At present Ackadia is having serious issues with connectivity with Hostgator and it’s a tad frustrating, and annoying, that there is little to nothing I can do about the situation. [ Now fixed, but read on. ] Well, I could change hosting companies – again – but as I’ve paid in advance for this server
Hostgator hosted website issues – man down, hands tied! Read More »
Playbuzz English grammar test Have to laugh at a grammar test that gives the following: You aced it!! You are a master of the English Language. Your English skills are phenomenal. You passed a test that only 2 in 50 Native English speakers do. You must be passionate about languages and the written word. You
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Paranoia is a funny thing… Ever wonder if Blizzard employs psychologists to work out how best to screw with your minds and, while laughing at your stupidity and gullibility, then happily take all the money they can from you, and then wait for you to gushingly thank them for every least scrap? Ever heard of
Cognitive Dissonance: Is Blizzard playing psychological mind games? Read More »
Autism and the Turing Test At the start of the (sci-fi) film The Machine a panel sat before an array of computers, each relating to an A.I. with voice synthesisers. (Similar, I guess, to existing tournaments). The problem posed in the film wasn’t which was an AI (as all were), but which was the most
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(This is messy, clunky and probably full of typos and the odd bit of bile, I’ll split it up later, for the moment it will suffice, albeit it ugly. I will break it up into 10+ pages with menus and stuff ~ Ack) WoW sucks /qq OK, several million subscribers, billions in the bank, a
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« Ackadia’s Access Keys » Note: The following is from my archives and as such not relevant to the theme-based WordPress front end we now have. I can’t actually remember when I wrote this, but the Wayback Machine archive for this access keys article goes back to October 2004, some twelve years ago. For navigation
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How sensitive is your OCD radar? It will probably not come as a surprise to some people that I scored 100% on the Playbuzz test (linked at the bottom of the page). However, you could argue as to whether the short quiz demeans people genuinely suffering from crippling OCD, as opposed to simply being a
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This short article is just to gee up my guild (Remnants of Chaos on Aerie Peak) to finish the Pandaren pool fishing achievement, but putting a carrot on the stick as bait, so to speak. It does apply in general, though, so you might want to read on. In specific terms of the guild, we
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