Tinkering

Posted by Wolfen in General

I am going to be trying out some different themes on the site. Expect to see some anomalies for the next few days.

–Wolfen

Time Flies When You’re Not Gaming

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Wow, it has been a long time since I posted anything here. The job I started a year and a half ago began to take more and more of my time until eventually I had no time to play games. Not playing games makes it a tad difficult to write about them. I had also started another blog that dealt with computers and technology around the same time as this one (you’ll see its posts integrated with this blog). Again, the job took all my time away from it. Finally, things have slowed down to a more livable pace, and I am ready to start playing games and writing about them again.

The big question I am struggling with right now is which game(s) to play. I have a lifetime subscription to Lord of the Rings Online, so I am leaning towards it for now. I have already started a new character and I am working on the newbie quests now. Of course, with LOTRO becoming a free-to-play game soon, being a lifetime subscriber doesn’t mean much anymore.

I had focused heavily on Vanguard: Saga of Heroes when I started this blog. I contemplated starting it up again, but I just don’t see this game having much of a future. This dampens any desire I might have had to play it.

I have friends who play Star Trek Online. I gave the free trial a whirl but never got past that. Plus, my friends would be light years ahead of me by now. It was an interesting game, but it didn’t pull me in enough to make me stay.

The game I am really waiting for is Star Wars: The Old Republic. I just wish it was going to launch sooner than it is. It looks to be a fantastic experience, and I hope it is better than Star Wars Galaxies turned out to be.

So, the Ultimate Casual Warrior is back in the saddle. I will begin making regular posts soon.

Changing Name And Focus

Posted by Wolfen in General

You might have noticed that the name of this blog has changed.  I have decided to slightly change the focus of this blog so that I may talk about more technology than just MMO games. I would like this blog to be a place where non-geek technology users can come to get easy to understand information about technology in general.  I will still write about my experiences with MMO gaming, but I will also mix in other tech subjects as well.

So I welcome you to the new Casual Tech Notebook blog.  I hope you will enjoy what you find here.

Kevin

Love Story In Stop Motion

Posted by Wolfen in General

I saw this and thought I would share it with others. Show this to your girlfriend/wife and earn those hard to get brownie points.

iPhone 3.0 Completes Me

Posted by Wolfen in General

I love my iPhone.  I have used a large assortment of cell phones over the years, and in my opinion, it is the best phone ever made.  Even with its missing features, it is the most robust and easy to use phone in the world.  With the announcement of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software, it has just widened its lead.

Today Apple listed many of the new features coming to the iPhone.  Chief amongst them are copy, cut, paste, and MMS messaging.  Yes, you can argue that other phones have had these features for years, but now that the iPhone has them, why would you want to use those phones?  They are also opening up the API so that developers can create turn-by-turn direction applications, so expect to see some cool GPS navigation software to pop up soon.  I also like the fact that they are introducing the landscape keyboard to other applications, mainly the Mail application that needed it badly.  SMS gets it, too.

There is only one glaring omission to the iPhone feature set and that is that it still won’t be able to play Flash media. I don’t understand their reasoning for it because every iPhone user in the world would love to have that ability.

There’s too many new features to mention here, so head over to Apple’s preview site and see for yourself.

Sidebar Mystery

Posted by Wolfen in General

I looked into my missing Sidebar problem and I am not sure what to do about it.  The Sidebar will not appear on the front page of this blog no matter which theme I use if I am using Internet Explorer. The Sidebar does display on all other pages, even with Internet Explorer.  The Sidebar is perfectly fine when using other browsers.

Anyone have any ideas I can try?

Edit:  Well, wouldn’t you know. I make this post and the problem goes away on its own.  There must have been a problem with the post that got pushed to the next page.  /shrug