Travelogue

Back in San diego within a month but this time on work!. Will be here till tomorrow and will try to upload a couple of snaps of the yahoo musicmatch office!. The office is in like this beautiful spanish villa. First look at the office and I was like "wth! this is like a resort ".

Snaps coming soon!

Its been over 6 months since I quit World of Warcraft and I am still to find a game that can hold my interest. A factor to contribute to it is also the fact that I have been mostly stuck with Ubuntu:) and no windows but still. Over the last 6 months I have been thinking of what made me play WOW for over 2 yrs whereas no other game in the past has ever managed to hold my interest for so long. I have played various RPG's and even bought guild wars about the same time as I bought WOW. But my guild wars copy has hardly been played heck I still have my guild wars and it runs under linux too ( via wine ) but somehow i still can't get myself to play it more than an hour before I get bored of it.

What I have realized is
- Wow was fun. Questing in wow/guilds/pvp everything about the game was fun. Heck even farming/finding friends to quest with everything about the game rocked. What wow got right was the community features in the game. Guild wars chat channel is crappy no linking/no auction house/no in game e-mail etc makes the game rather boring.
- Wow had all the features superbly implemented. More importantly the cities were superb hubs to hang around, the characters had well Character..Guild wars characters look lame...all human is so boring! The mobs in WOW were fun, its certainly fun to kill a 2 headed Ogre than a stupid scorpion or something named Charr or a centaur all of them making the same sounds.
- The regions were gorgeous, the shared world was amazing... running around in stranglethorn vale randomly running into enemy faction characters and deciding whether to be nice or gank the guy had a rush of its own or not knowing if you were the one going to get ganked.
- Essentially I am still to find another game that had the capability to involve a player so much as WOW did. I guess thats why its also known as World of Wowcrack!

Enough about wow now to the new games to look forward to!

A couple of weeks back we went on a long drive down south towards Big Sur. It was one heck of a drive with beautiful views all along the CA-1. I tried to capture some good snaps and you can get them here .

I am skipping on the description and you can find that on my wife's blog .

Also in other news the bay area was hit by a quake of the magnitude of 5.6 on Richter scale yesterday and a 3.7 quake today. We felt both and it was I must say an interesting experience:).