Well, it looks like I'm handing over the Guild Leadership tonight as there is only one official candidate.
Still, this will be a good thing for me. I have quite enough on my plate at the moment with development work and health regimes and such.

Because there is less going on in the democratic voting than I had expected I found some time to create a little internet quiz on Quizilla today too. Please feel free to play, and post your results in the comments.

Well I think the 2.0 WoW patch is finally settling down... for me at least. I've replaced Discord with Trinity, and though I miss my XP Bar, at least I can easily assign keys to Stances. My Warlock made 40 last night as I'm working on her wile everyone else is grinding for Epix in Battle Grounds. Bert isn't speced for playing Battle Grounds, and since most people are waiting to see how much easier it is to get better kit in The Burning Crusade instances and even Outlands, Bert is probably better off not doing much at the moment.

In other Game news, anyone following things I do, or who has similar interests might like to look at my Nation State, The Principality of High Bosogravia.

As if being the Guild Leader of weren't dictatorial enough.

Actually most of what I do in the Sabbat tends to be pretty diplomatic and democratic, High Bosogravia however is a principality and I am it's Prince. I don't hold democracy dear there, because otherwise I can't get my nation to where I want it. I do let the people decide where their tax money goes on taxation day though, which was actually the quickest way to get Health, Social Welfare and Education on high priority. The many calls from industry are ignored completely, and the Car is illegal in Bosogravia.

That's the trouble with democracy, ultimately industry gets a greater share of the vote than people, even if people are doing the voting. They consider their jobs, their lively hood, their promotion prospects and their consumer interests above the greater goal of the nations health, cultural and spiritual diversity and freedom. Many typical invasion of privacy and militaristic tenancies that most dictatorships fall in to, I am simply dismissing. However I have kept National Service, and have refused to loosen up on the recruits.

The point there is that discipline is an important skill that only a military training can teach properly. Parents and School Teachers can only point the way, to do more would break the caring relationship that it is important that they also foster. It is my hope that I will not have to send anyone other than carrier military in to combat, but can utilise these young people on draft for all the good humanitarian work the army does.

I have had an income tax rate of 100% of earnings for some time now, and though I had hoped for about 75% with  more for the very wealthy, it isn't too great a concern for me. At that level people will have to relight entirely on state welfare, which means they won't be concerned how much they earn, only how much welfare they are entitled to. I would obviously allocate greater welfare to the more productive, within their own means. Recently Dental Hygienists acquired so much welfare they became the new aristocracy. That is taking it a bit too far, and only occurred because I refused to fluoridate the water supply, preferring instead to make dental care free and funded by the state.

Anyway, if you're interested in seeing what kind of national leader you would make I would recommend setting up a nation state.

Okay so the 2.0 patch is out and every single AddOn for WoW is broke. I've been fighting to get the system in any way like I can use.

Also Priest and Warrior talent specs are broke. All the Priests are going Shadow, so no more Raid heals, and all the Warriors are going DPS for the Epic PvP rewards, so no more Raid Tanking. Well Bert isn't going that way. I never made him to do DPS and PvP, I have a nice Lock and a Rogue for that. Bert will remain a Raid Tank, but this does mean that for now, while everyone else is getting PvP Epics in BG Bert is sidelined while I level Anna.

Guild is quiet, I think everyone is shell shocked. We aren't having as much fall out as the larger guilds tho, who are set up solely for 40man Raids and of course now have no Tanks and no Holy Priests and simply cannot do the Raids, Many of those are just breaking up.

The bottom has completely fallen out of the Auction House, and Epix worth 400g last week won't sell for 30g this week. Nexus Crystals are abundant on the AH, I suspect for exactly this reason.

Anyway, I'm still desperately missing Discord Action Bars, but that will be replaced with DUB sometime after the release of BC. Till then I'm gonna have a play with Flexbar. I don't mind a bit of coding, what worries me is can I get my Stance Dance hot keys back?

On the subject of Coding I got enough installed on my system again to complete the IWA 1.0.0.2 update and fix the last remaining niggle bug... The documentations not showing their full name. And I've now hosted it at ui.worldofwar.net. I'm just a little bummed it has to go through approval before it gets listed. I was hoping to link it in on our Guild Forums new 2.0 Extras Thread. Oh well. Soon is good enough.