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Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (known as just Dirt 2 outside of Europe) is a racing game released in September 2009, and is the sequel to Colin McRae: Dirt. This is the first game in the McRae series since his death in 2007. It was announced on 19 November 2008 and features the late Colin McRae as well as Ken Block and Travis Pastrana. The game features many new race-events, including stadium events. Along with the player, a mobile home car travels from one event to another, and serves as ‘headquarters’ for the player. It features a roster of contemporary off-road events, taking players to diverse and challenging real-world environments. The game takes place over four continents: Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. The game includes five different event types: rally, rally cross, trailblazer, land rush and raid. This World Tour sees players competing in multi-car and solo races at new locations, from canyon racing and jungle trails to city stadium-based events, and also includes a new multiplayer mode.

A demo of the game was released on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on 20 August 2009. The demo appeared for the PC on November 29 2009, it features the same content as the console demo with the addition of higher graphic settings and a benchmark tool.

Colin McRae: Dirt 2 is an official sponsor of Ken Block, Travis Pastrana and Dave Mirra of the Subaru Rally USA.

Dirt 2 will be one of the earliest games to launch with DirectX 11.

I was one of the lucky people to get a free CD key for Dirt 2 buy purchasing one of the new 5000 series ATI video cards. The game will be available for download from Steam as soon as the game is launched. Get your own Dirt 2 CD Key today!

I’ve found that the best way to get a Colin McRae: Dirt 2 CD Key is through legitimate means, that way you don’t have the hassle of illegal software, or the worry of malware.

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Now I do not condone people stealing in any way shape or form. But if you are looking for Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes Keygen you might be lucky enough to get the information you need from that link! I mean seriously who in their right mind is buying Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes anyways? You must either be obsessed with Star Wars, 10 years old, or just have no life to be buying Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes in the first place, then to be using Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes keygen you are just lame. Oh well be lame find your keygen I prefer authentication keys anyways, sounds more official.

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Seems Combat Arms has given into the hacker n00bs and decided that instead of stopping hackers they’ll just sell hacks of their own. Hacks in the form of Combat Arms Specialists. Say no to the stupid combat arms specialists today! Don’t you ever feel like you’re being cheated in combat arms? I know it happens to me a lot… I’ve joined many games recently with n00b elite moderators and get kicked for having a positive KDR. They’ll have three or four specialists on their team and be in the base of my team but I get kicked for killing them… whiney little girls who can’t play… and I’m getting tired of it. The specialists need to go, they are the stupidest idea they have ever come up with for Combat Arms.

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I’ve often found myself writing about problems or ideas when I need to make a decision, or think I might be making the wrong decision. I’ve been looking at the Logitech G25 racing wheel for a couple of years now… I distinctly remember when it came out… finally a racing wheel with a 6 speed shifter now THAT is appealing. I know that a lot of people in the racing simulation genre love the sequential shifter because it more closely emulates what is in the cars… That is all fine and dandy, but nothing quite comes close to the feel of a 6 speed H pattern shifter. It makes me feel more like I’m doing something worthwhile as I drive, not just slapping a stick. I’m actually glad I never got the G25 since I’ve heard the shifter is sort of a limp noodle to play with, the G27 is a little firmer which is nice, if nothing else it is a good platform to start from.

Why do I say start from? Well at some point I really want to build a full on racing simulation box/chair I’ve got it planned out pretty well… and when I get bored with the G27 or wear out the shifter I have been considering taking it apart and using the electronics of it and building another shifter box with an actual short throw shifter, pneumatic shifter release (so that it only releases the stick when the clutch pedal is fully depressed), and even a hand brake mounted beside the seat.

My problem with all of this is the question “Do I really want to spend SOOO much money on the G27 just for a six speed shifter especially when I plan on building one myself later on?” So this is where my current conundrum is… I’d like to be able to play some racing simulation games with force feedback… but at what cost? I also definitely want to build my own gaming rig… not just for racing, the seat shakers I plan to mount at the feet and seat would be fun for any game, along with an adjustable bucket seat and roll cage design. I have a trick for how to build it too! Since I don’t know how to weld with metal I was going to build it out of PVC pipe and use a PVC welder to construct most of it.

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After a great deal of debate and research I’ve finally picked what I think to be the best cell phone coverage for my situation. I wanted to get a 1-800 number from GrassHopper but of course that is just a call forwarding service… would be nice for my business, but I was still in need of a cell phone. I wanted to be able to get the 800 number so that I wasn’t putting my cell phone number online everywhere for my business… Anyways after a lot of looking I finally found what I think to be the best deal. With Boost Mobile I can get unlimited everything for $50 a month… catch is I’ve got to pay for the phone outright, and it isn’t an automated billing service so forgetting to pay one month means no service. Either way the combination of the two will be a good thing for my business, an 800 number that anyone can reach me for my business at any time on the reliable Sprint network through Boost Mobile (A division of Sprint).

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Recently I’ve decided to put a few of my more valuable websites up for sale. Well 7 to be exact… there’s a few that I need to just let go of (since they have no real value as far as name and no PR either). And about 3 others that I would gladly sell, I just need to get some PR on them and/or finish the development process. There’s a few of my sites that I will be retaining no matter what, those being this site, Archmaille Designs, Cody Sortore, KC LAN Party, and a few others just for the page rank if nothing else. I’m taking a little bit of a “career” shift here though and any sites that I do keep will be primarily for the continual income from various outlets such as P3, Yahoo! Advertising, Jewelry Sales, or whatever sentimental value a site may hold for me. The sites I’m selling are all PR2 or higher, one PR4 as well for those interested I can give you a list.

Anyways, it has been a fairly fun run as a website developer… it’s time to start moving on and doing something a little more meaningful. I’m going into teaching, probably high school level, and even that is going to be a few years since I want to time it to start when Connor starts school. I’m thinking science, or history… obviously the two subjects that I know most about and have a passion for. I’d say computer science… but I’m just a hardware geek when it comes to that I don’t get into much other than PHP programing and a little bit of light design work.

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So I will be embarking on a new journey in website land. As per an idea of my wife we’re going to be creating a new website sort of an ezine like Cosmo, or Vogue only for girl geeks. She wants to write about fashion tips, keeping in shape (including carpal tunnel prevention, and what not), and of course all things nerdy from gaming, to websites, and Ren. Faire. Everything nerdy and girly will be explored… I think it’s going to be fun, and interesting.

We’ve still yet to name this adventure… so if you have any ideas please feel free to drop one in a comment for us.

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I like the ability to make money from blogging… but it really sucks when I have to write multiple posts in between paid posts for social spark. I like that I’m still making money even in these hard economic times, even when PayPerPost is failing me a little more every day… but once again trying to keep up with all this work and completing random in between posts for everything is getting ridiculous. I don’t do much each day that pertains to gaming and website creation so I don’t know what to write about each day. Especially on a day like today where I had four possible paid posts… that leaves me writing 8 posts for today! I just don’t have that kind of creativity

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Bah, so I’m back to having a hard time to decide between Blender and TrueSpace! I really REALLY like blender, it is powerful, intuitive, and once you get used to the short cut keys it reminds me of playing video games to a big with one hand on the keyboard the other on the mouse for maximum productivity… The documentation for TrueSpace is beautiful though, and because it was purchased by Windows a while back it uses DX9 and some features that make things prettier such as HDRI. I’ve been able to achieve much MUCH more with TrueSpace than I ever could with Blender (and after only one day of messing with it, took me a week to figure out how to use Blender, and several days of messing with it to achieve very little). TrueSpace has been discontinued this year… and the latest version is incompatible with the vray rendering engine… so you’ve got to use version 7.6 versus 7.61 not sure what the difference is other than I didn’t know the difference between the two and got 7.61 at first as it is the first available on the download page… only to learn of this fun little discrepancy later on. Which sucks because I created a small project in 7.61 and now can’t import it into 7.6

Since the TrueSpace project has been discontinued it is free… which is nice, but don’t know if the project will be continued, and also makes vray not so possible. Blender is still very active and an alive community… I’d like to know that 3DConnexion products work with blender, but not sure about that either… I want one to navigate easier and help to relieve stress on my right hand (also want a tablet for the same reason so I can kind of alternate mouse/tablet). Anyways there are still a lot of decisions to make… wish I could take some of the interfaces of TrueSpace and put them into Blender, along with the ability to use DX9 or 10 features… I just don’t know anything about OpenGL guess I should research that too

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The biggest thing that I hate about the new health care bill is that people do not speak of what health insurance has done to the economy. Now that things are crashing and banks are failing we’re finally starting to talk about why a country dependent upon credit is not such a good thing. No one has uttered a word about what the effects of insurance have been. In my mind having and insurance card, or a credit card in your wallet are the same thing. Only difference is one you pay in advance to get screwed over in the end, the other you pay back over long periods of time. So why would you get health insurance at all? Think of what the average person pays towards health insurance, if you are just covering yourself it costs $500 per month and doesn’t usually start paying out immediately. If you saved that much money and put it into an account that you never touched you’d be rich by now… not to mention the rapid inflation caused by insurance.

First hospitals started catching on, they started to get the mindset that they could double their costs because the patients were no longer paying for procedures themselves. Now hospitals are getting rich… so what happens suppliers start getting the same idea, they realize that the hospitals are making tons of money and it is coming from the insurance companies anyways so no one is getting hurt, now a simple hospital bed costs well into the half million dollar range. Colleges catch on quick realizing that their doctors and nurses are going to be making tons of money and can get loans easily so they hike up the fees for those in nursing and medical doctor fields because all the money is coming from the insurance companies anyways… no one is getting hurt. Now your monthly fees have begun rising because the insurance company is there for one purpose, to make money. They say they are there for your well being, and so you can feel safe at night… but that safety comes at much too high a price. If people would just be smarter and more patient with their money our country would not be in the situation it is right now… Remember that what is gathered little by little is hard to get rid of, but what we gain quickly is burned off twice as fast.

I’ve been surviving with a wife and a now four month old son on an average of $30 a day from blogging and working online. Trust me we treasure every penny that comes in, but it also allows me to spend time with my precious son, and my beautiful wife. Two things that I wouldn’t give up for the world. Things get hard, and it can be stressful at times, but it forces us to be smart with our money and you learn what is really important around you.

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