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Happy New Year and a New Design

GoW — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:25:09 +0000

The new year is a good time for change, and I figured that a new coat of paint on the site would be nice (thanks to Regis Themes for the sweet new look). Not coincidentally, I got tired of updating the previous theme to work with ever more futuristic versions of WordPress.

Some stuff got moved around, but let me know if anything seems out of place.

Also, a new year is as good an excuse as any to offer gratitude, so:

Thanks very much to all the readers and fellow bloggers for following and commenting on my eclectic thoughts.

Each of you have a dynamic and attractive energy about you, don’t think that I didn’t notice.

(Not that I would stop writing if I had no readers, but I already get enough of that action with my fiction. *rimshot*)

Also: Happy New Year!

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Wrath Quickies

GoW — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:38:07 +0000

I very much enjoy writing longer “feature” type content, as my loyal and wonderful subscribers can tell from the reduced and (hopefully) better GoW output of late. At heart, I’m a newspaper and magazine lover.

However, I’m playing a lot of WoW and I really want to do is talk about the cool and strange things I’m seeing, even if they’re just small articles. So I’m going to do so! I’ll preface these shorter thoughts with WQ.

Feature articles will be returning shortly.

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This Blog is Powered By…

GoW — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:24:19 +0000

A number of people who visit here are bloggers themselves, so I thought I’d just describe what technology makes this blog work on a new static page. I’ll keep it updated as times change.

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Commenting is now wide open

GoW — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:19:27 +0000

Matt from World of Matticus convinced me to open comments to anyone, not just registered users. If you’ve registered already, thanks much–you’re in the GoW club.

His blog has been running longer than mine, so I can’t refute his advice, because I have no idea what I’m doing. He also runs WordPress on Dreamhost, so if he can make wide open commenting work, then I guess I can too.

If your blog has been running longer than his and you disagree, please let me know. At least you won’t have to register to do so.

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When to post?

GoW — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:18:04 +0000

I write slowly. Even when I was writing fiction full time, I would start a story and then work on something else, until months later I finally had one piece good enough to show.

This doesn’t really translate well to blog writing, but hey, subscribing to a blog is free. I personally would rather only read worthwhile stuff, so when I don’t have anything to say, then I don’t say anything. I’m trying to stay as close to 100% signal as possible.

I’m working on a multi-part guide to WoW class design that’s coming along nicely. I’m pretty excited to finish it, but there’s also my job and my beautiful new daughter and actually playing WoW and the Celtics are in the playoffs. The end result is that the time between posts is even longer. This series will begin later this week.

To tide you over, here’s some news from a better world.

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Happy Mother’s Day

GoW — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:49:29 +0000

Being a brand new dad has attuned me to Mother’s Day. I used to obey when my father told me to get my mother a gift, but that’s because there was the threat of physical violence if I didn’t. That turned into a habit, but I never really got it. Ah, parenting.

If you already understand Mother’s Day before becoming a parent yourself, then I raise a toast to you. If you don’t understand it or simply go through the motions like I did, all I can say is that you’ll get it as soon as you have kids. I’ve already called my mother to apologize for not understanding it sooner. She laughed at me.

So Happy Mother’s Day everyone, especially to gamer moms and writer moms.

(Yes, this is a day late. I thought it defeated the purpose if I took part of her Mother’s Day to write a post on my blog about Mother’s Day. So my new-mom wife got the whole day. Part of that day was giving her a crafted [Belt of Deep Shadow]. You might chuckle, but she loved it, and it was a large upgrade over her Netherstorm blue questing belt. And yes, there was a real-life gift as well.)

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Feedburner is live

GoW — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:47 +0000

A friend told me that Feedburner is a better way to go for managing feeds. Now there’s a new subscribe button in the Meta section, I recommend that you use it. I also turned on email notification for you the rss averse.

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