Author Archives: Dan

Continued Ubisoft DRM failure

Almost a month ago, I posted about how Ubisoft’s DRM servers for Assassin’s Creed II had gone offline, meaning that nobody who had paid for the game could play it.  The reason Ubisoft later gave for this outage was a deliberate attack on their servers.  But honestly, who cares why the servers went down?  The… Read More »

I wish this were an April Fool’s joke…

We went to sign the closing papers for our house this morning.  At 2:30 I was informed that my lender had funded the loan.  All that was left before our realtor could give us the keys was for the title company to get the recording numbers from the recording office at the county courthouse. At… Read More »

What’s going on?

At least zero of you are wondering: “Hey Dan, where’s this week’s Let’s Play Star Trek Online?” Couple problems: 1) Lord of the Rings Online. 2) I’m (hopefully!) buying a house this week, which is kind of over-stressing me. 3) Star Trek Online has been frustrating me lately. I’ve been comparing it to LotRO, and… Read More »

My adorable daughter

This was Brooke’s first time walking outside.  Isn’t she adorable? 🙂 She turns one year old in ten days.  It doesn’t seem like it has been that long since she was born…