Category Archives: Me

You know, when exporting your blog merrily to an 18MB xml file, WordPress should warn you that you can only re-upload a maximum of 7MB. Just sayin’.

Anyway, upgrading to the latest version and starting fresh (well, as fresh as can be with 18MB of logorrheaic diary entries) to try to address some of the Dreamhost slowness which I am starting to suspect is, um, er, my fault.

Blogroll got lost in the move… eh, I needed to redo it anyway. Cute category icon hack needs to be redone or something. Everything else should have survived somewhat intact. Oh, and you frequent commenters may note a secret toy surprise.

Specifically on the Escapist news feed: Everything is for Sale: SOE hires IGE exec

Not that I ever post much on weekends anyway (gotta have SOME time away from the PC) but I usually avoid posting anything on 4/1. As always, take everything you read today with a hunk of salt.

Trivia: my wedding anniversary is on 4/2. And yes, we seriously considered having it a day early.

While most of my peers are at GDC (I think Damion found the best talk) I’m attending my stepdaughter’s wedding in Las Vegas. Which is an MMO all its own. In any rate expect few updates until next week.

So I haven’t been posting on here as much recently, and much of what I’ve put up has been fairly content free. I feel vaguely guilty about it, and idly wonder if I should start posting pictures of my cat just to make the cycle complete.

The truth is that I’ve been writing a lot, but it has been for work. We’re getting set to move into pre-production, and I’m laying down as much framework as I can, as quickly as I can, for the legions of implementors to follow so that this crazy thing I’m working on can actually happen. Related to that I’ve also been practicing my presentation chops. Next week we have two important presentations in a row; the first a showing of our client to NCsoft during a company meeting (a five-minute “Hey, Look What I Can Do!”), and the second, what’s called a “greenlight” meeting. In other words – we need money to hire more people, please approve our budget for the next year. As part of that I get to talk in front of people – not my strength, but I’ve been practicing a lot. In fact my voice gave out today 2/3rds of the way through the design presentation practice today. Clearly, I talk too much!

We’ve gotten lots of positive feedback to this point, so it’s looking pretty good. Hopefully at some point I can start posting help wanted ads!

Internal stats for January: 382,351 pageviews.
Google Ads stats for January: 53,320 pageviews.

Uh, yeah. Not gonna have effectively unblockable gold farmer ads for $3.41 a month. Hell, if I’m going to give up my integrity, at least give me enough to buy a taco dinner. So if you’re easily amused, buy my footer. This guy did and apparently got a couple of new guildies out of it.

BTW, while I’m at this page, the top referrers for January, in order (where I got the stats from):

slashdot.org
game.search-hp.com (I think it’s a Japanese gaming-specific search engine?)
hardocp.com
raphkoster.com
google.com
zenofdesign.com
bluegartrls.com (guild forum)
neogaf.com (general console-centric gaming forum)
cesspit.net
dailykos.com (ancient Katrina:the Gathering link)

(No snarky searchwords, kinda busy today. Go forth and amuse thyself!)

So we’re currently in Day 2 of the ICEPOCALYPSE. What in Northern Virginia would be a small story in the Metro section of the Post about sanders hitting the streets is, in central Texas, the sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse (after death, taxes, pestilence, Republicans and toll roads).

On the upside, I’m getting a lot of work done on our design wiki at work from VPN while watching cheesy old TV shows on TNT-HD. Thus proving that I’ll watch pretty much anything in hi-def, even while not actually, you know, watching it.

On the downside, I’m home on the day Burning Crusade launches. This for most people would be an upside, except that in my jaded wisdom I had the boxes pre-ordered and delivered. To work. Yeah, funny how that works out.

Oh well, getting lots of work done, while idly watching snow in my back yard. In the middle of Texas. Whee!

Edit: This is what TV looks like in Austin tonight. In OH-MY-GOD-WE-ARE-ALL-GOING-TO-DIE-STAY-OFF-THE-DAMN-ROADS 48 point type.