Redshift

So today Joe and I decided to try out a new mod for Half-Life 2, and we found out that it’s pretty damn cool. The mod is called Following Freeman and it has a pretty interesting layout: Basically there’s a central hub in the game where you and your teammates start out and there are portals to different mods and such. Like there are portals into Rock 24 and The Island but instead of those being just single player Following Freeman turns them into Co-op Levels with a point system and all, it’s pretty cool. But that’s all I’ve really go to say right now, so I’ll talk to whoever reads this later.

So I upgraded my blog’s backend today to the latest version of WordPress and currently I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to use the tagging system from Word 2007. Either Microsoft is going to need to release a small patch for Word or WordPress will need to integrate something along the lines of this: [tag]insert, some, amazing, tag, here[/tag] into the system, Because I like using Word 2007 as my blogging program and I would really like to use the tagging features that WordPress has FINALLY added. In other news: Most people that read this know that I’m a big fan of the Half-Life series, and I’ve been waiting for HL2: Episode Two and Portal since I heard about them last year. The only downside is that in order to get both of them I have to either buy The Orange Box (which includes HL2 and Episode One, both of which I’ve recently purchased, so I REALLY don’t want to go that route), Or buy them separately on steam for a bit more then what they cost when bundled with everything else, which still isn’t all that great as I’m not a big fan of buying things from Steam. Ah well I guess I’ll just go ahead and buy the orange box and get Team Fortress Two while I’m at it. And now onto the hardware side of things: I’m getting a new video card for my PC in the next week or so. My current card (the dreaded Geforce FX 5200) has finally started to die on me and it’s pissing me off as it’s affecting the games I play. So since this system only has an AGP slot instead of PCI-Express I’m going for an Overclocked AGP-based Geforce 7600GT from eVGA. That should give me a nice boost in performance with my games and help extend my computer’s life, which I desperately need since I can’t afford to go out and buy a new computer, like certain other people. So yeah for the next month or so after I get my new card I’ll be glued to my computer playing games, so that should be fun. And now… I’m off to go play Half-Life 2: Deathmatch!

Today’s Comic: Pix Plz.

This week’s Video comes from Loading.Ready.Run

So my life lately has been… Well basically the same. I got Half-Life 2 again last week after my first account got stolen and I’ve become addicted to HL2 Deathmatch so that’s always fun. For the most of this week I’ve been having some odd problems with my pc wanting to crash, and then it wanted to run “Check Disk” at startup every time I started it so that was just great. But I got that fixed just now with Joe’s help (Thanks Joe), and now I’m pretty much set right now in terms of PC problems as I think I got all the bugs worked out of my system. In other news, I released a new album, and it can be downloaded here from last.fm. I’d offer it for download on here but I don’t want to go through the hassle of uploading each track and linking to it on the NRV page. Also I’m going to finally make an attempt to update the blog once or twice a week as I’ve started to get lazy with my blog posts and it’s pissing me off. I mean I used to update this at least every other day and I got further and further between blog posts. I really don’t know what happened to me, aside from school and work. And Finally, as I got a new camera, it’s time for me to bombard this with a couple pics of my stuff Because I can:

And Today’s Comic: Nostalgia