Happy International Blog Day!
If you’d like to participate, it’s quite simple really:
- Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
- Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending on them on BlogDay 2005
- Write a short description of the Blogs and place a a link to the recommended Blogs
- Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
- Add the BlogDay tag using this link: http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2006 and a link to BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org
(The BlogDay blog seems to be very slow at the moment, probably because everyone’s trying to look at it, so I thought I’d repost the instructions here)
My five, in no particular order:
1. Tropic Temper
This is Glenda Larke’s blog. Glenda is a writer (mainly in the fantasy genre) living in Malaysia. I’ve read and enjoyed Glenda’s Isles of Glory trilogy and am now enjoying reading her blog as well (and looking forward to reading more of her work)!
2. The Zenformation Professional
I find this blogger’s perspective refreshingly different. Yes, he’s a librarian.
3. The Breakfast Blog
Because I do most of my blogging in the early hours of the morning, and this blog is a perfect accompaniment to my usually meagre-in-comparison breakfasts.
4. Rebecca’s Pocket
An oldie (this blog has been around a long time) but a goodie. I don’t know how Rebecca always finds such good stuff to share.
5. Two Peas, No Pod
The blog of a vegan (among other things) couple in Canberra. They always make me think.
Found it very difficult to just choose five - there’s so much great blogging going on out there. This is my second blog day and I’m pleased to report that I still read last year’s selections!
Technorati tag: BlogDay2006
Listening to: Justified and Ancient, KLF with Tammy Wynette. (I love this song - thanks, Mickey!)
Mood: Half flustered, half determined to relax. (I think they cancel each other out somewhat. What is the mood equivalent of white noise??)
Reason: This blog was down and I had no idea when it was going to be available again. Too much time spent fiddling with it and now I have to get ready for work. (Note to self: CW, you have NO CONTROL over Google/Blogger servers. None.) While this blog was down I decided to also fiddle with a table for another post (on lint) and discovered that I had forgotten the HTML for tables. Unfortunately now I have an unpleasant mantra playing in my head. Table row table data table data table row…
Argh.
Published on 28 August 2006
in gaming and WoW.
Lately I have been fighting the urge… to start playing WoW again.
M’s gone back to it, and I’ve been idly watching his adventures with his character from time to time. (What does it say about me that I enjoy watching WoW more than watching tv?)
Reasons I am resisting:
- The main reason I’m trying not to succumb is the fact that WoW is such a time sink. It’s not like playing a game of Solitaire on your PC - it’s a major time and energy investment, and goodness knows I have enough demands on my time and energy at the moment.
- The other main reason is the fact that M and all our friends and family who are currently playing, are playing on a PVP server (Jubei’Thos). PVP = Player Versus Player. The WoW world is divided into two opposing sides, Alliance and Horde. On a PVP server this means that players on opposing sides can attack each other whenever their paths cross. I get annoyed by ganking (e.g. when my significantly weaker level 20-something character gets repeatedly ambushed by a level 60 character who has nothing better to do). I’ve written about this before, and I’m trying to remind myself that this sort of behaviour always irks me. Of course, the other option is to go and join Morgan on the non-PVP server he plays on
But then we get back to reason #1. And I’ll wish I could join everyone in Perth… sigh…
- M is a good player. He’s playing a priest - this class is the main healer class in WoW, and he’s always getting complimented on how well he plays his role. He also knows a lot of tricks to combat and getting away. And he loves exploring and does it well (me, I blunder along and am generally an accident waiting to happen). All in all he’s always interesting to watch, and makes the game look deceptively easy.
I think I should stick to world domination and play the odd hour of Civ 4 whenever I feel the urge for some serious gaming. I owe quite a few people emails - I’m sorry it’s taking me so long to get back to you!
