Archive > November 2005

The New Galactic Empire

I have been attempting to write this post for, well, the best part of the whole of November now. It was my view, opinion and comment about SOE’s recent overhaul of SWG with their “New Game Experience” or NGE (offically announced here.)
The whole event, in my humble yet ever so loud opinion, [...]

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Quiet round here, innit!

I am trying to reinstate the two missing months from this blog (that’s the months I actually wrote in rather than the hiatus months, in case you’re wondering) and am loathe to add anything substantial until I do. This means any comments about the NGE taking place over in Star Wars: Galaxies or [...]

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Concerning Life

While drinking at the pub tonight, I learnt that there are only 3 (three) salient topics of conversation:
Death, Birth and DIY.

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Todays World (Tomorrows Utopia)

The internet may well be shit, but every now and then you find a pure sparkling gem in the rough.

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Please do not adjust your set

The slight downtime in service delivery was not because I had been arrested but because I’d messed up changing the DNS of my servers.
Having rectified the situation, I now find that the copy of my site on the new server is from about two months ago. Either that or I really was [...]

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Serenity (USA, 2005)

Joss Whedon could definitely teach George Lucas a thing or two! There’s a space battle during Serenity that was considerably shorter than the one at the beginning of Episode 3 and also very obviously done on a budget. And yet it was far more exciting than anything that appeared in that movie. [...]

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Caution: Men at work

Been quiet for a couple of days because I’ve been making like Handy Andy and doing a bucket load of DIY this week. The nursery is just about finished!
One of the advantages of living in an older house (35 years old or so I believe) is that it’s built out of good materials. [...]

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