When I set out to switch to the Itch & Be Merry formula I was hoping to stick to one entry per day and one clear subject per entry. It would be much neater that way and things would have a point, it would also result in a more consistent blog. Something ppl could rely on, like a sanitary towel or Des Lynem. Alas it wasn’t to be, I’m way too much of a skattabrain. So here’s another directionless mixed bag.

Look at this with your eyes. It’s funny, when I used to play WoW (properly, not the recent short lived mac revival) I kept my sexuality to myself for several reasons, those being it’s no-ones business, it’s supposed to be a fantasy game & the majority of players are children who, as we know are probably the most homophobic demographic of all. Despite this I would now and again say the odd risque thing within the guild, nothing too offensive and mostly just stuff that you would have to know to find humorous. Thing is, the guild owner was female and bizarrely despite being the owner, none of the other members were female. So one day, whilst I was in a comical mood and was coming out with stupid double-entandre’s verging on camp she pm’d me with “Are you gay?”. She’s a nurse so her gaydar is quite high andway, so I came clean, and suddenly despite barely speaking to the guild owner since starting the game I was all buddy buddy with them from then on. So take that blizzard.

Yeah that was a great argument.

I’m sure I’ll have won them over.

I’m hugely hugely pissed with my brother, he told a friend of his whose dad is having PC trouble that i’d take a look at it for him. Without asking me first. My bro phoned a week ago to tell me and I said straight out that I wouldn’t do it, that mending ppl’s comps is the most hideously painfully boring irritating thing in the whole world and besides I barely know his dad… infering don’t you know who I am, you’re my brother for pete’s sake you should know I have shyness issues god damn you bastard.
So yeah, you’d think after all that he’d get back to him and say I couldn’t do the favour. Then this morning who turns up at the door…. yeah you guessed it. I couldn’t say no when confronted so now i’m stuck with it. Some really freaky things were wrong with his windows install too, you couldn’t access anything that relied on the RPC Server, such as disk management. And ‘net start rpcss’ resulted in a not a valid win32 app error. Weird huh? Windows file protection restore scanner doo-dar command line wotsit came up blank so i figured all you could do was re-install. Fun.

Ppl who aren’t technically minded should be forced into buying macs. For the sake of everyone else. And I’m seriously buying that T-Shirt that says ‘no I will not fix your pc’.

On a whim, and to balance out the favouritism I made a slight addition to google’s firefox promotion. What d’ya think? Possibly a bit cheeky? The typeface isn’t quite the same, but I don’t think i’ve got whatever it is they’ve used, a kind of condensed sans-serif with a squiggly ‘g’, hmm.

Been one of those nudeness kinda days… no not nudeness, nuisance. A nuisance kinda day. Eddie had a dose of worming tablets and it didn’t seem to agree with him. Strange because he’s had them before and they’ve never upset his stomach previously. He puked up all over the living room. He could have just got it all out in one go, but he had to make 4 or 5 little sick patches spread apart. Thanks Eddie.

Also irritating, for the first time in ages I really really really felt like having a good long game on warcraft but the urge just had to coincide with the day they choose to have major server issues didn’t it? They always take the servers down for maintenance on an early Wednesday morning, to be complete by 10am GMT. Only today some of their servers failed to come back to life, including the one my character resides “The Venture Co.” It still isn’t up. Damnit. I’m pretty sure they’ve never been down for more than a few hours previously, so it must be bad

2. Re: 30/11 – Weekly Maintenance | 11/30/2005 2:37:07 AM PST

We have encountered technical difficulties with bringing the following realms back up: [...list of 12 servers...]

We are working hard to solve the issue, but the severity of the problem has resulted in these realms having to stay down for further maintenance. We expect them to be up around 14:00 (Paris Time, UTC/GMT+1).

3. Re: 30/11 – Weekly Maintenance | 11/30/2005 5:33:10 AM PST

The issue encountered earlier has proven to be more difficult than first predicted, and we will not be able to bring the mentioned realms up at the time we first hoped.

We apologise for the inconvenience we know this is causing a lot of players. Our technical department is working very hard to fix the issue and they hope to have it solved by the end of this afternoon.

Wel the end of the afternoon has been and gone. Humph. These are the european servers i’m talking about btw. I don’t think it’s even possible for us to connect to the american ones.

Still no game. Incidentally this is the error message you get when you start the game. Anyone else see a slight problem with it? Yah, when exactly did the 3 hours start? Haha. People seem rather ticked off on the wow forums. Along with the usual people who try to use every situation to blag freebies, oooh oooh ooh can I have a free month for this?? Can I can I?

Horrendous, i didn’t write anything yesterday. I’m hoping to get a run of 28 days, can’t see that ever happening. I’m such a forgetful person, seriously. Talk about absent minded.

It’s terrible but when I have 50 or more articles to read on a bloglines page I tend to get about half way through the page before I end up skipping past masses with my eyes only noticing those entries with pretty pictures, it’s not really a conscious thing. So, more pretty pictures people. Even if they aren’t relevant to anything.

I gave the kiss of life to my warcraft account earlier this month, well I paid for a month’s play but I’ve barely touched it, I’ve probably only got a few days left as well Bit annoying. TBO the only reason I did it was an overbearing urge to see how it played on my iBook. A really cool thing about it is that blizzard were thoughtful enough to include both the PC and Mac version on the same disks, so i didn’t need to buy the game again. And it runs pretty damn well on the iBook which is a testament to blizzards coding skills. And of the iBook’s design of course. This particular model has 32mb of GPU RAM for the game to play with, anything less and warcraft probably would have suffered from some visual glitches. In fact the Radeon Mobility 9550/32MB is quite powerful considering this is Apple’s lowest end notebook. The equivalent vaio’s have dodgy turbocached geforce go’s that share the main ram.

I have the feeling I might mentioned the above before. Ah well, oh yeah and a oddity, on OS-X, when you only have access to a single button mouse/trackpad you hold control to do a right-click. But, in warcraft you do Command-click instead. weird huh? I wonder if apple will start putting mighty-trackpads on their ‘books. By that I mean a 2-button affair, but with the appearance of 1 button.