http://blog.geekie.net A blog about gadgets, media and all technology related 'stuff'. Be a geek for a few minutes ;) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:28:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Blizzard has now opened the Opt-In for the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Beta. You just need to go to your account management screen and choose "Wrath of the Lich King Beta Opt-In" option in the bottom of the page. Opting in doesn't mean you are going to be able ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/07/04/wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta-opt-in/ Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida, has finally reached the end of the game without loosing a single life. wow. That's 256 levels of dots and ghosts and dots and some fruit and did I mention dots? It took him 6 hours of boredom but he did it. Woohoo :P Read Wired ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/07/03/pac-man-record-yep-finally-someone-broke-the-record/ Apple just released Mac OS X 10.5.4. This new version brings only bug fixes and minor changes. No awesomeness here but a good update for Mac users.  10.5.4 Fix List: General Includes recent Apple security updates. Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server. Includes additional RAW ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/07/02/mac-os-x-1054-released/   "Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) based on the world and works of acclaimed author Robert E. Howard.  In Age of Conan, players enter Hyboria with thousands of their friends and enemies to live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/05/22/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures-public-launch/ Quick SQL tip that I find useful. If you want just the date part of a datetime value, the following neat expression yields it: SELECT DATEADD(d, 0, DATEDIFF(d, 0, datetime_column)) This is useful for comparing dates. Alternative approaches include casting to string, and comparing the date parts (day, month, year) separately. The ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/05/22/sql-tip/   Did you enjoy playing Gears of War on your Xbox 360? Yes? Than you will be happy to know that Gears of War 2 is being developed and that the release date is around November this year. Just watch the trailer here: (skip to 1 minute if you only want to ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/05/12/gears-of-war-2-announced-for-november-2008/ Some time ago I was quite interested in programming languages but that interest wore off because I found a bit hard to get a job on that area. Of course, things have changed and now it's quite easy to get a job on that specific area. You can even choose ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/04/14/xaml-and-wpf/ Michael Donnelly, the creator of Glider, a World of Warcraft 'bot' application, is being sued by Blizzard. This software allows users to be away from the computer while the software plays the game for them. It is quite useful when doing all the boring bits in the game, like grinding for gold ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/04/01/legal-battle-over-world-of-warcraft-bot/   Yep, WordPress 2.5 is out. Don't forget to update your blog software, go and grab you copy now. Lot's of new features have been released with 2.5 including a less cluttered dashboard, widgets on the dashboard, multi-file upload with a progress bar (finally :) ), built-in galleries and so much more. Check ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/03/31/wordpress-25-is-out/ Sorry folks. It's all my fault. I didn't post the last episode of the ./Shutdown series which has been released a while back. So here it is for you to watch. Better later than never right? [youtube pou_frBXWnM nolink] Let's wait and hope to watch Season 2 soon :) Their site is http://www.shutdowntv.com/ in ... http://blog.geekie.net/2008/03/30/season-finale-of-shutdown/