Month: November 2005

My personal theory, I think the non-player inhabitants bribed the Blizzard people to show some mercy by not bringing the Maelstrom (our server) back online with the rest of them.

This is a list of the server status http://img488.imageshack.us/my.php?image=servers2rx.jpg which shows people being able to play wow everywhere except where my guild’s people are and

http://tinypic.com/i23e42.jpg

Is from a few of our people putting up their own little protest.

Ah well, it’s given me a chilled out night when I’ve been able to natter to people, listen to a little music and maybe get to bed before midnight :-).

And what shall it be …

I already have plans to build a new computer after Xmas strikes as my current one is starting to really struggle, even before I up the screen size with a TFT screen.

Nah. Could be getting a webcam, after being on MSN with someone last night who also had a webcam. Definitely adds something being able to see the other person smile when they read a daft comment that you just typed. And it would let me return the favour as well. Especially as the last picture I have of me is rather embarassing. It’s from before the last cricket season, so I was probably slightly above 14 stone at that point … (lost half a stone now – my belt feels looser already !)

Grr. I can’t find me pencil. Must be in the briefcase that’s still in the car.

[chuckle] I’ll have to get myself organised properly this year by actually writing them more than 1 day before I hand them out 🙂

Yeah – they look awful with that scribbling out inside 🙂

cq

Spotted this one on Craziequeen’s Blog and couldn’t resist seeing what it said …

Your Blog Should Be Blue

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere. You tend to avoid conflict – you’re more likely to share than rant. From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

Wonder what I’d have to say if to get a “your blog should be green” answer ? Hmm. Bears some experimenting. Hmm. Yey ! Changed my answers slightly and got :

Your Blog Should Be Green

Your blog is smart and thoughtful – not a lot of fluff. You enjoy a good discussion, especially if it involves picking apart ideas. However, you tend to get easily annoyed by any thoughtless comments in your blog.

Just come back from our Mall. I managed to avoid spending anything on myself. This can be an economical time for me – I ban myself from impulse buys. Apart from David Weber’s The Apocalypse Troll, which could be interesting. I now have everyone’s Xmas cards. Muahahaha !

(Better mark who they go to, I always forget)

Yep. Been hammering at World of Warcraft pretty solid for the last few days … Except for Thursday.

Neglecting Civ IV again?

I’m on BT 2 meg broadband and have no complaints at all about the ISP reliability

I’ve been experiencing the “expert” customer service from Blueyonder. Phase 1 – nationwide upgrade. Woo hoo ! 4Mb for the price I was paying for 512kb when I got broadband originally.

Erm – why is my internet disconnecting so much ? Most of the time it’s ok but then you get the disconnects, which is usually in the middle of a fight in World of Warcraft. ARG ! Says my character as she dies.

So I look on the status page and it tells me (message gone now) that there’s a problem at my location. Looking further, it tells me that the problem has been resolved and they’re looking into what’s causing it. If they haven’t nailed down the cause, why have they marked it as resolved ? Grr.

Next step – I use their support page to tell them I’m not happy. (Giving their number as the number to call of course, I don’t want them telling me about their problem, I just want it fixed …) I get an email back saying “The fault that this Ticket referred to has been resolved. If you are still seeing problems there may be another cause, and as such we will require diagnostics showing the problem. We can then take the issue further.” They haven’t yet replied to the “If the ticket has been resolved, why am I still having connection issues ?” They also don’t tell people how to provide the diagnostics. Wonder if they would reply if I sent them a few links with cut price ADSL offers.

Ah well – munchies and then maybe some more World of Warcraft. The disconnection thing just got me rather irritated yesterday because it was happening when I was supposed to be bodyguarding for a group of people from another guild. Bit embarassing when your warrior can’t do that due to frequent disconnects. I have two characters I play a lot – Iceangel the mage and damage dealer plus Bashara the warrior, who’s job is to get bashed a lot … (she’s the bodyguard)

PS I play girl characters because girl characters look better.

Or, from the depths of Blackrock Mountain, where you don’t have to worry about having a woolly jumper. No snow down there … It be a bit warm.

Molten Core is the second hardest raid instance* in World of Warcraft, it needs 40 people working together in harmony, getting the absolute best out of what their characters can do. It’s tough … This was only our third run inside, so we’re still learning how to beat it.

Impressive run tonight, the dog packs that had us for lunch last time (they need special tactics) found themselves turned into kebabs … My Iceangel character was getting chubby, although being undead you can still see the ribs sticking out. And the elbows … and the knees … (will have to post a pic sometime)

First boss, Lucifron, was summarily dealt with and one of the really good items that dropped went to a guildmate, so that’s me happy. Also happy that even without spending loads of time in the game hunting the best gear, I did the 5th most damage of the 40. Managed to get in the thick of it and cause major chaos, mayhem and destruction. Definitely a happy me. And it was good to hear our Overqueen laughing away too, although it seems that she has more trouble fending off her cat than in keeping the warriors alive. My character’s there to do damage, the Overqueen is there to heal the warriors that are supposed to take the damage.

Excellent run, we’re going to be hitting it again on Sunday.

* a raid instance is an area in the game where you have privacy. Each group that goes in has their own copy of the instance, so groups don’t interfere. It also limits the number of people who can take on the instance. In the case of Molten Core, it’s a full 40 person raid.

PS They should make another high end instance in somewhere snowy, so you can melt snowmen.
PS2 I can go to bed now ! Brian Lara just got out after passing Alan Border to become the highest run scorer in Test cricket. Good on ‘im 🙂 I was hoping he’d go on to beat the 400 he scored against England but that’s not to be.