Nigel Paravane

I’ve had this problem since the World of Warcraft 2.3 patch: if I go to the Buyback tab of a vendor, I can only sell single items back via drag and drop. Multiple items won’t “take.” To get around this, I’ve been splitting the items into singles and then selling them.
This has been verified as [...]

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As Blizzard moves toward release of the new World of Warcraft expansion pack The Wrath of the Lich King, they today released a new patch called “The Gods of Zul’Aman.” If you are into WoW, you can go to the link and check out all the new features, of which there are many. In the [...]

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The World of Warcraft multiplayer game exposes a programming interface for the Lua programming language. Because of this, many people have written legal addons that extend the game’s core functionality or provide alternate user interfaces. Some of the packages are huge but some are small and provide very specific functionality. In addition, there are some [...]

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I’m on the plane now between Chicago and Tucson, heading for the InformationWeek 500 Conference. Travel has gone very well so far, with no glitches. Evidently the guy sitting behind me on the plane was arrested recently on a Driving-While-Intoxicated charge. To hear him speak, the problem was that he got caught, not that he [...]

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I did the weirdest thing this morning: I sold all of my Second Life land and converted most of the Lindens into US dollars.
Am I giving up? Am I pulling up stakes? Why would I do this? This blog entry, the twenty-fifth in this series about Second Life, is about the answers to those questions.
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