Corryn, Wek + Mrs. Wek, Ron, Keith, James, and I all froze to death for the midnight Burning Crusade launch at the Richfield Best Buy. It got to a blistering 1 degree F in line.
Shortly after we got home and posted our complimentary maps of Azeroth on the wall, my super awesome paladin with his super awesome blues from BRD has conquered the dark portal along with everyone else!
Over the winter I’ve finally taken the plunge to overthrow the Blizzard interface entirely in favor of community addons. Before this site existed I mused about how neat some addons could get if some good project organization were to occur. This seems to have come true as the valuable and well made addons are organized very well, most using a nice code repository, like SVN. What this means for the enthusiast is that addons authored in such a way are presented in a fashion where they can be aggregated automatically whenever a new release has been prepared– no waiting for the author to upload the package somewhere. Let’s face it, most programmers aren’t the best publishers and in a world where it’s usually one or two people working on an addon it’s a pretty Good Thing to have such technology at one’s disposal.
Cue my personal mix of Addons:
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