Happy 150th Canada Day!
Today is Canada Day for us Canucks, and this year’s a special one because Canada is turning 150 years old. I actually just barely remember the 125th anniversary, pretty much just the big maple-leaf-adorned cake that six-year-old me wanted to…
No power means books and board games
[Blaugust Day 21] Today started off pretty well actually. There were thunderstorms moving in and the forecast was rain all day which is just how I like it. The first thunderstorm was particularly loud and windy, and I was enjoying…
MMO+, the MMO search engine
[Blaugust Day 14] Every once in a while, I get messages sent through my contact form that Akismet doesn’t mark as outright spam. So far I’ve been asked if I could write articles for a WoW site (even though I…
2014: The Good, the Bad, and the Unplayed
I had originally intended to write this yesterday, but instead spent most of the day feeling like someone had taken a baseball bat to my skull. So instead I wallowed in my own self-pity. 😛 So today I felt better…
Play your games in borderless windows
Back when I played WoW, I used to run it in “fullscreen windowed” mode as opposed to regular fullscreen. This meant it was running as if it was in windowed mode, but lacked the taskbar and the normal title bar…
Extra Life Results!
Last Saturday was Extra Life, where I played games for 24 hours to raise money for The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. My goal in the days before was to raise $200 and I not only reached that goal, but…