I’ll be honest, I’m still wrestling with how to handle the new firewalled-at-work nature of the blog. It was fiendishly convenient to write posts on my lunch break, but that is no more, unless I can figure out some work around that doesn’t involve spending a few hundred bucks on an iPhone.
So, what in the heck have I been up to? Well, honestly I’m pretty sure I’ve been up to the same crap everyone else has been up to.
Enjoying the living hell out of the patch. The fanboy in me loves Blizzard, and would marry it if it weren’t for Mrs. PTD. They’ve just plain got their crap together. Sure, there have been a good helping of server issues to go ’round, but that’s to be expected with such a big patch. Luckily, I reside on one of the more stable realms, and have not had any real problems logging in whenever I want.
Well, except for those damn QUEUES, anyway. (Is that the hardest word to spell in the English language, or is it just me?)
The funny thing is I haven’t been spending a lot of time with either of my 70s. I did run SSC in guild the other night, and we wiped the floor with the first four bosses. I can confirm that the nerf is in place. That HP nerf along with our buffed talent trees made SSC MUCH more relaxing than it used to be.
Other than that, I have spent a small amount of time on my druid in search of a rare, Purple Chimera. You may have heard of him, his name is Nuramoc. I still haven’t even seen him, much less tamed him. I’ve probably logged a good 6 hours in Netherstorm so far in fruitless searching. I log on to the hunter, check all the known spawn points, log off. Rinse and repeat.
You see, I’m a sucker for a PRETTY pet, especially if it happens to be rare. I have no interest in a Corehound, but that pretty purple Chimera has my attention. Heck, I’ve spent a LOT of time on my hunter camping spawns for rare pets. It started with Humar the Pridelord. I HAD to have that pretty black cat. I also spent a LOT of time looking for and taming both Spiteflayer and Deathmaw. I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.
Literally all my hunter has done is search for that pet. Luckily, he’s a miner and engineer to boot, so I’ve collected 11 Primal Mana and about 50 each of Fel Iron and Adamantite. Not bad!
Anyhow, OTHER than that, I’ve been working on my baby warrior. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to have a 70 warrior. I like the idea of a big, bad tank with the biggest, baddest weapons and that plate armor with ungodly AC. I just never could get him past the low 40s hump.
I started on him again in earnest just before the patch. He was level 42 then, and he’s now sitting just shy of 55. I got him a nice blue 2 hander, and it’s been cake ever since. It’s nice to play a character that can actually TAKE a few hits for once. I particularly enjoy seeing how many mobs I can group up and take down solo. The changes to Thunderclap help that quite a bit, as do the changes to retaliation.
Retaliation was always my second favorite warrior skill. I love mowing down groups of mobs with it. My favorite warrior skill? Overpower. And now there is that nice new talent that makes Overpower sometimes proc when rend does damage. It makes for pure huge crit sweetness!
He also got himself an entire levels worth of exp just through trick or treating. 
Not bad! I am also now forgoing stats for looks as I level with his shiny Hallowed Helm he got from a treat bad the other day. Thus far I have seen every treat bucket in both Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. I’m presently wondering whether I should get a port to Shatt and see how many I could get in the Outlands! I have no REAL goal to get the title, but I sure wouldn’t turn it down.
Anyhow, that’s what I’ve been up to. To sum it up, I’ve been up to having a hell of a lot of fun in game. How about you?
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I have heard that, with the Wordpress software, you can set it up to check an email address and, if it finds an email sent there, make that into a post. You have to be careful, though, to pick an email address that is VERY hard to guess (something like df4Rfhg_t.f4TTHg@gmail.com) so that you don’t end up with Spam posts appearing. That’s how I get around the block at work
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Shasmo seems to have a similar suggestion to what I am about to make. When I write my blog posts, I use Microsoft Office (or equivalent) I then copy + paste into Blogger and submit, it takes about 2 minutes from Copy to login, paste and submit. You could take this one step further and just email the word file to yourself and copy+paste it from home.
Blogged in lunch, posted at home.
Hope it helps
-Velk.
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Hey PTD I just came off google reader to post the above again, but I have the name of the wordpress addon, because I use it. Also you can set it up so that it only accepts posts from certain email addresses.
Its called postie and available from : http://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-mail/
Thanks for the advice, all. I’ll look into that addon. I have also thought of writing at lunch then emailing it to myself to post later. I use Windows Live Writer, and have it installed on both computers, so it seems possible. Thanks!
Another thing you might try is an anonymous proxy. Google anonymous proxy and you’ll come up with a bunch of sites like https://proxify.com/ You’re only connecting to the proxy site, it’s actually connecting to wherever you browse. The one I linked is SSL, so anyone monitoring network traffic can’t even see the content of the pages you’re browsing. Of course these proxy sites may be blocked as well.
You could also just have posts a day late (or hours late, depends on your preferance). Write it at work, email it to yourself, and then post it when you get home, or set it to be posted the following day at the normal PTD time.
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I use Google Docs for this very reason. Write some at home, write some at work, the document follows me around.
(Advanced wordpress/gdocs tip: If you do cut/paste from gdocs, be sure to do so into the HTML editor, not the Visual editor. gdocs has some weirdo formatting that wordpress gobbles up, while pasting into the HTML editor keeps the text clean.)
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Hi PTD,
for your proxy problems, have you tried some web proxies ? Some are free…but it depends if your admin tools are using JavaScript or not…
You could also try softwares like logmein.com (free, windows only) to take your home computer in remote desktop…it is free, windows only, and uses http…no open ports from neither the server nor the client !
If it still doesn’t work, you could explain me (by mail) briefly how’s the setup at your job and could try to help you a bit…
Good luck !
PS : you could also try gotomypc.com (free trial, similar to logmein.com) but by citrix or Team Viewer which works ok for me…as the others have been blocked by…hum…me !
to read your blog at work… (don’t tell anyone) I use a simple tool :
babelfish.yahoo.com
you enter the website you want to go and translate italian -> English and the text will stay in english… really safe, but sometime I have to try 2-3 times to make it work… after that you can surf anywhere..
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