OMG.  I have been working a lot lately on websites for our corporation/alliance.  What have I been working on?  Well, let me see…

• Sorted out our forums, add the alliance section and another section for our first member corp, the Neo Catamites.
• Changing our killboard to an alliance killboard was removing some stats from some of our veteran pilots, so, I had to go and setup a separate alliance killboard (http://www.nspta.net/lacon) so that we could keep stats straight.
• Sort out the API keys for the API killmail pulls for the two killboards (thank goodness we have more than one director for that issue)
• Setup the feed syndication pulls for each killboard to update from all our sources (eve-kill, SHC Gank Night killboard, allies).
• Update our allies of the new alliance killboard from which to pull kills.
• Setup and sort out the various crontab jobs for the new killboard:  API Killmail pull, pricing data, feed syndication pulls, cache clearing and updating.
• Setup an ‘alliance landing page’ so that people have a single website to go to in order to access the forums and the killboards. (http://www.nspta.net/ls).
• Add links to the blogs for our pilots who do blog to the alliance landing page.
• submitted an article for approval on the EVE Online wiki for the new alliance.  Hopefully by the time you read this, it will be approved and available for your viewing pleasure (http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Laconian_Syndicate).
• Updated and optimized the databases for the two killboards for the corp/alliance as well as my own personal killboard.
• Get all the plugins on my blog and Larkonis Trassler (http://www.larkonisforcsm.com) updated.  Clean up those databases as well.

With all that, I still went to work each day, found time to take care of stuff at home (not as much as I wanted to take care of), sleep and of course, play EVE.

From the founding of the alliance to getting everything done was four days.  It was a lot of work, but it’s well worth the effort.  Please feel free to visit the sites and if you see anything that I could be doing better, please let me know.

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This is my blogroll or website listing.  It’s broken out in categories.

If you are looking for my listing of EVE Player Blogs, I have removed my listing as it was a duplicate of the many listings that exist. Trying to keep all this separate lists in sync was a lot of work for everyone and it simply did not make sense.  So, to find the most up to date listing centralized listing, head over to The EVE Online Portal at http://www.evebloggers.com.

Player Blogs

• EVE Online Player Blogs

EVE

• CCP Games @YouTube
• Council of Stellar Management
• EVE Dev Blog
• EVE Online

Podcasts

• BOZOKast (Offensive Material Warning)
• Declarations of War
• FlyReckless
• Missions Collide
• PODDED Podcast
• The EVE Online Morning Report
• The Planet Risk Show
• Unknown Eve
• Warp Drive Active

Comics

• Warp Drive Active

Blogging Tools

• IntenseDebate

My Social Networks

• Ga'len @BattleClinic
• Ga'len @Digg
• Ga'len @IntenseDebate
• Ga'len @Twitter
• Ga'len @YouTube
• Galen @BlogCatalog
• Galen @Google Reader
• Galen @Tumblr

Current Hot Topics!

• Fail Mail Fridays!
  Read all the Fail Mail Friday Posts!
• Ga'len @BattleClinic
• Read the The Hellfleet Bloggers feed!
  Catch all the posts from the Hellfleet Bloggers!
• Visit my new blog!
• Visit the EVE Online Portal!
  Your central source for the EVE Online Blogging Community!

The HellFleet Bloggers

• Eviwyn
  Making a Mess Around Essence
• Lacrimae
  Talk Nerdy To Me
• Lakasha
  Night Witches
• Metalkiss
  Blogganeers
• Mynxee
  Life in Low Sec
• Shae Tiann
  Sweet Little Bad Girl
• Toonu
• Ulystar
  Tales of a Low Sec Pirate
• Valarissa
  EVE’s ‘Val’iant Vixen
• Venom Orchid
  Evolution of a Pirate
• von Diel
  Confessions of a Carebear Killer
• Xeross

EVElopedia

• EVE Fiction Portal
• EVElopedia Main Page
• Ga'len @EVELopedia
• Player Created Fiction

Guides

• 00sage00's Pilot Savvy Guide
• Beginner's Guide to Piracy
• Bookmarks Guide by Lumenarious
• Hallan Turrek's D-Scanner Guide
• Ombeye's 2d Maps
• Sard Caid's Advice for Flying Solo
• Spectre3353's FC'ing Guide
• Wensley's Rifter Guide

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We have come to it finally, the latest expansion for EVE Online, the Apocrypha expansion.  As always, there are patch notes that you can read (http://www.eveonline.com/updates/patchnotes.asp?patchlogID=183) and I do recommend that you read them as there is a lot to read.

I would also suggest that you go back and read all the wonderful reviews by the many EVE Bloggers out there as they have spent a great deal of time on the test server, playing with all the new features of this expansion.

While you are stuck without EVE on patch day, I would suggest that you use this time for other activities, such as:

• Clean up your corporate forums.
• Clean up the area around your computer.
• Do some general house cleaning around your home.
• Perhaps take a shower if you are one of those ‘dedicated’ gamers out there.
• Find other things to do while you wait for the patch to install and the new client be ready for download.
• As always, expect the downtime to last longer than planned and set a VERY long skill to train.

In case you need a good laugh, here is a Star Wars related video I came across this past weekend that it just too funny to not watch.

Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

Some other things you could do, you could visit the plethora of EVE related blogs.  Below, we have some new additions to the OPML download.  Many thanx to Cyber over at New Eden Diaries (http://newedendiaries.com)f or these submissions!!

• Blacklight (http://blacklightsredshirt.blogspot.com)
• Blinky Blinky (http://sercedos.blogspot.com)
• Fly Reckless (http://www.flyreckless.com/blog) I don’t know how I missed this one!!
• Posting from the Edge (http://zapatero.wordpress.com)  I am such a tard, I missed this one too!!
• Addicted to EvE (http://addictedtoeve.blogspot.com)
• Personal Files, Ciarente Roth (http://ciarentediary.blogspot.com)

You can get all these and more in an easy to use OPML file to import into your favorite RSS reader on the OPML Download Page.

You could also read this great fiction that is accompanying the new expansion.  It’s been setup as a series of breaking news stories, located at the CCP Roleplayed RSS feed (http://www.eveonline.com/feed/rdfnews.asp?tid=4) or on the seperate web address CCP has setup for the expansion roleplaying news at http://www.eveonline.com/apocryphabreakingnews.  It’s definitely worth reading!!!

I would also watch the the new  trailer for the Apocrypha expansion as some of the stories do tie in with what you are reading

So, what things do you do to pass the time on Patch Day?

Tags: Apocrypha, CCP, Dev Blog, Downtime, Expansions, OPML Update, Patch Notes, Player Blogs

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WOO HOO!!!  One of my corpies has just started a blog!!!

Check it out!!

The Pirate Kaya (http://piratekaya.wordpress.com)

Kaya has been added to the OPML download, along with Jinarre (http://jin-neweden.blogspot.com) .

Wow, we are up to 137 blogs now!!!

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Yeah, I am not gong to recap all the postings and all the new information on EVE that has been presented at Fanfest 2008.  I am simply going to plug the best place for information so far, CK’s blog.

Visit Crazykinux’s Musings, he’s got the entire skinny right now:  http://www.crazykinux.com

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