The More You Know

If you had the delight of picking up Portal from Valve and beat it, you know all about cake, the lies, and the masterful end song. I found that upon beating it, I kept humming the song and wishing to know the words. Googling to find the song in any format I found the a YouTube link, awesome. That satiated my ears for a little bit, but I found that my MP3 player, desktop, and laptops were all missing the song while I worked. So, I set out to find how to obtain the song from the data files. … Continue Reading

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 of … Continue Reading

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