Ajira Kimberly says (2:11 PM):
wanna draw my thing ? :P
Noshi says (2:12 PM):
eh?
Ajira Kimberly says (2:12 PM):
:P
www.drawmything.com
Noshi says (2:12 PM):
O.o
MSN conversations can be funny if one party doesn't know what the other is talking about Recently i discovered draw my thing, an highly addictive online drawing game. You can challenge friends via E-mail, or just challenge someone who happens to be online. Go check it out
Sunday afternoon, suddenly I get an MSN message from a complete stranger.bimbnqbzkwqkwurtaxwi says (15:10):Hey Ajira%20Kimberly I would like to chat with you but I this is my friends msn. You you can send me a msn chat request here nikki.rosales33@hotmail.com Hope we can chat :P
I thought to myself "wtf?", but ignored it. 30 minutes later i get the exact same message, but from another sender, and with another "nikki". I decided to add "Nikki" to my MSN and have a little chat with her, just to see what the deal is :P
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Ajira Kimberly says (15:10): Yo
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:10): hihi! how are you? You are the one I messaged right? Great!
Ajira Kimberly says (15:10): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:10): cool, sorry i type a little slow. 21f in college here, what are you up to?
Ajira Kimberly says (15:10): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:10): ahh! thats cool, im a little bored myself lol. so do u like my pic?
Ajira Kimberly says (15:11): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:11): i'm gonna send a cam invite here k?
Ajira Kimberly says (15:11): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:11): ok sent, did you get it?
Ajira Kimberly says (15:11): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:11): hmm.. let me try again, hang on.
what about now?
Ajira Kimberly says (15:11): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:12): ugh, this is stupid, this always happens to me when i use msn I have a site I have made many friends on. maybe we can chat there
Still there?
Ajira Kimberly says (15:12): ?
nikki.parra5214@hotmail.com says (15:12): ok well here, this works for me all the time, its a site like yearbook, but a little more grown up, LINK REMOVED Use the Free signup let me know when you get loged in I will need your name you made to send you a invite. Give it to me when you get signed up
I'm a person that likes consistency and certainty. I don't take many risks, and I never gamble. Actually... I'm not too fond of gambling as a whole; especially if it's done by somebody else that is using my money.
This morning, on the way to work, I stopped by an ATM to grab some lunch money. I punched in my security code, and checked my balance. I was quite surprised to see that my balance was about € 300,- lower than I expected it to be. I scratched my head a bit and tried to remember what I might have purchased in the last few days that is worth 300 euro.
It turns out that "pstars.com" is used by an internet poker website, and my credit card was used to purchase 500 US Dollar worth of credit for internet poker. This seemed suspicious to the credit card company, because over the last 3 years all my credit card was used for was Second Life, World of Warcraft and the rent of my web server. I don't gamble, and my poker skills suck ass; why would I spend 329 bucks on a poker site ? It doesn't really make sense, does it ? The credit card company will send me a form which I can fill out to verify that the transaction was invalid. The credit card company will refund my € 329,- , and try to hunt down whoever tried to steal it.
It seems that I've become the victim of a credit card fraud. 3 days before the poker site made its transaction, I bought a game for my mobile phone on clickgamer.com, using my credit card. I don't know if the website was hacked or if the owners of the website are scammers; but this is the only thing that I can think of where it went wrong. I've had a VISA card for 9 years, paid for a lot of stuff online with it and never had issues. I've got a MasterCard since 3 years, paid for a lot of stuff and never had issues up until now.
In general I still think it's safe to buy stuff using credit cards, but there are always some assholes that will try to steal from you. Life can be quite shitty sometimes...
As I was browsing through some old backups, I ran across a couple of old video clips that I made in my early days of World of Warcraft. *sigh* Brings back good memories Let's see what we've got...
First we have the early beta period... together with my buddy Kilmir (who was also an old guildie from Everquest), we eplored the wonderous lands of Kalimdor. It had just gone live in the Beta, so it was all new and exciting. I also ventured deep into the bellows of the Deathmines.
Next up, we have more beta material, but in a later stage of the beta. I explored various places and a dungeon called "Blackphantom Deeps" with my rogue alt. I already decided that my main character would be a priest (I've always played healers in MMORPG, it's what i do best ), but i wanted to give the rogue a try in the betas.
This video is actually a live recording of the very first Lucifron (the first boss monster in a dungeon called "Molten Core") killing by Cantonium Elites, one of my Guilds in WoW. And uhmm... my apologies in advance for the music. This kind of music kept me awake during late-night raids that could last for hours If you're into this stuff, though... the song is called "Visions of Sound" by Amp Attack.
And lastly, we have some dancing ogres In the alphas, betas and early versions of WoW, the ogres looked differently. In one of the later patches they changed the graphics of the ogres, and gave them a very uhm... "cheery" dancing lesson These ogres were found dancing in the North side dungeon of Dire Maul.
How can you tell that your MMORPG is the world's greatest? Sure, Blizzard rakes in a whopping 78 million each month, but as soon as even the porn industry tries to snag a cut, you know you've hit the jackpot.
Recently I stumbled upon a website called "Whores of Warcraft". Apparently they're planning to make a lot of Warcraft-themed photo shoots and porn movies in the near future. Can't wait to take a peek, this ought to be good
Update, April 2nd, 2008: Apparently they got into some copyright problems with Blizzard, so they renamed the site to Whore Lore.
Intel recently released a toolkit for Apple developers to make full use of the Dual Core processors that are being used in the new iMac and MacBook Pro. The final retail versions of the tools will be available in April or May, and will probably cost a fortune. In the meanwhile, Intel has launched a developer program where free Beta versions of the Math Kernel Libraries, Integrated Performance Primitives, a Fortran Compiler (Holy crap, they still use Fortran nowadays? ) and a C++ Compiler can be downloaded.
To support migrating developers, Intel launched a special online service. They're sure making a lot of work out of it.
Apparently, Sony isn't the only mainstream company that is using root kit technology in their software. According Mark Russinovich, the guy who discovered Sony's root kit, anti-virus software by both Symantec and Kaspersky also uses root kit technology.
Symantec has been using this technology in their "System works" package since 1990 to hide backup files. They claim that it is done to prevent users from accidentally removing the backup files. On the one hand I can imagine and respect that they want to protect their customers from screwing up their system, but on the other hand it also provides a service to people that want to hide their spy ware, etc. Anyway, Symantec released a patch that makes the hidden files visible again.
Kaspersky Anti Virus uses root kit techniques to hide checksum-information. The software uses this information to verify what files have been scanned, and what files haven't been scanned yet. They claim that it is impossible for third-party software makers to use the technology; although many companies made those claims before and they all failed miserably
Despite the recent security patch by Microsoft, Bugtraq reports 2 new vulnerabilities for the WMF file-format. While they are not as malicious as the last vulnerability, which made it possible for people to take over your computer completely, the new vulnerabilities may cause the software, that was attempting to display the WMF file, to crash; very annoying.
Microsoft finally released a patch for the WMF (Windows MetaFile) bug. Download it here: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001.
And on the 8th day, God looked down upon the earth and said "Let there be broadband internet ". Praise the lord, my new uplink at home is active: 2 megabit downstream and 1 megabit upstream! My old uplink had only 128 kilobit upstream, which was just too little for my daily usage. I play a lot of MMORPG's, and I always play a healer-class. It's not very cool if your group dies because you couldn't heal them due to serious lag. So in my situation a little overhead in the bandwidth was desirable.