Today was a big day for those of us who play World of Warcraft with the big 3.0 patch release.  Lots of new goodies to explore and exploit before the big King expanion coming in November.  I was looking forward to jumping in this afternoon for a quick lunch-time session, but found out that [...]

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One of my many hobbies - or is it just a quirk? - is that I like to identify locations in movies and televisions. Basically, while I am watching movies and or television, I try to identify the location that they are shooting in and then list in my head where has it been [...]

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Bananadoo - lvl 70 Gnome Warrior

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World of Warcraft Dispatch
On Saturday, July 12, 2008, at 12:47 pm PST, the Gnome Warrior Bananadoo-Ravencrest of the Knights with Honor guild attained the level of 70 while questing in the Blade’s Edge Mountain. While this moment has long been overdue, it is still a milestone for the gnome.
The level 70 barrier was attained [...]

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The Wrath of the Lich King Beta Opt-In program, which gives players a chance to win an invitation to the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King beta has opened.
From Blizzard:
For The Burning Crusade beta, we randomly invited players from the entire World of Warcraft community. With the Opt-In, our goal is to strengthen the beta-testing [...]

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In honor of my work this past week (user interface study), I decided that a geeky WoW song was needed and what better than a song from Jonathan Coulton. This is his famous Skullcrusher Mountain with a video from Spiff World

Notes from the Video Maker
A music video about an evil genius in love.
Jonathan Coulton [...]

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Just another day - Just another dragon slayed

more pics following

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My 11:00 am conference call was canceled at the last minute and since I was prepared for my next call at 11:30 am, I knew that if I got into another project, I would forget the next call. So instead of checking the refrig for snackables or just blog-reading, I decided to do something [...]

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Lots of information coming out from Blizzard on the upcoming Death Knight class that will be making its appearance with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, World of Warcraft. This class is the first “Hero Class” which have have been part of Warcraft lore since the real-time strategy game days.
Over at GameSpy, they [...]

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Complete take off of MTV cribs but done in WOW. Props to Lagspikefilm.com.
thrallscrib.wmv

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I try to keep up with China and their gamer trends.  Two tidbits today were found in the Wired Game Blog:

Will Sony begin releasing its PlayStation franchises on PC in a bid to move into the lucrative Chinese market
More than 1 million Chinese gamers logged onto World of Warcraft at one time

P.S. I [...]

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And I thought I did strange things…..

A German group of World of Warcraft fans were recently featured on WoW’s European site for their work on a stunning recreation of the Paladin’s Tier 2 armor, aka the Judgement set.
The fans, a group of professional craftsmen known as BattleHeat, “spent several hundred hours” crafting the steel and [...]

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It will be interesting to see the next chapter in WoW. Just saw this announcement on the new Hero Class that is coming out with Wrath in July 2008

New Hero Class Revealed: Bard
he deeds of every great hero inspire countless songs of triumph, virtue, and epic adventure. But although a hero’s glory endures in [...]

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Since I can not get into SL to do some work —- I thought about sneaking into W0W for some leveling (still a 60 Gnome Warrior), but alas the Metaverse gods have foiled me again. WoW down until 2pm (usually 11am PST on Tuesday).
I guess it is one of those days all over……. [...]

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