Here is simple list features where wow is better than muds.

• Easier
• Modern “3d” graphs
• Huge amount of players

And where muds are better than wow…

• Choice (there is many muds to choose)
• Challenging (Much much more challenging quests.)
• Triggers, clients, scripts… (If you like programming, you love to write various scripts/triggers to your mud client)
• Multi platform (Works on every platform and almost on every computer)
• Open source (Want to make your own mud?
• Great ideas (Interesting world, nice quests (not just “go kill that and come back”-like quests. You need your brains…)
• Dynamic world. (Players can build their own castles and cities.)
• Much more content. (More spells, More mobs, More eq, More everything)
• Free

So, if you want something more challenging than wow, try muds. They are very fun when you learn them and it can take years to learn everything.

Only thing that I see why peoples play wow, is the graphics.

I recommend to try Batmud. It is very popular and great mud. It also has nice client that makes playing it easier.

Good luck…

What I like on wow is the user interface. Everything is clear and simple. But the greatest feature is addons. I installed Titanpanel and Questhelper. Both are very nice addons. Titanpanel is awesome addon.

Yes, the end game with 70-80 level character minght be very fun, but I don’t want to waste my time to create that char. Grinding just isn’t worth of 13e/month.

No more FTP Yes, no more ftp. I can now upgrade the whole Wordpress with couple of clicks, without ftp. Now it is even possible to install plugins just by choosing them from admin panel.

Great interface Much better interface to navigate on admin panel. Dashboard is now customizable. (when will Wordpress get netvibes/iGoogle like widget support?)

My ideas from my previous post are now true. Wordpress is now perfect. Only thing I would like to have is themes for admin panel.

Trial installation download wasn’t very bigI got it up and running in 30mins. There was some problems with wine, because wine didn’t like the automatic background download of resource when playing. (Trial installer loads more stuff on background) I disabled it and found the login screen. Then is the time to create account. I closed wow…

…And started account creation. It was pretty easy and simple, but I don’t like that I had to give my card number just to play free trial… Otherwise the account creation is nice and easy.

First hours. In 2 hours I managed to get my dwarf to level 5. The game feel same as mud’s, but with graphics… But this is only my opinion with 2 hours of playing… I can’t say what is the end game like.

Technically, the game is great. Platinium-level wine compatibility and nice graphics.

My level 5 dwarf

After sometime, I decided to move to “real” webhosting. After that I installed Wordpress and tried to have a blog. I didn’t have enough time/skills to keep it up, so I went to “normal” website. I installed Joomla for two months. I hated joomla and moved back to hand code my website.

Old Pelikoira website. CMS is cutenews.

After couple of big difficulties on my hosting, I moved to new servers, and got much better systems. I restarted blogging with better succession.

Couple days ago, I read some of my text on my website, I realized that the content isn’t good. Most of text contains lots of typos and it’s mostly boring.

So I recreated my website in two parts. Blog and Website. Blog is the place where I write my random thoughts, and other stuff. On the “main” website you can find my projects, links and other non-blogging stuff.

Screenshot of Pelikoira website before total makeover.

So what is my records? Well, my most popular website is joke about vista’s source code. It got very popular on stumbleupon with over 350 comments. I got about 80,000 unique visitors on two days. I got about 130,000 unique visitors on my website at year 2008 on my previous server. (I lost my awstats logs when I changed hosting )

Old content is now deleted, but  you can still access the downloads to get old stuff. Some big projects are coming soon…

http://www.pelikoira.net

But here is list why irssi is the best irc-client:

• Fast and lightweight - works on almost any machine
• Console application (no gui) - you can ssh to it and irc without X-server running
• No mouse - I simply love this, I don’t have to move my hands away from the keyboard!
• Customizable - Almost everything can be changed. And there is also nice perl scripting support. (look at script directory)
• Logging - Good logging that even supports log-rotation
• Themes - Lots of cool themes.
• Proxy - You can load irssi-proxy module and connect to your irssi with any irc-client. I think that this is also the best proxy software.

For me it is essential application. I simply can’t live without it.

Irssi homepage

Idea of Gravatar is simple. When you have created a account to Gravatar, you can upload your avatar. When you post a comment blogs, your Gravatar is automatically placed by your comment. You don’t have to register to every website to get a avatar, Gravatar finds your avatar with your email-address.

With one avatar change you can change all of your avatars easily.

So if you don’t have Gravatar, go get it!

Apt-get like package manager builtin to Wordpress would be awesome. It is already possible to update plugins automatically, but I would also like to install and delete plugins without ftp access.

Package manager should also manage Wordpress core files and upgrade them automatically when new stable release is out.

It is just so boring to upload upgrades via FTP… I would really like to see something like this in future.

But here is list why muds are so great. (especially Batmud)

• You can play them on any computer that can be connected to Internet
• It is Multi User game!
• Massive world
• Nice story and interesting task (not just “go kill all and come back”)
• Totally free, no “premium accounts”
• Friendly community

So, if you like games like Nethack, ADOM etc, I will recommend you to try out Batmud. It is the best Mud, and there is also a nice Batclient, that makes playing easier for beginners.