Quaere Verum

Disembodied spirit? Malevolent spectre? Actually it's just my son Aaron, proving that a digital camera, Adobe Photoshop , and a flashlight up one's nose can turn out to be quite a remedy for boredom. :-)

For almost two days now, RAN Online , and the rest of the other e-Games titles, portals and forum pages remain down. Any attempt to log on RAN Online simply results in the following message being displayed: Logging on any e-Games website only generates a browser time out error and a blank page, as if e-Games simply did not exist on the web. What gives? I have always been critical of the shoddy service e-Games has been giving its customers lately (see previous posts here and here ), but this recent development takes the cake. Without any advisory or warning, e-Games' web presence has mysteriously disappeared, just like that. It reeks of unprofessionalism and incompetence, and to my mind, simply unacceptable and definitely a perfect example of the wrong way to run a business. I also find it a bit disturbing that most newspaper and magazine articles I read about local MMORPGs are filled with little more than hyperbole and unending praise, with nary a mention of the "dark side...

Happy 11th birthday son!

If you're my age you may just remember a song by Bruce Springsteen way back in the early 90s with the same title as this blog post. More or less, this phrase happens to be an apt description of my life at the moment. Things happening (or not happening) all over the place...but nothing really of import taking place in my life. I guess that explains why I haven't been blogging again for the longest time. Just the same old things to blog about, day in, day out, month in, month out, year in and year out. And coincidentally, I now know what Bruce Springsteen was talking about in that song of his. Have you checked out SkyCable lately? How may times have you found yourself flipping aimlessly through what seems to be hundreds of channels, and not be able to find anything worth watching? It's been happening to me more often than not lately. Either I just developed a case of adult attention-deficit disorder or the quality of cable TV programming has gone down the drain. I guess I ...

Note: Turn off the background audio first at the bottom of the page before clicking the play button. Makes Me Wonder Maroon 5 I wake up with blood-shot eyes Struggled to memorize The way it felt between your thighs Pleasure that made you cry Feels so good to be bad Not worth the aftermath, after that After that, try to get you back I still don't have the reason And you don't have the time And it really makes me wonder If I ever gave a fuck about you Give me something to believe in 'Cause I don't believe in you anymore, anymore I wonder if it even makes a difference to try, yeah So this is goodbye God damn I'm standing here Decisions that made my bed Now I must lay in it And deal with things I left unsaid I want to dive into you Forget what you're going through I get behind, make your move Forget about the truth I still don't have the reason And you don't have the time And it really makes me wonder If I ever gave a fuck about you Give me something to beli...