Thing Three: Flickr and Tech schtuff.

I'm a little behind schedule after moving down into the Systems department this week so here is Thing Three.

I spent some time today exploring Flickr and the various mash-ups posted on the site. Its neat that they've opened up the API for community members. I thought some of the mash-ups were pretty neat but having run my own website for years I find I'm just as likely to upload the file to my own site than use a 3rd party site. I do like that you can identify those that can access your pictures and those that can't. Its a little easier than my log-in and password set-up. ;)

So in the spirit of using Flickr* and a mash-up** I created the following catmacro starring our cat Cattie-Brie:

Now on to the tech speak.

I can't be the only person who is "meh" about the new iPhone can I? Its a $500 dollar phone. A $500 phone that requires you to have a AT&T service plan. And AT&T can't (or won't) tell you what the service plan costs. Not only that but I can't see a single option that I feel is a "must have" for my cell. Of course you're talking to a guy who is only worried that his cell can make and take calls. I'm pretty easy to please.

*Not really. I used blogger's upload feature because I didn't want to make a flickr account. :)
** I did use the mash-up though.

Great Googlie Mooglie!

How in the great gods of the Internet do you search for other blogs on Blogger?

Magtheridon First Kill!

Crossposted to my personal journal, a WoW Journal and here.

After weeks of attempts my alliance of guilds have finally killed raid boss Magtheridon in the Hellfire Citadel. This is a crucial first kill for our little band of raiders as we've been slow to get back in the raiding season lately. This kill solidifies us into the fourth most progressed guild on our server.

I also was proud to be chosen as the warrior to attack and hold Magtheridon's attention for this first kill. Got the first piece of armor off him as a reward. ;)

I'll direct link to the kill shot off my friend's site until I can link my own killshots: http://home.comcast.net/~thedragoon/wow/Magtheridon_down3.jpg

For those interested my Character is the third from the left in the front row. The kneeling warrior roaring with glowing hads.

For giggles we went and raided my favorite raid dungeon Naxxramas

Did you survive?

Evidently the world ended yesterday while we were all quietly working. You can see eye-witness accounts at the bottom of the post.

ZOMG FIRST! Or the easiest and hardest concepts of lifelong learners

Warning to all who read this blog - I will probably end up annoying you with my WoW talk - I apologize in advance. But I've always been taught to write about what you know and right now...I know WoW. So brace yerself mateys.

Lifelong Learning
I feel that I'll have the hardest time deciding upon a goal ahead of time. I tend to get distracted pretty easily by shiney things and will scamper off to explore what interests me. For example I just spent 15 minutes playing with the different WYSIWYG that Blogger uses for their posting. I also played around with the URL for the posting screen to see what it reveals about my blog.

The easiest, as I'm sure you can guess, will be to play. I pretty much play all day on websites and other concepts of the web that interest me and when I get home play World of Warcraft.

Yes mentally I am 5. Why are you looking at me like that?