Details of Mists of Pandaria

They are planning on moving all players away from Orgrimmar and Stormwind and to leave poeple in Inns in the wild again :D

World PVE content, meaning world PVP on the respective servers!

Talent changes for all character classes! Deeper customisation for more original characters. (Personal note: most probably this will eventually land in cookie-cutter builds again.)

5 new zones in the Continent of Pandaria... all on one continent, which will be influenced by Asian culture and the environment!

There will be no flying until the MAXIMUM LEVEL! This is a throwback to the original questing experiences.

The whole of the continent will be nearly 10 times bigger than the Twilight Highlands!

Events of the final battle in Cataclysm will lead to the uncovering of the new zone!

The starter zone for the Pandarens will be on the back of a giant turtle! (Discworld anyone?)

You will be able to choose either Alliance or Horde side at level 10, once the initial quests and an introduction for the new race has been experienced.

Blizzcon 2011! World of Warcraft: The Mists of Pandaria

Mists of Pandaria

The new World of Warcraft Expansion has been announced! Along with screaming and the usual Chris Metzen style of introduction, the new game was announced, and the trailer shown on the large screens above the heads of the Blizzcon ongoers. A trailer which shows the new Pandaren race, and the new Monk fighting class!

The race will be available to both Alliance and Horde factions.

Live updates in an upcoming post will follow...

Thunder Struck Flash Player not working.... Until Now!!!!

Ok guys this it!

Flash player had been giving me troubles for the past month. Not working in Windows 7 64bit and/or Internet Explorer.

I'm gonna update this sooner and make it clearer.

But for now the story goes... You've been to the adobe.com site numerous times and you still can't update it, saying that you don't have the latest software installed, after you've installed it from their site, using their downloader I might add, but that's a different kettle of fish.

May I ask have you installed Adobe CS5 as of late? Well 100%, it's also installed a bug in the registry, causing its own Flash Player to fail!

Before you follow on may I just add, make sure you have some knowledge of the way computers work, and of the consequences of making a mistake concerning the system registry. Now that you're positive, please read on...

Just search through the registry for the word "safeversion" excluding the quotation marks. Hit delete! Yes yes it's ok, press the button!

That's it! Now update the Flash player one more time (you may have to run the uninstaller from the adobe.com site one more time beforehand), and watch your Youtube videos and play your Flash games!

"Thank you! You're Welcome"

AFTERNOTE: Before I deleted the registry entry I uninstalled CS5. BUT FIRST I backed up all my videos and files. I'm planning to install again once I'm sure it's ok :D

Blue Screen Of Death

"STOP 0x0000008E error message", "Page fault" or else the "Blue Screen of Death". Usually followed by the words, "Ctrl-Alt-Del". This is Windows way of saying, "I just can't take it anymore" as it makes a lunge for the door. The system stops working and you lose everything you have been working on. Slamming your head against the wall you pray that that the next boot will resolve the issue.



There are many reasons that blues screens may occur. The most common are...

1. Hardware failure,
- usually an old motherboard. An indication of this would be over-sized, burnt or leaking capacitors (the small cylindrical vats sitting in clusters on the big circuit board inside your computer.) Don't be fooled though. A number of times I've seen rusted and melting boards while the cylinders have been intact!

- faulty memory, either video RAM, cache or system memory. A BSOD could follow after you have tried to run a program or game.

- a hard disk drive error. The thing in your computer with all your personal stuff and windows and pictures and music and downloads? Well thats about to go kaput, so BACK IT UP FAST!! Or at least take it to someone who you can trust that can do it for you.

2. Software problems,
- the most popular? Yup you've guessed it, Windows! Just check for any updates at microsoft.com. You'll be looking for the ones marked "Critical"!

- faulty or out of date drivers, or corrupt and unresponsive software. Try to download the latest updates for your computer, or check the version of the software you are using.

- and games. Games...? Yes, games! Bought or downloaded any pirate software? Well apart from being liable for prosecution, you may also have been infected with Malware. Short for 'Malicious Software', this includes all forms of virus which can disable RAM and corrupt windows.

In conclusion the Blue Screen of Death and other computer errors are not always fatal. You can nearly always repair the problem with just a little patience. Just make sure you know where to look for help.

Oi! PS3! GIVE US A FLASH!

As of 15th April Flash support has been dropped on the Youtube site when using the PS3 browser. Want to sit on your couch and surf the new videos being uploaded and viewed by millions? Well you can't at the moment. Youtube XL has been reported to be working ok, but lets face it, its not the same.



So what's Sony going to do about it? I'll tell you. Nothing. That is until the new update to the PS3 software is out. So for now we wait.

"Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts."

Inside the honeymoon suite a couple have just arrived. The husband takes off his pants, hands them to his wife and tells her to wear them. Trying them on she tells him that they are too big, to which he replies, "...and that's who wears the pants in this family!"

Looking him squarely in the eye, the wife hands him the underwear she had been wearing all night. "You put these on darling," she tells him. The husband takes one look, laughs at the tiny garments, and says "There's no way I could ever get into those!"

The wife smiling replies, "Of course... not until you change your attitude!"

Try to imagine an office run by one person. Alone they will type out the invoices and the memos, put out orders to companies, clean out the rubbish at the end of the day, answer the phones, balance the accounts, talk to the clients... the list is endless.

In the office is a second person who sits and watches as the first brings the company to a grinding halt. Not being able to cope with all the work, they have slipped into a spiral descent, slowly but surely dragging all images of a successful business and a promising future into a bottomless pit.

Similarly, a wedding is a life-long commitment. Love plays a big part in such a relationship, closely followed by compromise, communication, and understanding.

But then again, give me 10 years and I'll tell you if I'm right...

April Fools!!! The joke's on... who?

Early hours this morning many people had turned on their PS3 to see that there was a new firmware update 3.21 to the console. Maybe it's the greatly anticipated 3D capabilities for upcoming games? How about in game picture-in-picture camera viewing?

Nope. Instead they have removed the "Install Other OS" feature which was made available at release with all PS3 models, prior to the slim version. You want to keep your current firmware and continue with Linux? Then you lose all on-line capabilities with your PS3, including on-line gaming and chat/messaging, and neither games nor Blu-ray movies requiring firmware 3.21 will run.

Whatever you decide to do, please remember. You will not be able to roll back to previous firmware versions, and if you have "Other OS" installed on the PS3, all data will not be accessible following the update, so you mustn't forget to backup!