http://www.stefson.com Semi-coherent ramblings of an internet junkie about business, life, gaming, internet and a whole lot more. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:35:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lets get right to it. This title (The Force Unleashed by Sean Williams) is branded: "A gripping action-adventure novel set during Revenge of the Sith (III) and A New Hope (IV). As an avid Star Wars fan, you already know Order 66 has been put in effect, thus whiping out the majority of ... http://www.stefson.com/328/book-review-the-force-unleashed/ Darth Bane: Rule of two by Drew Karpyshyn is the sequel to Path of Destruction (which I also enjoyed immensely. One might say the Darth Bane series are my favorite Star Wars readings). Anyway, it's book number two. Darth Bane is still very much alive and has taken an apprentice (young Zannah). This ... http://www.stefson.com/323/book-review-darth-bane-rule-of-two/ If you like Star Wars and vintage figures etc, then check out this guy. He creates his own steampunk based Star Wars figures. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="411" caption="ObiWan in an alternate universe"][/caption] And more, he has them for all the different series. A new hope, the empire strikes back, return of the ... http://www.stefson.com/321/steampunk-star-wars-figures/ I've been using Fireworks 4 for ages. Make that forever. Fireworks used to be Macromedia stuff. The good days. These days Fireworks is property of Adobe, and this is a personal opinion, I'm not to fond of it anymore. I tried the 30 day free trial version, after a lot of issues, and ... http://www.stefson.com/317/gimp-vs-fireworks-cs3/ I've finally gotten around to replacing my desktop with a laptop. And believe you me, the decision wasn't easy. So many laptops to choose from. For starters, a MAC or a PC? I've been drooling on that beauifull Macbook for a long time with its slick white/black minimalistic design. But, and it's a ... http://www.stefson.com/315/acer-aspire-7730g-vs-the-macbook/ Some interesting links of the day. I've always been a sucker for sci-fi art and evil robots. Keith Thompson's art Painterly's art Sparth's art And if you are bored and feel like killin' I present to you, the Endless Zombie Rampage game. Pretty nice.   And a website you can spend hours browsing: Passiveagressivenotes.com We've all seen ... http://www.stefson.com/313/random-links-and-fun-stuff/ That is also known as a sucky combination. Evening school is more tiring that I thought it would be. Like I said a while ago, I started with Warhammer Online. All in all, a very nice game. The PvP is very addictive. I started a Zealot (healer) character on the Karak-Hirn server and I'm ... http://www.stefson.com/311/online-gaming-and-a-lack-of-time/ I've not been keeping tabs on Age of Conan, but is it me or are we hearing less and less from that game? A great article can be found on r1ftgaming, where they interview Erling Ellignsen. If you don't want to read the entire thing, I'll give you a quote: And there we have ... http://www.stefson.com/303/wonderfull-world-of-games/ Lately, I've been selling a lot of stuff through Ebay. And unfortunately, been confronted a couple of times with people that don't pay, don't pay on time and don't respond to mail or messages. When you finally do get a response, or you're able to finish the auction and receive the payment (that is, ... http://www.stefson.com/294/ebays-feedback-system-for-sellers-is-kinda-crap/ And interesting post on Mark Jacobs blog about the open EU beta of Warhammer Online. He talks about the screwups and GOA (EU publisher) and the riots it brought upon them. A little quote: "Unfortunately, Europe had more than its share of problems. So, I spent about 10 hours today dealing with ... http://www.stefson.com/292/warhammer-riots/