My last update was a while ago (see here ) but she has now passed away. She’d been having difficulty getting about as her condition grew worse but she never complained and didn’t seem to be in pain last night when I checked on her.

she’ll be missed bless her…

So in the general theme of looking around for moonkin gear:

Living Crystal Breastplate definately want this and fortunately I have the skill – just a case of finishing the tribal leather working quests. the only tricky bit here will be the crystal infused leather what with me not being a skinner. I guess I should start saving the scales and such that I need for the windhawk gear now too.

in other news I’m now the proud owner of :

shoulders	Twin Moon Shoulderguards	Crush the Bloodmaul Camp!
feet	Uvuros Hide Boots	Uvuros must die

Not gone for the off-hand yet and it turns out the quest for the mana-infused bracers has a bit of a quest chain attached. I would also say that uvuros is a non-trivial 5 man. Tried him with three and a pet tanking, then 5 with a warrior tanking and priest healing – wiped both times. Needs a priest + secondary healer for the kill.

Still on the to get list then:

wrists	mana infused wrists	A Fate Worse Than Death
offhand	The saga of terokk	Terokk’s legacy
chest	Living Crystal Breastplate	pattern
waist	Eighty Silver Links	Ortor My Old Friend…

Feels like I've been really busy lately but can't really say what I've been up to. Pretty much it seems work has been taking much of my time and will it seems for a few weeks to come and what little spare time I get around my chores I'm disappearing off to a virtual world to make an effort to keep up with chums. That said I had occasion to visit London a few times lately as a cousin in law was visiting. I do like eating in TGI Friday's but must admit I'm not a fan of the recently reduced menu - still, the source of a number of good nights and calories for me. T'ai chi and all that side has taken a back burner for a month now, I'm thinking I need to pick it up again but not sure how yet. Oh, and I went to camden recently which still is a very cool shopping location ;)

some target gear:

wrists	mana infused wrists	A Fate Worse Than Death
offhand	The saga of terokk	Terokk’s legacy
shoulders	Twin Moon Shoulderguards	Crush the Bloodmaul Camp!
feet	Uvuros Hide Boots	Uvuros must die

Seems the caverns of time open up for you at 66, was lucky enough to have a go at freeing thrall last night which was fun – 3 druids, priest and hunter. was a bit barmy. I’m very nearly 67 (like 0.1 of a bar away). I’ve done a fair bit of nagrand now having largely skipped terrokar. I strongly advise you do the 5 man ring of trials in the north – the end of the quest line is tough but gives you a good healing hammer – you can look at my allakhazam profile for it, but its 160 healing and 5 mana/5s – nice. leatherworkings up to 244 but I ran out of thick leather – when I hit 250 I get the rugged leather stuff and will be home clear to 300 but waiting on thick leather to appear on the AH again now.

Telaar is actually very cool – mucho quests there and lots of things to collect and hand in. The flight point is on top of the inn, which is at the highest point in the town. Gives a lovely view of the world. You also have the opportunity of more safari type quests with kill 30 X and 30 Y type quests. I’ve left the consortium quests for now though – thinking I’ll do some more auchindoun quests to get my rep up and then start their quests out of aeris.

The caverns of time quest was fun, some interesting new mechanics in there but things were going so quick it was hard to track. fun tho.

I’ll go back to terrokar once I’ve got my lower city rep up in the crypt instances or similar. All good fun :D

Some interesting articles here from ongoing and a reference article here . The latter points out an interesting distinction between middleware architecture and Web Architecture and is something I’m intending to read more on. The former points to the vendor adoption route to technology adoption, i.e. just as vendors introduced “standards” to JavaScript which the community at large was obliged to adhere to, so Microsoft in it’s position of power has expressed significant influence on the whole WS-* stuff.