Whykay's happenings

HD trailers

With QT7, one can view some HD trailers at the Apple site. Way kewl! Heh, and Serenity is there as well, in all its HD goodness.

Tiger... here kitty, kitty

Well, Tiger is installed. Since my machine is still quite new, it was easy to back up and re-install from screatch. Heh! iPods are handy for backups. In keeping with the Tiger theme, this comic reminds my of a Apple-closeted friend. Teehee.

TV b-gone

Heh, this little gadget was trying to prove itself useful for a friend of mine last night at a pub. He was trying out the remote to see if he could turn off the tv, but looking rather obvious from the aiming 30 degrees at the tv. Not sure if he got it to turn off though. Funny, nonetheless. There was no major football match on at the time. Heh.

[WoW] The schoolhouse

Given that I am now a level 28 warrior (yippee), Mick (level 27 warlock) and I plowed our way through all the baddies at Westfall's Moonbrook area. We were trying to locate the d4mn schoolhouse (the "Stalvan used to work at a schoolhouse" mission)! After meticalously searching through each permises and coming out empty-handed (well a few coppers and a sword here and there), nothing close to our quest item could be found. So I found this pic after google-seaching, yeah, got that bad.. ho-hum. And it was right under our noses! Argh, so told Mick and we will be heading back here quick time tomorrow. Heh! But I do like the comment below that pic though. Was my first impression when I looked. All the places of that layout look like townhalls to me.

For the first time...

...ever since I start using the Mac OS X, I had to force quit an application. Everything was hunky dory until I started to install Openoffice for Mac. Bad idea, it hung, and is a well known problem! (Oh dear, is all I can muster at this stage.) Well, I could not wait (it was minutes at this stage, does it really take that long?!?). So I chucked it out the window (ok, in the trashcan), and just downloaded NeoOffice/J instead, and it installed in a few seconds, and works.

Top 10 reasons why you are a s/w developer

The top 10 reasons. Sometimes it's so true.

kittycam and bunny-fi

Hello Kitty camcorder is so pink! And what about this.. a bunny wi-fi!

Thursday at Dundrum shopping centre

So was out to Dundrum's shopping centre (called The Town centre, even though the town centre is really the village, not the shopping centre. I see many a confused tourists in the near future!) and I was not well too impressed with it. It lacked a certain character, and I suppose it was in fairness 7pm, but it was a Thursday evening. It's biggish, but I was expecting something more lavish. But it's still incomplete. The sign at Balally was a large white paper with Town Centre scrawled on it, very temporary. Heh, but the one thing I got was a Luas smartcard (I wish they called it something interesting, like the Octopus or Pearl card, smart card is just such a practical name.) Had a nice dinner there, they have a world cuisine section on the top floor, and food is cooked for you there and then. Going up to it, I nearly fell off the escalator, as there was a huge flat display on the way up.

References:
* http://www.dundrum.ie/ (Store directory)
* http://www.luas.ie

WoW woes

So, came home on Friday, thinking I can chill out, and escape to a more virtual world of bashing foes in World of Warcraft and when I logged in, it was downloading a patch. Fine, nothing wrong with that, until the Prepaid time had run out.... message appeared, and I could not log in! WTF? Well, I knew the 1 month free play, plus 3 days extension had expired, but I paid a month in advance when I registered my credit card! Well, their account management page was down and what is worse, there was no support replying to anyone! Well, thanks to Jessibell for pointing out a solution and that their account summary page was down, but their other account management pages, like registering credit card details etc were still ok. So many folks were able to enter their details (again), including Mick and I, and we were able to continue on with our quests on Sat morning (it's that addictive!) . Well, more of the fact I paid for it, so I am getting my monies worth out of it!

But Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves, leaving so many people in the dark with no support over the weekend. And saying but we currently have no ETA for when they will be functioning again. while other players manage to resolve the issue! Just not good enough. This is a 24/7 365 days live game. And many folks are on it at any one time on their many servers. So doing a maintenance job with a big risk to breaking the system on Fridays is such a bad move. Especially if they are buggering off for the weekend, and some folks like to relax at home after a hard slug at work, and play a few hours online to get rid of stress. That's what I do.

Yahoo 360º

My Yahoo 360º page, just trying it out. Not sure how much I will update it. But I will try, prob with pics, and other stuff. Might to interesting how this works out.