There are thousands of sites that allows you to have fun with Avatars and Profile pictures.
I recently came across Gravatar, a site that allows you to upload and link a image to your e-mail address. Provided that the site you comment on has implemented Gravatar (2 lines of code) you will then have your Avatar even when posting anonymously. This will be a feature on the site Maggie and I will share.
Now, if you have a avatar that's fine, but how do you go about creating one? Well, it doesn't have to be that hard, just grab a photo of yourself (or in Tamil's case a picture of a monkey. Either edit it in your favorite editing software, or use one of the following sites that does it for you!
I started with the following image "stolen" from a friends only album by Oleg and tried a few sites. Have a go yourself!
And yes, I will enable images on my comments again..
So, Friday again so soon.. This week just flew away with lots of school work that needed to be done. I'm about 35% done with my Sociology assignment that's due next Friday and thanks to the awesome people at Opera I got the data material I needed to finish it up. This weekend will be spent finishing of what I can for my assignment and preparing for the final interviews I have on Monday. For those interested I'm writing about Unions in high knowledge industries like Opera :)
Fortunately it's not all school, always leave room for some play.. Tomorrow Maggie and I are joining a couple we know to see Twilight 2 New Moon. Maggie loves the movies and I love her, so I guess this makes sense. Unfortunately I wont be able to get her the t-shirt in time for the movie (a "sparkle you fool, SPARKLE" t-shirt she wanted). Nevertheless I'm looking forward to spending some time away from the assignment on Saturday!
In response to our member of the week ShallowMuse this week I decided to create my own album cover :)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More” The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations" The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
It's been a while since the last time I really got into a first person shooter, or any game for that sake, however It's time however to jump on the band-wagon and praise Modern Warfare 2.
So, what's so awesome about it? Well, everything.. The graphics are superb, even on my now not so state of the art laptop I still run 1280x720, medium settings with no problems at all even in large multiplayer maps.
Speaking of multiplayer, that's the part I love. Team based matches with several game modes to choose from works great. Call in attack helicopters and missile strikes, sneak around with your sniper or go mental with a shotgun in hand. It's all good! Since multiplayer performance is tracked by experience both as a character and for your weapons there is always something cool to do. I've been spending a lot of time to perfect my M1A1, get all the attachments and more.
A part that's been trashed a bit is the way the game does multiplayer servers. However I like the fact that users are the hosts, no waiting for servers and if it turns out that the host isn't that good the game merges over to a new host (another player) super fast and your good to go again!
Now all I need to do is complete the single player storyline, then buy the game for my brother so we can play co-operative mode and own up the multiplayer part.
That being said, I haven't really played any first person shooters since Counter Strike, so I'm a bit more rusty than I remember. Perhaps also a bit slower than I used to be. In the words of Toby Keith: "I'm not as good as I once was, but I was good once.."
Karen had this tweet last night, and it got me thinking.. "You're trying to tell me that Twitter is to blame for people's lack of blogging? BAH, I say! That's a lame excuse." (sorry for sharing your private tweets Karen, I hope you forgive me..)
Why have I not blogged in a while? Well, I think for me it's most probably because I've been dead bussy with a lot of stuff happening. So why not blog about it? Well, I don't think that most people care about the fact that I'm spending insane amount of time preparing for the upcoming exams.
I've also spent some time creating a blog for Maggie and me, but it's not ready to be launched yet (and will probably be in Norwegian anyhow..). I've learned a lot from the work I've don there so far, and more to come.
I also attended the 10 year anniversary for my junior high(? Ungdomskolen). Unfortunately the lighting was to bad for any pictures since HTC decided in their infinite wisdom that a blitz or led together with the camera on my Magic would just be to much.. Anyhow it was fun to reconnect with some old classmates and I've planed to at least grab a coffee with some of them right after the exams.
Ohh, and I'm doing a bit of a redesign for this blog, trying to make it look decent in most browsers not only Opera
WIDGETIZE