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A big round of clap for our newest editor, Cody Bye. It's going to be a hoot picking up the phone and saying, "Hello, Bye!" Anyway, treat him like you treat the rest of us. I'll post pictures of him crying in the washroom if you do.

Top 5 Things Not To Do In Vanguard

5) Do NOT request that healers be nerfed, or you might get what you asked for.

4) Do NOT stop running. Mobs will chase you literally forever. If you haven't been running for at least five minutes then you haven't run far enough. Keep going, it's good for your heart.

3) Do NOT shout "This game sucks" in the public channels. Unbeknownst to you, the in game chat system changes it to say "I enjoy donkey sex" on the screens of everyone but you.

2) Do NOT swim unless it is absolutely required. Swimming in Vanguard is like a chimpanzee with a hand grenade. It's funny, but dangerous.

1) Do NOT accidentally click recall while deep in a dungeon with your group. By the time you figure out that the ESC key is the way to cancel the spell you will be back in Tursh.

I thought I had a pretty cool home office. My setup looks out of a wall of windows directly upon a lake. Two six-foot by 36-inch board tables create the workspace. One table has my two desktop machines; one mac and one PC, though the PC is currently dead, along with my macbook pro laptop. The other board table is home to three machines for my kids and my wife. I'm used to seeing six monitors lit up, but it never fails to garner a "Whoa" from someone who has never walked into my office. As Phil "Ralphedelominius" Comeau so aptly put it, "You have a wall of monitors". Yes I do sir, yes I do!

My office is a mere shadow of Stefan Didak's. Take a look at this incredible setup. I believe it was Christian Antkow who had a setup at id Software that wrapped around him. It's been a while, but I believe it had six or seven monitors that basically surrounded him on a "U" shaped desk. If you can top these setups fire me a picture. I'd love to see how you make the most of your gaming or development space.

Last, but not least, I updated the Blogroll in the right menu to better reflect the blogs that I read regularly. Enjoy!

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