No, it’s not what you think…well, perhaps, if you are that twisted. 
I have been busy as a beaver with writing projects, enjoying summer movies, recovering from vacation and of course, playing EVE.
For those of you who have followed the ongoing conflict between The United and The Neo Spartans I will say that the fight goes on. For the latest stats, you can view the stats on the campaign, Ding Ding! Round 2! I missed a good portion of the combat as I was on vacation, but I had a chance to engage a volley or two.
Yes, there is a new look here. I went over to Podlogs (http://podlogs.com) and downloaded the ‘Angry Amarr’ theme (http://podlogs.com/themes/?preview_theme=Angry%20Amarr). It’s a nice theme and I like how it looks.
OPML update, I have an update post going live this Friday listing the recent additions. If you have not already done so, please send me your requests to be added to the OPML no later than downtime on this coming Thursday. Hopefully I will receive enough responses so that I don’t have to update the post multiple time after it’s gone live.
Speaking of new blogs, I have a few words on the concerns the blogging community have expressed. As with all things, the more you have is not always better. Our community recently hit a major milestone with a record number of 535 blogs. This is a major achievement, however, with all things in nature, there is a balance between the positive and negative.
With the larger number of blogs comes increased administration on the part of myself and Crazy Kinux with regards to the OPML and the EVE Blogroll. It is a bittersweet thing since both of use love to read the diverse postings of our community.
With all this growth, we must admit that there will be some ‘dead loss’. CCP and GameScribe had a major promotion going on to get people to blog about the community. Many blogs were created in that push and to be honest, I see some of those blogs simply dieing out as the promotion ends. Rest assured, the EVE Blogroll and the OPML download will be revised to reflect those inactive AND inaccessible blogs.
The OPML download has always had blogs listed that were no longer active for the sole purpose of providing a ‘historical’ listing of those who had contributed to the EVE Blogging Community. So please do not be concerned if the OPML download count of blogs varies from CrazyKinux’s EVE Blogroll. Many of these older inactive blogs had a lot of good content that any new blogger and member of the EVE Online gaming community may find benefit.
See you out there!!!
June 16th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Hi Wandering Druid,
Can I trouble you to add my blog to the blog list?
http://edenexplorer.info
Many Thanks !
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Galen Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Sure thing mate. I have added you to the OPML file. Just an FYI to everyone who has requested to be added. I have added people as they have requested and replied back to your emails. The update on Friday is merely an announcement post to announce that you are in the OPML so that people don't have to download the file again, just simply add our new members.
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June 16th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Galen what plugin do you use to get the share and enjoy: icons on your blog?
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Galen Reply:
June 16th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I use Sociable (http://yoast.com/wordpress/sociable). It's a great little plugin that has many social networks available for you to select to have on your blog.
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