Martek the Exciled
I will be hunting for a good way to get into the Badlands in the morning. I figure Saturday morning at 4:30am server time is a great time to venture into typically Alliance territory to get into the Badlands. Darn quests that get you killed 3 times because of gankers. ๐
Trackbacks vs Comments
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?
Halfway There
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!!
My Side Site Is Building Up
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.
The Best Addiction Post EVER
I ran across a link to Soul Kerfuffle’s post on DM Osbon from a friend of Soul’s who was at the top of the world, in the World of Warcraft, but at the bottom of life. His friend was quitting WoW and was asked to write about his Warcraft experience. His post titled [tag]The View From the Top[/tag] is the most illustrative, in-depth personal account of what can and will happen to someone who truly gets sucked into the game and alternative reality that is World of Warcraft.
Read it and make darn sure this ISN’T you.
The top of what you ask? The height of World of Warcraft greatness.
A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine quit playing Warcraft. He was a council member on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world, the type of position coveted by many of the 7 million people who play the game today, but which only a few ever get.
————————————————————————————–Every week I read though email or I would run into one of my “real” friends and I’d hear “Andy, what’s up, I haven’t seen you in a while.” I looked in the mirror and in a cinemaesque turn of events and a biblical moment of clarity, told myself “I haven’t seen me in a while either.”
Again, read it and make darn sure this ISN’T you.
[tags]WoW addiction, MMORPG addiction, hitting bottom[/tags]