All Hallow's Eve

Halloween is approaching!
Tomorrow I'll be carving pumpkins and decorating my house for the ghoulish night. Unfortunately, nobody else I know is excited for it T_T....nobody comes to my house because I live so far out, but I still like to decorate anyway - Halloween is a great night, but so short.

One great thing about Halloween is in-game events - they really capture the spirit of halloween. Everquest's in-game events have always captured my attention: rampaging skeletons that are nearly unbeatable, fabled creatures much more powerful than their original counterpart, "trick or treat" (Scavenger hunt) for an in-game illusion item - definitely a fun time for everyone.

Guild Wars is another online game that gears up for the Halloween season. Unfortunately, every year I missed their Halloween events - but not this year. They started yesterday (October 24th) and last until November 2nd - though the main event is only scheduled for All Hallow's Eve!

New Macbooks

I've known about the possibility of new Apple notebooks coming out for months now, and finally the day has arrived. Apple sent out the media invitations last week, and today at 10:00am PT, the new notebooks were revealed.

Key points:

• Only one colour available (black screen, silverish body....Still looks nice...but I was hoping for a choice of colour)
• Glossy screen only (No matte...which means outdoors will be a pain)
• New video cards: Nvidia 9400M GT and 9600M GT 256/512(up to 5 times faster than previous used, intel integrated GPUs)
  
• Mini display port (crap...I was hoping for a standardized display port. I hope Apple doesn't turn into Microsoft with this proprietary crap, hoping everyone will follow them).
• Aluminum casing - "Brick" manufacturing. By taking a solid brick of aluminum, they can make a stronger notebook by removing the excess with lasers and then recycling anything left over
• Enlarged Multi-touch Glass trackpad (removed the button so the trackpad is now the button - I could get used to this pretty easily)
• Backlit LED display
• Backlit keyboard

That about sums it up. I've already ordered my Macbook Pro - this will be my first Mac ever:

• 4 GBs of RAM
• 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 9600M GT 512MB
• 320GB 7200RPM HD
• 15'' display (my favourite size)

Needless to say, I'm going to be broke for awhile...

A New Blog to Come

Lately, I haven't been doing much coding since I've been doing a lot of testing. I had a free weekend a couple weeks ago, so I decided to start a little project.

To help keep my CakePHP fresh and moist, I've decided to create (and design) my own blog. It will be simple but useful (for me anyway). Not only that, but I've wanted to design my own site for awhile - and this is a great way to start.