In an earlier post on the topic of Star Wars: The Old Republic, I detailed what I thought about the game during my time with it in beta. While most of those thoughts still apply, I thought I would update that post with some new information about the game. My original post can be found here.
I've been playing since day two of the prerelease and I've been enjoying the game. My Bounty Hunter is level 27, has his ship, is struggling to be able to afford his speeder and has his crafting skills about on par with his level. The class quest has been enjoyable. I thought the story line was going to dip after the Great Hunt began but I'm finding the backstory for my companion Mako to be engaging. I still think many of the side quests are repetitive by level 15 but the class quest line seems to have twists and turns in it that I didn't immediately pick up on, making it entertaining. With that, I find myself skipping past the side quests but watching the class quest cut scenes.
Not all is rosy in the land of Star Wars.
Blizzard announced today that 
Insight Communications came to my house this morning and I have to say that the appointment went better than I had originally thought it would. The guy who visited my house was easy to work with and polite. I'm not sure that he knew that he was installing a CableCARD based on his surprise when I explained what I thought the visit was supposed to be about. I believe he thought it was a repair appointment as per the conversation I had with 
Thursday, I took the next step in my Windows Media Center project and purchased the media center PC. Here's what I bought, though keep in mind that I have a good power supply, case and case fans. I have a UPS and a Harmony 890 remote so those costs are not reflected in this project. I now have a modern PC that can be a true Windows 7 machine. Moment of silence here for the impending death of my first and only dual CPU workstation. It's been faithfully doing whatever I asked it to do for 9 years. I've isntalled Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Ultimate on this box with nary a driver issue in sight. The Xeon processors still garner a 5.3 Windows Performance score under Windows 7. This machine is a testament to how PCs should work. I hope this machine has the same results. I'm only replacing the machine because Ceton requires PCIe and because I feel like I am tempting fate by keeping my pictures and home movies on a 9 year old PC.
