Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

Well I’ve been on a project with Xcel Energy for the past few months. You know, the giant corporation that handles power in Texas, Colorado, Minnesota and parts of Montana? It’s been fairly cool to work there. Too bad I don’t work for them directly though. I get the feeling they treat their employees better…

I read an article a little while ago about the “Blizzard Trickle-Down Effect”. The idea is that World of Warcraft has done a huge service to the MMOG industry in that people stop playing an MMOG after ten months and move on. With eight million subscribers, the other multiplayer game companies are hoping to cash…

This is a short story I’m working on in pieces. Figured I might as well post it here. It’s rough, I apologize in advance. Everything below is Copyright 2007 Aaron Evans   A young man stood pacing on his porch. He and his wife had fought over something he didn’t quite understand. Fighting with her…

Interesting experience in WoW last night. Was messing around in Southshore on my Night Elf warrior and the town of course got raided. What was interesting this time was that the Horde didn’t just out and out raid, they punched through to the middle of town and hopped up on the roof of the inn,…

That Muse thing that MSN Messenger has actually got a lot of its stuff together now. It has a nice word of the day feature, and a thought of the day feature that actually works now. I kind of like it though I don’t particularly want to write about the Koran or US Imigration policy.…

I got an e-mail in my box today that proclaimed that Dragon Magazine would no longer be published and would be eventually converted to an online service of some sort. It was bad enough when Amazing Stories went on hiatus, but now they’re messing with Dragon? I don’t particularly understand the mindset. Wizards of the…

I’d like to point out that I’ve been using E-Machines desktops for my own personal use for quite some time now. Some people might find that surprising since my current occupation is computer maintenance.  I decided to go with E-Machines when I bought my last desktop for the simple reason that they were cheap and…

This is probably the first Saturday in several years I didn’t have something pretty well planned out. I was supposed to go to the Church and set up for a band but the youth minister never really got back with me, and didn’t give me a time to be there either. Hope his youth run…

I’ve had Windows Vista Home Basic on my computer for about a week now and I’ve got to say it’s the worst piece of crap I’ve ever installed on this machine. I’ve actually verbally apologized to my computer for tainting it with this version of Windows. I have no clue what Microsoft was thinking and…

Well, got my own copy of the expansion the other day. I have a few screen shots for the four World of Warcraft players who don’t have the expansion yet. I decided to respec my druid to Balance once I got to Outland and died a few dozend times in bear form. Then I saw…