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RL stealing me away

It’s been too quiet around here, I know. I miss blogging, but my recent circumstances have been a huge drain on my time and unfortunately, it won’t be getting better anytime soon (in fact, I am writing this at lunch because that’s often the only time I get to write). My dad died at the

RestoDruid.info guide updated for 4.1

Hi everyone, I’ve just finished updating my resto druid guide over at RestoDruid.info. Changes: Cheat Sheet page has been updated with links to new recommended specs for 4.1. Resto History now includes 4.1 patch notes Races page updated to make it clear that Worgen and Troll are the best choices for PvE resto Levelling spec

Where I’m heading

Comments are off because this was not written to fish for encouragement or praise or “don’t go”s. —————————— I’m teetering. Teetering on the edge of going casual. Or quitting. Or taking a break that works for a while but then I come back later but it’s not the same so I quit again. I really

Why do you blog? Why do you subscribe to blogs?

A comment against my previous post got me thinking about why we blog, and what we like in a blog (and perhaps what turns us off). This blog is not a business; it generates zero revenue, and therefore I have no financial motivation to worry about optimising it to catch as much traffic and business

Maexxna wears pink knickers, duh

I don’t often do this.. I don’t often pull someone else’s post from the blogosphere and say “what a load of utter tripe.” But here it is. And it’s on your favourite subject and mine: girls in WoW. Gevlon wrote an article about how feminists often post about female characters in WoW (or a lack

RestoDruid.info – updates & fixes 24/1

Thank you everyone for your kind comments so far! I have a few fixes and changes: Site header banner – being a bit of a nubcake, I threw the header banner into the conveniently placed “topad” div, which I was later told is a bad thing because many browsers and users block this common ad

Update (me, PTR notes)

I quit as GM/officer of my guild. I am now simply a member. Perhaps sometime in the future I will work back up to Raider, but we will have to see what happens.

PTR notes are up for the next patch, and there are some interesting druid changes. Here are the PVE resto-centric ones [...]

Going under in more ways than one

Hi everyone, I hope you had a great holiday. Please keep Central Queensland in your thoughts as we endure major flooding – in some places, the worst in 50 years. Theodore is under, Chinchilla is under, Dalby is under, Bundaberg is under, Emerald (my old home) is under. Rockhampton is bracing for river levels of