When nuns attack!

She’s a Maverick Nun, who doesn’t do things by the Good Book, and she’s out to avenge the death of, well, Jesus I suppose. It’s like a bad cop movie! BBC NEWS | UK | Da Vinci code nun ‘not genuine’

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Vernor Vinge – Across Realtime

This is a strange book. It’s actually two, really, and although both are set in the same world with essentially the same technology, they’re several hundreds of millions of years apart and very different in style. The McGuffin (there’s always one, isn’t there?) is ‘The Bobbler’. It’s a device which can create a perfect sphere

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Movement – we have movement all around…

Well, in a manner of speaking. The couple who are buying our house have finally accepted an offer on their house, so things on that front won’t be hanging in limbo. We still have no idea how to work it. Basically, we have two options: 1) The easy option. Stay where we are until it’s

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World of Warcraft (PC)

Some Things Just Need To Be Done(tm) There’s a voodoo Troll bloke on Echo Isles in Southern Durotar who was the bane of Trollbert’s life at level 10. He’s a malignant git with a habit of shrinking you then ganking you. So, I had a spare moment or two to get a bit of revenge

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Oh dear.

I’ve just realised I haven’t actually completed any games this year. At all. There are a few reasons for this: 1) World of Warcraft 2) I’ve been flitting about and not really playing anything with any real seriousness 3) World of Warcraft 4) Too much other stuff going on 5) World of Warcraft. So there

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World of Warcraft (PC)

Mooriel the druid had an epic and extremely intense session in 10-19 battlegrounds yesterday – it went on for about 50 minutes and, for once, both Horde and Alliance were more or less equally twinked. I’ve decided that big stupid cow druids are the dogs’ in Warsong Gulch. Anyhoo, I also had to send some

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Mario and Luigi – Partners in Time (DS)

Another quick go on the bus this morning. So, I dropped out the bottom of the mothership and into the mushroomy village type place and solved some puzzles. Then I found the entrance to Star Hill and began my ascent. Then I stopped. As it were.

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Mario and Luigi – Partners in Time (DS)

Been a bit under the weather today, so I’ve not been hugely active. As a result, I spent a bit of the day playing Mario and Luigi while feeling sorry for myself. Ten minutes after starting playing I suddenley wondered why I stopped. Anyhoo, I’m now on board the Evil Mushroom Mothership so we’ll see

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Pre-departure Seminar

Our agency was holding a pre-departure seminar yesterday, so we went along to see what it was all about. Essentially, it was a chance to speak with some recommended firms who specialise in things like financial planning, overseas shipping, and so on. The main thrust of the seminar, though, was to mingle with other people

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Barrow Hill (PC)

Ok, I’d suggest keeping a notebook handy while playing Barrow Hill – there are numerous clues of various types all over the place and I’m finding I have to do a bit of backtracking every now and again (i.e. going back to look for a car registration number). I had a pretty good idea that

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