From ironmaiden.com

• Aces High (live) - Flight 666 (2009)
• 2 Minutes to Midnight - Powerslave (1984)
• The Trooper - Piece of Mind (1983)
• Wasted Years - Somewhere in Time (1986)
• The Number of the Beast - The Number of the Beast (1982)
• Run to the Hills - The Number of the Beast (1982)
• Can I Play With Madness - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
• The Clairvoyant - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
• Powerslave - Powerslave (1984)
• Fear of the Dark (live) - Flight 666 (2009)
• Hallowed Be Thy Name (live) - Flight 666 (2009)
• Iron Maiden (live) - Flight 666 (2009)

Will be available Tuesday, June 9th.

I was hoping to log in after downloading/patching the game this afternoon, but for some reason the download just stopped part way through just after I went to bed. Oh well, maybe it’ll be done by the time I get home from work in the morning.

The game does seem to be much more solo-friendly than it was at release - that’s partly why I stopped playing. I wasn’t much into grouping back then, so it was hard to actually level after a certain point. Apparently it’s much easier now. And this feature from the newest expansion is sure to help future alts: “All of your characters will now receive a 10% experience bonus for each character at the maximum level. (Up to 50% max)”. WoW should have that… well, at least if it wasn’t so boring, I’d care.

• Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME GTX 280 video card cooling
• G.Skill TITAN 128GB SSD - I was considering a Velociraptor, but if I’m already spending that much, why not go SSD and get even faster times and much less noise (well, NO noise)?
• Logitech G19 keyboard (or a new G15, though I don’t like the amber backlighting)
• Logitech G7 laser cordless mouse (maybe… I really want to test out some mice in my hand before deciding)
• Probably a Blu-Ray drive of some sort. Might as well, since my monitor can do proper 1080p and my TV doesn’t.

Right now, I can barely hear my computer at all. Except when playing a game, the video card fans are noticable. But that might be partly because everything else is so quiet. At the moment my digital cable PVR is the loudest thing here, being louder than both of my computers combined. Of course, I’m not counting my Xbox 360 here - that thing is fucking loud.

• Gigabyte EP45-UD3R motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHZ Yorkfield 1333FSB 12MB
• EVGA E-GEFORCE GTX 260 Core 216 SC 55NM
• G.SKILL F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK PC2-8500 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-1066
• Scythe Orochi 10 Heatpipe CPU Heatsink (this thing weighs 3 pounds!)
• Antec NSK 4480B II Mini Tower Case

I’m missing a new hard drive, DVD-R, keyboard and mouse - but I’ll use some spare stuff I have around until I get new ones. Should be nice for just gaming :)

• Motherboard
• Hard drive
• CPU
• Video card
• Memory
• Case
• CPU HSF

Seems like there is something I’m missing, but I’m not sure.

Just thought of a couple more things:

• Keyboard
• DVD drive (or probably a Blu-Ray drive for one of my systems)

I recently bought an EDGE card for my Nintendo DS and a 2 GB microSD card, that thing is awesome. I can have a bunch of games on there, plus homebrew apps/games, and it works great. Already my sister has found it useful - there was a game she was considering buying, but after checking it out she definitely doesn’t want to get it. Saved some cash right there. I’ll probably check out some more games I’ve been interested in once I finally finish playing through Final Fantasy IV. I pretty much only play it during lunch (sometimes, not always) at work so it’s slow going. I don’t want to start playing it on my EDGE card, since I’m about six hours into the game already. Definitely don’t want to start over at that point.

Not much else new on the gaming front… I picked up Guitar Hero: World Tour. Some things I like, some things I don’t. Too much duplication of songs with Rock Band, though. Some play quite differently in each game, too. It’s interesting.

It’s a pretty good month for television, too. 24 Finally started up again, Battlestar Galactica is back, Lost is starting this week, and Hell’s Kitchen starts a new season as well I think. There’s some interesting looking new show too, Lie To Me I think it’s called? I’ll check it out.

I’m thinking about ordering a new hard drive for my laptop this week, too. Right now I have whatever stock 120gb drive that Dell offered when I got it (just over a year ago), but I want to get a fast 320gb drive for it :) And I’ll probably devote most/all of the drive to Ubuntu again. I miss it. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get Quicken working properly there, but I can still use that on my desktop at least. Maybe I’ll stick that 120gb drive in my Playstation 3 then - not that I really need the space tehre. I don’t use it for much other than a Blu-Ray player. My Xbox 360 and computer are for gaming ;)

I also added a Flickr plugin to my Wordpress installation, but it needs tweaking for my template. I decided to look for something like that after my old Gallery installation had massive amounts of spam being posted as comments - Captcha wasn’t working, and I couldn’t even find a way to disable comments completely. Oh well, I never liked that software that much anyway. Flickr is nice though, and doesn’t cost very much a year for a Pro account. Once I get that working better I should start taking and uploading more pictures again.

I updated my Wordpress install on my own server today, along with installing the Live+Press plugin, so I can crosspost things to LJ. It’s not like I post to either site very often these days, so I might as well do both at once :)

Starting my Christmas work rush now, too. I didn’t take my days off last week, and I aim to not take any days off until Christmas. That’s only a month more, nothing serious. The last few months have actually been pretty good at work, having a different job code and things to do now. I think the actual job name is Instock Associate, 3rd Shift. Or something like that. Essentially, I work out back in the warehouse doing different things and that’s pretty much it. Much much better than stocking shelves. Mostly, I decide what I do in the run of a night, unless there are specific things to be done.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with the recent WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. Slowly questing my way to level 80 on my priest (almost level 74 right now), enjoying the scenery and lore along the way. My other chars coming up behind will likely use some addons to help speed the process, once I see it for the first time. And after playing the new class (Death Knight) a little bit - I’m having a lot of fun. My end goal is to have it be my tanking character, but it’s just a blast to have so much dps and survivability. I think this is going to be my second level 80 (currently 61) instead of my hunter (currently 71).

No promises on future updates, but I’ll try to post a little more often.

[00:03:18] (Eeyore) hi bones :)
[00:03:22] (@bones) hi!
[00:04:19] (Eeyore) how was your weekend?
[00:05:43] (@bones) good
[00:05:47] (@bones) how was yours
[00:07:21] (Eeyore) still in it. i worked the entire time
[00:07:25] (Eeyore) still working
[00:07:37] (Eeyore) but i get to sleep for 4 hours on te plane tomorrow out of here
[00:08:13] (Eeyore) i have to be at the bus at 7:45
[00:10:29] (@bones) where are you going
[00:11:43] (@pygmy) hell, I hope
[00:11:48] (@pygmy) I mean hi alt
[00:12:12] (Eeyore) hee hee
[00:12:15] (Eeyore) home
[00:12:21] (Eeyore) i'm at Kemess Mines
[00:14:10] (@bones) ah
[00:14:12] (@bones) in a mine
[00:14:23] (@bones) is everything in british columbia named like final fucking fantasy
[00:14:34] (@bones) or are you somewhere else
[01:55:26] (Eeyore) bones: i'm in b.c.
[01:55:39] (Eeyore) "natie" names here
[01:55:44] (Eeyore) erm
[01:55:51] (Eeyore) and there are a lot of native names here
[01:56:12] (Eeyore) the other site i work on is Tulsequah Chief
[02:07:48] (@bones) heh

And I just ordered myself a 1 TB hard drive and external USB2 drive enclosure. My plan is to store my music on there, so it’s portable. Leaving me with a 500 GB to use for other things on my desktop :)

I’ve been working a lot of overtime lately, but pretty much just for the extra cash for my holidays. I just finished night 16 in a row, of a total of 19. Thursday morning I’ll be on holidays for 16 days :)

And no, I’m not dead or anything. Just haven’t been posting much on any sites. Playing WoW mostly, posting on my guild’s forums, and chatting with friends on there. And quite a bit of Rock Band since getting it way back in January or whenever… have hardly touched Guitar Hero since. I can do well on most expert guitar songs, and most hard drum songs. Getting better on expert drums - the songs are either a lot of fun to play on expert, or insanely difficult.