Hacked

I’ve been pretty slack at visiting the main page of the blog partly due to the fact i really have nothing interesting to write about at the moment and I generally use the services from my hosting in the background.

In short a script kiddy who hates Israel injected a page in to an older version of the CMS powering this site causing it to display a horrible notepad HTML job which 99% of people will close in 2 seconds about the evils of society.

I’m amazed that someone who can exploit an out of date CMS couldn’t also hook malware in to a browser properly, kids these days.

I guess the moral of the story is to be more vigilant with updates

Some Men…

Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?

Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Pretty Win

The new World of  Warcraft guild i joined, The Dark Ministry, has cracked the world top 100 for progression raiding guilds after we killed Professor Putricide on the first lockout before they ‘nerfed’ the encounter by making the transitions easier.

The fight was probably over tuned for 25 man ‘normal’ mode progression as it had the feelings (not the entire encounter mind you) of a heroic encounter, sadly however the 10 man version wasn’t hard but due to the nature of the targeting mechanics on the slimes it meant that a caster heavy or stacked raid would have an easier time than a melee one.

All in all it’s awesome that we are currently top 100 but we will wait until the heroic mode for Icecrown Citadel gets released before feeling too good about our achievements.

Until next time i post an update, keep enjoying yourselves

Links (for the sake of having links):

Wowprogress (Blackrock) Progression: http://www.wowprogress.com/pve/us/blackrock

The Dark Ministry:                                        http://www.tdmwow.com/

Also, i’ve fixed the Last.FM album art stuff and the CSS issues (plus the 404 page for the entire site). Go Team!

Merry Christmas

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!

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Good Times

Had a great weekend out with the guys, had dinner and watched the Sky Blues lose (they deserved to lose admittedly) but overall it was a good night including the negative result.

I’m starting designs for a couple of sites this week so i hope to have a few mock ups working then i can start on the backend stuff.

As i’m writing this i just flew off the southern end of the Howling Fjord… FATIGUE!

Redesign!

Redesigned my ‘blog’ to be very minimalistic and simple, will update links and such soon.

I’ll be making a longer update post soon, i’m also finally getting by arse in to gear and working on baconoflight.com (i moved the whole directory structure and removed the DNS records to re propagate them) so hopefully i’ll have the ‘template’ done soon and i can start making a good solid start on the content so i can follow the 3.3 PTR while it is still a PTR.

Life is good, unemployed for the first time in a few years and taking a break atm, nothing too serious but it’s nice to just relax for a while.

Yogg-Saron (10 Man)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJE4MRGoRYE

A video of our first Yogg-Saron Kill in 10 Man Ulduar, it was made a couple of weeks ago.

The Daily Grind

I don’t think there has ever been a point where i’ve simply sat down and ground anything out for an extended period of time…. that is prior to the past couple of months. It appears to be getting to that time of year when no one has time for anyone and it’s business as usual in terms of work / sport / leisure activities.

At work it’s more of the same, i dislike the usual calls where someone i work with has stuffed up and i am required to do the work again but i just grin and bear it. Due to my ‘wonderful’ demeanor and attitude towards people who constantly do the wrong thing i generally find myself on the outer with most of the people i work with save a few people who almost always do the right thing and usually will go the extra mile to do something right which i think is an acceptable loss if it means that i rarely get invited to Friday drinks because it’s organized by one (or a few) of the people who know what i feel about their quality of work.

I also find it funny how the weather always seems to have a sick sense of irony in regards to moods, lately when i’ve been having a less than fantastic day it has been bright and sunny with a warm breeze but when i’m having a good day i am generally met with rain and a chill in the air.

Much like work some of my old friends from school seem to have better things to do that have a conversation about how their life is going, mind you a lot of them are from the mould that if you show your emotions it makes you a ‘queer’, emotions being discussing your life in general outside the standard 1980s ‘manly’ stuff. I guess people just move on and i’m begining to see what others have told me about in regards to losing touch with people they went to school with and slowly drifting apart which in itself is sad but i guess people grow and move on with their lives and prioritise newer friendships and relationships over older ones.

On to more positive stuff! I have been going well in World of Warcraft with my new guild (Fallen Chapter on Blackrock US) but have been struggling to get a raid spot of late which frustrated me because i play the game to raid and for nothing else really, having said that it has given me time to get in to PvP a bit more and i’m starting to accumulate a nice PvP gear set as well as a Holy set which allows me to do well in Battlegrounds as both Holy and Retribution (i play a Paladin for those who are wondering what i am talking about). I am going to start work on my little side project BaconOfLight (named after the Paladin Ability Blessing of Light) which will be a site dedicated to all things Paladin (much like the other xpaladin.com sites around and various weblogs) which will hopefully be useful as a resource to someone once it’s up and running with populated pages… we will see however.

If you jump over there now (baconoflight.com) it’s just a placeholder.

Anyway, i’ll make another update shortly in regards to a few things i’m working on (this time i will… i hope) and hopefully some good news!