Archive for June, 2008

Diablo III?

Diablo III rumors have been milling for the longest time.  However, recent developments *might* suggest that its release is nearing fruition.  Blizzard’s splash page is… I don’t know… something?

Allegedly, the domain name “diablo3.com” has been bought by or transferred to Blizzard.  Read more »

Blogging is therapeutic

Allegedly, blogging has therapeutic benefits:

Scientists have long known the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences. Blogs provide another convenient avenue for writing about personal experiences. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery.

What if you often drink while you blog? I guess, in that case, it will only improve your sleep.

Death Magnetic

Death Magnetic… Metallica’s ninth album.

Mission Metallica… view the trailer.

Metallicastill the best heavy metal band of all time.

I already heard some riffs from some songs and they sounded like 80’s and 90’s Metallica. Hopefully most, if not all, songs sound like those what I’ve heard.

… and they brought back the solos.

Firefox 3 Download Day a questionable success

Mozilla dared the world to be counted… and apparently Mozilla is not prepared for it.  All of their sites were unavailable.  So what did they really want to achieve – a Guinness world record or a denial of service situation?

A funny thing happened last night (or this morning).  It was already 12:56 am, Philippine time, so I decided to log-off and sleep.  I really am not into world records unless I earn money from it (which is unlikely).  Anyways, just before closing my mail client, a feed alert reminded me that at 1:00 am Philippine time, the Firefox 3 download day will commence.  Four minutes to go… I decided to wait and download out of curiosityI already have Firefox 3 RC3 after all. Read more »

Firefox 3

I’ll put my geek hat on for a while.

I hate it when sites like microsoft.com use buttons, instead of links, for their download services. Here in the Philippines, when you download a 300+ megabyte file, you will need a download tool like Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) because, chances are, you will get disconnected from the Net from time to time and your download gets broken.

DAP, of course, can resume broken downloads. DAP can catch your download clicks and make the request itself. However, when a particular site’s download link is not a link but a button, DAP doesn’t quite catch it. I don’t know if this is possible but I tinkered DAP for about 5 minutes and I couldn’t quite figure it out. Read more »