EQ2: Tier 3 Tailoring

Live Update #25 is bringing new tailoring recipes to EQ2 – casual clothes, just for looks. I am all about looking good. It’s why my defiler alchemist has a special robe for brewing potions, and why Dorah has a new robe every day. I just can’t wait to get my crew in stuff like that … Read more

EverQuest Inspiration

Aggro Me linked to a website for making your own inspirational posters. He shared some; here’s some of mine… from the perspective of a cleric in a raiding guild on EverQuest 1… Emeralds aren’t free, you know… It’s amazing how much you can get done in between presses of the Complete Heal key… Buh-bye!

Compulsive Upgrade System Syndrome (CUSS)

I was out in the warehouse this morning, installing new software on the UPS machine… and during this long, dull process, was looking at the computer itself, an old Gateway, the flat kind you put on your desk and sat a monitor on top… Whatever happened to computers you put on your desk? I've used … Read more

GigaBlast and Search Engine Mania

Whilst perusing the lists of bots indexing this blog, I noticed an unfamiliar name, GigaBlast. They search through blogs with a natural language interface, similar to what Jeeves claimed to do but never quite managed. My mission: Ask it something that would refer back to RP & RL! what is roleplaying and real life? Many … Read more

Demographics of the Blogosphere

I guess it was only a matter of time before some company found a way to glean polling information from blogs. CNN has a story about how automated programs search millions of blogs to determine how people feel about the issues of the day — in this case, rising gas prices. But the most surprising … Read more