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Blog direction

Koriel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:47:17 +0000

One thing I’ve always kind of lacked with this site is a clear focus as to what I’m posting about. I love guild management, as well as WoW sociology/player psychology discussion. With the recent changes I’ve made in my own guild, I’ve decided to take my experiences and share them here. I’m going to try to keep this blog focused on 10 man raiding and guild management in that atmosphere. I’m going to try to cover a wide range of topics and keep things fresh. I’ve got a few posts already in mind, so look out, you might get one later today if I get motivated before the realms come back up.

Under pressure.

Koriel — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:02:07 +0000

Any time I write “expect a post” or “I’ll write more about this later” I seem to always slack off.

I think I perform my best when there are absolutely no expectations of me. Sad huh?

*complete subject change*

One of the things I love to do is browse the search terms people use to get to this site. I use a WordPress plugin called Statpress, which is truly amazing. I love the completely random ones that end up here. I also take the search terms coming in and try to pick the good ones and use them as inspiration for new posts.

Well, enough of my rambling, I’m going get back to installing Ubuntu on this new computer I have. I’ll try to make a post later…. >.>

Server transfer!

Koriel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:47:04 +0000

I’ve migrated to a new server. Sorry if anyone experienced outages over the last day or so. You should see great increases to the site’s speed and perfomance. :D

Gravatar support!

Koriel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:08:26 +0000

I added gravatar support to the comments section as well as opened up unregistered comments. If the email you supply when you post your comment is associated with a Gravatar profile, it will be displayed.

A run down the blogroll!

Koriel — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:04:30 +0000

While the list is still short, I’m going to give a run down of my favorite blogs. As you can see I’ve currently got 4 blogs listed in my sidebar World of Matticus, Blessing of Kings, Eye for an Eye, and Lore LOL.

First, World of Matticus. This is the new guy on the list. I stumbled onto his blog from a link on Maintankadin regarding the difficulty of 10 man raiding. I checked out the post, and stumbled into a few more articles. The first post that caught my eye was his Build Your Own Guild series. His subject matter covers everything from a serious raiding perspective.

Next in line is the first wow blog I started reading, Blessing of Kings, authored by Rohan. He’s a fairly well rounded paladin, and while I don’t always agree with his views 100% he’s generally got a pretty good grasp on the class a whole and keeps a pretty active blog.

Eye for an Eye was a blog I started reading several months ago. Josh raids as ret, but has a history as prot, and he’s got some good views (particularly from the DPS POV). He’s very well educated on PvE ret and has a few good posts on PvP. He’s a good learning experience for anybody trying to catch up on the “smash with a big hammer” side of paladin’ing.

Last is Lore. Good ‘Ol Lazy Lore. He hardly ever posts, and half the time, they aren’t even real post, just him blabbing on about randomness. However, he’s a big shot at tankspot, and does a lot of theorycrafting and articles over there, additionally he is also one of the head moderators at Maintankadin. So he’s got his hands full, but he’s a really funny guy that has maintanked almost (if not all) 100% of the content in the game.

Well, there is my overview. Hopefully one day, I’ll add some more!

Let there be theme!

Koriel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:48:29 +0000

You may notice that it looks sort of similar to the old theme, same color scheme, layout, and all that. But hey, the reason I picked it in the first place was because it was close to what I wanted. If anybody has any suggestions or comments, please let me know, either email me admin |at| whatisboom.com (avoiding spider spam bots), or leave a comment.

Additionally, this theme is optimized for Firefox, but should work fine in Safari and IE. Let me know of any major issues.

One more thing, I’ll soon be adding a header image, so wait for it!

Internet Explorer, how i loathe thee.

Koriel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:29:04 +0000

I would just like it noted that any browser (all of them really) that doesn’t support CSS in its purest, most true form can die in a car fire.

On a related note, I’m working on a custom theme for the site, not entirely sure what color scheme or what i’m going for yet, but it’ll get there. If you get lucky, you may just see it active on the site while i’m working on it, please be gentle. Hopefully one day I’ll leave it up.