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
Ramblings / July 28, 2008 / John / 0
About as historically accurate as Lord of the Rings, but who cares! Rather than going for the continuous melancholic inevitability approach of the 2004 remake, this John Wayne outing goes all guns blazing for the ‘heroic last stand’ approach. Yeah, ok, so everyone dies, but there’s the usual rousing speeches and soapboxing that hollywood movies
Ramblings / July 28, 2008 / John / 0
You really can’t beat a good 50s/60s “Swords and Sandals” epic, can you? Everything’s brightly coloured, the enemies are evil beyond belief, the heroes are manly beardy and the girlies swoon and flutter like swoony-fluttery things! And then there’s the awesome Harryhausen creations – in Jason we have a giant bronze statue, harpies, a hydra,
Ramblings / July 20, 2008 / John / 0
Today we decided to get bang up to date (for us) and went to see something which was in use only a few hundred years ago. This was actually the first time I’ve been inside Linlithgow Palace and I was kind of amazed at the sheer size of the place. To the extent that I