Have you ever read through a blog post (such as my own) in Google Reader and wished you could hover over the item links and see that familiar Wowhead tooltip? Well now you can, thanks to a fantastic Greasemonkey script! It’s a simple three step process:
That’s it! Open Google Reader and enjoy, ;)
Test it out with the following items: One | Two | Three
To all those who just read my RSS feed (and don’t regularly visit the website), the RSS item regarding my latest post on gearing a new druid for T4 is completely and totally incorrect. I accidentally meshed together some T4 and T5/T6 data while doing some house cleaning, and it resulted in the completely incorrect items/stats being posted. The post has since been updated to reflect the correct information. My apologies for any confusion.
Oh, and this is probably a good time to mention as any. I myself view most blogs purely in my RSS reader, and I have no problems with you doing the same for my blog (actually, I encourage it, as it makes it easier to keep updated). However, for posts with tables (of items, or of data), I specifically design them in a way that makes them look best on my website, not for your RSS reader. So for the full experience, check out the original article, =D
For those who visit my website and don’t just read my RSS feed, you’d have noticed that you were getting an “Account Suspended” error for the past week or so. Those who just subscribe to the RSS feed would probably have noticed a suspicious lack of activity recently.
I’m sure that all of you who pay for web hosting in any form have probably come across a little glitch once in a while. If you haven’t yet, go backup your website and database now before you hit a hitch, =P
Anyway, my host runs a cron job every month or so that cleans up old files and unaccessible data, in order to keep the server clean and running fast. Recently they implemented a few stricter rules to it, and it accidentally wiped out about half of the accounts stored on that server. The accounts were completely blasted away, showing up as neither “suspended” nor “terminated,” they just suddenly ceased to exist. I’ve been working with my host since I found out about this, and as of yesterday everything should be right back to normal.
Luckily my host (as all good ones should) creates backups every so often, and a recent backup of my site was available for uploading. The only downside is I’ve lost all the blog posts I’ve made in the past two months or so, which while it isn’t pleasant, is certainly not as bad as it could be. I’ve talked with my host and he’s now making daily backups (weekly at the worst), and should something like this happen again, it will go a lot smoother next time.
So, my apologies for all those who were trying to access the site during its downtime, and equal apologies to those who missed my posts in their RSS feed. Thanks for all the support and concern some of you provided during this time, it’s always great to see readers contributing.
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