..when your spam scanner stops working. After carrying out some maintenance to my server yesterday I noticed a sudden upsurge of spam arriving in my mailbox. Sure enough a quick check showed that the spam checking daemon spamd wasn't running. A little poking about pointed to behaviour that looked very …
Posted on Wed 05 August 2009 in geek • Tagged with games, hl2, ps3
The Orange Box certainly represents the best value for money for gaming in a long time. I think we picked it up for the PS3 for about £12 which in an era of £55 for a new release is welcome in the credit crunch.
People make much of …
Posted on Mon 03 August 2009 in general • Tagged with food, wedding
We spent the weekend attending the wedding of C&P in the royal county of Buckinghamshire. The less said about the hotel and it's concept of service the better. Needless to say things went downhill when we adjourned to alternative bar to avoid the bi-monthly "night club" running in the …
On the back of previously mentioned car issues it's existence was topped off with an unplanned impact with the side of the road yesterday.
We had been enjoying a meal with S&J who are providing the venue for the wedding. The drive back was through some rather wet A …
Posted on Tue 28 July 2009 in general • Tagged with car, lrp, maelstrom
Maelstrom was fun to a degree but I was plagued by a number of OOC occurrences which slightly marred our enjoyment of the event.
We arrived on site pretty much without incident and as per usual we opened the car windows as we handed over our tickets. After finding somewhere …