We finally managed to find somewhere (JJB Sports) that had the right sized helmet and knee/elbow pads for Harry that didn’t look too childish so today we went to the local park and let him ride on his scooter that he had for Christmas.
Category: Personal
Shartak revisited
Following some recent advertising on Urban Dead and the removal of the 300 player limit, Shartak now has over 650 players and things are starting to get interesting.
Shartak
For the last few months I’ve been working on a web-based multiplayer game set on an island where you have to explore, fight animals, and watch out for strangers. It’s an MMORPG similar in style to Urban Dead but with a different theme.
The name of both the game and the island, is Shartak and it can be found at http://www.shartak.com/
NTL 10 meg hiccups
Since we were upgraded to the 10 meg service, there have been a number of problems with the connection freezing. Reset the cable modem by pulling out the power cable, and it starts working again fine immediately. Having jumped through the hoops held by NTL’s broadband tech support such as swapping the ethernet cable, trying it with a single PC instead of the small home network, and insisting that it only started happening since the upgrade, we finally managed to get an engineer out.
Christmas has come early
Thanks to NTL, we’re now enjoying the wonders of 10Mbps broadband. There was some doubt as to whether it would actually get upgraded before Christmas as various sites (such as BBC News and The Register) had reported earlier in the year but NTL came through as promised.
New podcasts
Some new podcasts that I’ve subscribed to recently are:
Hometown Tales – ghost tales, strange stories and legends.
Scott Sigler’s Ancestor – Sci-fi story by the author of Earthcore
The Tech Guy – a radio show on KFI 640
Ice has gone, but now there’s a crack
For the first morning in several days, there wasn’t ice on the windscreen of the car like this picture from yesterday.
Comment spam yet again
In the last few days I’ve been getting maybe 5 or 6 bits of blog comment spam through each day. The weird thing is that they’re not advertising viagra, cialis, dodgy websites, poker or anything like that. In fact, they’re not really advertising anything as such, but random phrases within the comments are linking through to various legit URLs. What is the point of that?
I’ve been deleting the comments as they come in since they’re just garbage and will only (in my opinion) encourage more spam comments if left alone.
Music downloads
Urban Dead in print
PC Gamer (December 2005) has a whole page about Urban Dead in it. I suppose this means more publicity for Kevan’s game and some fresh survivors for the zombie hordes to munch on.