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Looks like it’s going to be another week of not doing much more than going to work, and coming home and playing World of Warcraft. You see, Noblegarden started last Sunday and I am determined to complete all the achievements for this event. But I’ve only got untill Friday night.

At lunch time today, I finished one more of the Noblegarden achievements. It’s one where you have to go around and find your rabbit some good lovein’. I’ve completed 9 of the 11 achievements. Only 2 more to go and hopefully I’ll get thoes done tonight.

Why would spend his lunch hour and stay up untill an obscene hour in the morning, on work nights no less, playing a game online?!? So I can become The Noble Kardellron! You see, if I can get all these Noblegarden achievements done before 11:59 PM, Friday night, I get “The Noble” title added to my name. If I don’t get them all done, well I won’t hang myslef, but I won’t get “The Noble” title and I will have lost all this sleep for nothin…

No time for pictures right now, I gotta get back to the grind.

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I’ve been a little slower with the posts around here. I’ve got several videos to post still but I’ve been kind of busy. You see, World of Warcraft has churned out to new updates in the last week or so. The big 3.1 patch came out on, I want to say the 15th. Which was followed by the usual downed servers and bugs. It also brought us Ulduar which is a real cool looking instance. There are also many changes, which I won’t get into here because there are plenty of places out there already talking about them. I will say that it looks like my Night Elf Hunter can go back to being a Beast Master again. This makes me happy too. I was playing a Survival Hunter as of the last patch because the Beast Master got nerfed so bad. I was pretty disgusted by that. The whole point of me choosing a Hunter when I started playing was so I could be a Beast Master. After re-specing as a Beast Master the other night, it seems to be effective again.

Two other changes I am happy to see are; dual spec and not needing to go to the stable to swap pets. I can now set up 2 different tallent tree specs, and swap them anytime I’m not in combat. So far I haven’t tried it because I wanted to play my newly re-spec’ed Beast Master, and at a cost of 1,000 gold, I’ll wait untill I really need it.

My guild, well the guild I joined, has become a raiding guild. So I’m trying to hit level 80 ASAP so I can join in on the raiding goodness. As of this writing I’m level 66, so I have a ways to go. With all this going on, I’ve been coming home from work and jumping right into World of Warcraft.  So my blogs have slowed down as a result.  Don’t worry, at least I got the yard cleaned so it doesn’t look like someone who plays WoW is living here, anymore…

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AT&T Music will be broadcasting Coachella. I was watching it a little bit ago and the audio and video quality was real good. I go so far as to say impressive. But a couple songs into
Franz Ferdinand and it went black. That was over 20 mins ago and it is still streaming black. No audio, no video. I loaded Wire Shark and took a look at my network traffic, and sure enough, I’m still getting packets from the stream.  Hahah, it just came back. So it’s working again. Then again, it stopped again before I finished this post. If you wanna just go directly to the video stream, click here here. It may or may not be working. Hope they get it straightened out.

Tonight, Paul McCartney will be head lining. In fact, why don’t I just paste the line up for ya.

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One more skiing and snowboarding video I made this year. I don’t have many more of these stashed away. This one I experimented with using more slow mo and some different music. The footage was sent to use by Mammoth Mountain over the satellite. A couple hours later I had this little video.

[flv:http://chris.moesarts.com/wp-content/video/MMSA_012909.flv 480 368]

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I removed my previous post. I had changed some settings in the php.ini so I can upload bigger videos through the Word Press Media interface. Before I did that, I was getting a error that the files were over 2mb. Gee, ya think, my videos are over 2mb’s. Who would have thunk it. Anyways I fixed it so I can upload files as big as 75mb. But when I tried to use the built in player, FAIL. So I removed the post. I’ll just use the plugin I was using before.

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Just an amusing update about the indianpad.com spammer.

I created an account at indianpad.com, complained about all the spam I was receiving, told them who the users were (all the same guy from the same 2 ip addresses), sent copies of the spam. Then I tried to log in 10 minutes, later to see what was said, I find my account there no longer exists. And the accounts where the spam links, are all still there. I guess indianpad.com supports their spammers. It doesn’t bother me any, I just thought I’d see how they would respond. The funny thing is, the site itself is like a cheesy Indian (East not Native American) rip off of digg.com However, the links that have been left here, go directly to a user account, who has nothing but online pharmacy links.

So if you’re looking to be a blog comment spammer, let me recommend www.indianpad.com Not only will they condone your actions, they will ignore any complaints and delete the accounts of said complainers.

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There were never any stated rules here. But I do have a couple rules that I was following. The first one was, I wouldn’t do any tech related posts, I have (insert $shameless_plug) PC CyberTek for that. And the other, all the videos would be my own. But I’ve never been one to follow all the rules so here’s a little video I found over at The Smoking Gun.

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To the guy that keeps leaving all the Indianpad spam.

1. I verify all comments before they are approved.
2. Your redirection links are broken anyways.

   Error: can't open redirects.log file
   Possible reasons:
   1) cron is not working (read FAQ)
   2) there is no urls in this scheme
   3) there is no such scheme or use     (LMAO)

3. Just because you use a different name, I can still tell who you are because I see your IP address.
4. Comments that are just links, unless related to the original post, will get deleted and never see the light of day (or a single pixel).
5. Comments with links to a pharmacy, especially in India, will get deleted. I don’t need your fake, or real Viagra
6. I know how to spoof my IP too, so changing your IP or using a proxy, won’t fool me.
7. It bums me out when I see I g0t a bunch of comments, just to find out they are all spam.
8. If your gonna leave spam for comments, why not do it in a recent post, not one I made months ago that no one will read anyways.
9. I think I’ll have some fun with nmap and the IP’s your spam is being posted from.
10. Thanks for stopping by and leaving comments.

Sincerely,

Your freindly neighborhood admin and computer security specialist

PS. I think I’ll make a account at Indian Pad and leave spam of my own and copy your spam to it.

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I haven’t posted anything new for a bit so I thought I should. I’ve been busy at work, but I haven’t really edited anything new in a while. There was one snowboard piece, which I might post at some point, but it’s one I didn’t have much time to complete, so it’s not as good as it could be. There still might be a time when I’ll post it. And now that I think about it, I do have one I made last month that never made it here. I’ll look for it, when I’m done writing this.

What I wanted to tell you was, today I finally got some footage of last weekends Roxy Chicken Jam. I just started to capture some of the footage today. I managed to get video from more than one source, which is rare for me. Usually, I get footage that was filmed by one person, on one camera, from one vantage point.  It’s nothing against whomever has shot it. It’s just nice to get footage, from the same event, from different people with different gear, shot from different locations. It gives me more to work with. I’ve also figured out what song I’m going use. After going through the footage, and capturing some of it, I started laying down ideas on the timeline and I must say, I like where it’s going.

This time around it’s The Roxy Chicken Jam 2009 half pipe and mascot competition, held at Mammoth Mountain this past weekend (March 28th and 29th). It’s going to run in the sports segment on the news tomorrow night. So as soon as I get in to work tomorrow morning, I’ll grind some coffee beans and brew a fresh pot. Usually the morning DJ has some left, but it’s Folgers, it’s been cooking for 3-4 hours and all that’s left is burnt mud. I’m kinda a coffee snob, so I take turns buying some good whole bean coffee, with two other co-workers who are also willing to buy our own instead of making the Folgers the station provides. Once I get some of that in me, I’ll be downstairs at one of the editing bays, and get it finished. On friday, I edit all the news, including the sports, myself. So it’s important I get this piece edited ASAP. And after I get all my work done, rather than close up the studio (I’m usually that last one there on friday night), instead of locking up and comming home, I’ll feed Sorenson Squeeze my Roxy Chicken Jam video and wait for it to spit out a flash video file, that I can post here. When I get home, I’ll upload that file and you’ll be able to watch it. So please come on back and check it out because I’m staying late friday night, just for you. 

You can get the complete results for the Roxy Chicken Jam, over at Gurl Ryder

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