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Heh, I've started playing WoW again recently, and playing a MMO always brings back some Asheron's Call nostalgia. AC was my first MMO and I played it a LOT for about a year and a half. Such a great game, but so tragically destroyed by macroers. Alas.

Hah, nice. Hi Kazzx :) You are, of course, correct.

Hi Bill

The Field Guide is really just the blog post titled "Field Guide to Firefox 3". If you've read that post, you've read the guide :)

Let me know if you have any questions -- my email address is deb-at-dria-dot-org.

Thanks Dave! :)

sadf: Oof, good point. I just killed all the linkbacks (sorry!) hopefully that'll be better now.

Excellent! I've added a link to it in the original version of the Field Guide. Thanks for helping out, Ryan.

@AndyEd - thanks a bunch for starting the diggstorm :) We got lots of great exposure through that. The slideshow is super neat -- I'll try to remember to blog about it tomorrow morning.

Thank you very much for doing the translation, Alex! This is great!

@xbeta: You're welcome to have this translated into Chinese and post it on your blog. You can use any of the the images too, if you like.

When it's done, please send me a link? Thank you!

I actually recently sold my cybook to a friend. It's a great piece of gear, I'm just too attached to old-skool books to give them up.

The Kindle would be pretty tempting, but it's not available in Canada yet. The convenience of being able to just download books on demand is a HUGELY compelling feature.

Alas. Maybe someday we'll get them up here :)

@Colin: Oh geez, thanks for noticing. Fixed now :)

I loved the Raw Shark Texts. It was recommended to me at random by a very enthusiastic bookshop employee. It was on the sale shelf at the time so I figured "what the hell?" and picked it up. Blew through it in two or three nights. Fun, interesting, and compelling.

Although I can't get those to save/restore, but vlad found this http://www.logicalshift.demon.co.uk/mac/zoom.html

Check out http://www.the-wildwest.com/Queeg/Infocom/

melissa: yeah, we're really insanely lucky to have the flexibility to do this. I'm so looking forward to being back out East I can hardly stand it :)

Thanks Brian :)

Sounds great. I'll have to check it out :)

Sandra: I haven't tried the Mobipocket creator yet. I'll have to give that a shot! Thanks for the tip.

I don't have a huge issue with the DRM, I just have an issue with them pricing DRM'd items the same as a physical book. The price should be reduced by, I'd say, at least 50% off the softcover price (I refuse to buy hardcover anymore). So if a new paper softcover is out for $20, I'd be OK with paying $9-10 for a DRM'd ebook version. Now, give me a *non* DRM'd version and trust me to not be a total bloody criminal, and I'll pay the full $20.

It's up to the publishers, really. As it stands it's just ridiculous. Why in the world would I pay full price for a book that I can't then let my boyfriend read, or lend to a coworker? Cycling books through our social circle is a matter of course and always has been. DRM'd ebooks make it significantly more difficult and expensive, which is just a shame.

I'd say it would feed 5-6 people. And 45 mins would be ok, probably. As long as you cook the sausage fully to start, it'll be fine.

Sold. Going in my Amazon bucket for the next bulk order day.

Graydon: very good points. Thanks :)

Yeah, so long story short -- I couldn't find any parchment paper. Foil was an "onhand" second choice :) Still worked fine.

Thanks :D

That would be hilarious (and delicious!)