Nationstates Update

My economy was crumbling, people were unhappy: I had to make deals with big business. My utopian vision of a Dryroot where free peoples sustain themselves in small, nomadic communities became a relic that had to be abandoned. The environment is still wonky, led, I suspect, by pollution from nearby industrial nations, but I will … Read more

Ventrilo Wine

Prosthetic Feet will require Ventrilo for major raids from now on. So, my challenge is to get this working with Linux. I used to use Cedega, but that stopped working for me. It was one of the many oddities I faced with Ubuntu. It worked, then it stopped working. Nothing I did could make it … Read more

Gentoo Linux

Any of you who are also in Crimson Eternity may have seen my looooong series of postings about getting Linux running on my second computer. MAN, it’s hard. There was an article today, either in Digg or Slashdot, but I can’t find it in either now, about how Linux is not meant to replace Windows… … Read more

Dryroot Update

This morning, I was kinda alarmed when I pulled up the dossier for Dryroot and found it had gone from being a nation with lush forests, to a barren, inhospitable wasteland. HUH? What did I do? Luckily, in today’s afternoon update, some regrowth had kicked in, and though still bereft of forests, Dryroot is no … Read more

WoW update

Kanda turned 60 a few weeks ago, but I didn’t post about it until now. There’s the Truefaith Vestments that took ages to make. Those shoulders are Devout Mantle, part of the tier 1 priest set. I have the gloves, bracers and boots for that set, but another guildie has the robe, and those shoulders … Read more