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valleywag writes: A Comcast customer in Pittsburgh is not amused that Comcast cares. As Twitter user gpk3, he wrote "Comcast sucks," causing Frank Eliason, Comcast's Customer Outreach manager who keeps tabs on Twitter to respond "Welcome to Twitter. How can I change your perception?" The customer was not amused, accusing Comcast of invading his "personal space." And by "personal space" he seems to mean "messages publicly available to the world on the Internet," causing a few Twitterers to come to Comcast's defense.

Mercurynews writes: When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.

Seagate Technology, the largest maker of computer hard drives, Smade a pre-emptive strike against an emerging competitor on Monday when it filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing STEC Inc. of patent infringement. In the suit, Seagate contends that STEC’s solid-state drive products violate four Seagate patents covering how such drives interface with computers.

Yesterday Luna and I attended the 48th Sakura Matsuri (Japanese St. Festival) in Washington D.C., and what a nice experience it turned out to be. Sakura or Cherry Blossom is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Matsuri is the Japanese word for a festival or holiday.

I just took notice (and you should too) that the wine-0.9.58 now supports DX9 (Direct3D) Post-Process effects. Thank you Wine (or Google's $$) Simply open the options (F11) -> Grphics -> ENABLE Post-Process Effects (no restart required). "This option will improve the quality and realism of a scene, as well as achieve some specific effects, such as scene-wide blurring. In Direct3D, image processing is usually performed as a postprocess after the rendering is completed. An application first renders its scene onto a texture, then processes the texture with a pixel shader to produce a different image with the enhancement or alteration. The use of pixel shaders makes this operation very efficient, so it can be performed in real time." [more on C++\Direct3D\PostProcess]

Sure linux will play the latest and greatest games out-2-date, yet loading up a decade old game like StarCraft has been a teeth pulling experance. Enough! Check out PlayOnLinux for an (almost) pain free installation AND patch set-up. "PlayOnLinux is a tool to help Linux users run Windows games on linux, via the use of wine. This tool is free and written in bash. [It has a graphical user interface.] It already supports more than 30 games; anyone can help development (by posting new script which allows games to run)."

This brief blog entry will note a few tactics I employ to earn some gold and have fun in the on-line world of Guild Wars via resales. Regardless if your Guild War's character is Player Vs. Player (PvP) or Player Vs Environment (PvE) Guild War's gold is a part of your in-game activities. So what's the best way to earn some extra platinum? Lucky for us, GW offers common world areas, such as towns and outposts, where all players can gather & meet. Trading and resales then is the easiest way to earn < 200% ROI. The obvious choices are to flip mini pets, tomes, &/or weapons...