http://postcards.7au.net In the middle of getting set up, hence the chaos Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:34:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wrote this post originally in February of 2006 on my 1UP account as part of some WoW-related contest. I'm going around deleting accounts on services I no longer use, but I wanted to save this somewhere, because at least on the human priest side of things, it's a true ... http://postcards.7au.net/2007/12/31/old-post-switching/ My hands-down favorite WoW podcast, Taverncast, is back from a long hiatus with a new episode of their "After Hours" format. (It's the June 4th, 2007 episode if you go to their archives.) This time they talk about game addiction, and the results of an experiment Eloysius, one of the ... http://postcards.7au.net/2007/06/11/taverncast-looks-at-game-addiction/ Apparently today, as Steve Jobs was giving the WWDC keynote, an error message popped up saying something about World of Warcraft had crashed. I had a friend who was there who later told me about it. Hah! http://postcards.7au.net/2007/06/11/and-everyone-will-try-to-figure-out-what-server-hes-on/ This story isn't big news at all for anyone who's played MMOs for any span of time recently, but it's interesting to see it air on something as widely heard as NPR's Morning Edition. Playing online games for 12 hours is a fulltime job for thousands of Chinese workers. They're accumulating ... http://postcards.7au.net/2007/05/14/npr-covers-chinese-gold-farmers/ Hi! Getting rid of the Wordpress default first post here. I'm in the process of choosing a template, tweaking it, writing an About page, blah blah blah. I've imported all the posts from Pioneer of Aerodynamics and I'm tweaking the image sizes there. You'd think that the default theme for ... http://postcards.7au.net/2007/04/22/getting-set-up/ You know, I don't think I want to know. These aren't my lands, these aren't my customs. http://postcards.7au.net/2006/12/09/crazy-cat-lady/ The Mage School in Ironforge sent me to Stormwind to talk to one Jennea Cannon of the school there. When I arrived at the Tower's inner sanctum, Jennea let me know that there was some sort of disturbance going on at local tavern, The Blue Recluse... a disturbance of an ... http://postcards.7au.net/2006/12/09/extradimensional-entity-busting/ If you find yourself falling from a very high point, and you have advanced sufficiently in your training, here's what to do: Cast Slow Fall. Your descent will be made significantly more pleasant. Here's what not to do: Spend time looking around after accidentally stepping off a cliff. Say to yourself, "Oops." Realize that you're ... http://postcards.7au.net/2006/10/08/falling-a-how-to-primer-for-mages/ We took a hippogryph to Teldrassil and really, can I just say how much cooler these things are than gryphons? They're gorgeous. A much better ride. I'd like to petition the gryphon union of the Eastern Kingdoms to consider allowing other choices to your customers. I know we're filled with ... http://postcards.7au.net/2006/10/08/i-believe-the-children-are-our-future-part-3/ Last night some guildies and I decided to roll some Horde toons for a change of pace. We've done this sort of thing before, but several people wanted to do this on an RP server, which was more than fine by me. Six of us rolled new toons, created an ... http://postcards.7au.net/2006/10/04/meta-the-accidental-naming-of-guilds/