Damien Barrett
New York City - http://www.mrbarrett.com
Damien Barrett spent his childhood moving every year or two--his family lived in places like American Samoa, England, an Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and even Yellowstone National Park for a summer. When he was 10, he moved to England and lived on an American communications base. The after school activities at the school on the base tended towards what the volunteers (from the base) could teach, and so leaned a bit heavily towards computers and technology. So at ten years old he was learning to program in BASIC, FORTRAN, and PASCAL. After moving back stateside, Damien continued his computer interests and started building computers from parts ordered out of magazines. In college, Damien toyed with getting a CS degree, but decided he liked working with people too much, and so got a teaching degree. After teaching for a few years, he moved to NYC to work with computers. Damien worked for a few years at an Apple Authorized Service Provider where he got to solve all kinds of wacky Mac problems and occasionally got to work on a celebrity's Mac or two. Presently, Damien works for a university as a Mac specialist and maintains about 500 Macs in a large, sprawling and complicated network of labs, classrooms, and faculty offices. For about a year, he was teaching Apple's Mac OS X Server classes as an Apple Certified Trainer. Damien's been blogging for more than 7 years. His identical twin brother, Cam, was one of the very first to popularize blogging as a format and he taught Damien ins and outs of blogging. He continues to be an active and leading voice in the Macintosh community.
Dave
Child has been making handy cheat sheets for web developers and server monkeys for awhile now. This Valentine's Day,
he's released a 
Last summer, my friend and I were set to bike around Manhattan and I was to meet him in the Financial District
downtown, but we didn't set a precise place. We had been playing WoW all morning before taking off, so it was probably
only natural that I'd be biking along and wish that I could pop up a mini-map to find his location relative to mine.
You'll need at least a basic (free) Gamespot account to 
A
few readers have asked about it, so I thought I'd post a quick update on how our WoW Insider guild building is going.
The short answer is slowly. The long answer is that both myself and C.K. have been extremely busy the last two weeks
and haven't had the time to even play, let alone build a guild. We're still very interested in having a WoW Insider
guild (Horde on Akama; Alliance on Chromaggus). It also explains why you haven't seen 
This
is simply incredible news for those of us playing WoW on a Mac. Yesterday, Apple announced the release of the first
Macs to use Intel chips. To get full speed and compatibility out of applications that run in Mac OS X on Intel-based
Macs, programs need to be recompiled to run natively on the Intel processors. Apple's coding tools allow for a program
to be coded as a "universal" application which means that the "universal binary" will contain
executable code for both architectures in one package, and then will run the PPC code on the PPC processor or the Intel
code on the Intel processor, depending on which is in your Mac.
I
really like this game. I like it enough that I actually schedule time into my busy days, nights and weekends to play.
And until about two weeks ago, this system worked for me. When I actually had an hour or two to play, I'd be able to
log into the server of my choice and play for my scheduled time. However, the combination of a huge influx of new X-mas
gift-receiving players and the 1.9 patch has rendered my scheduled playing time unusable. The simple fact is that it's
been taking 20-30 minutes just to log into a server, and then if I'm lucky, I won't be booted out shortly thereafter
because I made the egregious mistake of trying to enter the commons area in Ironforge.
Looks like the large influx of new X-mas gift WoW players has pushed the "open" realms to their breaking
point. Chromaggus, which only went live barely a month ago is registering as full, and Blizzard has quickly opened two
new realms: Alexstrasza PVE and Balnazaar PVP.
Blogger and
WoW player Squidly was casting around for the funniest WoW Guild names she could find and 
Here's a quick update on how our guild building has been going. C.K. started the guild charter a few weeks ago and we
have a few signatures, but neither he or I have had much time to play over the last week or so. We'll get it going
eventually, but it may be awhile. In the meantime, if you'd like to play along on Akama with us, here's our Akama
names:
World of Warcraft is not only an American, or North American, or even English-speaking phenomenon. We all know
WoW is booming in Asia, but the European servers are cranking along as well with a robust and active community of
players. Some Hungarian players have created the first WoW-related e-zine--World of Warcraft Magazin-- and are looking
to release monthly issues. Their first complete issue is in Hungarian but they've translated a few of the pages to
English, which you can 
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