after 2 years of the paladin…

LEVEL 80 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOHOOOOO

and now? time to get some gearrrrr… and until then go to “newbie” dungeons and make as much money as posible

any tips?

Windows 7

I finally upgraded to Windows 7 today and contrary to my methods, I chose the “upgrade” option from my previous operating system which was Vista, mainly because I didnt want to have to re-configure everything and get the drivers and blah blah… but guess what? It came out great!!! My system uses about 30% LESS resources than before, all my programs work, all of my hardware works, everything is exactly how I had it in Vista… I am impressed so far.

Only time will tell.

Hubble’s newest and best pictures yet. Amazing.

Here is the story from CNN about one of the amazing butterly shaped nebula’s it captured. (i actually made it my wallpaper!!!!) make sure that you check it out in full size…

(CNN) — Forget Hollywood special effects or Impressionist paintings — some of the most stunning images are created by the mysterious and often violent forces in the universe.

Globular star cluster Omega Centauri has almost 10 million stars. This image shows only a fraction of them.

// Witness the handful of new snapshots taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which was equipped with a new imaging camera during a space shuttle servicing mission in May.

It’s back in business and there’s lots to ooh and aah over.

“Let there be no doubt, this is truly Hubble’s new beginning,” said Ed Weiler, NASA’s associate administrator, during a news conference Wednesday.

Take the image on the left of planetary nebula NGC 6302, also known as the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula.

Its “wings” are made of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit and there is a dying star at its center.

“The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour — fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes,” NASA’s Web site says.

The “butterfly” is more than 2 light-years across.

NASA took advantage of the special filters on Hubble’s camera to isolate the light of different elements, said Bob O’Connell, chair of the science oversight committee for Wide Field Camera 3.

The red in the image is nitrogen gas, for example, and the blue is oxygen. See some of the previous amazing images taken by Hubble

Colors are also prominent in the image of globular star cluster Omega Centauri, which contains almost 10 million stars, but the color contrast here is real. The gold dots are stars like our sun, but the blue ones are extremely hot, while the red ones are cool, O’Connell said.

“Just by looking at the color of the stars in the picture, you can sort them by temperature and evolutionary state because the temperature differences here are caused by differences in the internal structure of these stars and in the kinds of fuels they’re burning deep inside of them,” O’Connell said.

Another image shows Stephan’s Quintet, a group of five galaxies — some of which are 290 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Over time, those galaxies will eventually merge into a single big galaxy, O’Connell said.

Finally, images of a stellar nursery as seen in visible and infrared light reveal the secrets inside the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away.

“This is a cloud of dense material which is being bombarded by intense radiation from surrounding stars,” O’Connell said.

“But dissolve to infrared and the cloud disappears. … An energetic infant star is being formed inside this cloud.”

Hubble is expected to continue its mission for at least five more years.                   -CNN

Divx webplayer ALTERNATIVE

Tired of the bugs and instability in Divx Web Player (DWP)?

Tired of it constantly crashing your browser, making you loose precious time or work?

Well there is a way out of the muddy waters, a way to avoid DWP.

Divx media plays on mostly proprietary software but you can watch then on VLC Media Player (VMP)

Just browse to the page with the divx media and note the URL

Using the ‘page source’ function to find the url of the video….

it must end with ——-.divx

For stage6 this is even simpler e.g.

http://www.stage6.com/The-Pretender/video/1585862/The-Pretender-S2E08—Hazards

becomes

http://video.stage6.com/1585862/.divx

I think you notice the pattern to apply it to any divx video from stage6 (the major site for divx media)

Then just paste this link under

File>Open Network Stream>HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS and then paste the modified URL there

in a few seconds you will be watching the video stream….!

Some people may say that they need to watch the videos on the move and not necessarily on their own computers. For example most internet cafes or university computer labs do not have DWP installed (no grief for them)

In comes Portable VLC Media Player. All you need is a USB and you can watch any divx stream anytime on any computer.
(provided you got a fast enough connection to allow real-time playback.)

The only drawback is that VLC Player does not allow seeking.

For alternative solution that allows seeking read here.

PLEASE HELP: WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE THESE 3D GLASSES FOR?

i will get some real ones up in a few minutes!

ruski subs seen off the us coast…

I read over at CNN.com the following:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two Russian attack submarines have been cruising in the Atlantic off the East Coast of the United States, a senior defense official said Wednesday.

Russian attack submarines such as this one have been spotted in the Atlantic Ocean.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said their presence is not causing alarms to go off.

“So long as they are operating in international waters, as, frankly, we do around the world, and are behaving in a responsible way, they are certainly free to do so, and it doesn’t cause any alarm within this building,” he said.

It has been years since Russia operated near the U.S. seaboard, thousands of miles from home ports.

“What’s interesting is, they haven’t been able to do this in some time, and now they are. It indicates a return to their ability to do this,” the senior defense official said.

He viewed the patrol as an example of Russia showing the United States and the world its expeditionary forces, part of a continuing trend. He said the Russians have recently been a partner in anti-piracy operations around the world. And last year the Russian Navy conducted a “tour around the world,” pulling into ports throughout Latin America.

In December, a Russian spokesman said that tour demonstrated “Russia’s ability to fly its naval flag and ensure protection of its national interests in the world theater.”

The Akula-class nuclear-powered submarines, which are normally equipped with surface-loaded cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles, have stayed in international waters, the source said. These are not the class of submarines that can launch intercontinental nuclear missiles.

The U.S. Navy has the capability to locate, identify and track submarine activity through satellites, ships, aircraft and classified systems.

“NORAD and U.S. Northern Command are aware of Russian submarine activity off the East Coast operating in international waters. We have been monitoring them during transit and recognize the right of all nations to exercise freedom of navigation in international waters according to international law,” said Lt. Desmond James of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

A Russian military spokesman said at a news conference in Moscow that the submarines’ activities were “part of the normal process.”

Defense officials told The New York Times that one of the Russian submarines was in international waters Tuesday about 200 miles off the coast of the United States. The location of the second was unclear.

U.S. officials downplayed the significance of the submarines operating off the U.S. coast.

“There is no need to overreact,” the senior defense official said.

“This is not an issue of concern. It is all consistent with the internationally-recognized principle of freedom of navigation. As long as the vessels do not cross into territorial waters, they are free to navigate any open waters,” another official said.

Officials have said this is the naval equivalent to Russian bomber missions close to U.S. and other countries’ borders.

“It is Russia again trying to assert its influence and trying to show they have a relevant military,” a third defense official said.

Vodafone Samsung Omnia 3g hsdpa speed test! and some ideas… interested?

I thought you guys might find it interesting to see the kind of statistics I get from a internet bandwidth benchmark! (hopfully the code they gave me to embed work!)

1833mbps - 179 ping

(btw, where would you guys recommend buying a hostname and webspace? I want a server to be able to have wordpress, a forum, personal storage and to practice… if anyone is also interested in sharing a server with me, i would lo

ve that!!! but only the server, i would get my own hostname obviously and link it to the server and you could do the same and for purely educational purposes… )

please all, reach me on skype because i use it now ALOT on my phone all day….

Michael Schumacher will be replacing Massa in Ferrari!

well i just had the post this! Michael Schumacher will be coming back to F1 racing until Massa recovers from his injuries. cnn has just confirmed this and i will post all about it when i get more info.

stay tuned.

new kanye west mixtape, live from chicago! free download included

i have just found out about a new mixtape called live from chicago released yesterday by kanye west. you can download it here. please let me know what u think of it!

spanish inmate tries to escape prison on an island with a zepelin!

This is just hailarious!!!! hahahahaha

I HAD TO POST THIS!

I dont know how the heck he did it, but somehow his buddies got it to him or something, and he built this to escape prison!!! LOL

Here is the link (in Spain sorry!!!)