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First WoW Orange Drop!

Posted in March 26th, 2005
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Here it is…a realm-wide first! The first orange item dropped in World of Warcraft (Couldn’t pass it up):
Would you believe I even lost the roll on it too!?!?

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Essay of Rants I

Posted in March 26th, 2005
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In the past I have done my best to avoid posting rants on my blog. I can only think of one other time when I did post a rant. I’m sure there are others, but not very many. This post is one that exempts itself from this record. There’s a few bones I’d like to [...]

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Almighty Patch

Posted in March 22nd, 2005
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Well, the almighty 1.3.0 World of Warcraft patch is finally here. Unfortunately I started by torrent connection about 10 minutes ago, and because the torrent is so new, no one is really seeding yet. Even the tracker was down for a bit. At least perhaps the hordes of high school-ers and kiddies that sign on [...]

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Realization

Posted in March 18th, 2005
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It has recently been brought to my attention that it is now Friday. This is good.
It has also been brought to my attention that the first day of spring is soon upon us. This is also good, but I have a follow-up question:
WHY THE HECK IS IT SNOWING OUTSIDE!?!?!?!?!?
Damn you Wisconsin and your psychotic weather [...]

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I’ll be damned

Posted in March 17th, 2005
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Well I’ll be damned. That little Apple editoral page that I found made it to the MacSurfer’s Headline News(TM) Home Page.
Heh..booyah.

~Jaker
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Spam Replied

Posted in March 17th, 2005
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I finally got a reply from my mortgage spam person (see previous post)
Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
[castronova@doramail.com]:
205.158.xx.xxx does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 [castronova@doramail.com]: User unknown Giving up on 205.158.xx.xxx.
Well, my excitement has run dry–my opportunity at the lowest mortgage rates have slipped through my fingers once again! Damn [...]

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Tough Translation

Posted in March 16th, 2005
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Has anyone ever used one of those translation websites? They can take a sentence and translate it into one of a dozen foreign languages or so. Just for kicks, I visited one site’s translation page and put in the default away message from AIM, then translated that sentence back into English…. as you read these, [...]

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Marathon!

Posted in March 15th, 2005
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Blogging is so much more fun when you’re supposed to be working!
As soon as I click the “Save!” button, this will have been my 6th post for today. Woohoo for me for setting a new record (like the special olympics.. you may win, but you’re still a retard).
Oh, sorry. Zing on me. Anywho…
Whether you know [...]

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GMail User Pities Hotmail User

Posted in March 15th, 2005
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OLYMPIA, WA?Recent Gmail convert William Ramsak, 23, said Monday that his “heart goes out to” friend Kelly Oldenburg, who still sends e-mail through an MSN Hotmail account. “I feel so bad for you, needing to squeeze into 250 MB of storage space,” Ramsak wrote to Oldenburg in an e-mail. “And I hate thinking of you [...]

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Microsoft Owns Doubleclick

Posted in March 15th, 2005
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Patent 6727830: Time based hardware button for application launch
Double click is owned by Microsoft.
Have a good day.
~Jaker
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