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I’ve noticed a lack of comments about a lot of things lately, but I just found this item from Wishful Thinking:

Why would you use a trackback instead of a comment? One big advantage is that readers of your blog can also see the post. And sometimes trackbacks are a good idea when you have a lot to say and don’t want to take up a lot of space on someone else’s comments section. If you want to see trackbacks in action, have a look at at this typical post from Seth Godin’s blog – Seth only allows trackbacks instead of comments because he says he prefers the greater accountability that comes from people airing their views on their own webspace.

I should think that limiting readers to trackbacks would lower the amount of feedback considerably. Of course, there are times and topics where that would be nice, but so much more effort is also involved in a trackback over a comment. What say you?

I am halfway through 37, but I had to stay at work until 7pm last night to finish up some stuff, so I didn’t get as much time with K, so I got less time with WoW just because it was almost time to go to bed after we finished dinner.

I have over 240G posted in auctions right now. I am hoping they start selling soon. Sure, I keep getting the 5, 10, 20G things that allow me to keep buying, but the big-ticket items are sitting there. Maybe the weekend will see some of them go, as people have more money or change up their patterns.

I am having a serious problem with this template and am asking for help from anyone who knows CSS, or maybe it’s a ‘div’ problem. Notice how on the main page, the margins around the articles gets smaller and smaller until it disappears? That was fine yesterday morning, I think. It’s really bugging me, and I need to fix it before I can move on to re-implementing the Latest Post feature.

Everyone make sure you mark your calendars for Saturday at 3:30 EST for the OSU, Michigan game. No Playing WoW!!

I started a blog in the spirit of Dilbert earlier this year. I decided to stop it a long time ago because I didn’t want to risk getting fired for talking about work. But really, I’m not naming names, or giving locations, so this is going to be for good fun. Here is my article from today, I hope you enjoy the style of the last few posts, as they are what I am shooting for. As always, feedback here and there are most welcome.

I Want Overtime! Wait! Nooooo!

We all have some things at work that drive us crazy. I, however, work with over 500 people in the building, with over 50% of them being engineers. About 50% of those engineers are involved in providing my department with documents to support, explain, and test our product. Engineers have been known to barely squeak by in English in high school, and I have no idea how much some of them paid their professors in college for their grades.

I try to keep the blog postings in the area of logical failings and observations of idiotic behavior or thinking.

Thanksgiving is only one week away, and no one has donated any money to buy Boxes of Hope. Please consider helping them out. A.M. Tampabay interviewed the pastor in charge of the ministries at Metropolitan Ministries this morning. He said that during Thanksgiving and Christmas, they help out 1,400 families.

For many of the years I have lived in Tampa, I have helped Metropolitan Ministries around Thanksgiving and Christmas with either the soup kitchen for serving a meal or in the drop-off tent sorting donations. This year, due to health reasons, I’m unable to give of myself as I usually do. After seeing what Darren Rowse did in Australia with his blog, Problogger.net, by raising enough money to donate 110 pairs of chickens to the poor, I decided that I could do far more good for the community by pooling all the resources of my readers to help out the families this year.

Following the same spirit as Darren, I will be donating Boxes of Hope to the needy. My goal is 100 boxes for 100 families in the Greater Tampa Bay area. A box costs $35, but donations of any amount will collect and add up to purchase boxes.

Please give whatever you can, even $1.00, no amount is too small when we add them up together.

Each box contains the following:

• 1 gift certificate for a turkey
• 1 loaf of bread (fresh)
• 1 box of cereal (hot or cold)
• 1 package of cookies or pastries
• 1 can of cranberry sauce
• 1 box of dessert mix
• 1 bag or box of dry beans
• 1 can of fruit
• 1 can or packet of gravy
• 1 family box of Jell-O or pudding
• 4 cans of vegetables
• 1 can or box of potatoes
• 1 bag or box of rice
• 1 bag or box of stuffing mix
• 2 cans of black beans
• 2 cans of yams

There are 3 ways to join the effort:

1. Make a donation at GivethePerfectGift.com
2. Mail your donation to:

Metropolitan Ministries
2002 North Florida Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33602-2204

3. I will be tracking all donations to my PayPal account and making a bulk donation on November 20th, 2006 with whatever funds have been sent in. Make a donation using this button.

Just some proof that no one has sent any funds in to my PayPal account. Don’t worry, I won’t post names or information of donations that come in after this.

I have noticed a butt-load of hits from Google searches looking for how to get to Swamp of Sorrows. It’s simple, really, if you are PvE or you do it during off-peak hours on a PvP server. You’ll need to get to Grom’gol Base Camp in Stranglethorn Vale. The easiest way for that is to take the zeppelin.

Head out in a northeasterly direction to the road and run all the way through STV to Duskwood. At the ‘T’ in the road, turn right to go East. Right before you are going to get to Darkshire, veer off at a 45-degree angle into the field and cut the corner to the eastern road heading out of town. Take that road through to the Swamp. If you follow the road until a fork, take the right path to get to a flight point in Stonard.

Congratulations.