Can you believe my lame ass luck! I started downloading the WoW beta demo like 4 days ago and just now I finished installing it and,.. er, um, Sorry sir the beta trial is over. God dam it! Have you any idea how big the download size is! 2.4+ gigabytes!, yes that's 2400+ megabytes I had to download! It took 20+ minutes just to install all that!

So I go to the World of Warcraft Community Site and guess what the current news post is entitled. "World of Warcraft Beta Test is Now OVER" Arrgggg! Hulk smash! Sucks to be me right now.

I am finally done playing FarCry and I have finished writing my review for it. You can find it under the documents->Reviews tab.

FarCry Review

Have you seen the Arena Wars Game! Written using the .NET Framework!

Arena Wars - Community Site

The problem is far worse then I thought! So I go and do a fresh install of windows after getting a new computer, and install the new october 2004 DirectX SDK and POOF!, there goes my DX9Tools library! It will not run, and it will not even compile! Why? Because when you install the october dx sdk it does not also install any of the previous managed dx9 libraries. For example my dx9tools library is written to work with ver 9.00.0900 and guess what, the october dx sdk only installs ver 9.02.3900! Do you know what that means! That every one who has written code using DX9 needs to update there code to work with the new libraries! Laaaaame! Note to MS, feel free to install old versions of your managed DX9 SDK libraries next time!

Then I got to thinking...

Worse yet, all of my DirectX 9 example apps on my directx page were written for ver 9.00.0900 of the DX SDK. OMFG! All that work,... All those example apps I wrote, all those websites I posted them to,....

DAM YOU MS DIRECTX TEAM! DAM YOU!!! Now people are going to download my example apps from all over the net and try to compile and run them and they will not be able to! And good luck trying to find a link to the old managed directx libraries on the ms directx website, they only provide links for the newer v9.0c libraries.

And I'm just thinking about myself! What about all the other people out there and the apps those people have written! This is a disaster lying in wait!

I have added some new stuff to my site.

Mushroom Picking 74 pictures!.

Added 2 more DirectX code snips. <link no longer availible>

Added a new projects section under the Development menu, and added my EasyG project.

Just read an article on the NYT site you may be interested in...

The New York Times - In Video Games, Sequels Are Winners

I have added 2 new reviews to the reviews page. One for the new Doom 3 game, and a updated review for the Garmin Rhino 110 GPS.

Reviews page

Some Down Time Is Expected...
Brinkster, my web hosting provider, will be moving there servers over to there new datacenter on ## Saturday Oct 30, 11:00 PM EST to Sunday Oct 31 01:00 PM EST. ## So this site will most likely be unavailible at that time. Just to let you know.

Won't do that again!
I was messing around with the site a few days ago and totally screwed it up. So I just decided to do a reinstall. Then today I temporaraly screwed up access to the site by playing with the dam name server list. Sheesh! But it's back online again and ready to go... BTW if you with to return my old web site you still can at http://www10.brinkster.com/cbx/indexb.htm

What's going to happen?
Well I have decided I will only be adding new content to the new site when I have time. Any new content I publish will be published on the new site, and I will move over my existing content from my old site over to the new site as I find time. So if you want to gain access to the existing content on the old site you can still access it here.

You guys I am soooo sorry! I just don't know what I was thinking! Oh man.... I hope you can forgive me,... I just don't know what came over me,... I know, I know, I will try,... but but, I havent't even played Farcry, and Doom3 yet! Nooo, NOOOO, I haven't been playing too much Unreal Tournoment 2004!!! Oh be quiet you don't know what you are talking about!

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Uh might not wanna expect too much from me in the next week or more,... At least until, I have finished playing Doom3, and Farcry. Just picked up these games yesterday. Of cource Halo2 and HalfLife 2 are just around the corner also, hmmm,.... Crowbar,.. mmmm,... Yes, master chief! :)

I am still learning about DotNetNuke, and from what I have seen so far has been quite good. But I am having some problems with skinning.

BTW If you wish to get back to the original site with all of my content you can find the link here http://www10.brinkster.com/cbx/indexb.htm