Came across this really cool video all done with miniatures. The visual style is really engaging. It makes me feel like I'm watching some future version of a sim city video game.

Many people have seen this animated gif around the internet.

But a lot can be said about it as it relates to being a computer programmer ...

• It starts off nice and calm, steadily typing away and generally getting work done.
• Shortly there after for a brief moment the pace quickens as if to to suggest a great idea is under way.
• Quick typing turns to mild frustration. Perhaps because of performing multi line copy/paste re-factoring that can quickly become strenuous without the right addons or IDE.
• Soon frustration sets in, and coding results in button mashing as yet another failed aproach is realized.
• Frustration builds and merges with past frustrations that quickly transform into mild anger. Anger towards insufficient tools, language limitations, and the realization that a computer is just a over glorified calculator, you still need to tell it to how to equate every step of the way. IE: 1 + 1.
• A vocal outburst can be seen. A scream of a thousand thousand hours of endless coding. And it still does not work right.
• Teeth clench to bite off the noise. In the next instant self preservation switches off. The hands welt and bruise, the bones of the wrists and arms begin to shatter and explode upon impact.
• There is no turning back at this point. With arms no more then stumps, only the face remains.
• The forhead splits, teeth slip there roots.
• The eyes that have looked upon millions, no billions of lines of code are next to go. 
• The remaining skull and jaw bones shatter upon impact.
• Leaning back, exausted and bloodied, bearly concious, moments from death, it is over. No more frustration, no more stress, the last of many projects left unfinished.
• Gravity takes over and pulls the lifeless corpse down upon the keyboard that recorded countless keystrokes.
• As the remaining blood leaks out, and the last spark of thought to cross the mind is that nothing had been acomplished.

All that remains is the blood, sweat and tears that now cover the souless machine.

But all is not lost. For this is but an imagining. Thus the image resets and begins a new. An endless repeating loop, each iteration invoking further reflection.

This last week has been a nightmate trying to get two websites running under the same hosting provider but finally after much frustration I have this site back up and running for the most part. There are still a few lingering issues to be ironed out, but i'll get to them when I get to them. Other then that have not done much. 

Waiting around for XNA 4 to be officially released. After this week of friggin around with my websites I've been longing to get back to some desktop/game programming.

Have been exclusively working on my wowtracks.com site and getting that going. It's coming along but I keep overlooking and making stupid mistakes.

Other then that I have not been doing much else.

Came accross this video on youtube and felt it was worth bringing attention to. I normally don't post such content but I think it is one of those videos that draws your attention and it is something I can really apreciate as an art piece.

I've been working on a World of Warcraft character and statistics tracking website over at www.wowtracks.com. I will be posting results from the data I collect as well as my thoughts about the site.

I had my doubts about our ability to down him. For the last two weeks it seemed like we did not have the dps for him, but as the group got more practice, we were able to get him down with one minute to spare. This was by far our best, and more perfectly executed attempt.

We tried the zerg method for doing sarth with 3 drakes up. Took a few tries to get a good roll on the firewalls but we did it. If the third drakes lands sarth becomes immune and a few times he was down to 24.8 k health before turning immune.

Was playing around with making a simple tutorial video about the Hodir fight to help people identify what to look out for and avoid during the encounter.

Also I have setup a deticated page just for World of Warcraft videos that can be found here.

I have not used my cbxChangeLogger extension and frankly forgot I had it. So here is a list of updates that the sites has under gone in the last few months ...

New Content

• Sunday, August 23, 2009 (Page): Ohsai Documentation
• Sunday, January 10, 2010 (Post): Funny mac vs pc proof i came across
• Friday, January 29, 2010 (Post): General Vezax 1 shot
• Thursday, February 04, 2010 (Page): WOW Armory Cheat Sheet

Updates

• Friday, August 14, 2009 (Page): Projects
• Friday, August 14, 2009 (Page): SilverlightExt
• Friday, August 14, 2009 (Page): cbxChangeLogger
• Friday, August 14, 2009 (Page): XNA
• Saturday, August 15, 2009 (Page): Fart Sniffer Tutorial
• Saturday, August 22, 2009 (Post): Godaddy, Linq, BlogEngine, Kodu AI, muchrooms and more
• Sunday, August 23, 2009 (Page): Doom 3
• Sunday, August 23, 2009 (Page): Farcry
• Sunday, August 23, 2009 (Page): Picking apart World of Warcraft
• Sunday, August 23, 2009 (Post): ToDo List
• Monday, August 24, 2009 (Page): Ohsai
• Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (Page): Subdomains at createdbyx.com
• Monday, October 19, 2009 (Post): The great outdoors await
• Tuesday, October 20, 2009 (Post): Matsutake Woo Woo!
• Sunday, October 25, 2009 (Post): Oh Shit! F*#$ing awsome!!!
• Saturday, November 07, 2009 (Page): Gallery
• Saturday, November 21, 2009 (Post): XNA Issues
• Monday, December 07, 2009 (Post): Wow it's been a while
• Sunday, January 17, 2010 (Page): XMLDocContentProcessor
• Sunday, January 17, 2010 (Post): New video added to the site
• Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (Page): Silverlight
• Friday, January 29, 2010 (Post): 25 Man Malygos Whoose yer daddy
• Friday, January 29, 2010 (Post): Yoggie pwned !
• Monday, February 01, 2010 (Post): ICC Progression underway
• Monday, February 01, 2010 (Post): General Vezax Pwned !
• Monday, February 01, 2010 (Post): How NOT to tank mimron
• Monday, February 01, 2010 (Page): Media
• Monday, February 01, 2010 (Post): Gunship Battle
• Thursday, February 04, 2010 (Page): Articles
• Monday, February 08, 2010 (Page): World of Warcraft Videos
• Monday, February 08, 2010 (Page): Misc
• Thursday, February 11, 2010 (Page): Movie Review List