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And by “poppy-cock”, I clearly mean “bullshit”. While some reports indicate that the scarcity of the Nintendo Wii is pushing prices through the roof, I believe these to be incredibly isolated events, perhaps greater in areas inhabited by predominantly stupid folk.
While Wii scarcity issues are real, the demand is overly stated by the media. In [...]

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David Bowers at WoW Insider claims that “The amount of mining you do in the normal course of leveling just isn’t enough to keep up with your experience gain.” How Bowers came to this conclusion is beyond me, considering that I’ve done no ore farming on my Hunter, and expect to reach level 70 well [...]

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A few days ago, Xizang became another World of Warcraft (WoW) blogger to point out the proliferation of Wordpress-based blogs in the WoW blogosphere. This trend has has been the village gossip for a couple weeks, but to us older bloggers, the emigration from Blogger is pure common sense: serious bloggers are going to use [...]

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I hate bicyclists in San Francisco. I’m not sure if I hate them more than San Francisco bus drivers, but I hate them nonetheless. As it is, I’m glad Aelel blogged about it on her new site, as I’ve been too lazy to throw something together about the topic myself. I’ll assume my comment to [...]

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Over at WoW Insider, Tim Y. posted about the potential for a Necromancer class in World of Warcraft (WoW), which was once seen as a logical choice for a Warlock Hero Class. With Blizzard’s change of heart regarding Hero Class implementations, it’s unlikely that we’ll see Necromancers walking around Azeroth as player characters anytime [...]

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So Microsft decided to promote their love of World of Warcraft (WoW) by releasing AddOn Studio, based on their Visual Studio application. The tool in question makes developing WoW addons much easier, as developers now have a visual markup system to make such development much less tedious.
Of course, with the many new quality addons that [...]

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Draezele recently posted about changes that can be implemented for the Shaman class in World of Warcraft (WoW). The proposals made got me thinking, especially since this isn’t the first time Shaman issues have cropped up.
Firstly, I’m amazed that no one’s come up with a Shaman equivalent of Venantes, the Hunter mod with expandable buttons [...]

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When I woke up this morning, my pal Maxator clued me in on Merriam-Webster’s 2007 Word of the Year, w00t. Merriam-Webster, like most every media outlet these days, failed to do any real research of the word and gave a horribly simplistic definition:
1. w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no [...]

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I sat down this evening to enjoy one of my favorite Christmas specials, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” only to find that my reception was constantly interrupted by annoying digital squelching and chunking. I hate that. It only seemed to be happening on the one channel I wanted to watch, too! How [...]

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While surfing various articles today, I ran across a truly disturbing idea posted on Computerworld.com’s site. The article discusses “hybrid” computers. At first, I was thinking that they found a better, more energy efficient way to run computers. The annoying “going green” phenomenon is so hot right now. (Reference ridiculous “green” weak [...]

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Recently, my Powerbook G4 laptop died. I thought that I was going to be hosed. Last year the hard drive died in my laptop (only two years old at the time), and I was severely distressed. After a huge drama, I finally ended up with a new hard drive, but all of my [...]

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It was good news that Guitar Hero 3 (GH3) was shipping for both Windows and OS X, and this fact prompted me to pick up a copy of the OS X version as a Christmas gift to Bones Wiley, who’s stuck in Europe without an Internet connection. I thought that GH3 would keep him busy [...]

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