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WordPress 2.1 – Ella

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I logged in this morning to a new suprise: Ella. It looks like Matt and crew have been busy, with 2 updates in about a week. I seems like yesterday that I installed 2.0.7. Here’s the install notes from WordPress.org.

EDIT #1: I have noticed that my blogroll is gone. They changed the command to pull links, which isn’t the problem. The problem is that they also tossed the table control we had over the list so that I have no choice but to display the category name and recreate all my heading styles because I don’t want gray, underlined category headings. Until they release a fix, my blogroll is down, because I spent days getting it the way I wanted it the first time.

EDIT #2: I bit the bullet and spent 15 minutes with my stylesheet to get the color and overlapping fixed. The blogroll is back up. I’ll figure out a way to get them in the order I want, but I refuse to use numbers…for now.

January 22, 2007

WordPress 2.1 Ella

By Matt. Filed under Releases.

On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, Iโ€™m very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 โ€œEllaโ€, named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Hereโ€™s a sampling of whatโ€™s in the new version:ย ย ย ย  [Read more…] about WordPress 2.1 – Ella

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Does This Sound Like Anyone You Know?

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My co-worker went on several rants today about another of our co-workers who is becoming more and more inept as time passes. At our morning status meeting it became clear that everyone else in the department was working in one way or another to clean up this other person’s past screw-ups.

Here is my cube-mate’s wonderful Post-It about her:

Dumber than a:
Box of Hammers…
A Bag of Rocks…
A Pile of Dirt…
An Amoeba…
The List Is Endless.

To bring this into some aspect of WoW, do you have any good stories of dumb questions of people who shouldn’t be 60s? There are thousands of people running around Outlands asking where to turn in quests and what do they need to kill and “where is the auction hall?” What are your stories?

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PvP Servers and TBC Competition

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Since Gitr is on a PvE server, I have had no problem with Faction quarrels while in Outlands. I don’t have my flag up, so I’m free to roam and quest without fear of a gang-up or ganking. Deadr, however is not going to be so lucky. Couple that with his getting to Outlands late, as everyone will be 62-65+ when Deadr hits 58, I have a feeling I will be in for a rocky start.

What have been your PvP experiences in Outlands? Has the LFG system been working for you to group up when your guildies are busy so you have a buddy to keep you protected? Inquiring minds want to know.

A Third of the Way Through 55

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I ran all around kingdom come last night and turned in some quests and picked up some quests along the way. I went to Undercity to fly to Hammerfall to hit 300 First Aid, as Rhone handed me 2 more stacks of Runecloth to help. I hit 300 and flew to Tarren Mill to ride to Light’s Hope Chapel. That was a totally eventless ride.

Then I hearthed to Orgrimmar to fly to Winterspring and ride through Timbermaw Hold to get to Moonglade. I had 2 turn-ins there, and then it was off to Un’Goro to get to Silithus. I arrived in Silithus and picked up 2 kill quests and logged off for the night. After someone in guild chat spoiled the ending of the Patriots Colts game that I was taping on the DVR to watch the second half this morning. Monkey.

I got on this morning and ran out of the inn at Cenarian Hold and ran off to kill some Dredge Strikers and other varmin that I remember have incredibly poor drop rates. After 30 minutes, I had my 15 Strikers and 2 drops that I needed. I turned in the Striker quest and picked up the Dredge Crusher quest. I ran back out and killed 2 Crushers before I decided that it is better to make money to pay the bills than play a game, and left early for work. I am right on the cusp of 30% and have 100k rest XP. After work today and during the night tonight, that should be enough rest to get me through this level with double XP all the way.

I’m feeling pretty stinking powerful right now, and I think that is a major part in wanting to level Deadr to take him to Outlands over playing Gitr. Gitr doesn’t feel powerful. Sure he’s got the armor and HP to take a beating, but I can do things with Deadr that Gitr drools over, and I’ve only got 10 1/2 days of playtime and 55 levels so far. Deadr has 4500 MP, unbuffed, and can take down level 60s with 40-60% mana left. It’s a real trip to lay waste to an area like that. I finally found a Devout Beltย on the AH last night, so I bought it for 9g and got the Armor bonus.

Ding 55, 6 Hour Estimate for Leveling

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I dinged with full rest and plenty left for 55. I picked up two Dire Maul quests. I just need to catch my guildies when they aren’t busy leveling themselves. ๐Ÿ™‚

Off to bed. More on this tomorrow. It was a looooong day.

EDIT:

Basically, I completed Dousing the Flames in Felwood solo, which was a lot of fun, and I found out what was making my computer hang…now it just gets really herky-jerky. Something happens when I’m in enclosed or tight quarters, where the hard drive goes nuts. It’s driving me closer to doing an upgrade, but I have to get purely excess overtime to get that.

I also went to Winterspring to kill all of the Berserk Owlbeasts (level 58-59) solo. It took about 20 minutes. I turned in the quest and went back to grind them for the ding. I spent my talent point on reducing the mana cost of Mind Blast and Mind Flay. That’s probably something I should have done sooner, since that’s about all I do right now. ๐Ÿ™‚

That is pretty much the rest of the story. I was going along at 32k/hr XP when I dinged and logged.