Have spent the last 3-4 days re-designing Wicked Reader. I completely got rid of the RSS.NET backend and wrote a brand new one from scratch. RSS.NET is a great library to get you started and may even be just what the doctor ordered depending on your project. However, I found myself tweaking it and completely taking it apart in order to get what I needed. Last Friday, frustrated of doing so many modifications and spending quite some time writing code to conform with the library, I decided enough was enough.

Here I am on my second attempt at installing World of Warcraft into my virtual Windows XP computer (through VMWare) on a Gentoo Linux. So far I have been able to bypass the first obstacle I had encountered on my first attempt and things seem to be moving along… Will post future developments later… Update: The installation borked on CD 4 of install… Back to doing some more research… WoW 2 x 1 Me.

Funny write up comparing the 3 most used web search engines to world countries: [snip] Microsoft is Germany. They did some pretty evil things a while back but you don’t remember the details, you just know that you really hate them… [snip] Yahoo is Japan. It had an economic crisis that almost destroyed it and it plays too nice with all of the other evil empires, supporting the most evil endeavors…

Forgot to post a screenie for my last changes to WickedReader: Buttons to refresh, add, and remove (this one yet to be added mainly due to lazyness from my part) feeds, and a Sage-like html rendering of all posts for a given feed or individual posts. I have done so many changes to the underlying “engine” (RSS.NET) that I’ve decided to re-write it from scratch. Have spent these last 2 days elbow deep into the new code.

Very amusing play-by-play recount of Nat Friedman's adventorous attempt to travel from his hometown of Boston to the very tip of Cape Cod by bike! The reason: Insanity could be a great part of it, but apparently he just wants to prove someone wrong. Apparently Nat has to make it back to Boston for a party later the same evening. Updated every so often with pictures, videos, and witty comments. A must!

My first attempt to install and play World of Warcraft on a virtual Windows XP pc (through VMWare) running atop Gentoo Linux has hit its first obstacle. Haven’t really done any research but it seems to me that accessing the CD-ROM at the “raw” level is the culprit. More to follow.

Here is what’s kept me up late these last 3 nights: Installing Gentoo Linux onto Houdini (AMD 64 3400+ 1GB RAM) and getting Windows XP to run under VMWare. This may be a bit unorthodox but I wanted to have access to some Windows-only applications (such as Visual Studio 2003) without having to keep an extra computer at home with the sole purpose of running Windows. I wonder if I can install and play WoW under this scenario without much of a performance loss?