Technical Fault: Comments
Just a quick apology to anyone who has left a comment here recently. There's a technical problem at my blog host's end that means that names on comments are not correctly showing as links through to the commenter's blogs.
Just a quick apology to anyone who has left a comment here recently. There's a technical problem at my blog host's end that means that names on comments are not correctly showing as links through to the commenter's blogs.
Just a reminder that I'm generally a "spoiler-free" player. I don't go on the test realms, and I try to avoid anything but the most basic information about patches until they go live on the servers.
So, this blog will most certainly NOT be your source for all things 3.1-related. :)
So, 2008 is done. It was the first full year of this blogs's life (I started in late 2007), and it's been a pretty good year, despite some very patchy posting in the summer, due to my Mum's death and some guild drama that followed it, and the end of the year, due to general exhaustion.
Interesting, this blog now has 50% more RSS subscribers than One Man & His Blog, my 5 year old main blog, but consistently gets lower page views. That suggest, I think, that the WoW audience is generally more web-savvy than the audience for material about the interaction of blogging and journalism. I'd like to see more people clicking through from feed readers and joining in the debates in comments on all WoW blogs, not just this one, but I've no idea how we can make that happen.
Anyway, onto the most popular 10 posts of 2008, ranked by page views:
One year ago, yesterday, Leafshine: Lust for Flower was unleashed on an unsuspecting WoW-blog reading public. Readers flocked here in their 10s, buoyed by the useful information found on sites like Pesto4Life, Big Bellicose Buffoon Blogger and the like, expecting more well-written, useful content. (Although some people came here from Feed More Page, mainly because I made licentious suggestions about Ratters and beards. But that's another story entirely.) And they have been recoiling in horror at the half-arsed mish-mash of irrelevance and all out nonsense that's been pouring out of the small, insipid organ that's called my brain ever since.
And yet, mysteriously, I now have hundreds of RSS subscribers and tens of thoudands of page views. There can only be one conclusion: there's a significant subset of WoW players who have no taste at all. And I love every single one of your for your total lack of taste. :-)
The blog was (quite literally) two years in the making, with the name and idea sorted out pre-Burning Crusade. Two short-lived false starts later, I finally buckled down and got on with it last September
And here and now, I make a commitment to you: I shall continue to waste your precious time with more flippancy, irrelevance, stupid photos and sudden, unexpected long, rambling essays for at least another year. I am so very good to you, aren't I?
Thank you for your attention. You may now return to your regulalrly scheduled Wrath launch date announcement frothing.
Ladies, Gentleman and Hunters.
Thank you for coming. I have an announcement to make. From now, until the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, this blog will be a Wrath-free zone.
I'm not a big fan of spoilers. I like to be surprised by new areas as I enter them. I like quests to be a genuine surprise. If possible, I do instances spoiler-free, so as to capture the excitement of the unknown. As far as possible, I want to come to Northrend with fresh eyes, the second the EU realms come up on launch day. And so, I won't be joining the Beta, I won't be reading spoilered blog posts and I most certainly won't be posting any beta-specific information here. For the time being, this is a Burning Crusade blog and proud!
Let's face it. You're not short of spoilerific blogs to choose from if you want a good regular dose of expansion spoilers to keep coming your way. Here, I'll be concentrating on making the most of the game in the months before the expansion launch, and we all dive into another 10 level grind...
For those of you coming in via RSS, you might like to know that Lust for Flower has a new look!
I've been using Typepad's in-built themes for a while, but I really craved a nifty custom look of my own. And now I have it! What do you guys think?
Quiet around here, isn't it?
Nothing but the distant rustling of the trees and a few abandoned anti-Lifebloom nerf banners to entertain you. The problem is that I'm away on family business and without Internet access most if the time. In fact, I'm busy tapping out this entry on my iPhone using the handy-dandy Typepad iPhone interface, and will post it using the standard mobile phone network.
I do have a couple of posts ready to go on my MacBook, but a notable absence of WiFi means they won't get posted until tomorrow lunchtime at the earliest. So, um, talk amongst yourselves for a little bit. I'll be back soon...

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