Well, I’ve finally cancelled my subscription to World of Warcraft. I beat my way to level 43, got my horse, but see little point in continuing. At least at the prices Blizzard are demanding. There are three main reasons. First is game design – at level forty you get your mount, some character bonuses (plate [...]
Archive for July, 2006
The Joys of Hosting
My hosting provider decided to play with their setup overnight. Hence there was a wee outage when they changed the server configuration so that php_value and php_flag were no longer valid in .htaccess files. And what's worse (and somewhat unusual), the logs show quite a few access attempts while the server was throwing 500 errors. [...]
Terrorism is wrong, unless you’re a Zionist
While Israel bomb Beirut they celebrate the terrorism of Irgun. Could they be any more blatant in their double standards? Update: there’s a discussion on this at MetaFilter. Interestingly it’s completely sane and well mannered, unlike the general rubbish you find present in most discussions on the Internet.
And just why am I cycling?
I received the following travel update yesterday evening: TravelAlert 17:25: BAKERLOO, CENTRAL, CIRCLE, DISTRICT, ELndn, HAMMERSMITH & CITY, JUBILEE, METROPOLITAN, NORTHERN and Pcdly: Severe delays due to faulty com… Faulty communications equipment on every line. Go London!
Just the sort of thing for this weather
While I did get disbelieving stares after making a cup of tea at work earlier this week (our air-con is absent without leave) I must generally concede that it is indeed too hot for the most English of drinks. Nevertheless I stumbled across a lovely blog reviewing some of the many places around where you [...]
Transport for the Brave
The problem with cycling in London is not the cars. While one does, of course, run into the occasional madman, the majority are considerate of cyclists and even rather tolerant. Buses are, as you’d imagine, quite a vexation – they have a habit of stopping frequently and changing lanes with little warning, and the bendy [...]
It’s all about the tools
It's always a popular pastime to take the piss out of Java. Fans of other languages continually point of the advantages in productivity given by dynamic languages such as Python or Ruby. These are in some cases very real, although they do tend to prejudice their case with silly things like 'lines of code' as [...]
Disclaimer
You’ll have to forgive the shoddy writing and what not. Why? Because the temperature at my desk got to 30.6C today. Tomorrow we’re tipped to hit 36C. God only knows what sort of hell exists on the Tube…
No wonder they hate us
Whenever Israel goes on the warpath one has to wonder if anything of value can be added to the discussion. With the current bogeyman of terrorism and the tendency of people to cry ‘anti-semetic’ every time someone dares to query the ever questionable actions of Israel. Nevertheless, when one sees the destruction of infrastructure and [...]
Death to BT
I just checked the current timeline for my upgrade from 2mbps to 8mpbs: We currently estimate that we will upgrade your line in the week commencing Monday, January 01, 2007. Yes, six months from now. Why? We would love to upgrade you sooner; however, our supplier, BT, have limited the amount of upgrades we can [...]
