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Personal blog of Erlend AakreWelcome to my blog containing sporadic personal ramblings, coding, electronics, D&D and anything else.
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Trekwar sensor system
2010-02-18I haven’t had much time working on Trekwar lately, but I’ve recently made a prototype line of sight (with strength) sensor system:
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Star Trek Online update
So, beta is over, and I’ve made it to Commander level (not had much time to play). So far the game is pretty fun, but I’ll reserve judgment until I’ve hit endgame.
So meanwhile I’ll post my two favorite bugs from the beta
Ground avatar in space instead of spaceship
and of course.. The eyes popping out while doing the dance emote
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Ze movies!
It’s been way to long since I did any movie reviews, so here’s a short update on movies I’ve seen lately.
Men Who Stare At Goats
The trailer portrayed this one as pretty funny and interesting, but the trailer contains about 80% of the comedy in the movie and the rest is pretty booring.
Rating: 2.5 / 10
Avatar
I must say I was rather skeptical as the last big hit movies that everyone is raving about turned out to be crap. But I gave it a chance, if it sucked at least there would be nice graphics and 3D. But I must say even though the plot is a bit simple and neat, this movie is kick ass. The plot is nice and tidy, characters are great and the 3 hours go by quickly because the movie never ceases to be interesting and/or exciting. I will definitively go back to the cinema and watch it one more time in 3D before they stop showing it.
Rating: 9.4 / 10
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
My expectations were very low for this one, but it was actually pretty good of showing the origins of Wolverine, can’t wait for Magneto :)
Rating: 6 / 10
Terminator Salvation
This is by far the worst Terminator film made, boring and does not really feel like a Terminator film.. It does have some nice effects though, and is mildly entertaining at periods.
Rating: 3 / 10
Transformers 2 (Revenge of the Fallen)
Wow.. Even though my expectations were pretty much as low as they go (the previous Transformers movie was a piece of crap with an idiotic plot, boring as hell and with lame ass characters), this movie is actually so bad and retarded that it actually put me to sleep even though I was not tired (must have been the brains natural defense mechanism). Now why would I watch Transformers 2 when I hated the first one you might ask? I’ll tell you.. It was a gift, and I was hoping to see some cool effects, after all who doesn’t love robots? But even in that department the movie is a huge disappointment, the first one actually have cooler and more interesting effects.
Rating: 0.8 / 10
UP
I feel ripped off! The trailer portrays this as a funny movie filled with humor.. The humor is there but it’s miles apart, and completely drowned out by the sadness of the movie, which came like a shock when expecting a comedy :(
Rating: 4 / 10
Zombieland
Veeeery skeptical, with the horrible “Dead Snow” still fresh in memory I did not really want to even see a comedy zombie movie. But it quickly became apparent that this movie was quite good, not exactly Shaun of the dead, but still very enjoyable with lovely characters.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
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New server
I set up a new VPS server last night with Debian + mysql + lighttpd to host all my php stuff (which so far has been on a shared hosting server, which is horrible).
Now this wordpress is running on the new server (Serenity) and it’s alot faster, and I’ll be moving 4-5 other wordpress installs over to this new server in the next couple of days.
That way I can do complete wordpress backups automatically for all wordpress installations and a full mysql dump automatically :)
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Star Trek Online open beta
Yay, tomorrow Star Trek Online goes into open beta!
I’ve played around a bit in the closed beta, and so far I’m impressed, the space combat is fun and action packed, and the Ground combat is a bit like World of Warcraft, only more action, more interesting quests (no grinding, while waiting for drops) and the Fleet actions (Large open instances) were pretty awesome :)
I’ll miss my Andorian captain, who was wiped with all the other closed beta characters today :(
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Sci-fi actors in 24 Season 7
2009-12-27Just gotten around 7 episodes into season 7 of 24, and really enjoying it. One thing I particularly enjoy is the plethora of sci-fi actors cropping up:
Robert Carlyle (Redemption)
24: Carl Benton
Stargate Universe: Dr. Nicholas RushTony Todd
24: General Benjamin Juma
Star Gate SG-1: Lord Haikon
Andromeda: Captain Fehdman Metis
Star Trek Voyager: Unnamed Hirogen hunter
Star Trek DS9: Jake Sisko as adult in The Visitor
Star Trek TNG/DS9: KurnJohn Billingsley
24: Michael Latham
Star Trek Enterprise: Dr. PhloxKurtwood Smith
24: Senator Blaine Mayer
Star Trek Voyager: Annorax in Year of HellJeffrey Nordling
24: Larry Moss
Star Trek DS9: Thana Los in Past PrologueMark Kiely
24: Edward Vossler
Star Trek Voyager: Lasca in Non SequiturNick Toth
24: Edwin Ross
Babylon 5: Exeter in The Deconstruction of Fallen StarsAnnie Wersching
24: Renee Walker (seriously hot FBI agent)
Star Trek Enterprise: Liana in OasisColm Feore
24: Henry Tailor
Battlestar Galactica: President Adar (First episode only)Bob Gunton
24: Ethan Kanin
Star Trek TNG: Capt. Benjamin Maxwell in The WoundedRyan Cutrona
24: Admiral John Smith
Babylon 5: Sgt. Major Plug in GROPOSJohn Rosenfeld
24: Kevin Aldridge
Star Trek Enterprise: Mark Latrelle in Silent EnemyIt’s also worth noting that co-executive producers and writers of 24 Redemption and season 7 is none other than Brannon Braga and Manny Coto, noted writers/producers from Star Trek TNG / Voyager / Enterprise.
- Arcturus - Hufsa English Translation
- Wolves of Welton extended (maps)
- Simple Sitemap on Github pages
- Old Man's Child English Translation
- Mere of Dead men map (Forgotten Realms)
- Leilon map (Forgotten Realms)
- Conyberry map (Forgotten Realms)
- D-Link DCH-Z510 Siren with Smartthings
- New blog, jekyll and github
- Fedcon 2011 - Day 3