BREAKING NEWS!!!
Blizzard finally announced the BlizzConn ticket will be on sale August 11th, 2008.
http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080729.html
Wonder if I could get a hold on the ticket.... Oh man... 100 bucks... Time to save more money!!!
Awesome!!! While I was banning my head against the wall, big boss sent out email saying there's a water line break in Houston which provide water to my office building. To be safe, he sent everyone home (including myself, lol). Woot!!!
When I got home I found out WoW is still in extend maintenance, holly crap!! Ended up went to the gym... arrr... good healthy life, isn't it? hohoho.
Just read an article on Yahoo about the red-light cameras. I went to http://njection.com/
and it does show where the well-known cameras are. At least I know the one that shown near my living area are very accurate.
I've been trying to scheduled a dental appointment with this stupid Anderson Group. I tried several times but always got put on hold for a long period of time which I don't have the patient to wait.
So I called them again yesterday and again I got put on hold for 20min and I gave up. Gave them a call this morning and finally some lady answer my call...
Anderson Group Lady --- AGL
Jon the Poor Guy --- JPG
AGL: Thank you for calling Anderson Group. How can I help you today?
JPG: I want to schedule a dental appointment.
AGL: Have you been here before?
JPG: No.
AGL: You have to call your insurance company to fax the eligibility form to us
JPG: I did that back in June.
AGL: We need them to fax us every month.... (I ignored the rest of her sentence)
JPG: Alright, I will do that. Bye.
I called my insurance and told them to fax the form. I was told to wait 10-15min to call back to the dental office so they can get my form.
I waited 20 min and ringed a call to Anderson Group again.
AGL: Thank you for calling Anderson Group. How can I help you today?
JPG: I want to schedule a dental appointment.
AGL: Have you been here before?
JPG: No.
AGL: You have to call your insurance company to fax the eligibility form to us
JPG: I just did
AGL: We won't get the fax until end of the day. Call back tomorrow to schedule your appointment
JPG: Alright, good bye. (Hang up)
JPG: WT.....(F never got out b/c I was still in office)
Epic Fail Driving
Is that how people drive? OMG, I will never park my car outside.
OSRT (Open Source Raid Team) was in Black Temple last night. First boss's easy except we pulled him with the trash once which wiped us. 2nd attempt was very clean and we just took him down without any problem.
The second boss is Supremus. Since we only attempted this boss once before, it's a chaotic for the first few tries. People just tried to stay alive from volcano in the 2nd phase. After 5 attempts, we changed our strategy. Instead of running around in a bunch, we seperated in 4 different groups to form a circle around the middle area. The tank stay on him for the whole time and each group move together outward from the middle. The main focus is left no volcando in the middle tanking area. This Strat worked very well and we down him in the 3rd attempt.
It was a rough night. I started falling asleep after 12:30 and in the 2nd trash clear and a few nonworking strat attempt, I just fall asleep in the middle of the fight. But at the end we down the boss and I was happy with the progress.
As I hearing TheInstance podcast, they mentioned about a little cool addon called Altaholic. Then I found an article on WoW Insider. I am going to try this addon tonight. Seems like it is very useful for me. I don't have to log on different alt to find all my inventory.
WoWInterface has more description of the addon and you can get the addon there.
Kala complained today about too much work and not sure where to start. I come up a solution for her:
1st: assign all the stuffs to each fingers
2nd: count how many fingers have been assigned, go to step 3
3rd: repeat step 2 to confirm while not 5:20pm
4th:itʼs 5:20pm, time to go home, count fingers again tomorrow
To teach her some introduction of C#, here's a simple translation:
//step 1
for(int i=0; i
{
myfingers[i] = (Object)stuffs_to_work_on[i];
if(i>9) break; //count to 9 b/c it's 0 based, which means 1st object is at index 0
}
//step 2
int fingersAssigned;
foreach(finger f in myfingers)
{
if(f.IsAssigned())
fingersAssigned++; //here, ++ means add 1. which is equal to fingersAssigned = fingersAssigned + 1
}
//step 3
while(System.Time.Now() <> 5.20
{
Console.WriteLine("KALA has " + fingersAssigned + "shxt to work on"); //Kala telling people how busy she is
}
//step 4 say goodbye to boss
return 0; //going home safely
Not the best data model, but it works for Kala.
I respec both my mage and warrior over the weekend for pvp fun this past weekend.
I picked up Cloak of Subjugated Power over Cloak of Arcane Alacrity this weekend for my mage b/c my crit is kind of low right now. Maybe I will build a hasting set when I have enough haste gear to play with. I also spent 60 badges on Dory's Embrace for my warrior.
Fun fun warrior:
My warrior got jumped by another warrior while I was herbing in Zangarmarsh and waiting in AV queue. Big mistake if you are shxtty warrior like him. He burned his Retaliation cooldown and still hit like a girl. I simply changed to def stance then disarm him. At least he didn't try to run away. After he's dead, I sat down and eat then he attacked me again think he could take me down... lol. Without his retaliation he didn't do much damage to me. I camped him 2 more times before I went on to my herbing.
While I was selling stuffs at Cenarion Refuge , he showed up and laughed at me, so I flew back to the same spot we fight earlier. I dismounted and baited him to fight again. That sad warrior went down just like before. Poor shxtty warrior should go ltp before jumping people.
Battleground:
My mage still got my butt kicked when facing some OP warlocks with their pets chasing me all over the place or the soon to be nerded rogues with their evation up and dodges every attacks I threw at them.
Warrior is doing better.
Arena:
My warrior played on a 3s team this week and mage played on a 2s.
3s team: MS warrior, SS rouge and a Healadin. Our 3s team just got out geared by the other team and only log a 3-7 record.
2s team: frost mage + druid/combat sword rogue. start off with 1-3 with the druid and come back to 3-4 after a rough start. Then went 2-1 with the rogues. Overall, 5-5 this week is not too horrible.
Game of the week: played against a druid-druid team and it went on for 5min which's the longest I've been in a 2s game. I was oom at the end and the druid-druid team just out last us. Still, it's a pretty good learning experience.
Self note: can't sheep druids, they can shape shift out of the polymorph.
Raid leader Pharmacy from our guild VOID want to revisit the old world content and we started with the hardest 40 man dungeon. Naxxramas was the hardest 40 man dungeon before Burning Cursade. First off I needed to attuned to the dungeon with Argent Dawn rep. Spent about 2 days to grind the rep from friendly to revered.
Me and 22 fellow guildies went there to take a peek at what it looked like. A few bosses are still pretty tough for a T5/T6 lvl 70. I wonder how the world did the old lvl 60 people can finish this dungeon. We wiped on Gluth serveral times and called it the night. Gluth is just nasty aoe kiting that 4 mages without improved blizzards simiply can't handle it.
Afterall it's still a fun experience to visit the old world content.
*grind for noob from wowwiki
Got in one of the worst, if not the worst, Altrec Valley. Final score Horde 630, Alliance 0.
Horde sent like 15 people to recap the towers, then pushing us all the way back to the Stormpike graveyard. Worst part is alliance can't even take any tower back. And we all forced to rezz at stormpike and watched the horde took us down...
Have been eating out since last Wed. nite.
Wed: Went to Benihana for their Japanese buffet with my faimly. I had so much softshell crab. And first time I tried the shrimp firecracker, not bad at all.
Thurs: Canyon Cafe and cheesecake factory... I haven't felt so stuffed for recent years. I finished the whole basket of chips by myself?!? The fijitas is ok, just not enough meat. Then the xxxx turtle cheesecake just push me over the top. :P And that little koala tried to steal my cheesecake... omg
Friday: AV weekend started!!! I played in at least 30 AV battleground, got 13k honor, very nice!!! I only had a piece of beef jerky for lunch, reserved all my stomach for the bbq dinner at my aunt's place. BBQ = meat meat meat and more meat
Saturday: Rinse and repeat from above except BBQ at my friend's place + unretired my mahjong skills, won $13... after paying $8 for the BBQ, walked away with $5 to cover my gasoline.
Sunday: finally back to normal and played basketball and it's freaking so many people there...
Monday: back to work... holiday so short
I was configuring the IIS yesterday and try to make a asp.net app on the server.
On a fresh win2k3 server, windows 2003 server has .net framework 1.1 as built-incomponent. Which means most likely u need to reinstall the ASP.net 2.0 so it will register asp.net in IIS, type:
%SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis -i
Next, you need to activiate the ASP.net 2.0 in Web Service Extension. Also make sure your default web site is having .net framework 2.0. Just right click on Default Web site, go to ASP.Net tab and select ASP.Net 2.0
reference: How to: Configure ASP.NET Applications for an ASP.NET Version
Run into a problem yesterday that I need to put the application in the wwwroot as the default application. Everything work well until I need to generate a url that link to the files on the server. The url will show no ApplicationPath. It looks like this:
http:///Uploadload/test.txt
Original code:
aRow["DocumentFolder"] = Request.ApplicationPath.ToString() + "/" ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UploadPath"].ToString() + "/" +
GetFolderPath() + "/" + chFil.Name;
After searching on the web, I found out I need to put Request.ServerVariable["SERVER_NAME"] so the code can put the server name in the URL.
string AppPath = "/";
if (Request.ApplicationPath.ToString().Length > 1)
AppPath = Request.ApplicationPath.TrimEnd('/') + "/";
aRow["DocumentFolder"] = Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"].ToString() + AppPath + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UploadPath"].ToString() + "/" +
GetFolderPath() + "/" + chFil.Name;
Reference:
http://weblogs.asp.net/dneimke/archive/2004/05/17/133116.aspx
http://www.zenternal.com/CodeSamples/AspNetPathCode.html
Oh man, is this really dream become true? I haven't gotten dc'd for more than 10 days. Good stuff!! All it started with complaining to one of the upper CSR on Comcast website, and the guy actually return a call to me and asked about why I was not satisified. Comcast finally do it right this time. Thanks, Mr. Upper CSR!!!
ps: Sorry I don't rememeber your name. =)
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