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It is just past the haflway mark for 2009. I made some predictions in the beginning of the year. Lets see if they came true:

1. A comedic web series following wannabe Guitar Hero rockstars will rock YouTube.

Nope, haven’t seen anything spectacular in that line. Cmon you video’sters! Create a funny spinal tap-like script for guitar hero rockstars. Do it!

2. People fooled by The Onion will decrease even more.

Yes, The Onion’s traffic rank has risen through the year.

3. Blizzard will send the gaming population crazy with another witch hunt.

Blizzcon is at the end of August, so we shall see when that times.

4. More gullible people join Facebook and send spam mail detailing how your account will be deleted if you don’t send the message to 10 people.

Yes. I don’t want to talk about this. It makes me sad. Really.

5. Global warming sends much needed moisture for cloud computing to create a storm.

Basically, cloud computing will get a boost in 2009. It just DID! With the announcement of Google OS! I also predicted a Google OS back in January 2007. Oh yes, I did.

6. Digg posts a link to itself, crashing the site.

Doesn’t work.

7. World of Warcraft reveals API to get data out of it. (twitter indundated by “orgath dinged lvl 45?)

Not entirely. TweetCraft a 3rd-party WoW twitter client does something in that line. It has a very laborious installation procedure, so Twitter is still safe-ish for now.

8. Google reveals location based ads placed on busses. (ie bus rides past a bar, and an ad pops up showing how cheap the beer is in that bar).

Not yet. The technology doesn’t exist yet.

9. Parents have to start deciding when to allow their young’uns access to their Facebook profiles. Is Young Johnny ready too see mommy in a drunk photo?

Not yet such a big issue, but parents are joining facebook and are making a fool of themselves. <- Great site.

10. dotCommunism gains a few more members.

I think people are beginning to realise that the way things are currently run in the world ain’t exactly working anymore.

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p.s. How awesome is Google Chrome OS? Bring on the cloud!

So. I started playing World of Warcraft before it was even released in South Africa (end of 2005). I fought azeroth in a different era from today. For a long time, one of the main bosses and gates one had to go through was defeating the dragon Onyxia. I don’t play much anymore (only during the holidays), but back then I played a lot. Onyxia was always “there”. I never had enough time to defeat this beast.

Fast forward a few years, and I finally did what I wanted to do! I defeated onyxia with my guildmates. While it took 40 people to do it in the past, we were only 6.

See the pic here.

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Now that, that is out of the way, onto the real topic. I don’t quite understand why Blizzard would go through so much trouble to make new content and to just let it “die” when the next expansion comes out… All the old end-game dungeons are empty now. The creeps will have to just keep themselves company hoping for a day when adventurers come to kill them.

Blizzard tried to rectify it a bit by adding in achievements for doing the old dungeons, but most of the rewards are only just a plaque saying “well done mate!”.

Anyway…