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For those not following the massive stream of leaks, hints, suppositions, and lies flooding the internet about the World of Warcraft expansion, I’ll try to point you in the right direction. Ultimately, everyone seems to agree that there’s going to be two new races, one for the Alliance and one for the Horde. And there are some screenshots that seem to prove that it’ll be Blood Elves for the Horde side.

There’s a really good summation of all the rumors and thoughts on what will be in the expansion at The Cesspit, found here. If you just want to see the screenshots, go to this forum post (provided Blizzard And VUG don’t manage to shut this down, they must have hundreds of people working round the clock to shut down every site that posts anything even vaguely accurate).

Ok, really, we can all wait one more week to find out what’s going on. Right? Oh yeah, and I’m not a WoW addict. Haha.

Thank you Guido, for this lovely new cute thing to look at. You can adopt a virtual pet at bunnylabs. And it just looks cute. There are a bunch of different animals to choose from. I had trouble deciding, so I picked a whole bunch of ‘em. You can mouse around and interact with them. Super cute!

The silence is broken! The project I’ve been working on has been announced, you can find the official press release here. Of course I can’t really say anything that isn’t in the press release. I’ll just add that it’s a big expansion pack, we’ve been working really hard on it, and I’m certainly proud of it. It’s got a lot of features and it definitely adds a lot of gameplay. And that’s all I say for now.

They’re doing some really fun stuff in WoW for Halloween. There are decorations up all over the place, and you can trick-or-treat at locations to get goodies. Check out the write-up on AFK Gamer for a good description of what all is going on.

As I was travelling and gaming, I started taking screenshots for some reason. Like, “Ooh, this is neat, maybe people will want to see my character looking at virtual pumpkins!” Well. Probably not, but here we go anyway!

That’s Raelle, my newest character. Ok, my normal server was down and what was I to do? So I started a new character, a human priest on Dark Iron, the server were all the gaming web comics are battling for supremacy. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, basically the strips Penny Arcade, PvP and Ctrl-Alt-Delete all have guilds on that server and the fans are teaming up and fighting in massive all out attacks).
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I have a new love in my life. It’s my beautiful Dell 2405 LCD monitor. I’d seen the monitor before. There are a few lucky people in my office who have one. I am not one of them. Yet. So I’d seen it. But that’s not the same as using it. Not the same as gaming with it. Not the same as playing World of Warcraft with it at its native resolution of 1920×1200.

So I’ll tell you the story of our first meeting, my monitor and I. It was a mere few hours ago, though now I wonder how I survived before. Right from the moment I pulled the monitor out of the box, I knew this was something special. First, it comes in two pieces, a stand and the monitor itself. As I was delicately maneuvering to click the display portion onto the stand, I worried I might mess up, I might drop it, I might have trouble getting the clips in the right place. But before I even had a chance to really work up a good amount of concern, the two pieces practically clicked themselves together. That was easy.

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