I'm current sat on a train speding towards London using the national express free wifi which is much better than I thought it was likely to be.

Anyway this is only a short update for now just filling people in as to my where abouts.

Since saturday we have been in Rotherham visiting Rachy's Parents.

Today we are heading to London to see Phantom of the Opera this afternoon, we are following that up by seeing Mousetrap, a show that i've always wanted to see for as long as i've been reading Agatha Christie novels.

Tomorrow we plan to visit the London Dungeon and the Tate Modern. Finally the reason for first visiting is to see Devotchka in Scala.

We travel home on Thursday for a well deserved rest.

Right I'm off to drink overpriced tea and listeniing to "I'm sorry I haven't a clue".

Hope you are all having a good week.

Well as I promised myself a new toy after i left work.
Well it arrived today my small yet practical eee pc from ASUS,

I've had a play around with it for the last few hours and here are my thoughts.

Now this isn't going to run call of duty 4 or any heavy software, but then it isn't meant too.

The product box is very small, it was quite exciting to open, there really isn't alot inside, the PC battery and power supply.

Now one element that I have always liked about the EEE is that the power pack is small, there's no large transformer that need to be hauled arund everywhere, infact it reminds me of phone chargers from a few years back.

The keyboard is small but not that back to be honest, takes a little while to adjust to using it but after the first couple of mistakes your find it naturally is easy  to use.

The screen size isn't super-wide or with vista style graphics, but it is big enough to display everything you need to interact with.
The built in wireless was quick to setup although I was slightly confused at first, things could have been a little clearer.

But in all I couldn't be happier with it and having a lightwight laptop to take with me is a better prospect that carting my other laptop about.

Well thats it for now, more to follow soon.

Sadly over the past few months there appears to be a massive problem of cheaters in my all-time favourite game Planetside. Sadly the problem hasn't been combated as SOE first indicated it would. There are a few reason that for this, maybe it's difficult to track those using software to cheat, or perhaps the revenue from these players is in the end money and why would they want to ban accounts of perhaps half of the remaining players.

A saddening fact but one that me and my fellow clan members feel is the most likely.

What for our clan in online games in the future.

It seems alot of people are waiting for Warhammer to either send them a Beta invite or be released. In the meantime there are loads of different games that has drawn my gaming friends attention.
These has included Dark age of Camelot/ Everquest 2  and more recently Lord of the Rings online.

Can Warhammer be the title that can take and existing game type and and existing highly detailed universe and combine them into a Multiplayer RPG game succesfully. But how can this success be judged?

Do we judge based on the number of accounts like WoW does? Surely indicating active and inactive accounts isn't required, right?
Do we match it up with Tabula Rasa? Sadly the would be flagship for scifi/mmorpg games of the future didn't quite live up to the hype.

I think that WAR will be judged by comparisions to existing games and that is the important point, Is the game able to provide something that can pull in hundreds of thousand of players yet still remain original and unique in the ever-changing world of Online gaming.


As for me I've been quite happy playing the City of games as I feel there is enough diversity for my attention not to wander too much, I also like to jump on Planetside/ World in Conflict or Guild wars if i want a change of pace.

There are a few promising titles in the pipelines sadly none of them aimed at replacing planetside, but they look good all the same.

I'm back to revive my blog once again.

It's been a very busy couple of months with lots going on and I didn't really feel in the mood to write in my blog for reasons explained below.

As of the 29th of February my employment with Lloyds TSB ended after a 9 and half years with my job being offshored. The past 4 months have been very odd and difficult there is something slightly depressing about training someone else to do your job.

So anyway in the next few months I plan to get some things in the house completed, I have lots of training to wade through and hopefully slot some driving lessons and test into the equation when possible, Oh and looking for a new job. Busy me!

I shall be keeping my blog updated a little more too.

Well as 2007 draws to a close I thought i'd post a quick note. The last year was quiet a busy year for me yet the site still got some updates. And towards the end of the year the pace was much improved.

So thanks to those that have visited and those that commented in the past year, I hope you'll rejoin me in 2008 for what looks set to be an extremely different year for me.

So in the words of Bill Bailey:
Merry Primary Gifting Period and a happy Auxiliary Generosity Zone.