December 2009
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Trinitad's Favorite Holy Paladin Macros
Beacon of Light
Casts Beacon of Light and starts a 60 seconds timer using Deadly Boss Mod.
#showtooltip Beacon of Light /stopcasting /cast Beacon of Light /dbm timer 60 Beacon of Light
Sacred Shield
Casts Sacred Shield and starts a 30 seconds timer using DBM.
#showtooltip Sacred Shield /cast Sacred Shield /dbm timer 30 Sacred Shield
Judgements
I use this macro to cast judgements. There is a...
August 2008
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March 2008
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WatchHistory of War told through food.
February 2008
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November 2007
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October 2007
6 posts
“Most SEOs are making headphones out of coconuts, hoping it brings traffic, and...”
– Merlin Mann comparing SEOs to a cargo cult. Found via O’Reilly’s Radar blog post: Search Engine Optimization and the Race to the Bottom. It’s true that many SEOs will go to extremes to try and figure out the magic formula that will push their pages a few steps up in the results or...
The origin of life? Well actually...
After finding out that a paper he wrote in 1955 was used by creationist to support their theory, a scientist has retracted himself. From the New York Times article: It is not unusual for scientists to publish papers and, if they discover evidence that challenges them, to announce they were wrong. The idea that all scientific knowledge is provisional, able to be challenged and overturned, is one...
WatchA conversation between John Battelle and Mark Smug Zuckerberg, proud creator of Facebook, at the Web 2.0 Summit.
“I didn’t pay anything to download Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” last Wednesday. When...”
– Eduardo Porter talks about the irrationality of actually paying for Radiohead’s new album when you can get it for free. Read the editorial : Radiohead’s Warm Glow. I paid five canadian dollar for it. My excuse? To annoy the record labels. The music is nice too.
Estimates: Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on... →
Via Wired: The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue...
September 2007
10 posts
The New Big Box: Websites within Websites
Google launched Google Gadgets Ads this week. The goal is to make the common banner ad more interactive by transforming it into a website within your website. The possibilities are best explained by Kevin Kelly in the article A New Corner in the Future of Advertising: “The cool idea is that ads can now be packaged as little widgets that you can drag and drop onto your blog or website, as...
Web Applications: History Repeating Itself?
Following the release of IBM Lotus Symphony, Joel Spolsky remembers the previous version of this office suite in the late 80 and makes an interesting parallel between its history and the current evolution of AJAX based applications: …As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner...
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
– Albert Einstein
“No one’s going to be searching for Marié Digby, because no one knows who...”
Marié Digby: Word of Mouth Marketing
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about Marié Digby: A 24-year-old singer and guitarist named Marié Digby has been hailed as proof that the Internet is transforming the world of entertainment. What her legions of fans don’t realize, however, is that Ms. Digby’s career demonstrates something else: that traditional media conglomerates are going to new lengths to take...
WatchGrady Booch is an IBM Fellow and one of the co-creators of UML. In this talk, he discusses the complex matrix of decisions and processes, both intentional and unintentional, that lead to the software designs and architectures upon which we increasingly rely in everyday life. This is a version of a talk originally given to the British Computer Society in honor of Alan Turing. The sound is not very...
“Want to be like Robert — and Jason Calacanis — and keep equating SEO...”
– Danny Sullivan, on a bad day, teaching Scoble about social search… Come on Danny, *sigh*, sing us a song, it’ll make you feel better.
If you wear fur, they will kill you
The Economist has an article on Google and its staggering growth. There is little new information for someone who has been following the progress of the company but this little Valleywagish nugget amused me: One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm’s personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she...
August 2007
13 posts
Digestion
Interesting post from Alex Iskold: The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next. We have entered a digestion phase. It is not a burst, nor a recession. Rather, a digestion phase is a period of time for us to reflect, to integrate, and to understand recent technologies and how they fit together. It is the outcome of this phase that will decide if we continue to slide or if we...
Designers & Developers
As the web has become more standardized, the designer and developer communities have been forced to come closer and closer together (just look at what Silverlight is trying to do for designers- in effect making them developers). Copy/pasted from Why Google Needs The Desktop (& Adobe) by Ariel Porath.
Thoughts on the Social Graph
The world won’t switch en masse to anybody’s “social networking interop protocol”, pet XML format, etc. It simply won’t happen. This must all work supporting any and all ways of data collection, change notification, etc. Cute new protocols and XML/YAML/JSON formats for cooperative sites will help (and have already started to be deployed with a few early cooperative...
“I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First...”
– Linus Torvalds’ explanation for the name “git” given to his distributed revision control / software configuration management project. Git is a British slang for a stupid or unpleasant person.
Data 2.0: How the Web disrupts our relational... →
They are signs that as far as database functionality is concerned, the center of gravity is shifting away from monolithic centralized data management to massively parallel distributed data management. The days of Data 1.0 are past. The days of Data 2.0 are dawning, and it promises to be very disruptive for mainstream database architectures on the Web. Read more…
Updating web resources
The following is a very well written and concise list of ways to update or edit a resource over http. The orginial post, Web resource mapping criteria for frameworks was taken from Bill de hÓra’s blog. It’s kept here for future reference. If you read this through an imported note on Facebook, I apologize. This is extremely boring. Drop me a note and I’ll send a zombie to bite...
“Processing helps designers build a sense of code literacy, which in turn will...”
– The Amazing Visual Language of Processing by Holly Willis
Fontself: A Bitmap Font And Text Engine →
Fontself is a type project about handwriting and drawn writing. It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.). Fontself provides intuitive tools to create and edit bitmap font (scanned letters) as well as solutions to use and exchange them.
July 2007
7 posts
Art direction vs. design
Copy pasted this post below from Jeffrey Zeldman’ blog. It’s from 2003, but still very relevant and insightful… to me anyway. If you want to know what art direction is, pick up the 26 April–2 May 2003 issue of The Economist Magazine and regard its cover image. Two icons recognized around the world – one old, one new – have been merged to create an arresting visual statement....
The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit →
There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE’s web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing. The code was good and branches were born as a result, the best known being Webkit. Now, after years of split, KHTML and Webkit are coming together once again....
June 2007
2 posts
Why Safari for Windows will leave Apple bruised... →
Mike Elgan writes: “The insular Apple universe is a relatively gentle place, an Athenian utopia where Apple’s occasional missteps are forgiven, all partake of the many blessings of citizenship, and everyone feels like they’re part of an Apple-created golden age of lofty ideas and superior design. But the Windows world isn’t like that. It’s a cold, unforgiving place...
May 2007
10 posts
