The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / August 16, 2008 / John / 0
OK, with the every increasing number of domains that live under the nelefa.org umbrella, I thought it was about time I organised a dedicated VM so they’re all in one please rather than scattered all over the internet. After looking around at many different hosting companies, I’ve gone (after a personal recommendation from The Daniels)
Ramblings / August 13, 2008 / John / 0
Tonight, my children have effectively demonstrated that the human race are lucky to exist at all. After a two hour session of Og: Unearthed they managed to shake off an over-friendly brachiosaurus by grunting loudly, run away from an elephant they thought was a tyrannosaur, richochet wildly about a thicket of springy bamboo while almost
Ramblings / August 13, 2008 / John / 0
I don’t know what this is supposed to be about, but it’s on Dogwood Tales, Red’s Ramblings, and deKay’s Blog so I’d be a freakish outcast if I didn’t slavishly follow along with it. Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. July 4th Events 1054 – A supernova is
Ramblings / August 12, 2008 / John / 1
“Can I have a 9 pin hardware gender changer please?” “Eh, what?” “Can I have a 9 pin hardware gender changer please?” “Yeah, sorry, I heard what you said, I meant what as in ‘why’, not what as in ‘what'” “I want to attach a second monitor to my video card.” “And you need a
Ramblings / August 11, 2008 / John / 1
Joy. After a fantasticly exciting week of sitting in the house watching the rain, it’s back to the joys of shouting at servers and coercing programmers into not breaking them (which is, in itself, a skill not unlike herding cats). It was a little surprising to wander into the office and discover that nothing was
Ramblings / August 5, 2008 / John / 0
I filled my ipod with random stuff today cos we were going out for a drive. At some point in the journey, “Wuthering Heights” by Kate Bush came on. It’s a song I like, but haven’t heard for years. It always just sounded like a cheery jingly pop song with a particularly nice vocal. Today,
Ramblings / August 5, 2008 / John / 0
Well, this one was a bit of a surprise! Eschalon is a turn based RPG in the style of Wizardry, Ultima, and so on. It’s an orthogonal / iso projected world, with loads of stats, loads of quests and pretty old-school graphics. And it’s shareware – can be had for $19 these days. Anyhoo, I’ve
The Tube / August 3, 2008 / John / 2
We’ve had a bit of a pirates of the caribbean weekend. All in, three cracking movies but dear god what’s with the utterly depressing ending? It’s a Disney movie for heaven’s sake! We expect HAPPY SHINY endings in our Disney movies, thankyouverymuch.
Game Diary / August 2, 2008 / John / 0
I wonder what was going through the developers’ heads when they were designing this game. After playing last night, I sat musing for a while, and I reckon the developer meetings must have sounded something like this: “Hey, I have an idea! Let’s liberally spread instant death situations all over the place so that the
The Tube / August 1, 2008 / John / 0
Mrs Gubbins and the children saw this a while back and had a good old rave about it, but I only saw it for the first time last night. And, well, it’s fantastic! It’s basically a fairytale, but for modern times (yes, that old cliche), in that it has a sense of humour, a wide