I am too weak…

…I have just been introduced to Travian I am already addicted, damn you Paul. Essentially it is an online RTS game, where you build up a village, and stockpile produce before using your alliances to raid local villages, and fend off attacks from others. Simple, effective, but fun.

Meeting Mr Querna

Just home after meeting up with Paul, his mother, and brother whilst they are trekking all over London this week. We had a few beers down at the Cittie of York pub.  This place is great, not only do they produce their own beers, but they are so cheap.  £2 (GBP) for a pint. Not …

webroot – wow how good?

Earlier today I was on the end of yet another presentation. Only this time I walked out wanting to buy the service(s) on offer.  Webroot are a provider of hosted email, and web filtering tools.  My employer currently uses an alternate solution, but sufficed to say after today’s meeting we may be looking elsewhere. The …

National Trust members, at last

Today Alice and I became members of the National Trust.  This means that we can now visit any of their venues/sites and gain free admission.  We have been meaning to do this for goodness knows how long.  We decided to do it after a visit to Anglesey Abbey in Lode, Cambridgeshire.

First BMW service

On Wednesday my dearly beloved, no not the wife, this one is due for it’s first service since the wife and I bought the car at the back end of last year.  I am quietly worried about the cost of this, I have heard many scary things about BMW service costs. Oh well. it’s what …

Vista failed to activate…

Bah! Windows popped up today and told me I may have been using illegal version of Microsoft software. Whaaaaat? This is a $work installation of Vista. Using the VLK.  The error I was presented with is : Code: 0x8007232B Description: DNS name does not exist. Odd, I had no other issues with name resolution.  A …