The channel’s name: -DiS- Recruiting
How to join: In the chat window, there is a little “chat bubble” icon in the top-right of the window, click that. This opens a window with a search field for joining channels. Type in -DiS- Recruiting and hit join. Bam, done!
Down to my last two buddy invites for the month, but as I just recently found out, they refresh, so I’ll have more opening up shortly. If you would still like to give the game a shot, feel free to comment and let me know.
Also the Skyrim epidemic has affected EVE as well, so expect slightly lower activity for the next week or two. As soon as I’m down plowing through the main storyline, I’ll be back full-time (at least until a “all-in-one” mod hits that fixes the UI for Skyrim). I expect the same for DiS members also infected.
On the other hand, I’ve heard nothing but good things about the revamped (at least since I did it) new user experience, and the four career arcs after. As those are solo content, now is as good a time as any to get them done and learn the basics, get some skill books and ships, and get yourself in good shape to fly out to our home system.
Hardcore Casual 
With the double whammy of Skyrim (which some bloggers are claiming they will be playing nothing but for months) and SW:toR I wonder if come Christmas there’ll be anyone left playing the various 5 – 12 year old MMOs we’ve all been playing until now.
I totally foresee detoxing from SW:ToR by playing EVE. And vice versa. Between the two, everything I want is covered, and that’s my plan for the year, unless ToR really sucks.
I’m following a project right now redoing Skyrim’s UI. Turns out, the whole UI is done in Flash/ActionScript 2… Which doesn’t really surprise. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to fiddle with (or even replace) so I’d expect a UI overhaul fairly soon. DarN, the guy who redid the Oblivion UI, is one of the peeps working on it. Yay!
Eve: I’d actually love to try it, but not till Skyrim lets go of my soul.
Got a link to the UI project? Or would you mind dropping a comment on the blog when its done? Same goes for EVE, just comment when you are ready.