Recently I was scanning the inter-webs for a new background, something to do with my interests.  And as I have told many of you, or you have figured out yourself,  I am an avid armature astronomer and have had my avatar on the site as a nebula of some kind.   As I stumbled around looking for a decent wallpaper that dealt with some sort of astronomical phenomenon, which can be surprisingly hard to find, I ran across some work done by Adam Burn that outright astonished me.  It was a tough choice on picking a wallpaper out of his many magnificent works.  I finally settled on this:

Paradise Lost: A simply stunning artist rendering if the violent death of a massive star we know as a supernova.

Paradise Lost

He has many more pieces of his work downloadable at: http://phoenix-06.deviantart.com/gallery/  I highly recommend you check them out, they are all amazing!  Also, If you know of anybody who has done similar pieces of art, let me know.  I love this kind of stuff.

I have an old, original Xbox sitting around and lately I have been wanting to play through the Splintercell games just for the hell of it, and becasue they are amazing (still ahvent played the fourth one I just picked up for $3).  Unfortunately I don't have a regular TV to hook it up to, just my computer.

My computer has a TV tuner installed with various plugs as well as RCA IN (the standard three yellow, red, white) plugs I hope to use.  I tried plugging it in but it didn't work, I figured I need some software to make it work properly but my search turned up no results.  I was wondering if any of you more tech savvy people out there had any ideas or possibly have done this before to tell me what I need.

So most people think its bad when others forget your birth day. How about forgetting its your own birthday until your dad calls up asking what you want to do for your B-day at 7pm.... Yeah it happened to me. Happy late B-day me!

Btw I went and ate some sushi for dinner and then watched The Express... AWESOME food and a GREAT movie.

For those who don't already know the power core in my computer finally died out. It was inevitable since I got my new graphics card a few months back. the stock power core wasnt built to handle that sort of power requirements. It figures it would burn out right as classes started so that iw would not only throw a wrench in my raiding gears but my acedemic gears aswell. >.<

I took it to my godfather's computer repair shop just to confirm that my suspicions were correct, they were. He also recommended what I was already thinking. Upgrading to a more powerful one. I bough me an Antec 500 watt power supply but something is wrong. It has all the proper connections that my computer requires but the only thing htat happens when I turn on my computer is the fans spin at their max speed. No boot up screen, hell no screen at all. Just the sound of the fans slicing the air.

My question to those that are out there able to help is this: Is there some compatibility issue that I am not aware of? All I know is that you need the proper connections and I have all those.

My computer is your basic HP Pavilion from 2 years ago, The only thing I have added is my Nvidia 8600gt video card. If you need more detailed specs I would be glad to give them to you.

Now I'm going to make it official. I'm sure many of you have heard me mention this before but Vulk will be going Ret to level to 80, and then staying Ret for Raids. That Right, I wont be around to heal for you and play fun games like "How Low Can You Go?" (tanks are going to miss that one). I will be there to pew pew for you all in raids.

Lately I have made browsing WoW Insider and MMO Champion making it my twice daily routine. I have been drooling over the paladin changes since they first announced them. Of course there is a nerf coming for damage but its still beta and as of now nobody's damage has been equalized. Bottom line though is that they have really done a 180 and take a deep look to fix the Ret tree. They have changed almost everything about retribution paladins and have tuned it to a 100% viable class spec now!

To begin I will go over some of the changes they have implemented to improve the spec. I say some of them because I am bound to miss a few because,as I said, there is so damn many changes lol.

Starting with fundamental changes:
Seals: They have completely reworked the seal and judgment system. Seals now last 2 min and are no longer consumed by judging. That means that paladins no longer have to judge and reseal every 8 seconds saving immense amounts of mana. In addition seals proc from Crusader Strike and, our new ability, Divine Storm adding a decent amount of damage.

Judgments: They have removed the Judgment spell we all know today and have replaced it with three different spells that all ad a debuff. Judgment of Light (restore health), Judgment of Wisdom (restore mana), and Judgment of Justice (prevent fleeing and limiting movement speed). For ret this means that we no longer have to seal, judge then toss up our damage seal allowing us to focus on dps.