Some people might have noticed some downtime on my blog, this in combination with just being added to the blog pack isn’t exactly ideal, but the issue has been solved, there were a few issues with the nameservers that have been permanently fixed by Lonetrek.

Besides this I’m not feeling really well at the moment, I feel a little sick and exhausted but I hope it won’t develop itself into the flu or something. I’ll also be actively blogging soon again as I have some material I want to write down.

~Xeross

I was talking to an old corp mate of mine a few days ago and I was looking for a new corp and they had room. So I tried to apply but I got the message that I couldn’t apply because the CEO doesn’t have the Ethnic Relations skill. I asked my friend if the CEO could train it, and tonight I asked if the CEO trained it already.

Xeross155 > But does CG have Ethnic shizzle now so I can apply ?
Rammit > we will all watch ethnic jokes we talked about it last night
Xeross155 > I’m talking bout the character skill -_-
Rammit > oh
Rammit > wow I feel stupid
Xeross155 > You seriously discussed ethnic jokes with the corp o.O
Rammit > yes

Well I had to create a post with my claim token so…

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I wish everyone a merry christmas, have a lot of fun. And for the people that don’t celebrate christmas, just have lots of fun then.

I’m enjoying some dinners with family at the moment, and ofcourse all the christmas events in World of Warcraft (^^,)

~Xeross

After being unable to use the computer for almost anything I finally fixed my Windows 7 installation (Link), so now I can finally get back into my normal rythm. I’ve installed EVE, CoD2 and WoW so I’m ready to roll again.

I’ll be primarily focusing on getting the corp website online when doing anything EVE related, my CMS is as good as finished so I just need to implement the design and EVE specific modules.

Other than that I can get back into blogging and following everyone’s blog again so that’s good too, and ofcourse continue helping out my clients.

Well that’s it for this update, I’ll be writing a detailed post on the Windows 7 issue soon.

Regards, Xeross

Well this’ll be a quick update on what the hell is happening here on my side in the last week (Don’t have time for a long writeup now).

I’ve switched to Windows 7 but am experiencing some serious problems in term of OS stability, I’ve been trying to fix this for a few days now (Till deep in the night) I hope it can finally be solved in the coming days or even better today.

I g2g now (At school) will add more information soon.

Update: I finally identified the problem (Thanks to someone at Microsoft Technet), there was a bug in the USB drivers for motherboards with nVidia chipsets. After applying a hotfix that’s not officially released yet all my problems seem to have dissapeared.

Hey Folks, I thought I’d throw in a quick update about what’s happening lately, so here it goes.

First of all I’ve been in bed for a week with a fever (Ranging from 39-41 degrees centigrade) thus I haven’t done anything worth noting in the last week, I’m still recovering, the fever is gone but now my ears, throat and stuff start going a little downhill.

Second of all because of this sickness the week flew by because of sleeping almost the entire week, so now my training for my Hulk is finished I purchased one today and have fully fitted her, she’s bringing in a nice volume of about 4000m3 of ore a cycle so I’m happy.

And third of all I’m trying to get some of my programming projects into motion again, an application I’m developing and am intending to sell a subscription on is still in debugging phase, I’m debugging it with someone I met that needed such an app so that’s going nicely and I have some websites I need to finish (Like the Corp website) so I’ll need to start working on that again too.

Regards, Xeross

Design Changes

I had already in my mind that my current sidebar was way too big, a widget for pages, one for recent posts. I however never spent any time on it. Until I thought I need a new header.

So I started designing the new header with the idea of getting a new modern looking title, and implementing a recent posts list into it and my “Useful EVE Links” page. So I spent a while designing it and after a while I was satisfied with the result and started implementing it. And well you can see the result, the only things I didn’t manage to implement are a scrolling recent posts listing and also making that same listing have a fade-in and fade-out effect on the top and bottom of it.

Well I did manage to implement a scrolling recent posts listing but it used a lot of CPU power to move everything around (On my CPU it hit 50%) and that’s just not what I want (and probably als something you, my readers don’t want.). I’ll try to create it using flash in the future, but for now this is sufficient.

I’ve also added a new background containing what I think is a ship, and I’ve added the Minmatar logo and some starry background to the bottom of posts (The starry background is faded out a lot so it might be a little hard to see), I’ve also added a sort of logo to all blockquotes which you can see on for example my 13th Blog Banter post (the grey boxes).

With the Recent Posts and EVE Links pages implemented into the header I could remove the recent posts and pages widget from the sidebar, making it less tall and making room for future additions. One of these additions will be an about page because that’s one of the things most bloggers have but what my blog is lacking.

I hope some of you can take the time to comment on these new changes and tell me what you think about them, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Twitter Lists

Recently (29 October 2009) Twitter implemented a new feature called “Twitter Lists”, this feature allows to create lists containing people that for example play the same game. Once created one could click on such a list and see the tweets of only the people in that group, so it’s ideal if you want to track groups of people separately.

After this change I already saw a few EVE Online lists pop-up, but these lists only had the people the creators had in their following list. So I decided I’d also create one of these groups and add every EVE Twitter user I could find (Well maybe not every but a  lot of  ‘em).

At the moment the list contains 146 people and I will add any EVE related folks I can find to it. if you want to be added just post a comment on this post or contact me on twitter. And ofcourse the last thing in this post, the list: @Xeross/eveonline

I was browsing through one of the forums I’m active on and found this thread and decided to run through it and see if anything applies to me, here we go.

You have used words like “lol”, “leet” and “omg” in daily speech.
Yes

You scream “Just ducken google it!” when somebody asks a simple question in the class.
Yes

You feel like it is a disaster when your ISP goes down.
Yes, it goes down every 3 days so ducking annoying

The internet is vital to your existance.
Yes

I dunno if it means anything, but if I follow the topic title, I guess it does.

Regards, Xeross

Welcome to the twelfth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s banter comes to us from CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: First there was the MMO on the PC, and now with the recent announcement of DUST 514, EVE will soon be moving onto consoles. But what about mobile? Allow your imagination to run wild for a second and describe how you would see EVE being ported to mobile devices, whether the iPhone/iPod touch, Blackberrys or Android-based devices. Dream the impossible for us!

FIrst of all, as you can see I decided to join the EVE blog banter. Second of all I’m working on reacreating my blog’s theme because it has some display issues in Internet Explorer. And third, well let’s get started on the actual topic now shall we.

I’ve been playing EVE for some time now, and I have found that the lack of portability is a little annoying. I’d like to see some kind of implementation on handheld game systems like the Nintendo DS and PSP, even if it’s just a training queue manager or something it would be better then nothing.

well on to the weird and crazy imagination stuff. EVE Online in it’s full glory on NDS/PSP and possibly also on all other major consoles and handhelds, it would probably not look as good and be a little more pixely but being able to play EVE till deep in the night in my bed (Have a mom that wants me to stop at 9PM) would be a welcome addition. It might not be ideal for missioning but as you don’t really need any visuals for missioning only your target list, vital status and overview it would be possible to do missions on it. and the thing I need most (Skill queueing while not on my PC) would not require that much resources anyways.

Well I hope I did okay for my first blog banter, and I’m sure my writing will improve as time passes by and I blog more. I’d say leave your comments on how I did and start a discussion about this subject if you want.

Regards, Xeross

List of Participants:

1. CrazyKinux’s Musing – Tying the dots and locking me in!
2. A Merry Life and a Short One – I Don’t Own a Working Phone
3. Yarrbear Tales – EVE on Mobile Devices? Eh.
4. Hands Off, My Loots! – EVE Mobile…Possibility?
5. Achernar – Trapped on Planet Horror
6. Rettic’s Log – The Cronofile – Blog Banter: EVE Mobile
7. A Mule in EVE – EVE Mobility
8. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – EVE Mobile
9. My Life in EVE – 12th Blog Banter
10. My God, it’s Full of Stars! – 12th EVE Blog Banter
11. The Wandering Druid of Tranquility – WOW, look at that ‘micro-Dust’
12. Adventures in Mission Running – 12th EVE Blog Banter
13. Ecliptic Rift – EVE Everywhere
14. Roc’s Ramblings – EVE Mobile
15. EVE Monkey – EVE on a Mobile Device?
16. Nashh Kadavr’s EVE Blog – I-pod Capsuleer
17. Escoce – EVE Trade – Dynamic System Security
18. Break Vol – EVE Blog Banter 12
19. Mikeazariah – EVE Mobility
20. Pods and Pills – The 12th EVE Blog Banter: EVE on the MOVE!
21. Lords of Space – EVE on my Iphone?
22. Cle Demaari – Is that EVE in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
23. Life in Low Sec – Wormholes On the Go
24. The Elitist – EVE On Mobile Devices
25. Into the unknown with gun and camera – Blog Banter 12: Glue
26. Zero Kelvin – A year of banting!
27. Corrupted Datacore – Blog Banter #12: MyEVE
28. Many more to come…