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Move Your Steam Install

Update:There is an “official” Steam post on how to do this. While the steps below will work, you can also use this method. However it will require you to reinstall steam/update the client. The method below still works and requires no downloads/updates/installs.

Moving your steam install? How? This question was raised after I installed Steam and downloaded Half-Life2, Episode One, Lost Coast, and Team Fortress 2 and fully patched them all. I installed Steam to my C: drive and figured that I would get to chose where each purchased game is installed to. Not true!

Steam runs all … Continue Reading

Hacking/Reverse Engineering The WoW Armory

One of my guild officers created WoW Jutsu and it got me thinking how powerful the armory could be if the data could be accessed. Essentially, the WoW Armory could be a web service that allows the player base to do interesting and cool things with the data. In fact, this has become more and more popular as people are using the Armory as a way to obtain census like data and report their findings.

I have a project in the works that may or may not see the light of day, but either way after Googling and inspecting the … Continue Reading

Nationalism to Pluralism in Identity

Written in response to Jim Troisi’s following question:
How have the interrelated shifts which Scholte describes from capitalism to hypercapitalism in production, from statism to polycentrism in governance, from nationalism to pluralism in identity, and from rationalism to reflexive rationalism–all of these contributing to and being impacted by the growth of transplanetary connectivity and increasingly supraterritorial relations–impacted your personal life? Is your existence different from that of earlier generations because of these relatively recent changes? In what ways?
As I sit contemplating my life and all the wonderful questions asked by Professor Troisi, I come to the simple conclusion that I must … Continue Reading