Surly Wombat

Tickets please… ok enough with the railway metaphors, started a new blog in the base directory of this old bucket. so head on over to www.surlywombat.co.uk if you missed it on the way in.

It’s another bi-decadely update! Decided to update wordpress, have been hugely disappointed with the speed of this site, least on the admin side. I run another site on this hosting and it runs along nicely so I don’t know what the trouble is. Maybe it was just the massive amount of spam comments the db was having to keep track of, i’ve cleared them out a bit now. Frankly that is the thing that puts me off blogging the most - the admin. Maybe its time to try something other than WP or find plugins that will deal with the comment issues.

Went off to see Cloverfield tonight, and while the film is good, I can’t give a proper opinion since I went with my brother and he got struck by “Cloverfield flu” about an hour in. While it didn’t strike me so hard, some sequences were pushing the limit on my queasy-scale, and not knowing how long was left I wasn’t about to let my brother sit on the odeon sofas indefinitely.

For people who don’t know what I’m referring to, the film was made to give the impression it was filmed by an amateur with a camcorder, complete with hand held shake. When in a cinema, that can be one hell of a big shake. Frankly I think they pushed it a little too far. Who knows, this could be the first film to get a “Special Not-as-shaky” dvd edition. Although I doubt the effect is quite so severe on a small screen.

People pointed out that the old theme was looking kinda… old.. So I quickly bunged up a new one. Also updated to the new version of the blog software for the first time since I installed it. 2.0 to 2.3 and luckily no huge problems presented themselves. This theme isn’t really what I want, so I expect to either hack it slightly or go for something different.

Meanwhile TF2 is in full swing, and pre-load of Portal and HL2:EP2 has happened. Kainz has decided to fork out for a iD server so as he puts it “we have somewhere to play”. So feel free to drop by the Clan iD server.

Guess anyone one who reads, may wonder why the large gap. Well I wonder that myself. Frankly I haven’t felt like writing and thats all there is too it I guess. If you don’t feel like putting your thoughts down there really aren’t going to be many posts I guess.

As anyone who knows me knows, I’m a gamer. My current games of the moment are World of Warcraft, which I have been playing for about a year now. Got myself a nice Tauren (thats a cowman for the uninitiated) druid. Play on one of the RP servers since theres less idiots around, or at least, they have restrain from showing their idiocy some what. The other game I’m playing a great deal at the moment is TF2. A good many of those who wander to here probably know me from my TFC days so you know how much I love it. It’s very much a “fun” experience, and I recommend it to anyone.

I may be back and writing more often. No promises.

People have been pointing out how rare an update is. It’s truly amazing how I can feel like I should be updating even though I don’t know why. I’ve never set a timetable, or any sort of schedule but I always get the feeling I have let people down by not updating. Very weird.

Anyway, two weeks left of the programme centre, and all in all I think I shall miss it. It hasn’t been perhaps as productive as I had hoped but I have managed more applications during the duration and even an interview which I haven’t completely given up hope on.