Murder Bullshit Facebook Apps

If you're like me, there are people on your facebook friends list who are insatiably bored, and they clutter up your wall with useless "come look at my imaginary farm" and "which retarded twilight character are you?" posts. Fuck 'em. Here's how:

Step 1: Use Mozilla Firefox. If you're using any other browser (here's looking at you, IE and Safari) you suck at life.

Step 2: Install the greasemonkey extension. It's easy. You just go here and click on it.

Step 3: This guy Steeev wrote a script for greasemonkey called Facebook Purity. It's here. Just click on it. Literally that's all you have to do. Click. You're done. Problem solved.

Pat yourself on the back.

World of Warcraft on Ubuntu

Of course it's possible. It has been possible since the game came out, 5 years ago this month. I still find however that many people are surprised you can play any games on Linux. So, I decided to post a "diary" of the installation and configuration of World of Warcraft 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.10, not to be informative to experienced users, but to be at least passively interesting to the non-linux WoW player. And to affirm to myself that it's actually as easy as I assume it is, since I've never done it. It should be noted that I'm using the WINE 1.1.33 beta on Ubuntu 9.10 x64.

I started by downloading and running the install program from worldofwarcraft.com, and selecting Wrath of the Lich King to install. I'm not excited yet - it takes a long, long, long time to download and install this game, even with a fast connection.

Only 893 hours later, installation was complete!



So I should be able to play now, right? I have wobbly WoW! Yay! Except the download from Blizzard does not include any patches, and the upgrade to 3.2 is another one and a quarter gigs. No problem, I'm a patient guy. I'll just harass people in the realm forums, for the meantime. 30 minutes and 1.23GB later, I have a patched version of World of Warcraft installed and running smoothly on my laptop. Once that's installed, it's just half a dozen more patches, WoW restarts and scrolling clicking "I agree" about eleventy billion times. Annoying. Anyway, after all that I was finally patched and ready to play WoW. So I installed my favorite addons and hooray! World of Warcraft for Linux! I know! This blog was totally uneventful!

on blogging

I resisted even registering for a blog for years. I waited so long in fact that every possible spelling of my name was taken by other people who have never (and will likely never) make a post. Which is fine since I'm mostly just claiming this spot as "mine".

And ha, I made a post. In your face, faceless person named Benjamin.