Wordpress

I lost so much stuff when I left Twitter, and again when G+ shut down. Never again. I’m using WordLand to control my social media.

I was playing around and wrote a script last week that took an old backup of my previous blog, West Karana, and brought it to life as a GitHub repository. A friend on Twitter challenged me to do even better. Yesterday, I found a more recent backup – posts up to 2016, that I wrote for Google+, and used that as a source to finally get everything merged to this blog. It’s an exciting DevOps adventure. ...

Announcing the XFire Stats Wordpress Plugin. This plugin adds a widget that you can place on the sidebar of your Wordpress blog to show your gaming stats for the past week – the title and time spent, sorted by decreasing time. This is the very first release of this, my very first plugin, and feedback is definitely encouraged. To install: Right click on this link and choose “Save Link As…” and name it ‘xfirestats.zip’. ...

Be an EverQuest player of any level, experience, anything. This is the tough step. There is no step 2. Go to WordPress.com or Blogger.com and make a blog. It’s free. Hardest part is coming up with a name. I just went through EverQuest zones until I found one that wasn’t taken. I wanted Freeport or Qeynos :) Every couple of days, post about what you’re doing in the game. Just posting something like “We checked out Oceangreen Hills today. Now I can’t decide if I hate bears or zombies more.” is enough. That’s it. “Whole guild was down in the new Kaesora xping. Great drops. XP, not so much.” You don’t need to write a book or include a million pictures – unless you want to :) ...