The servers are just doing rolling restarts today, so I'll keep this short so you can get right back to playing.

Might want to take a good look at your alts. Bornakk let's those of us who love alts know that we'll need to free up an existing Character Slot for one as there are no current plans to add more slots per account/server to the game right now. 

Danial Whitcomb has a nice article on how Arena Point/Rating Matching is supposed to work. Clears it up nicely, so here's hoping it actually works. 

In a move that I'm not sure would work very well in this country, China's government has asked businesses to shut down for 3 days as a period of mourning for all the tragedy suffered over there of late. The company that provides WoW service that way, along with several others are  honoring this, and shutting down. I can approve of the intent of the gesture, but wonder how well it'd actually go over in North America. 

Back, way back when Blizzard's Warden program was discovered, it set some tongues wagging. Now due to another lawsuit, a lot of details about what Warden does are coming to light. I have to say, this  is some interesting stuff. It must be a pretty complex program, and has a lot of folks wondering just how legal it's use is.