Haven't been doing much since my last post, but I made a couple of little updates to the site today. I added an Item Wishlist page, which I'll periodically update to show what I'm trying to get, loot-wise.

I updated a few of my Macros too, so have a look at those.

Lastly, I thought the following comic was pretty funny... especially if you've ever done any PvP.

Patches


Karazhan


Site Changes

Something else new on the site: Gallery Ratings. You can now rate each image in the Gallery on a scale of 1 to 5 (lowest to highest, respectively). Check out this example and rate it to see it in action.

Yes, I know that IE has some layout issues, and Opera thinks you can keep voting, even though it votes the first time. Opera users: do a full-refresh on the page to see the result after you vote. Safari and Firefox users, though, seem to be sitting pretty well.

Been a little while since my last post, so I figured now would be a good time as any to do so. First off, there were a couple of new patches released, 2.0.7 and 2.0.8. Now before the Burning Crusade came out, the most number of patches between major updates (1.#.0) was 5. This time around, there has been 7 updates, and no major patch. They even skipped 2.0.2 for some reason.

I'll be going back through the current changelogs and adding an Undocumented Changes section, via WoWWiki.com. These changes are observed by the players, are not part of the official Blizzard release notes, and may not be agreed upon by everybody, but I like the addition of it.

On the side of my Site Upgrades, there's been some you may have noticed. Firstly, I finally updated the in-game rendition of me in the header and on the profile page.

Second, I re-added an Image Gallery back. I used to have the popular Gallery integrated in the site, but I ended up not liking how the end-result looked. So this past week I decided to just code my own. It's very basic, and has some nice effects, but isn't overloaded with stuff I don't really need.

Lastly, I started playing around with WoW Model Viewer and Lightwave again, only this time I am able to get the texture along with the model. If you have a look in my renders gallery, you'll see some quick renders of stuff.

With the last couple versions of WoW Model View, there's been an option to export models to a few different formats (.obj, .lwo, .3ds, and .ms3d). I figured I'd have a play with this, and make a render of the Unbarc character I made. This is still a little bit buggy, and the textures didn't work properly with the export, so I had to add in my own, but here's a little render of Unbarc in Lightwave.

I've also made the Gallery live, so check it every so often for new pictures. I might be adding a picture block to the main page, that shows a picture of the day, most recent pic, etc.

Note: The gallery has been removed, and the picture is temporarily in limbo.

A couple of nights ago, we cleared BWL up to Nef, and I happened to get the [Netherwind Belt], which brings me up to 6 out of 8 on my set. All I have left are the [Netherwind Mantle] and the [Netherwind Robes]. Last night was way too laggy to attempt Nef, so we cleared MC in just over 3 hours. Tonight, he should be dead, and since one of the other mages can't make it on, I have about a 1.2% chance to get the robes (double drop... /me crosses fingers).

Site Updates:
I've been working on some new improvements for the site. One being an image gallery, and the other being a rewrite of the way the url is displayed. For the url thing, I just did this to try and learn a bit about mod_rewrite in Apache. As for the gallery, I'm using an embedded version of Gallery2, and I'll be making it live on the site sometime soon.