Whew!  What a week.  I’ve been sick with a lovely sinus/bronchitis thing.  Got to love my third language, “phlegm-ish”.  Makes my voice sound very, VERY deep.  Yes, the wife is getting tired of my Barry White impersonations.

Anyway, since I was very busy with the holidays and having been sick, It’s been a while since I’ve done my Friday post.  There was a lot of cool stuff that wanted to share!

• EVE Online broke is Peak Concurrent User (PCU) record! The new record stands at 56, 021!
• Winterblink reported the lovely news that EVE Online was named the Game of the Year by MMORPG.com.
• Ten Ton Hammer named the EVE Online Gaming Community the Best Community for 2009.
• Blog Banter 14 went live, lots to read.  Catch up with the posts.
• Morning Maniac has stepped down as CEO of EVE Univertisy.
• Alexia Morgan’s O.U.C.H. project is coming along quite nicely.  A few of his new corp mates have been blogging about their experiences.  You can catch all the news on this nice little Google Feed.
• Luminus Aardokay and Quivering Palm over at The Planet Risk Show have been posting some good articles for those who are new to the EVE Universe.  They are worth a read for all us vets too.  Always, always read the guides people write.  You never know what new things you can learn from them.
• Hulkageddon II went into full swing and was a great success!  Helicity Boson did a great job this year.  Over 275 billion isk in hulks and related kills occurred this time around.   You can read all about the kills, smacktalk and even some videos at his second blog, aptly named Hulkageddon!

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Yup, things have been evolving here at the old grove. I’ve been busy with a lot of things:

• As you may see, the new banner for the site is completed and size optimized for quick download, making the site display a bit faster.  I’ve cleaned up items in the sidebar on the right side of the page, made things flow a bit better as well.
• 00sage00 tweeted earlier this week that he activated the new mobile edition support for his blog (http://twitter.com/00sage00/status/5030443870).  He’s using the new version of WPTouch for WordPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch).  I like how his site looked on my iPod Touch and it convinced me to deploy it here.  So, if you are like me, someone who does a lot of blog reading on their iPod Touch, you will appreciate both the configuration improvements and the beautiful layout that makes reading on a iPod Touch a much more pleasing experience.
• I’ve deployed a the Simply Yearly Archive plugin for wordpress (http://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/simple-yearly-archive-plugin/#english).  It allows you to create a nice archive page for listing out all your posts.  I hightly recommend it!
• Alexia Morgan at The EVE Online Portal (http://www.evebloggers.com) and I have made the decision that keeping seperate OPML download files was not useful.  We have consolidated our efforts and as you can see, things are working out well.  Head over to and check out this resource, it’s a must for anyone who plays EVE Online!
• For those of you following blogging legislation, in the US, bloggers are now required to disclose if they have been compensated when they write an article for a product, service, website, et al.  DisclosurePolicy.org makes it very easy to write your policy for your blog with a Policy Generator tool. I do recommend that you head over there and read about the new law and how you can protect yourself from making a mistake.  I’ve added such a policy to my blog on my About page.

I’ve been busy as you can see, more to come soon!

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