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This updated version of the code will pull down the latest image from WorldofWarcraft.com from either their Blizzard images or the new Fan Art section randomly.

Recent Updates to code:

• July 9, 2010 - Added code to randomly pull from any image on page.
• July 22, 2010 - Added code to check what images were available last time it checked the Blizzard images, then download the newest if one is available. No changes - randomly between all Blizz images.Removing code and placing into ZIP attachment. Code appears to be causing formatting issues on later pages.

I was reading through Zanderfin's blog about the World of Warcraft backgrounds posted to their site.

At any rate, it may actually motivate me enough to monthly change my wallpaper. Now, if I can just figure out a way to automate that.

I've always believed the best way to learn scripting is to build a script that you immediately have a need want for. For example, I was reading through one of my Warlock forums for World of Warcraft on a flowchart describing gem selection for gear. OMG, That's great, but well, I want to change it, I want to automate it.

Due to technical issues, I haven't posted here in several months. Now the server has been stable for almost a month, I have to work to get back into the routine of doing so.

Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of World of Warcraft, maintain an 'armory' site. This site allows players like myself to review their characters gear, stats and various achievements. The entire site is a XML dump formatted with a XSLT style sheet.

Of course, you make one thing, then people come up with something better. That same guildie who is working on my robe, came back and said, "Why don't you just read the ingredients directly from Wowhead?".

My warlock has reached 80. He has just about all the regular quest rewards that one can get through soloing the area. Now comes the long haul of playing the more advanced group areas of the game, except even my best quested gear wasn't cutting it for some of the lowest heroic dungeons.

Recently I invested in a pair of Motorola R0kr S9 headphones for my computer at home. Playing games at night after the family is asleep, I'd be the only one to let the dog out. Pause game (brb), take headphones off, run over to patio door, let dog out, reverse, then repeat when the dog wanted back in. That's why when a friend said he wanted this headset, I jumped at the idea.

Meg hadn’t heard from Devon in four months, and she realized that she missed him. So on a whim she tossed her sword and scabbard into the trunk of her car and drove over to campus to visit him.

I have been playing Blizzard's World of Warcraft (WoW) for almost eight months now. This enormous online game, allows me to interact with a portion of the 8 milllion user community and go on missions to resolve this fictional world of it's problems (like pest control, fighting pirates and thieves, skinning dragons, etc.).