Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Halloween is upon us again, as can be told by the Headless Horseman terrorising orphans. Meanwhile, back in the real world I need to work out whether to buy some sweets to hand out to trick-or-treating neighbourhood children. It doesn't sound like a complicated decision to make, but ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Despite being new enough in the region that few agents are willing to give me any work, and the recent loss of the mining colony, my lowly level one agent strokes my ego by praising my piloting skills before inviting me to participate in a Minmatar-Gallente air show. As ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I really shouldn't have ridden my motorbike to work this morning. I saw a sprinkling of snow outside when I opened the curtains, unseasonably early, but the road and pavement looked clear. When I got outside the road seemed to be grippy, testing it with my boots, even ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
My Minmatar agent is actually happy to see my Caldari self! His low quality rating at level one has meant that just about everyone abandons him quite soon after meeting and I think he's just pleased to have the company. He may also be pleased to get a ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
A few months back Codeweavers announced their Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge, stating some positive but audacious goals to be met before Bush left office. If any one of the goals was met then Codeweavers would hand out free licences to their Crossover software. One of the ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
My time comes to enter low-sec space in New Eden, EVE Online's galaxy, as part of a small corporation fleet. The director of the corporation makes it clear that we are not pirates picking on the weak and defenceless, but there's nothing wrong in looking for a fight. ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Still being wet behind the ears in EVE Online's galaxy of New Eden I am far from capable of spearheading an attack in low-sec, but that doesn't mean I cannot be useful in a fleet. Whilst I understand that ratting, particularly in high-sec, needs little more than tanking and ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Finding a new agent to work with in a completely new region is not as straightforward as I would like. I know how to find agents, that isn't a problem, it's more that the agents are presented in the organisational charts in order of agent quality, an order that ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
The new World of Warcraft achievement of Going Down, awarded when a character falls 65 yards without dying, is a rather dubious honour. It seems to exist for two basic reasons. One is to cause a huge pile of skeletons to appear at the bottom of the Aldor Rise, ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I have been a bit preoccupied of late to concern myself with running too many missions in EVE Online, what with preparing to relocate a few regions distant after joining a corporation as well as being in a different country for a while. Unfortunately, I was in the middle ...
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