WoW on my PC is dead. Long live WoW on the Mac!

I solemnly promise unto you, dear Reader, that this will be the last post I make about my WoW graphics problem. I know you all are probably very tired of hearing about it, but I wanted to give the story an ending so we can all get closure and move on from the trauma.
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Speedpost: WoW Graphics Still Bad

Last few rolling restarts on WoW have not fixed my PC’s graphics problems. I think I will try the graphics card fan trick next.
In the meantime, I’ve been leveling a Draenei Shaman on a PvP server. I got to level 20 yesterday with her. Ghost Wolf FTW! Also, I received [...]

Three Interesting Life Add-ons

Read It Later
You know how you can star an article in your RSS feed reader so you can remember to come back and read it later? Ever wish you could do that with a web page you found? Oh sure, you could Bookmark it into a special folder and come back and read [...]

New “My Toons” Page Added

By popular demand, I give you My Toons.  Also conveniently located in a tab at the top of the site.  Feel free to write a prescription for alt-itis.

Lowbie Shammy Healing

Back to the responses to my Call for Topics post. A nice reader named one5ive7even asks:
I’ve started a Shammy alt and I’m currently at level 16. I’ve played a shaman in Beta upto 40 but that was a loooong time ago.
I’m interested in being a healer, but I’m concered at the limited tools [...]

What’s the Real Life Gender Breakdown on WoW?

In December 2006, I got to interview for a job at Blizzard. I was so excited that I nearly peed my pants for every day before the interview. (That takes a lot of Mountain Dew, I tell ya.) I was applying for a job that I thought would be a slam-dunk for [...]

WoW Insider features Blog Azeroth

Woooooot! How exciting! Our new little WoW blogger forum called Blog Azeroth is being featured on WoW Insider today. Go Phaelia and Valenna!

More WoW Troubleshooting

Thanks to Link pointing me toward WoWWiki’s macro guide, I may have uncovered another problem I’m having with WoW. Of course, maybe it’s THE problem, I don’t know. Either way, I’ve discovered I’m missing some folders and files that WoWWiki thinks that I ought to have. (I’m so grateful to Link; he [...]

What’s the plural of “shaman”?

Okay all you shammy players out there… Your Deep Question For Today (not that it gets much deeper than the last post):
What is the plural of the word shaman? Is it shamans, shamen, or shamen (like sheep or deer)?
How do you prefer to pluralize it?

Impermanent Death

Nibuca at Mystic Chicanery mused on an interesting topic last week: impermanent death. I’ll wait for you to go read her premise and then come back to me…
…and we’re waiting, and we’re waiting…
Okay! Glad to have you back.
In WoW (and most games for that matter), death is not a permanent situation. At [...]