I received an email from Blizzard last night. For anybody who doesn’t know, Blizzard is the company behind the Warcraft series of games (including World of Warcraft, on which Rise of the X-Syndicate is based).  They’re also responsible for the development of the very well known and respected StarCraft game, that came out over 12 years ago this month, and is still being played by fans worldwide.

StarCraft 2 Logo

A little less than two years ago, Blizzard announced it was coming out with a sequel to the famous StarCraft game and I, like many others, was tickled pink at the promise of a sequel.

You see, I love the Warcraft universe that Blizzard has developed over the years, but StarCraft was the game that fully introduced me to what Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games could be.  I was in highschool back when it came out, and we would commandeer the computer labs after school and play 8-player games late into the night.  Truly an amazing experience.

And after 12 years, the game has been thrown back into my life, as the email I received last night invited me to participate in StarCraft 2’s beta testing!

I can’t tell you what I think of the game yet, partly because I havn’t played it yet (its downloading and installing at the moment) and partly because I’m not too sure how much I can say (the legal agreement was a tough read).

I’ll have a look and see what I can find, and if I can post my testing experiences and thoughts on Folaji.com, I most definitively will.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to fight aliens on a far away planet.

Marge: Oh, that sounds like a good movie!

Uhh… yes, yes… movie…

Its been a while since my last flash animation, but after taking this picture a few nights ago, I knew I had to throw it up on the site.

So here goes:

City Lights

There’s something eerie about walking alone in the city at night.

The fact that you’re just one of a few million souls walking from one street to the next makes you feel like such an insignificant piece of of the puzzle.

Yet, when you stop to look down at the traffic below, and you hear the horn of the passenger train in the distance, you realize that the city is alive, and that you are a part of it as much as it is a part of you.

And its then that you feel safe, realizing that you are never really walking alone.

There have been some pretty big changes this week with the launch of my new site, and although much of my time is being spent working on it, Folaji.com is still my one true blog-love.

That being said, anybody looking for this week’s Blog Tools Review can find it on FuglyCode.com.  This week I detail a very important anti-spam plugin called Akismet, which you can read here.  Note that, as I stated previously, Blog Tools Reviews will now only be posted on FuglyCode.com, so head on over to the new site every Wednesday at 12pm EST for your weekly dose of blog plugin fun!

Also, after almost a year of hiatus, Rise of the X-Syndicate is back with Chapter 7 – The Fall.  I found this chapter extremely difficult to write, partly because I wasn’t to certain how I wanted to present the conflict in the chapter, and mostly because it truly is a backbone for so much of what’s to come.  With it now published, I feel like I’ve jumped a huge hurdle, and future chapters are all starting to fall into place.

And finally, although I am spending much time on FuglyCode right now, I still have big plans for this site.  I intend to begin adding new content over the next few months, which will allow the site to grow into a much more rounded and interesting site.  I don’t want to spoil anything so I’ll leave it at that for now.

Talk to y’all later!

I’m proud to announce that the Blog Tools Reviews are moving to my new site: FuglyCode.com!

I’ve been working on this new site for a couple of weeks now, and noticed that the content of the Blog Tools Review articles was much more suitable for this site than for Folaji.com.  And so I’ve ported the series over, and will continue on publishing Blog Tools Reviews everyweek on FuglyCode.com.

With the launch of the new site, I’ve not yet had the chance to publish Chapter 7 of Rise of the X-Syndicate.  I can say for a fact that it will be posted this week, so keep an eye out for a new Chapter of this World of Warcraft story.

In the meantime, I leave you with a montage of my dog Koji, playing with an 8 week old black lab named Ramsay.  Aren’t they adorable?

I’ve had a pretty hectic week, what with my dog getting hurt and bleeding all over the floor, so I’ve not been able to put as much effort into the site as I would have liked.  I’m currently working on the new Blog Tool Review, but don’t think I’ll have it done for today, so in the meantime I wanted to give a blog shout-out to a pretty awesome blog owned by two friends of mine: Simon and Sophie.

Food And Foto (http://cookandsnap.blogspot.com/) is an amazing treat for the eyes where both Simon and Sophie cook wonderful looking dishes, and then post the pictures of those dishes online for us to salivate over.  They’ve been at it for almost two months now, and I’m always amazed at how mouthwatering their food looks (not to mention the awesome presentation that easily rivals professional restaurants).

I’ve yet to have the pleasure of eating such masterpieces, but to be honest, I’d be afraid of destroying something precious were I to get the chance of trying their food out, and I don’t have the skills nor the patience to follow the recipies they post.  I guess I’ll just stick to eating my homemade cheeseburgers and enjoying, with envy, the awesome food they create.

So take the time to view their blog and leave them a shout of encouragement.  In the meantime, I’ll get back to my Blog Tool Review, that I hope will be posted sometime tomorrow.