I have been playing a lot of Borderlands 2 lately and my favorite place in Pandora has been Dragon Keep. After you and the merry band have defeated The Warrior you all sit down to a game of " Bunkers & Badasses" together… haha. So basically it is a first-person-shooter inside an old-school role-playing game full of orcs, dwarves, dragons, wizards, and even a unicorn. ...
Just how important is it to concatenate and optimize your javascript? In reading this article about the healthcare.gov article “Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website” it is apparently extremely important. Among other problems it was found that a large number of JavaScript files were being requested and then parsed by the customer’s web browsers causing an overload of requests from the server and an overtaxing of the web browser. ...
Looking to hone my SEO skills I poked around inside of Safari Books Online for just the right book to show me the light. I have been building web sites for 17 years now and know a fair amount about how the search engines work. By “Search Engines” I mean Google of course, as most of the others have fallen to the wayside. But I have not actively studied SEO techniques in a long time and I figure now is the time to brush up. ...
I bought Borderlands 2 on Steam and play it on my MacBook Pro. I have been playing Borderlands 2 for a long time now and have mostly been loving I, there have been some parts of it that really frustrated me and I am beginning to get burned out on it again. After 250 hours or so of playing I have completed the main storyline 5 times, played all of the downloadable content, completed almost every quest available at least once, and have leveled up a Sniper to 52 and a Commando to 64. My current plan is to get the commando up to the highest level, which is currently level 72. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app and my iPhone. This book did not impress me. To me the narrator, James Adams, sounds really bored throughout the book. Maybe it has to do with my own opinion that “Science” knows a lot less than it thinks it does and that much of what is currently accepted as irrefutable truth will soon be recognized as being wrong. So a book of 13 things that science does not know is not very impressive to me. ...
I bought the 14 books of the Dresden Files from Audible.com and listened to them using the Audible iPhone app and my iPhone. I ran out of books in my waiting list and decided it was time to re-listen to all of the Dresden Files books, one after the other as quickly as time would allow. What a ride. Taking the series in like this was great, it was like having one extremely large book to listen to with no interruptions. Butcher has created a universe and characters that I will never forget. ...
I bought this signed hardback from Powell’s Book Store in Portland Oregon. I have been hearing a lot about this book from every direction. Audible, Amazon, and a lot of friends have pushed it at me. But I wasn’t impressed by any of them; most of the time when a writer is unable to get a story published it is for a good reason. Wool is an exception, at least the story as a whole is, I am not sure I would have made it much past the first section of the book if I had to wait for the next section to come out. I want to say a big thanks to all of the people that encouraged Hugh Howey to keep writing. ...
I am not sure where I bought this hardback book, probably Amazon or Barnes & Noble. I read it here and there over a couple of months, it took awhile between everything else that has been going on. Wetworld features 2 of my favorite characters, David Tennant as the 10th Doctor and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones. The story itself is really cookie-cutter. The companion wants to go some where/some when, the Doctor agrees while totally misinterpreting the where and when, and the TARDIS takes them to someplace that neither one of them expects. Something is wrong endangering the locals of where they land. The companion gets in trouble, the Doctor runs around acting manic, and with the help of the locals everything gets straightened out. ...
I read this book on Safari Books Online using the Safari Books app on an iPad. I am not a big fan of using flash in the type of photography I usually do, but I am trying to improve my skills with speedlites and strobes. I have an old Canon 550EX and a pair of Yongnuo cheapo flashes with Yongnuo wireless triggers. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. With such high ratings and the endorsement from Neil Gaiman, how could I pass this one up. I am not sure why, but this book just didn’t work for me. It started out with many small technical problems with the audio, small chirps and crackling, that really distracted me. But even after those issues went away later in the book I still just couldn’t get into it. ...