The other day I went to log into World of Warcraft and got it up to the login screen when I had to step away for a few minutes.
I came back, and my computer had shut down. What the deuce? No kids around, so they didn’t shut it down. Windows Updates are set to have my prior approval first. Possibly a productivity conspiracy! No gaming for you! You have more WORKISH things to do!
My original intention was to replicate a random name generator (I was afraid the word generator over at Oh The Huge Manatee dot net might go away), and I ended up with Happenstance.
Well I finally got around to the name generator and, although it is a simpler, much more limited version of the one over at OTHM dot net, it does the job nicely giving me names that are reasonably spiffy and gives me a quick way to check whether the names might be a little off-kilter.
Go on, give it a try: http://halytech.net/wownames/index.php
I’ve been getting a lot of spam e-mails from people claiming to represent Blizzard / Activision concerning my World of Warcraft account. I’ve been saving them up to share them with you.
They all get readily caught by GMail’s spam filter well enough, but I check there because I get valid e-mails going there sometimes.
A few are very well crafted, and some are just plain silly. I’ll post the non-obvious web sites that the links go to after the pictures.
*WARNING: I WOULD STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST VISITING ANY OF THESE WEB SITES AS THEY LARGELY CONTAIN MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INTENDED TO COMPROMISE YOUR COMPUTER AND SENSITIVE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN.
After the break, the e-mail.
Found a nifty site that will generate random words from a list you provide (finding typical combinations)
Here’s some for more popular names according to race and faction in World of Warcraft (from a compiled list of known NPCS):
Sometimes it comes up with some clever ones and it assuredly does a better job of offering names than the Warcraft character creation screen.
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