nitty gritty. I need some donations to acheive my goal and to properly help out the folks at the BBBS of FE. You may be wondering how to help us out? Well, coincidentally, they’ve created this exceptionally easy way of making a donation. So, I will stop building the excitment and deliver to you the link:

TA DAAAAA!!! (click on Ta daaaa!! to donate and help me out in a good cause )

I thank any and all of you who help me out in attaining my modest goal. Thanks!

The Best Job In The World

So, I was introduced to it once. Thought it was a brilliant idea, then thought nothing of it.

I roll into work this morning, and there it is, sitting in my inbox from a co-worker. Addressed only to me. It made me ponder what could be.

What, you may be asking yourself, are you talking about crazy man. I am talking about the ‘The Best Job In The World’ position that Tourism Queensland is currently accepting applications for.

One thing I’ve noticed from the 4 or 5 articles I’ve read on this is that I have not been able to find the actual link to the Tourism Queensland site or to the ‘The Best Job In The World’ info/application spot. It’s like they’re trying to hide this great secret from the world!

Well, I think that this is one of those once in a lifetime opportunities that everyone should have a chance at, soooooo without further hesitation, I present you with the link to the ‘The Best Job In The World‘ site. If you choose to do so, I wish everyone the best of luck in applying.

Here are some key dates you may want to consider when applying:

22 February 2009 – Applications close
2 March to 24 March 2009 – Voting on 50 short-listed candidates
2 April 2009 – 11 short-listed candidates announced
3 May 2009 – Interviews in Queensland get started
6 May 2009 – New employee announced
1 July 2009 – I start work…uh, I mean, the Island Caretaker starts work

Good Luck!