Joel’s Scattered Thoughts

The Newb Zone is a podcast for new World of Warcraft players. If I convince anyone else to start playing Warcraft, this may be a good way to get them off to a good start. (via Epic Dolls

The people I’d like most to get playing would be my parents. I really doubt it would happen as neither of them is into computer games. What I might do is wait till the winter doldrums set in and see if my mom would give it a try then. (I’m scared of what might happen if if dad started playing - he tends to throw himself into whatever he does already. )

I won the Crimson Girdle of the Indomitable from Moroes while healing on my paladin for our second group. I switched back to prot to speed run some five mans and discovered midrun that I’d forgotten to gem it. Oops! Maintankadin :: Gems and Enchantments: A short guide confirmed that I should be gemming this up for stamina. Now to find a couple of Solid Empyrean Sapphires to gem it up.

I tried to email Brandon from Microsoft to see if he could help me out with my Windows Live Writer problem. Sadly my emails got bounced as spam. Hopefully he reads this.

You left a comment on my blog asking me to email you regarding my problems with Windows Live Writer. For some reason, it looks like the default font is roughly 25% of the size it should be in Windows Live Writer. Fonts for styles such as Heading1 look fine. The font looks fine on the blog under Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. It’s only in Windows Live Writer that the default font looks small. I’ve tried updating the style from the weblog and reinstalling Windows Live Writer.

I tried to send you a detailed description, but your spam filter blocked it. The default font is showing up at about a quarter of the proper size but only in Windows Live Writer.