Aug 14

Perfection is the Perfect Roadblock for Procrastination

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I’ve made no qualms about it in the past.  I’ve fallen out of love with Drupal.  Oh, how I wanted to have a website with a flexible CMS that wasn’t WordPress.  Yet, I have seen the error of my ways.  And I find myself, day after day, wanting to take down my guild’s website and replace it with a WordPress powered one.  Oh, that day of content migrating shall be both painful and rewarding.

But there’s one thing standing in my way.  Every time I get ready to pull the switch, I think of the theme.  I haven’t found a good WP3.0 theme for the new website yet that I really like.  And every time I peruse the available themes, I think “I could do this better myself if I could just settle on an idea”.  Hence the problem.

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Aug 03

Avoiding Being the Source of Guild Drama

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Lots of articles are out there about in-game guild-related drama.  And not just for World of Warcraft.  The facts are that regardless of what MMO titles you play, you will eventually end up doing the following:

  1. You will join a group of other people to enhance your play of the game and form relationships with other people.
  2. At some point, said group will experience some form of grief, drama, or other type of physical, mental, or emotional stress that puts a burden on said relationships.

I’ve been through this numerous times, going back to the first MMO’s that I played.  And let me tell you, I’m getting sick and tired of it.  But the odd thing is, I don’t quit.  I just come back for more.

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Jun 24

The Official Addon Updaters Need to Get Their Acts Together

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Patch 3.3.5 for World of Warcraft was just released.  And like all World of Warcraft players, that means that quite a few of my addons are now in the “borked” state.  Yes, I could turn on the option to load out of date addons.  But unlike previous minor updates, this patch has seriously taken a hammer to some of my more utilitarian addons (I’m looking at you, data brokers and especially WIM).

Like most players, I tend to have a hefty amount of addons.  I don’t really want to have a bunch.  But since each addon is designed to do a tiny amount of work for a particular piece of the game (i.e. an addon for auctions, an addon for improving the crafting UI, etc.), the number tends to ratchet itself up rather quickly.  This is before the big packages like Carbonite and Auctioneer.  All of this leads me to use Addon Update managers.

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Jun 22

Thanks for all the Fish, Drupal

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I use Drupal to run my guild’s website, http://www.risingtopower.net.  There was a reason I chose Drupal, and for the time being, it’s serving its purpose.  I can create content on the website and even put in some custom plugins for things that weren’t in the box.  But now the CMS is beginning to show its rust. And rusting away, it surely is.*

(* No apologies for bad grammar.)
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