Games

Spaced

The game everybody is talking about this year is, well, Mass Effect 2. I loved the first Mass Effect but I admit I didn’t get much from the DLC which they offered after registering your game with a Bioware account. But DLC has come a long way since the first Mass Effect. For me, the …

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Life

The Departed

We keep in our minds many people who, in different ways, have left our lives either through the front door, maybe storming out, or silently, they just slipped away. They have left us willingly or we have forced them out. Some have left us unwillingly, by dying. This is the hard truth. We are not …

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Networking Operating Systems

Target Me

Hello. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel special at all in the vast and somewhat uncontrollable mass that is the Internet. However… I use a small router with OpenWrt as a home gateway and for a while now I have been seeing in my logs that I receive ssh login attempts from all over …

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Life

Thank You, J.K. Rowling

I came across a wonderful speech by J.K. Rowling today. I cannot help admiring her. According to the Forbes magazine she is the only person to become a billionaire in dollars from writing books. We need more people like her (and not because she’s rich and stuff). What can I say, I am impressed. J.K. …

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Games

/Played

After a nice 10 month absence from the World of Warcraft universe I reactivated my account in December 2009 on a whim. Of course, I got a bit hooked over the holidays (maybe a little more) and brought my druid from level 44 to 60 in a week or so. As /played reports, it seems …

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Games

The Last Days

I am not a pre-order kind of person. I have never pre-ordered anything…until now. It seems I got caught up in the hype for a game called Darksiders. No, it is not the greatest game ever but somehow I couldn’t help clicking that pre-order button. Oh, well. Things however look good as game publications everywhere …

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Operating Systems Windows

Antivirus Protection And You

Happy New Year everyone! It’s time to give up the dreams of a prolonged vacation and get cracking. I was thinking the other day that a lot of people overestimate the importance of an anti-virus program(let’s call it AV for short). Don’t get me wrong, security is extremely important, for many reasons, no matter who …

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Games

Gifts For Gamers

If you still haven’t found the perfect Christmas gift for a gamer you care for here’s a really short and helpful list I compiled. (Order is random, disregard the numbers) God Of War Collection(PS3) – If they have one of the new slim PS3s that are not backwards compatible or have simply never played God …

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