Balandar

I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!! There is partial nudity in this one. http://gallery.thehonorempire.net/displayimage.php?pos=-28 Thanks for looking!

I hope so!! I am getting prepared for the game. I just bought a second monitor tonight. $177 - $30 instant rebate. And I have a $30 and a $50 MIRebate. Which will make it $67 for a brand-spankn' new 19" monitor. So now I'll have two computers and two monitors and two keyboards and two mice. One good set of speakers, and one crappy set. Heh... now I just need two WoW accounts so I can play on both monitors. I have always wanted to do that with my UO accounts. In the past, I just ran from room to room. heheh.

The closed beta test is coming to an end. This Friday, October 29, at 3:00 PM PDT, the closed beta servers will go offline as we prepare to run another stress test. All active closed-beta accounts will remain active, and closed-beta testers will be receiving an email with instructions on what to do to continue playing in the stress test. We will post more information about the stress test in the days ahead, so please stay tuned to WorldofWarcraft.com. We also want to take this opportunity to thank the closed beta testers for their months of dedicated testing and hard work. Thanks to all of your suggestions and bug reports, World of Warcraft is closer than ever to being ready for launch!

By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published October 28, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad. "The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units." Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloging the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration. Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said. The Russian involvement in helping disperse Saddam's weapons, including some 380 tons of RDX and HMX, is still being investigated, Mr. Shaw said. The RDX and HMX, which are used to manufacture high-explosive and nuclear weapons, are probably of Russian origin, he said. Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita could not be reached for comment. The disappearance of the material was reported in a letter Oct. 10 from the Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Disclosure of the missing explosives Monday in a New York Times story was used by the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, who accused the Bush administration of failing to secure the material. Al-Qaqaa, a known Iraqi weapons site, was monitored closely, Mr. Shaw said. "That was such a pivotal location, Number 1, that the mere fact of [special explosives] disappearing was impossible," Mr. Shaw said. "And Number 2, if the stuff disappeared, it had to have gone before we got there." The Pentagon disclosed yesterday that the Al-Qaqaa facility was defended by Fedayeen Saddam, Special Republican Guard and other Iraqi military units during the conflict. U.S. forces defeated the defenders around April 3 and found the gates to the facility open, the Pentagon said in a statement yesterday. A military unit in charge of searching for weapons, the Army's 75th Exploitation Task Force, then inspected Al-Qaqaa on May 8, May 11 and May 27, 2003, and found no high explosives that had been monitored in the past by the IAEA. The Pentagon said there was no evidence of large-scale movement of explosives from the facility after April 6. "The movement of 377 tons of heavy ordnance would have required dozens of heavy trucks and equipment moving along the same roadways as U.S. combat divisions occupied continually for weeks prior to and subsequent to the 3rd Infantry Division's arrival at the facility," the statement said. The statement also said that the material may have been removed from the site by Saddam's regime. According to the Pentagon, U.N. arms inspectors sealed the explosives at Al-Qaqaa in January 2003 and revisited the site in March and noted that the seals were not broken. It is not known whether the inspectors saw the explosives in March. The U.N. team left the country before the U.S.-led invasion began March 20, 2003. A second defense official said documents on the Russian support to Iraq reveal that Saddam's government paid the Kremlin for the special forces to provide security for Iraq's Russian arms and to conduct counterintelligence activities designed to prevent U.S. and Western intelligence services from learning about the arms pipeline through Syria. The Russian arms-removal program was initiated after Yevgeny Primakov, the former Russian intelligence chief, could not persuade Saddam to give in to U.S. and Western demands, this official said. A small portion of Iraq's 650,000 tons to 1 million tons of conventional arms that were found after the war were looted after the U.S.-led invasion, Mr. Shaw said. Russia was Iraq's largest foreign supplier of weaponry, he said. However, the most important and useful arms and explosives appear to have been separated and moved out as part of carefully designed program. "The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," Mr. Shaw said. The Russian forces were tasked with moving special arms out of the country. Mr. Shaw said foreign intelligence officials believe the Russians worked with Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service to separate out special weapons, including high explosives and other arms and related technology, from standard conventional arms spread out in some 200 arms depots. The Russian weapons were then sent out of the country to Syria, and possibly Lebanon in Russian trucks, Mr. Shaw said. Mr. Shaw said he believes that the withdrawal of Russian-made weapons and explosives from Iraq was part of plan by Saddam to set up a "redoubt" in Syria that could be used as a base for launching pro-Saddam insurgency operations in Iraq. The Russian units were dispatched beginning in January 2003 and by March had destroyed hundreds of pages of documents on Russian arms supplies to Iraq while dispersing arms to Syria, the second official said. Besides their own weapons, the Russians were supplying Saddam with arms made in Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and other Eastern European nations, he said. "Whatever was not buried was put on lorries and sent to the Syrian border," the defense official said. Documents reviewed by the official included itineraries of military units involved in the truck shipments to Syria. The materials outlined in the documents included missile components, MiG jet parts, tank parts and chemicals used to make chemical weapons, the official said. The director of the Iraqi government front company known as the Al Bashair Trading Co. fled to Syria, where he is in charge of monitoring arms holdings and funding Iraqi insurgent activities, the official said. Also, an Arabic-language report obtained by U.S. intelligence disclosed the extent of Russian armaments. The 26-page report was written by Abdul Tawab Mullah al Huwaysh, Saddam's minister of military industrialization, who was captured by U.S. forces May 2, 2003. The Russian "spetsnaz" or special-operations forces were under the GRU military intelligence service and organized large commercial truck convoys for the weapons removal, the official said. Regarding the explosives, the new Iraqi government reported that 194.7 metric tons of HMX, or high-melting-point explosive, and 141.2 metric tons of RDX, or rapid-detonation explosive, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, were missing. The material is used in nuclear weapons and also in making military "plastic" high explosive. Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.

A co-worker sent this to me. http://www.yonkis.com/mediaflash/eeuu.htm

Nope. WoW all the way!

Here's a quicky for ya'll. http://gallery.thehonorempire.net/displayimage.php?pos=-27 I'm starting to play around with post work in photoshop and the above image was the result. It's going to take awhile to figure out all these the doo-dads! >8]

The game is being released on the 15th (at least according to many many websites and stores). So... the first of November I would think.

The new gallery can be found here: http://swg.thehonorempire.net/gallery All members of the forums can now comment on screenshots. Syban can now upload screenshots as well.

Read the following thread: http://forums.thehonorempire.net/index.php?showtopic=6520

Ok folks, I need some help in getting these websites completed. It's taking me too long with having to work on every single little aspect of the sites. For the WoW website, I need a short description for each of the following webpages. Each description needs to be 200 characters or less. Try not to copy anything directly from the page. I will use the description in meta tags (for search engines) as well as on the site index (when I create it). Here is an example of a short description for the about us section. I simply copied a part of the text for the description… I do not want that to be done for the others however. "The Skullcrusher Orc Clan dates to 615, during the early years of Thrall’s uprising. The clan was founded by a warrior by the name of Grulg, and a former warrior turned shaman named Uglutz. Read more about us..." You could leave off the "read more about us..." part since that description will be used on our site index. Yes, leave things like that off. Try to make the description keyword rich, something related to the webpage. The one above has clan mentioned twice. The guild leader's names. Thrall, and the guild name as well. It could be a lot better however. Try not to use any major keywords more than twice. Also, ANYONE from any guild can write up descriptions. Who knows, maybe some of you will want to join us in World of Warcraft!! Once I get the other websites transferred over as well, I will need unique descriptions for each of their pages as well. Thanks! - Bal Reply below with the description and the page. Here is a listing for the WoW Website. about [ About Us ] awards [ Awards ] forums [ Forums ] [ Skullcrusher Forum Rules ] history [ Warcraft History ] join [ How to Join ] language [ Orc Blah ] links [ Links ] orchistory-01 [ Destiny of the Orcish Hordes ] orchistory-02 [ The Rise of the Shadow Council ] orchistory-03 [ The Mastery of Forces ] orchistory-04 [ The First War of Orcish Ascension ] orchistory-05 [ The Aftermath of the Second War ] orchistory-06 [ Gul\'dan and the Betrayal ] orchistory-07 [ Ner\'zhul and the Shadow Clans ] orchistory-08 [ Day of the Dragon ] orchistory-09 [ Lethargy and Internment ] orchistory-10 [ Thrall\'s Tale ] orchistory-11 [ The Frozen Throne Summary ] orchistory-12 [ Since the End of the Second War ] orchistory-13 [ Orcs ] ranks [ Clan Structure ] [ Rank Overview ] roster-pictures [ Roster Pictures ] rules [ Clan Rules ] tradeskills [ Tradeskills Overview ] [ Tradeskills ]

If you have whatpulse, they have upgraded the software. http://pulse.whatnet.org/download.php Everyone who has an earlier version will need to upgrade (<= v1.3). Quote from whatpulse. Please update to this new version, you will not be able to use WhatPulse 1.3 in exactly one month (untill 2004-10-10), so this gives you enough time to update.

Oh wow. That's pretty cool. So even if you did not wish to war anyone, you could still have an alliance so others highlight green to you. Lots of possibilities there. You could just ally with everyone you want to war with and not have to worry about penalties for resurrection. Example: You could ally with the skullcrusher orc clan (our guild stone btw), and have internal chaos and battles without the negatives that come along with wars.

Yay! But there goes our uniqueness of 4 letter abbr. Do they have guild allies for the new guild stones?

Yup! I am. Oh! Don't buy it yet!! Maybe we can become an affiliate with beachbocy.com, then all of us lazy gamers can get fit and help pay for the site at the same time

Yup. It'll be a new age. Assuming we can raise the money for the forums

Sweet! I can't wait till I can start rendering again. Also... start adding your images to the new gallery.

In the near future, all armies, gold, pets, etc. will be reset. The army gold Separate from the IBSTORE/MunjPet gold. This way those in the army will not interfere with regular members. Also, I will not have to hack the code every single time there is the slightest update. I do not know the exact date for this... new age. Borg will be in contact with invision about purchasing a lifetime license for these forums. The cost: $199. We'll have donation links on these forums soon for those who wish to help. Thanks! - Bal

Voted.

Blizzard Entertainment and Ideazon have come together to produce the World of Warcraft Zboard Keyset. This limited edition Keyset will allow players to fully immerse themselves in World of Warcraft and allow players to access the game in ways that traditional keyboards cannot offer. For more information on the Keyset click here. For a preview of the Keyset, click here.

Sims 2 sold one mil. copies in the first ten days. It seems that some people like to play that game I was thinking about it myself.

Is it a free program? I could use that.

Uhhh.. There is no easy way. You could try a cross-over cat-5 cable between the two systems and see if you can setup a local network. Or you could steal one of the school's external DVD burners for an hour or so. Or you could buy a router, plug the cat-5 net cable into it, and then two to your computers, and use "my network places" to find your other computer to copy/paste files over. Or give your beta account information to someone else so they can play.

Gamespy has a preview of World of Warcraft, read more here... Snippet:

Servers are sloooow. So you won't be able to see your own street or flowers yet.