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Friend sent me a 10 day “resurrection” pass to try and get me back to World of Warcraft. OK, what the heck, it has been quite a while since my last little fling. I’ll get the patching going tonight and hopefully be able to play later this week.

Oh wait – what’s this? I can download

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EverQuest on Linux

[I promise that I won't become a "linux only advocacy blog." However, as I'm in the process of converting, there may be a few more articles about it than normal -- it is my current bright and shiny object!]

I took the plunge and reloaded my home machine to be an Ubuntu Linux machine this week.

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Fixed the Hitch in My Giddyup

Earlier today I decided it was time to re-subscribe to my old weakness, EverQuest, once again. I have upgraded my system since my last time around and was pretty excited to see how this new rig would fair against the stress that EQ can bring to bear.

Here’s the current Vista Experience thingy (click for full

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Diablo III

Words fail me as I try to phrase how excited I am to see the Diablo III page up at Blizzard. I loved the original Diablo and enjoyed Diablo II. To see D3 coming just makes me downright giddy.

No release date yet.

Toying with Abandonware

I spent some time this morning dabbling with some old computer games – stuff from the 80’s and 90’s that is now classified as “abandonware.” The neat thing about abandonware is that, if you can find it, it’s pretty much free.

The downside to abandonware is that technology has changed a lot over the last 20

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