Spent some more time in Karazhan over the weekend… Once again we had entirely too many mages, so my wife didn’t get to raid with me at all Saturday night, and wound up in the second raid group on Sunday. I’m really starting to get annoyed at that. I know we need the right balance of classes and all…but I want to raid with my wife!

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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here on my blog, but I’m not a fan of D-Link.  My boss really likes them, and we’re a D-Link reseller, so we install them all over the place.  I guess their switches and business-grade products aren’t too bad…but I have not been impressed with their home-grade offerings.  Specifically their wireless routers.

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From Slashdot:

“The BBC is reporting that a genetically modified (GM) variety of mosquitoes could be effective in combating the spread of malaria to humans. These GM insects carry a gene that prevents them from being infected by the malaria parasite and has the added benefit of providing a fitness advantage to the mosquitoes. From the article: ‘In the laboratory, equal numbers of genetically modified and ordinary wild-type mosquitoes were allowed to feed on malaria-infected mice. As they reproduced, more of the GM, or transgenic, mosquitoes survived. According to the researchers, whose results appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, after nine generations, 70% of the insects belonged to the malaria-resistant strain. [...] The modified mosquitoes had a higher survival rate and laid more eggs.’ This has major implications for the billions of people living in areas with endemic malaria.”

So…  My wife and I have both gotten our characters to 70 and gotten ourselves keyed for Karazhan – not a minor task.  Our guild has started running Karazhan raids periodically, usually on weekends…which is a good thing…  But the entire experience is proving to be very frustrating so far.

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There’s a great article over on Slashdot about some of the Open Source firmware available for wireless routers.

Personally, I’d love to replace our router with a Linksys WRT54GL running something like DD-WRT.

Apparently I am not sophisticated enough to watch French movies.

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Yeah, I know, I should be happy I’ve even got broadband Internet where we live… But Charter just plain is not reliable. I don’t know if it’s a problem with the company nationwide, and issue with cable Internet in general, something wrong with our town or street – but we simply have tons of issues with our Internet connection. And now that we’re using Vonage for our phones it’s even more inconvenient.

Yep, our Internet is down again… It’s been working worse and worse for the last week or so – more latency in WoW, web pages loading slower, dropped packets. Last night it became unusable. This morning our modem wasn’t even showing the usual SYNC/READY lights.

No explanation from Charter. No estimates on when it’ll be back up.