Cranky Gamer

If you want to know how ordering a game can lead to installing wordpress read on…

Being bored, and tired from work I sat down at my computer and decided to checkout any new news/demos on gamespy.com (yeah I know you people like “real” game news, but GameSpy has been a stop of mine for years so it is ingrained in my browsing habits). The first thing I noticed was an article previewing Team Fortress 2(TF2). Being a fan of the original TF I decided to read on.

The first thing that caught my eye was a line of text that said if I pre-ordered the “Orange Box” on Steam I would get to play in the TF2 beta that is now open. Unfortunately for gamespy this was as far as I got.

So I broke down and pre-ordered. I wasn’t going to do it originally, but then I noticed that cheaper to pre-order than it would be to buy Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Episode 2 individually, and the beta option was the straw that broke the camels back.

With the credit card number flowing across the cat 5 the pre-order downloads began. The Peggle demo that comes with the pre-order finished first, and I decided to try it out. For those of you not familiar with Peggle, it is a simple arcade type game that plays like a mix of Bust-A-Move (AKA Puzzle-Bobble, or Frozen Bubble for you Linux fan-boys) and plinko (that sweet game Bob Barker used to torture people with on The Price is Right). It played well. The sound was good, the learning curve wasn’t steep at all, and it had that slight addictive nature that simple arcade games have.

 I played for about 30 minutes, my ADD was kicking in hard, and I decided to check my other downloads - TF2 Downloading (58%) - still no love for the TF2 beta so I decided to browse the web some more. This lasted for about another 5 minutes before the ADD kicked in some more and so I checked the downloads - TF2 Downloading (59%).

 As I began to get more and more stir crazy (as I tend to do when bored) I remembered a conversation I had with my SEO team earlier this week about WordPress. In the past I have just managed my own site, and stayed away from blog software, but managing all of the PHP files, and trying to keep everything tidy keeps me from wanting to post so I figured I would give it a shot. My SEO guys love WordPress, and I respect their opinions so I went online and grabbed the zip file.

I have to say that I am fairly impressed. It took about 20 minutes to setup from download to the writing of my first blog, and it would have taken less but I went through every option I could find in the system to get used to it. The next stop will be to edit the layout, and find some fun plug-ins.

 So to wrap up Bored+BetaGames+DownloadTimes+BoredAgain = INSTALL WORDPRESS.

Have a lovely evening -

CHaZ™