Everquest 2 GU54 goes live today.

All this, and Frostfell starts tomorrow too. Wheeeee. I’ve already dug out my bag of Frostfell hats and cloaks.

Maltheas is looking forward to popping over to Freeport to point and laugh at the Overlord’s ex-flying fortress. He only ever visited it once, in an ill-fated attempt to assassinate The Overlord (the original Freeport to Qeynos betrayal quest). It is a fine thing that such a symbol of Lucan’s oppressive dominion over Freeport has been laid low.

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Stephenie Meyer is still not dead!

Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, was not dead in April when last the rumour went around, and she is not dead now either. Seriously, internets, stop saying people are dead when they’re not.

The only reason I care about this is that I have a number of friends who ill-advisedly buy into the whole Twilight thing, and every time she dies they get terribly upset, and insist on telling me about it. Though it does kind of […]

Connecticut for Lieberman party campaigns agains Joe Lieberman.

I found this remarkable. The chap in this video is Dr. John Mertens, and he really is the Chairman of the Connecticut for Lieberman party, the party Joe set up when he got beaten by Ned Lamont in the 2006 Democratic primary race, in order for him to contest (and sadly win) the election as an independent with heavy Republican support.

At some point they really need to change the name of their party. Also, they should probably apologise […]

Dragon Age Origins 1.02 Patch Notes

This one is rather more fulsome than the previous efforts. It supersedes the test mod that many of us have been using that fixed the archery and dagger issues. You can grab the patch at the official 1.02 Dragon Age Patch page.

Dragon Age: Origins 1.02:

You do not need to download patches prior to Patch 1.02. Downloading Patch 1.02 contains all previous patches. Downloading Patch 1.02 will provide you with all patch data available.

Balance

* Daggers now […]

The Best Way to Raise your Alexa Ranking. A Most Ingenious Paradox!

The Alexa Ranking theoretically determines how popular your website is, out of all the websites in the world. It does this by extrapolating from the behaviour of users who have the Alexa plug-in installed to their browsers. For instance, this humble stop along the internet superhighway is currently the 520,865th most popular by Alexa’s rating, though it fluctuates fairly wildly. That sounds pretty awful, but there are a heck of a lot of websites out there, so it actually ain’t […]

My old Oblivion mods

I’ve noticed a lot of folks in my logs that look like they’re trying to track down some of my mods. With my mind once again turned towards modding, this post is here to help. These are all the ones I can still find available on the net. Some of my Oblivion mods, and all of my Morrowind ones (which were rather better) seem to have vanished without a trace, and I’m a couple of hard-drive crashes along since then. […]

In Dulci Jubilo! Mike Oldfield shows his mastery of biological fission.

Little known fact: Mike Oldfield was at school with the star of X-Entertainment’s advent calendar,