That’s right, I changed my hosting, and this is the first post on it.  So far so good…definitely better/more  features, similar if not equal speed,  and oh…about a sixth of the cost.

I’ve moved over pretty much everything, including the old site as well. I’ve gone through and cleaned it up to remove all the spam, locked it down, and have made it available again to view here.

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…but it’s probably the most sensible one. I admit, I’m not much of a blogger – not that I don’t have anything to say mind you, but I usually end stopping 3/4 of the way through a post and end up scrapping it. Hence the reason why of the entire 3 posts in 3 months, only one of them isn’t about the site.  However, the forums at the old site were dead, and the only real use I could make of it was updating the news – in which case, I might as well just do a  blog anyway.

I am actually working on “stuff”, but I’m reluctant to talk too much about any of it due to the seeming inability to focus (and complete) one project at a time.  However there are two projects I’m working on that are worth mentioning, mainly because my interest in both of them is extremely high.

First off, I’m currently working on making a Lord of the Rings Online gadget/widget/ “Rich Internet Application” using Adobe AIR. Previously I had made one for the Windows Sidebar,  but I felt AIR would be a more flexible choice to continue on with the project. If you would like to know more about this or get the Sidebar version, head on over to my blog at http://my.lotro.com/Digital_Utopia. That blog was started first, and seeing how it’s completely LotRO related, it just makes sense to keep LotRO projects over there.

Second, I’m continuing to work on my modeling skills – especially organic modeling. If you think you see where this is going, you’re pretty close, but my focus isn’t quite that narrow. If it pans out, it’s going to be huge – but those are all the details I feel comfortable giving at this early stage. As progress comes, so will the updates.

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If you’ve ever had the misfortune of running into the dreaded I/O operation failed (rename) and tried to google it, you’re probably only going to find people confusing it with the (attribute modified) error, and giving the solution for that one.  Or at least, that was my experience, and why I’m writing this.

This wonderfully vague error message simply means that one of the files that the installer attempted to patch was unable to be renamed. Apparently the installer makes a copy of the file it’s patching, deletes the original, and then renames that copy to the original file name. If it can’t delete the original, or simply can’t rename it – it will throw that error.

So…if you ever run across this error, make sure none of the game files are in use. Although your Anti-Virus may be the culprit (especially if it’s doing a scan), it can also extend to other things, such as say – having one of the game files open in an editor

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