City of Heroes

Paragon City needs me back! City of Heroes is letting all the retired superheroes out of the superhero stasis chambers from now until the end of the week. I got a little excited when I read the email. There were some good memories in there… I found City of Heroes repetitive after awhile. But flying … Read more

Rakuraku Dinokun!

A long long LONG time ago… like half the rest of the world, I was crazy about virtual pets. My favorite? Rakuraku Dinokun (or Friendly Little Dino). My old blog from around 1996-2000, Penultimatum, was disappeared (and the domain name stolen, STOLEN, by someone else!), but the Internet Archive had bits and pieces… including some … Read more

GMail

We have severe problems with e-mail at work. We use Outlook 2000. Named not for the year it came out, but for how much mail you can have before Outlook sticks a revolver in its mouth and pulls the trigger. Pass 2000 megabytes of mail, and it's gone. Corrupted. Without a hope of retrieval, unless … Read more

EQ2: The Death of Darathar

In Lavastorm, working on some bits for the Lost Legend of Lavastorm, when I came out of Maiden’s Gulch and saw this… what a money shot… Dina… bard… conqueror of the world… There was to be a pickup Deception raid to finish off some folks’ prismatic weapons, and I was scrurrying around Lavastorm desperately trying … Read more

EQ2 sig

There’s this web page that generates EQ2 signatures… wonder what it looks like! They don’t give a preview, so adding it here. Wow, that’s spartan. I’d add a picture of Dina on there, but for some reason I can’t contact my home computers from work. Probably the router reset and changed the dynamic IP address… … Read more