A little tidbit: I bought World of Warcraft on Saturday, and thought to myself last night (Sunday) that I’d install it and have a go. Its now Monday night, and I’m still not playing it. Install with 5 CD’s took about 1 hour, then the 1st patch was about a 250mb download which took a bit over 2 hours. That was Sunday gone. Now its Monday night, I’m just finishing up a bit of b5media work and I think to myself “I’ll check out World of Warcraft”….and what do I find: more patches. One downloads and installs in a couple of minutes, which is fine, now I’m downloading another one which is ?? out of 22,000 odd I don’t know whats, but it looks like its going to take hours at this rate. Given I’ve already signed up I’m half tempted to take it back, 1 day in and I still cant play the thing because of all the patches that need to be downloaded. Its really, really bad.
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Admission time here: as a kid I was a huge lego fan: I had an extensive lego railway and town, probably 10 sq metres of it atleast, and probably more, it actually took up a whole room in a house we once lived in. So as much as my son owns megablocks and lego, this sort of makes me sad, and yet happy at the same time, given that lego has lost the plot from what I can see. Read here. In the old days of lego you could build a town and buy a post office, a train station, hotel, etc, etc… today I don’t recognise lego, its Harry Potter and space stuff, none of the basic stuff from what I can see, and its all very, very complicated. The wonder of lego for me as a child was that I could get pieces to build a town of practical items. I could drive the cars around on the Lego Road maps (which all connected up) and on which you could put your lego buildings. It was magical, in a practical, real life sense. Today they’ve just seem to have lost the plot. One lego peice doesn’t fit with another in terms of theming any more. No wonder kids are buying megablocks.
This is leadership:
The Register: An extraordinary criticism of Tunisia?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s approach to the Internet was fired at its president Zine Ben Ali at the opening ceremony of the World Summit in Tunis this morning.
Swiss president Samuel Schmid drew huge applause from the back of the room when he directly criticised Tunisia?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s controlling Internet policies. “It is unsupportable that the UN still has members that imprison their own citizens because of what they have written on the Internet or in the press,” he said. “Everyone should be able to express their views freely.”
This is pretty cool: FlightAware. Saw it on Joi Ito’s blog, he says that he wishes it was international. What would they do for Western Australia though, you could probably track the domestic traffic with less than 10 dots, and this for a state bigger than Western Europe 🙂
One thing that really sh*ts me about the press is the lies they use, and the biggest lie of all is that there was no weapons of mass distruction in Iraq. Because folks, there was.
Here is a short list
0.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
Chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas
And thats only part of the list. Don’t believe what you hear or read. WMD was found in Iraq, its just not popular to say so.
Apparently its Halloween, so my wife tells me as about 8 kids knocked on the door tonight here in Western Australia, which is all very well and good…except that it’s an American thing and I really have no interest in it. So the kids at the door didn’t get a lecture about the evils of stupid American traditions…because at the end of the day its really just an American thing that unfortunately has spread here as well…. they all got a CD case each, out of the box of 25 I bought off ebay about 6 months ago for about $2 a case (with shipping)….what can I say? it was cheap, which is why I bought it, even if I’ve only used 2 since, and now there are 8…. hang on another 4 ppl just knocked on the door whilst I was typing this, so that makes 12 kids who have brand new CD cases. Who needs lollies when you can store your CDs! I hope there aren’t too many more, I’m running out of cases 🙂
No, I’m not being paid for this, but I want to share it none the less, I’ve been looking at all sorts of money moneying things to complement the b5media blogs and what should I stumble upon: Affiliateprograms.com.
I read this ezine for years (probably 10??) and somewhere along the way, probably when I last changed ISP email accounts I didn’t renew and then totally forgot about it. Allan Gardyne, the writer because very sick for a while and there wasn’t a lot being put out which is probably why I forgot about it but I’m happy to say Allan’s still kicking strong. Just signed up again and looking forward to reading it again.
Its the Queens Birthday long weekend here, so I’m sitting at home doing some site scripting, fixing the wifes laptop, and a few other things, and I think to myself: why not put on some music. So I fire up Winamp (the AOL Music/ Winamp music and video lists are first rate) and I’m flicking through some of the WinAmp music sites and what do I find under alternative: Crowded House. God I must be getting old if younger generations consider Crowded House alternative. I’m still loving it though, maybe if they are alternative they must be cool again. The love never died for me. Now if only Paul Hester hadn’t done himself in I could grow old and attend reunion concerts like all those other bands from the 80’s seem to be indulging in now. Sad really. One band that for me wrote music that will be timeless.
A damn fine assessment
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This is nice, but I’m really going to have to watch the gramatical structure and use of English in my comments for now on if they are going to make the English press.
