In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, There is Only War.

Ultramarines The Movie

Warhammer 40k fans would be delighted to know that on 29th Sept 2009, a new CGI movie Called Ultramarines was announced. So far, not much info is available from the main website.

Though I am not a fan of Warhammer, even I am a bit excited by the prospect of a Warhammer movie.

To brush up on your Warhammer lore:

Lexicanum: Ultramarines 
Wiki: Warhammer 40k 

Let us read a chapter from the LOLCat Bible

Genesis 1

1. Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem
2. Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3. At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz. 
4. An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5. An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
   

Tools - IrfanView

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IrfanView is a free image viewer. It's pretty lightweight and very customizable with the number of plugins available for it. With the proper plugins, it can play mp3s or even movies, become an image editor or open a pdf file. I don't use those features, though since I have other programs doing that already.

But one thing that IrfanView has that I like very much is that it can perform batch editing. You can rename/convert/resize several items at once. Pretty useful to keep your images (or other files) properly organized.

Guard Dog - Classless Update Day #2!

Another update for the Guard Dog mock Team Fortress Update. Complete with new hats and maps (oh my god, he added ctf_convoy! :))).

Team Fortress 2 Guard Dog Update - Day #2

Valve and the Community

Valve Software, the creators of Team Fortress 2, Left4Dead, Portal, and the Half-Life series. They have a knack for not taking things seriously in a serious way. They even play along with some of the eccentricities in the community. Which makes it pretty fun.

This is especially true in the Team Fortress 2 community. The game itself is over-the-top and humorous. Add to that the frequent replies of Mann Co., the fictional company that provides the Team Fortress 2 classes their equipment, and their CEO Saxton Hale just completes the picture (and I have to say, I am a HUGE fan of Team Fortress 2).

Here's a few compilations of their interactions with the community.

Giving sound advice on forum posting.

Blog Updates - Sidebar at the bottom of the page fix

I've managed to fix the problem of the blog's sidebar being placed at the bottom of the page. Apparently, it's caused by the Jump Break in Blogger's new layout.

The Jump Break button inserts a

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tag to indicate that the rest of the post is hidden and can be expanded to view the rest.

The problem happens when the tag is inserted between a <div..> and </div> tag pair. It causes the sidebar to be thrown at the bottom.

Also, I managed to add a third sidebar on the left for my profile and the Labels. Which I think is pretty cool. It also leaves me more space to put my more frequently used links on the right.