ShackNews has received official confirmation from an Activision representative that Activision is working on Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back, the third episode of the Soldier of Fortune series. EB Games has a listing for it on their website with a release date of November 07, 2007. That date is probably going to change but hopefully they will be showing something at E3.
DOH! Wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and his 7 year old son were found dead in their Georgia home over the weekend. Investigators are saying Chris killed his family and then himself. For more info, check out ABCNews.com.
Work on the new team is picking up this week but stuff on the old team is still hanging on. I've been juggling all the new stuff and old stuff in between helping some of the new guys get up to speed and troubleshooting issues. Hopefully most of the old stuff will start to drop off this week and I can be done with it.
The server seems to be pretty much back to where it was before the crash last weekend. No data was lost. The main drive just wouldn't start up. I dropped in another hard drive to be the main drive and was then able to add the previous main drive as a slave and all the data was still accessible. Sweet! I still need to write the cron job that will back up all the data to the slave drive in case the drive really does go out but I have to find some time first.
id Software/Raven Software have released an updated Quake 4 demo with a bunch of bug fixes and three new maps. Look for Doh! Network and Deathcon servers in the next couple of days. Download the updated Quake 4 demo from FileFront for Windows, Mac and Linux now so you'll be ready.
Woohoo! Turns out the hard drive in the server wasn't bad and I can probably recover all the data off it. Stay tuned for more.
I like a nice challenge every now and then at work but I don't like when I'm still wrapping up one challenge when another one gets dumped on me that has to be up in a day. Add to that all my other stuff I have going on and it makes for a hectic day. Hopefully when I move from the current team to the new team it will be a little easier. I've heard they rarely do registration and sweepstakes and they have a lot less billing codes to figure out on your time card at the end of the week.
Entertaining Flash game of the day is... Crossword.
Entertaining viral video of the day is... Die Hard by Guyz Nite.
Sweet! The Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup today against the Ottowa Senators.
Thanks to the overwhelming success of Sunday's poll (5 votes for/2 votes against Shaka rebuilding his server as of this posting), I got an email from Shaka Zulu saying that he will in fact be rebuilding his server. Or having egrep build it for him since he doesn't have any free time to be building servers right now.
Time for the Poll of the Week. Shaka Zulu's hard drive crashed the other day and he said he won't be rebuilding it. What do you think?
Save the Deathcon WAN!!!
I was just catching up with Grapple on the official Grapple blog and it looks like his house got burglarized a couple of days ago. They took his computer, all his cds, his car, and miscellaneous other items. That's the suck big time.
Man! I hate slackers who don't do their work. One good thing to come from guys like that... They make me look that much better come review time.
The boys of Seven Oh Five are back with their version of Journey's 'Separate Ways'. Click here to check it out on YouTube. Kuiosikle put the Seven Oh Five version and the Journey version together in one clip if you want to see a side by side comparison.