United Utilites have informed me that they’re increasing my monthly payments to £88.50 a month for my water. I live in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire which receives over 1200mm of rain every year. It’s raining here almost all the time. As I look out the window now, I see the usual relentless drizzle. Grey, [...]
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Announced
Posted by arcana on August 21st, 2009
Blizzcon is underway at the moment and they’ve confirmed that there will be a new WoW expansion entitled Cataclysm.
Watching Hulu from outside the U.S.
Posted by arcana on August 20th, 2009
Hulu is an awesome web site that allows lucky americans to pick from a very large library of TV programs and stream them over the Internet for free. Awesome… but if you’re not in the United States you can’t use it. Instead you’ll get a message along the lines of “Sorry, currently our video library [...]
Guild Wars 2 Trailer
Posted by arcana on August 20th, 2009
The Guild Wars 2 trailer was released today. I don’t think anyone knows the release date as yet but it looks very nice I wasn’t really a Guild Wars fan but I think I’ll try this one.
Oops! I guess I needed that libcrypto.dylib file…
Posted by arcana on August 20th, 2009
I was trying to get wine working on my Mac. It’s been erroring about something or another so I ran winedbg to see what it was complaining about. The last function on the callstack seemed to be in the libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib library in the /usr/lib directory so in my infinite wisdom I renamed it to see if [...]
Lockerbie Bomber Freed
Posted by arcana on August 20th, 2009
So Britain has freed the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi. He killed 270 people and permanently damaged the lives of countless people. Each one of those passengers was a father, mother, son, daughter, sibling or grandparent to others. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but as usual our justice system has let everyone [...]
So I decided to make a blog…
Posted by arcana on August 19th, 2009
Every now and then I wish I had a blog. Sometimes I feel the need to step on to my soapbox and let the world know what I think and then I realize I don’t have a soapbox to stand on. Now I do! Now that it’s set up and working, I’m off to do [...]
