May, 2009


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May 09

Voice Mail Messages

You all know the basic voice mail message that most people have. Its something along the lines of “Hey its Mikes phone, please leave your name, number and a message after the beep, and ill get back to you when i can”. I remember doing some funny ones back in the day.

The most common one is pretending that you actually answered the phone, wait a few seconds then you tell them that your not home and they have reached your voice mail. The best one iv done is similar but i think is way better. I would try to record it but i dont have the system to do so.

The message would go like:

(phone held way from your voice)
“Mike… MIKE!!! YOUR PHONE IS RINGING!! MIKE!!!!”
(bring phone back in close)
“Hey mike isnt here leave a message after the beep.”

So is that great or what? Shut up i think its funny.


6
May 09

Another Hoster Move

I’m sure i said it before, but i wasn’t to happy hosting with production cam. it was pretty much one admin and he had a social live, so support wasn’t great. There were also some other issues that were kinda annoying. The main thing was when i set up the account there i didn’t login to my Paypal account so no “subscription payment” was set up. So at the beginning of each month i would have had to pay it manually. They tried to set up a reminder for me but that didn’t work and that is what pushed me over to go to a profession web hosting.

Enter Justhost.com. I didn’t choose the because they are kinda like my url, but because they are one of the best rated hosting providors i found. The onlything i didnt like about the proccess is that they said it was gonna be $3.95/m everywhere on their site. But once you get to the purchase page, you have a couple options:

  1. $3.95/m in 24 month payments.
  2. $3.95/m in 12 month payments.
  3. $4.95/m in 3 month payments.
  4. $6.95/m in 1 month payments.

Also the last one is the onlyone with a set up fee. And i didnt really wana pay for 12 months. that is too big of a chunk out of my savings, even tho is every 12 months. I would have to make sure that i had about $100 dollors at that time every year (Hosting, and the URL). In the long run it might have been cheaper, but again, big chunks isnt not good for me, little peices is good.

Well hopefully ill stay here for longer then i did anywhere else (since i brought my siteback up with drewskii.com free hosting, he doesnt do that anymore btw). I havent looked but maybe ill be able to change my payment plan to the 12 month payments and lower my price. Oh well.


1
May 09

Blizzard To Wowhead Talent converter

Wowhead has not officially released the code they use to convert convert, but a long while back someone asked in their forums about it. And from there people convert the code they shared into something readable, and worked pretty well.

In my short project to make a Wowarmory mirror type site, i wanted a way to convert blizzards talent build to wowheads. After lots of work, iv finely come out with a nice function that does pretty well.

Iv also been talking with one of the programmers of Armorylite to share this code with him. They just link to blizzard calculator and i thought it be nice for them to be able to link to the best calculator, Wowhead.

I am gonna share the function with all who want to use it for free, after the break. Continue reading →