Over the next few days, I will be editing old posts and deleting some of them also. I started this blog when I was 12 years old and the old posts just really aren’t good to keep anymore or some of the content I don’t want to be displayed anymore. I’m also hoping to change the theme over to one I’ve been working on for the past few weeks when I’ve had a minute or so, So stay tuned!

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  • @cherluvya Hey you! Ahh IM’ing with a friend.. always good.. I went to bed early.. I was being thrown around #
  • @cherluvya Ah.. Embarrassing.. I got thrown across my room in my chair by the wind.. into a wall.. #
  • @cherluvya Just really windy here the past 2 days, I’m worried about the roof in my bedroom it keeps making cracking noises… #
  • @cherluvya Well, I don’t think its a hurricane.. I would have been told by now lol #
  • @cherluvya Nahh.. its like 30 miles an hour.. but we never have strong wind lol #
  • @Art_FX Yep, I’m good a little cold now though! Its Amazing how cold that wind is outside.. really windy too.. #
  • @Art_FX Yeah, I think I got like um.. what 6 hours maybe? #
  • @Art_FX Did you get any? #
  • RT @mashable PlayStation Network Down [PSN] http://bit.ly/a8rQoe #
  • RT @mashable HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote http://bit.ly/cTSjrG #
  • RT @mashable New U.S. Military Policy Opens Up Social Media to the Troops http://bit.ly/cu0qmu #
  • RT @mashable 5 Must-Have Geek Collectibles http://bit.ly/cKUzM5 #
  • Watching tonights Desperate Housewives! :) #
  • @malibunextyear Goodnight Sherry! #
  • @richardbarley Can I laugh at you now =P? #
  • こんばんは。 #
  • @Art_FX A lot of companies do that now.. I just never answer the door :) #
  • “The greatest question in the world is what good will I do with it?” – Benjamin Franklin #

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Well today after the long wait I finally did Obsidian Sanctum 25 man 3 Drakes. I’m so glad to finally have my title “Twilight Vanquisher” and my achievement The Twilight Zone, as I had been using “of the Nightfall” for too long

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  • @Art_FX I’m feeling the same way right now. #
  • RT @BreakingNews: Cheney declines to say if he’ll back Palin if she runs in 2012 http://bit.ly/9amn7n #
  • Wiccanitus earned the achievement The Rocket’s Red Glare for 10 points. #WoW #Warcraft #
  • Wiccanitus earned the achievement Frenzied Firecracker for 10 points. #WoW #Warcraft #
  • Wiccanitus earned the achievement Elune’s Blessing for 10 points. #WoW #Warcraft #
  • Is having API issues this morning… #
  • RT @adelaidenow: British author Dick Francis dies http://bit.ly/980×97 #
  • RT @thereeleddiemcc: Start shooting Season II of WH13, March 1st, to begin airing again in early to mid July. #
  • @SciFiFanGirl616 Have fun! :D #
  • @lesleysmith I hope you’re going to tweet and blog about it as you go.. #
  • Ask me anything http://formspring.me/shaunlorrain #
  • @iaindodsworth What?! Why No TweetDeck?! #
  • Wiccanitus earned the achievement My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose for 10 points. #WoW #Warcraft #
  • Sick.. been sleeping for so long so I thought I should get out of bed #
  • @richardbarley That doesn’t fix my issues =P I emailed tom about them over the weekend though since I think its related to that timezone bug #
  • @lesleysmith Just wake up? #
  • @lesleysmith I did, I’m terribly sick.. 9:30pm here Been sick for days now.. #
  • @lesleysmith Aww, Thanks! I’m always sick.. doc has no idea.. I was even tested for brain cancer etc.. #

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Today Blizzard announced some new changes on the way the Battleground and Honor system will work they are as follows;

We have several changes planned for Battlegrounds in the next minor content patch and would like to share them with you now. This patch will be available for public testing and we encourage you to participate, queue up and provide some feedback on these changes.

  • Firstly, say goodbye to Battleground Marks of Honor. We feel this currency system is a bit outdated and are getting rid of it. Any items which require these marks as currency will have their costs adjusted appropriately to remove this requirement. The quest NPCs will still be available to award players Honor for turning in leftover marks, but this is only to help players clear this expired currency.
  • Next, the Battleground holiday weekend will now be denoted as “Call to Arms” in the Battleground tab and Calendar. If you prefer a specific Battleground over all others, look for those words next to its name to determine whether or not you’ll receive bonus Honor. The bonus awards for Call to Arms Battlegrounds have been adjusted.
    • Winning a Call to Arms Battleground for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
    • Additional Call to Arms Battleground victories after the first win for a player that day will award them with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
    • Losing a Call to Arms Battleground will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  • To bring the rate at which players obtain PvP rewards with Honor more in-line with the rate at which players obtain PvE rewards via the Dungeon Finder, we’ll also be increasing the amount of Honor awarded for an Honorable Kill by 100%. In light of this, the amount of experience provided from an Honorable Kill, and the amount of Honor awarded for completing the Wintergrasp weekly quests, have been reduced by 50%.

    It’s important to note one thing about these 50% decreases. All Honor awarded for completing objectives in Battlegrounds and Wintergrasp is actually based on an Honorable Kill conversion rate. So if you destroy a tower in Alterac Valley for example, the Honor you’re awarded is actually based on a flat number of Honorable Kills. Since Honorable Kills will now award 100% more Honor, completing such objectives will also award more Honor. This is why experience gains based on completing Battleground objectives and Honor awarded from the Wintergrasp quests are being decreased by 50%.

  • Now that we hopefully have your attention, we’re pleased to announce the implementation of the Random Battleground system! This system will work virtually the same as the Random Dungeon option in the Dungeon Finder. Players can queue with a group of up to five players for a Random Battleground in the Battleground tab. As with the Random Dungeon option, the Battleground chosen will not be revealed until players zone into the Battleground for which they are selected. The bonus rewards for this system are identical to the updated Call to Arms bonuses.
    • Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
    • Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
    • Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
    • When using the Random Battleground option, players will not receive additional rewards if the Battleground chosen is under the effects of the Call to Arms bonuses. In other words, the bonuses do not stack. In addition, if a player has been rewarded 30 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency from either the Random Battleground system, or the Call to Arms Battleground, he or she will be rewarded 15 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency that day for each additional victory. This applies whether the Random Battleground system is used, or the Call to Arms Battleground is chosen specifically, as a player cannot be rewarded the full amount of bonus Honor more than once per day.

All of these features and changes will be available in the next minor patch which should be hitting the public test realms in the near future. Please help us out by testing this system and providing your feedback so we can make some fine-tuning adjustments before the patch’s release.

I myself am pleased to hear these changes as it will be easier for me to get the PVP mounts to finally get my Mountain o’ Mounts achievement.

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One of the Universal Truths that lie just beyond the fabric of modern society is the axiom that geeks, along with nerds and other peoples who overinvest in intelligence but boast underdeveloped social skills, make the best lovers. Once people realize this, the sexual revolution that will sweep through western culture will make the seventies look like the fifties, and I’m not talking about wider pants. The reasons why geeks are unparalleled as lovers are simple and many:

Geeks don’t sleep around. Geeks, through their higher IQ and therefore greater understanding of the tragedy of human condition, know that the dice only seem to have more sides on the other side of the table. Hence, they instinctively stay loyal to their lovers through thick and thin. Their social skills are also not well developed enough to support an affair, and frankly, geeks generally aren’t quite sure how they ended up with the lover they have attracted. When you date a geek, you know the geek will be yours until you are done.

Geeks are good at the things they try. When’s the last time you met a geek who didn’t have some secret skill just simmering below the surface of a simple-seeming life, honed in the wee hours of the night? It could be hacking, playing video games, or the ability to insert and remove those stupid computer power plug things from drives without cursing or breaking a finger. Let sex become their new favorite late-night hobby, and you know that a geek won’t quit until he or she has learned how to hack into your brainstem through specific genitalia interfacing in parallel with general dermal and oral bonding.

Geeks are not interested in status. Geeks became geeks because they chose to spend their time doing things that would not necessarily make them popular with everyone else in school, like sports and fashion. The ability to resist peer pressure is important to a geek. This means that a geek is more interested in their or your happiness than looking good to others, which will come in handy when either (a) you need attention, in any sort ranging from the nurturing to the lascivious, and also, because both of those things are not necessarily unorthagonal dimensions, any combination of the two, or (b) you need to be rescued because it is the climax of a teen 80’s movie. Or both.

Geeks haven’t formed bad habits. After years of serially dating lots of other women, many socially successful guys have become too confident to be intimate, think of women only for sex, and don’t have any intention of letting what in their minds is “just another girlfriend” enjoy the last spring roll. Let us not even pry into the diabolical, dark, twisted, and depraved mind of the girl who has serially dated many men. None of this is true of the geek, however. The lack of past romantic partners allows the geek to approach lovers with the zest of the neophyte. Geeks are not full of romantic confidence; however, once coaxed from their emotional holes like tame bunnies, they are eager to please and enjoy their newfound relationship.

Geeks can concentrate. Geeks can focus their energy on one task with the intensity of a hunting cheetah. Granted, the task they are focusing on may have more to do with hunting orcs with a +1 Sword of Piercing rather than hunting gazelles with claws, but the fact remains that a geek, once set upon a task and given Mountain Dew, becomes a tireless slave to their goal. Put a six-pack of Dew on the bedside table and a geek between the sheets, and you have found yourself one relentless lover. When’s the last time all night actually meant all night? When’s the last time you were with someone who, if they needed more of the night, knew how to get it?

Geeks have excellent finger dexterity. Geeks roll dice. Geeks play video games. Geeks flip pages in books. Geeks type a lot, and use characters like ~ and ^ and | that no one else has any use for. Geeks use calculators in postfix notation. As a result, a geek knows how to use his or her fingers to greatest possible effect. Whether you have a button that needs pushing or a joystick that needs joy, a geek is the person for the job.

Geeks have imagination. Once you have found your amazing lover, you wouldn’t want things to become boring. That is where geeks prove their real worth. Replayability is important to the value-conscious video-game playing geek, and this translates to relationships as well. Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has created a Quake 3 mod? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has written steamy Everquest fan fiction involving elven incest? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who wished they were Morpheus rather than someone who wished they were Barry Bonds?

There are plenty of other reasons why geeks are the best lovers around, but don’t just take my word for it. Find the nearest sexy geek and coax that person into asking you out, even if you have to do so using instant messanger. Remember: the only non-sexy geek is a single geek.

Original copy located at http://awkwardthingsisaytogirls.com/2007/02/why-geeks-make-good-lovers/, All credit goes to them.

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  • Its way to hot to sleep… Sick of this weather in #Adelaide and want winter to come! #
  • @cherluvya Hey! Sorry I was sleeping! #
  • Saphala earned the achievement Dwarfageddon (10 player) for 10 points. #WoW #Warcraft #
  • @caitlyanna I use a self hosted wordpress blog because I’m a web desginer/master much better :) #
  • @caitlyanna What do you need to know about CSS? #
  • @caitlyanna Its a little hard to understand and how to code unless you’re being taught… Simple programs let you do designs for blogs. #
  • @cherluvya You’re going to loose me soon if you don’t tweet me back! /cry #
  • @cherluvya Nothing that I know of, I tweeted you um 4 hours ago. #
  • @cherluvya Ahhhhh.. You did tweet me! Oops #
  • @cherluvya Sorry.. the joke is on me now.. I’ve been very busy today lol.. Haven’t been at my desk all day #
  • RT @NASA: Shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts about to be suited up for launch – watch live on NASA TV & http://www.nasa.gov/ntv #
  • @cherluvya I woke up before lunch today.. although I thought it was 5pm ha! #
  • @cherluvya Hey.. I’m back sorry #
  • @cherluvya Thats good you got to spend the afternoon chatting :D #
  • @cherluvya Did you watch the superbowl? I didn’t.. not really interested anyway #
  • @caitlyanna What program is that? #
  • @caitlyanna Did you reboot? #

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Its my pleasure to announce that the new TweetDeck version has now officially been released and you can download it here! There is a lot of changes with this latest release so first lets watch a video showing some of the new changes;

Here is a list of changes with this new version;

  • FIXED: bitly.tv links get autoshortened
  • IMPROVED: The download size of the app is now 2.0MB from 2.7MB
  • UPDATED: The Tweet Panel is now locked whilst a tweet is sending
  • FIXED: Double byte characters (eg Chinese, Japanese) not working in the search box.
  • FIXED: Character count sometimes not shown
  • FIXED: Clicking the ‘You are now following’ message downloads an old version of TD
  • UPDATED: Using reply all, the person you are replying to is now always first
  • FIXED: Long search column names in dialog boxes hide some buttons
  • FIXED: YFrog images don’t take notice of the ‘Open in browser’ option
  • FIXED: App doesn’t take focus when clicking on the sys tray icon
  • ADDED: Show full size profile pic when clicking on smaller version in profile panel
  • UPDATED: Show ‘Add To Group’ at bottom of profile panel regardless of whether we’re following person or not
  • UPDATED: Multiple monitor support improved massively
  • ADDED: Allow TweetDeck to be used in fullscreen mode (F11 in Windows only)
  • UPDATED: Escape now closes image preview windows
  • FIXED: Tweet Panel account labels are not updated when twitter username changes
  • ADDED: Add UT: to the prefixes we strip off of location in the profile panel
  • FIXED: Minimise during image preview causes problems
  • FIXED: TD recognising # within a URL as a hashtag
  • FIXED: We should now be recognising a wider range of URLs, hashtags, and mentions correctly. I
  • UPDATED: Clearer display of error messages
  • CHANGED: Now using oAuth calls behind the scenes to take advantage of increased API limit
  • CHANGED: URLs with ” immediately after aren’t linkified.
  • FIXED: Red background remains after URL shortening
  • ADDED: Add “retweeted by me” into stream on app start
  • FIXED: After TweetShrink/translate operation, red background disappears even if > 140
  • CHANGED: Remember tweet panel state on app restart
  • ADDED: In-app preview of YouTube, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, Posterous & Flickr media
  • ADDED: Upload to Mobypicture image sharing service
  • FIXED: On initial startup, clicking reply, RT etc does not place cursor in update box
  • FIXED: LinkedIn profile pictures not being shown
  • CHANGED: Moved Twitter library to use oAuth
  • FIXED: Translating a tweet renders links inactive
  • FIXED: Translate only works in one direction
  • ADDED: Column navigator at bottom of screen
  • ADDED: Option to “Allow TweetDeck to manage my API limit” which uses intelligent algorithms to control and manage your API limit
  • CHANGED: Twitter API-specific settings moved to new “Twitter Updates” tab under Settings
  • ADDED: Ability to edit search terms for Search columns
  • ADDED: Ability to add search columns for searches stored on Twitter.com as well as TweetDeck
  • CHANGED: Links are now clickable without the http:// prefix
  • FIXED: Clicking ‘Close’ in autocomplete should have same effect as pressing ‘Esc’
  • CHANGED: Email addresses in updates are now linkified. Click the link to open a new message in your default email client
  • FIXED: Notifications appearing newest-oldest rather than oldest-newest
  • FIXED: Tweets in profile panels do not show geo-location pins
  • CHANGED: Resetting your twitter password in TD will now force a refresh all columns
  • FIXED: Improvements in LinkedIn API handling
    • If you have any issues, Please @reply me on twitter my username is @ShaunLorrain.

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      • Morning guys! #
      • Shower time, be back #
      • Walking back home after visiting my old 2 schools saw some old faces it was fun. Especially seeing an award I made 8 yrs ago. #
      • @SciFiFanGirl616 N.E.D award, I just tried to find when I got awarded it to find out what it was for but sadly it looks like I threw it away #
      • @SciFiFanGirl616 I have too many, I was really one of those students you really hate… Got usually 2 per day LOL #
      • @SciFiFanGirl616 Just looking through them, I have awards from the police even lol #
      • @SciFiFanGirl616 Yep, I was about 12 then I turned the opposite and became the hard to deal with student and ended up leaving school lol #
      • @totallyhappy I hope you’re kidding… :D #
      • @mel3498 Monday is almost over.. hehe #
      • @cherluvya Hey! #
      • @cherluvya I’m ok, how are you? #
      • @SciFiFanGirl616 Night! #
      • @lesleysmith You’re up early! #
      • @cherluvya That’s bad! I hope you feel better! DM inc to you! #
      • So the twitter tools plugin issue was fixed with the latest update for my blog, Still have to contact the author about the double post issue #
      • @cherluvya hehe, Our internet just went out.. #
      • Watching tonights Desperate Housewives now :) #
      • RT @CNN: White House: Medical evacuations of Haitians to resume. http://on.cnn.com/bUnA5I #

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      After weeks of trying to get my hands on CS4 for schooling this year, I finally got it today! It comes with 6 disks total, 4 are install disks, ones a content and the last one is training videos for all the Adobe products. It took me just over 3 hours to do a complete install. So far I’m very impressed with CS4 although I had used the CS4 version of Dreamweaver before and I look forward to using it this year to study.

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      Well it appears WordPress has released a new version of their BlackBerry application which now works much better than the previous version. Last version I couldn’t actually connect to my blog whatsoever. Now that I can blog from anywhere with my cell I think I might do a few more blog posts while I’m traveling and have nothing better to do. I’ll add a video preview after the break for the new awesome application.

      PS: I even wrote this post on my BlackBerry as a test ;)

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      Well, a few months ago back in October 2009 I transferred the blog from http://sheppardsblog.com to http://shaunlorrain.com (See here for the story) the renewal for sheppardsblog.com is coming up at the end of march and I don’t plan to renew the domain. So for all of you who still access the blog through that address, please change your bookmarks.

      ~Shaun

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