Oh, let me taste your tears, the tears of unfathomable sadness!

OK, this is silly...

Joshua Cyr is running a contest over at Usefulconcept.com, the winner gets a free World of Warcraft account, the burning crusade expansion, and almost 80 days of pre-paid time.  All you have to do is comment on his blog entry.  Hurry up, the content ends tonight at midnight!

Click for the WoW RIAdventure content

The questions you have to answer are:

1) List your top reason someone should go to RIAdventure.
2) List your top reason you want to try out WOW (world of warcraft).

and my answers were:

1) Because the best way to learn is to be surrounded with enthusiastic people!
2) Because my cousin wants to play on a *real* server and this would get him started out great! (I play on a free server and its good enough for me with my limited time, but he wants to be a purist)

Good luck all

After about 10 minutes of playing, here are my initial thoughts in a nutshell: Chrome is FAST!  Gmail and google docs are lightning quick.  Starting a new tab has a very opera-like quick start (only this is automatically created as you use the browser).  Each tab shows up in windows as its own process under task manager (request:  stick part of the URL there so we can nuke one by name!).  The interface is un-obtrusive, imported all my firefox settings and favorites just fine, and renders the pages I have tested it on just fine.  I like it, will be using it as a daily browser here for the future, and will let you know how it goes!  Mac fans will just have to hold onto their macbooks, this is a windows only release so far, but you will get yours some day =)

*edited* - Check out the html / style inspector (right click anything in the page, choose inspect element)  - you can view the derived styles, and edit the html in-line and see the changes as you make them.  Super sweet!

*edit* OK, I keep finding cool goodies.  Right click the task bar for chrome, and choose 'task manager'.  You get a window with each tab, the memory and CPU that each tab is taking up,  and even the network usage of that tab (how awesome is that).  The rabbit hole gets deeper though, click 'stats for nerds' to get a very detailed memory page.  Go google go, appeal to us techies, I love it! =)

*edit* OK, it has not been an hour of use yet, but its now my default browser =)

I have migrated to a virtual server (yah for full control over the server!) I was having a heck of a time converting all my data from MySQL into MS SQL, then I had plugin issues with Mango after copying my web root via FTP onto the new server, so I nuked it! This is a clean install of Mango on MS SQL. I will try and get my data imported from the old database, but until then the world will have to suffer the (minimal) loss of my prior blog posts.