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Tipa Anyone who knows me knows my favorite rock band… Blue Oyster Cult. My kids love them, too, because growing up, what choice did they have? My daughter claimed “Hot Rails to Hell” was her favorite song when she was little; my son still sings along to “Godzilla” (and guess what song ALWAYS has to appear … Read more
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
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
Freeport loves that whole “I am the MASTER, you must OBEY!” vibe, and to show me what that meant, they had me train a war dog captured from a Qeynos soldier. His name was Buddy; he was the cutest thing. I had to feed him and pet him maybe a hundred times before he would … Read more
MMORPG.com has an interview with an EQ producer about the new progression server. There's more talk about what players might expect when they join, and they announce a second progression server, The Sleeper, to launch alongside The Combine. I've been sitting on the fence about restarting on the progression servers. I already restarted on a … Read more