CWF Game Cast

This is not exactly gaming news but it is news for gamers so it belongs here.  If you’ve been living under a pile of dice you are one of the few people oblivious to this news.  The Nine Inch Nails have released a new album to thank their fans for their loyalty and devotion.

The album is titled The Slip and it is a great album.  What makes this album extra special is it is FREE.  You saw correctly.  The album is 210% F-R-E-E.  It is available, for FREE yes I love saying that, online for download.  They provide a bunch of versions but rather than make you go all over the place we have made a lossless version of it available here.

How can we legally do this?  NIN released the album under a Creative Commons License and told downloaders to edit, revise, share, distribute, and blog the album any way they please.  They gave us free reign and I am taking the bull by the horns and giving the album to YOU.

Go to Nine Inch Nails FREE Album to download it for yourself.  You have two choices to make when you get there.  You can download the zipped version, great for those on dialup, and then unzip it after it downloads.  Or, you can pick what songs you want to download from this list.  Either way you can’t lose.

All tracks, and there are 10 songs, are in m4a file format.  This is a lossless (meaning it sounds as good, if not better than, as CD quality) file type that plays on iPods, in iTunes, on Macs, and on Windows machines.  They will work on Windows XP and Windows Vista and should work on all other mp3 players.

Download the album, put it on your iPod, and listen to it while you game and while you paint and while you say how happy you are that NIN released a FREE album.  You can also listen to it while you say how much you love the CWF Game Cast.  Who loves you?  Who loves you baby! 

written by ^Raven^

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Music to Game By, nine inch nails.

The CWF Game Cast has completed its update from its 2.5 version of WordPress to 2.5.1. Why do this, you may ask. Instead of trying to explain it all to you, the WordPress people did a great job of it already.

Please read WordPress 2.5.1 at the official WordPress blog. That explains all the reasons why we updated.

The upgrade went through without a hitch and was quicker than expected. Version 2.5.1 is an urgent security release that is part of the official Roadmap charting the course up to WordPress 2.6. With each release new features are added and old bugs are fixed. This mirrors the CWF Game Cast too because when we upgrade to a new version of WordPress we try to add better features to enhance your experience. We are also working to time big events, such as special podcasts, with the WordPress releases.

If you post on the blog you may become confused with the new setup. Please contact us and we’ll guide you through.

written by ^Raven^

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Announcements, updates, WordPress.

The big board games day at Rising Phoenix Games is fast approaching.  April 19th is the date to watch for when TotalCon sponsors a gigantic all day long event.  You can bring your own games or you can tap into the gigantic TotalCon library.  They are bringing Power Grid, Puerto Rico, Ticket to Ride, Arkham Horror, Notre Dome, Formula De, Iron Dragon, Union Pacific, Thurin and Taxis, Ra, GOA, Carcassonne and more! 

Rising Phoeinx Games is a great store in Cherry Valley, Ma run by the incredible Lia Klunk.  If you’ve never been to RPG now is the perfect time.  Get directions or contact the store directly.  You can call them at (508) 892 - 5190 or post on their message boards.

Don’t miss this chance to have a lot of fun and support a great gaming store in western Mass.  We hope to share photos of the event with you.  In the meantime check out RPG’s photo gallery to see what they’ve done in the past.  When you walk into the store be sure to say hi to the person behind the counter.

written by ^Raven^

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Board/Card Games, Events, New England Game Stores, Rising Phoenix Games.

There are a lot of nice features in WP 2.5.  The increased stability and functionality are also major boosts.  But, there are also some drawbacks.  For us, there has been a very irritating problem when using the Write Post ability.

That is a major concern because that is the way we communicate on the blog.  When writing a post an error message is given by the web browser saying there is an unresponsive script.  This is caused by the custom fields, which many plugins use to enhance functionality.

WP 2.5 instituted significant changes to how plugins work and interact with WordPress.  Our problems became pandemic when we upgraded to WP 2.5.  The benefits outweigh the negatives as far as our usage of the new version.  But, in order to make the blog usable for people to write new posts we had to take away some of the features.

We have removed two key features and modified another.  It is no longer possible to rate articles.  It is also not possible to read an article and see related content listed at the bottom.  Both of these created hundreds of custom fields, each, that triggered the error.

Additionally, we experienced major problems with podPress and became quite perturbed.  Podpress is a plugin that enables us to podcast and share the podcast with all of you.  We have deleted the plugin and done a fresh install to restore functionality.

All of our actions have resulted in a 99% success rate.  When using Firefox we still receive the unresponsive script error.  But, it does not show in Safari and we expect it won’t show in Internet Explorer.

You can view the blog with any browser.  But, if you are going to write posts we recommend using Safari for Mac and IE on Windows machines.  We continue to look for a complete solution but this will have to do for the meantime.

written by ^Raven^

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Announcements, WordPress, WordPress 2.5.

The CWF Game Cast will be updating from its 2.5 RC1 version of WordPress to 2.5 final today. Why do this, you may ask. Instead of trying to explain it all to you, the WordPress people did a great job of it already. We’re just thankful to finally be able to update to 2.5. It has been a very long wait and it is ready for release….at last.

Please read WordPress 2.5 at the official WordPress blog. That explains all the reasons why we are updating.

During the upgrade the blog will be unavailable. We expect this to last 30 minutes. But, check back at the blog for further updates. We’ll have the usual Site Unavailable for Maintenance Mode message up during this process.

written by ^Raven^

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Announcements, updates, WordPress.