For those of you that don’t know what Whatpulse is, it’s a small piece of software that counts your keystrokes and mouse clicks. Every 24 hours (depending on configuration settings) it sends (pulses) your keystrokes and clicks to the server and builds a nice page with your statistics and your rank worldwide. On top of that, Whatpulse also tracks down your mouse movement and tells you how many Kilometers have you walked with your mouse. For some people this might seem useless but I’m a sucker for statistics, I love this type of things.

The new Whatpulse release (1.6.2) features a lot of bug fixes as well as some new features. You can read more about it here.

There is, however, a new unofficial (for now) version – 1.6.2.1 – that includes some fixes and debug code wiping. You can download Whatpulse 1.6.2.1 here.

From there we moved around in Derelik region and bashed a few POS’s into Reinforced mode belonging to X13 Alliance and Ushra’Khan.

The beginning of the Operation was a little messy but I have to say that I wasn’t 100% listening to comms either. After the first half hour everything was running smooth. We had capitals on hold, scouts covering all entry points, a support fleet with RR battleships and a sniper fleet.

The first POS we engaged was handled by the capital fleet for the most part – snipers fleet assisted in the beginning – and it went down pretty fast. While capitals were bashing the POS, my fleet (support) was sitting in one of the gates waiting for potential threat. Anyways, POS went down and after that we engaged another 2 POS’s from X13 but this time support fleet was also called in as there was no enemy movement in any of the nearby systems.

  
CVA/LFA/Sylph engaging one of the X13 Alliance POS’s in Irshah

  
 
Bashing Ushra’Khan POS in Mifrata

After playing around with the usual customizations I have to do on the themes, i noticed my permalinks weren’t working. For some reason, I deleted my .htaccess file and I never replaced it. (lol!) Anyways, all links are working now.

For those of you that, ocasionally, come here and got tired of seeing all those ‘404 not found’ errors, I apologize. But hey! It’s your fault, you should’ve warned me about it. :)

“NOL-M9 – A few hours after midnight on 05.02.111, Band of Brothers alliance was disbanded. The loss of formal alliance status forcibly relinquished all Band of Brothers held sovereignty, and thus is expected to render all their outposts vulnerable, pause the construction of all motherships and titans currently being built in their capital assembly arrays and interfere with the proper fuctioning of cynojammers and jump bridge waystations at their control towers. This effect has never been seen before on such a huge scale, so there is much uncertainty about the precise effects.

There are currently multiple theories as to the actual cause of the disbanding of the alliance. A director in Band of Brother’s executor corp, TinFoil, and director Haargoth Agamar of Black Nova Corp are alleged to have disbanded the alliance and handed over Black Nova Corp assets at the instigation of The Mittani of Goonswarm. Comments on the Corporation, Alliance and Organization Discussions section of GalNet, however, shed doubt on this claim.”

A Director from a BoB corp, states:
“I like how everyone is stating their opinions like it is fact… when in truth they have no idea what happened. I will state as a fact:

“1) it wasnt a bill/money issue.
“2) it wasnt spy related. “

Elitus of Reikoku stated on GalNet that the issue was not an unpaid bill:

“I’ll go and say this: previous bill was paid on the 6th of Janurary. Previous bill before that was paid on the 6th of December. Currently looks like HAT was compromised… Log shows 500 mil was removed from the wallet stating ‘mittani says hi.’ We are investigating.”

in http://myeve.eve-online.com/mb/news.asp?nid=2737

related threads on EVE-Online forums:
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=990388
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=990381

Ok, not much to say at this point, still way too fresh. Let’s just hope Goonswarm did it through game mechanics and not through external ways.
More info here:
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=990381

A lot has happened while I was away of UO, UOGateway is no more. Now we have ConnnectUO which is currently being redesigned and should be done -very- soon.

Anyways, long story short, I returned to Oblivion Reloaded shard after a 4 year break. The shard is SO MUCH better now and the community along with the staff is great!
If you’re looking for a peaceful, interesting, with a good community and well-driven (dev wise), this is the place for you! :)

Take a look at Oblivion Wiki, all you need to know to start playing is there along with a lot of information regarding custom items, dungeons etc!

in Upgrade or else!:

Okay, people, if you are running any version of WordPress older than 2.3.3*, you need to upgrade now. Seriously. WordPress 2.3.2 and older have security holes that are being actively exploited by hackers to inject spam links into blogs which are not maintained. And search engines like Technorati are de-listing hacked blogs. Are you listening now? Do I have your attention? Upgrade your web apps before you get hacked and your site drops off the search-engine radar.

While the Technorati article specifically talks about WordPress sites, this goes for any web application. You need to pay attention to updates which are released, and upgrade whenever a security probem is fixed. WordPress gets particular attention due to its popularity and the sheer number of installed sites out in the wild. But it is no more or less secure than any other similar web application. So whatever you’re running, keep it up-to-date.

And the same goes for any add-ons — if you install third-part plugins or themes, make sure you keep up with updates. WordPress 2.5 makes updating plugins easier than ever. Review your Plugins page from time to time, and pay attention when it tells you that a newer version of a plugin is available.

read the full article here: http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/04/08/upgrade-or-else

So the owner of EVEHQ decided to run a contest for EVEHQ application (a tool for EVE-Online players that let them manage their chars skill training, assets, generates reports, map routes and a lot more) at the EVE-GFX website.

The process took nearly 1 month, a lot of artists entered the competion and there was a lot of nice works which also deserved the prize (400 million ISK).
In the end, there was only one winner and it was me. Besides the splash screens the owner also wanted the logo i come up with in the splash screens (the one you see at the top of this post).
I made 5 entries/versions of the splash screens which you can check below.

splash screens: v1 | v2 | v3 | v4 | v5

I joined WASP corporation back in September 2006, since then i engaged in corp pvp tournaments, mining operations etc. A friend of mine told about how to make ISK (eve currency) by making forum signatures and other misc graphics for corporations, which helped me a lot in my evolution as a player. Around january we managed to negociate with some other corps that had sovereignity over a dead-end solar system where we went and lived actively for 4-5 months. It is a good system, it had a serpentis complex and some nice asteroids for mining. In june a new project stared up for the eve players that often made signatures for other players; EVE Graphics Team was born. For the next couple of months I went kinda inactive mainly because college was taking way too much time. I came back in late august/early september and everything was a little bit different. We kinda stopped living low-sec and moved back to empire, i had a talk with my CEO and convinced him about applying to join a major alliance set in deep 0.0 space since i knew a guy there, i was given permission to start the negotiations and a couple of weeks later we were accepted.

So, basically, my corp now is set in 0.0 in a big alliance known as Interstellar Starbase Syndicate (ISS) and is very active in PVP.
For those interested in knowing more about this alliace visit eve-spirit.com. If you’re looking for someone who can make you some pretty cool forum signatures, website layouts, killboard banners etc feel free to contact me by EVE-Mail (char name: JadeO), my portfolio is available here.

For some reason unknown to me (and apparently, unknown to Sun(tm)) Java gives you this error when you try to update/install a newer version of it’s JRE. After a good 30mins of beating the crap out of my computer trying to install JRE without this annoying error i found a way to do it. Simply download this file: JDK 6u1 with JRE.

Run it and you’re good to go! :)

Then the 2nd semester in college started. God damn it that screwed me. After 1 week i had a crap load of works to do, projects to start developping and a huge amount of classes to attend to.
So basically i haven’t managed to finish any of the stuff i started. The only thing i’ve made in a somewhat regular basis were the signatures.

I have no idea when i’m going to finish them.. plus i still want to make some stuff for wordpress (one of them being coding the Calendar plugin from scratch) but honestly i don’t know if i’ll have enough time to do this in the near future.