Below is the Warcraft Friendfeed room, that I will be live-blogging/tweeting my evening of the Wrath midnight opening to! I am going to Rotterdam, where the official opening will be. Its gonna be awesome! I shall make lots of pictures.
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Robert Kloosterhuis posted a message
“Test post. What I am doing here, is updating my blog via IM, by means of a Friendfeed room, and their new IM interface.”
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I am playing the demo of the awesome, yet to be released Left 4 Dead, the new game by Valve and Turtle Rock Studios.
Official opening cinematic:
Gameplay recording of me and 3 other random survivors battling the legions of the walking dead for the 2 maps of the Left 4 Dead demo:
I am prepared for the coming zombie apocalypse.. are you ?
Recommended books:
I just purchased the Audio version of World War Z at Audible.com!
Incredible guest narators in this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z
Link to Audible.com (you can listen to a bit of preview)
IT Books, Cooking Books, Books on Guns
I am no longer in need of the following books. I intend to throw them away if no one else wants them:
Yesterday I completed my English-language CV, you can download it here, and I will print it below for good measure.
I published the CV at Monsterboard UK yesterday, aswell as reed.co.uk and jobserve.co.uk
*waves at potential employers*
Now I had already been looking through jobs on all those sit,in fact I have an RSS feed coming in that combined search results for all those sites, based on the keyboards I am looking for (systems administration, datacenter, engineer). I have republished those feeds here (via Google reader), if you are interested.
Now this morning my Friendfeed directed me to Flickr as someone I know had posted a pic there I wanted to see. Then I noticed the view graph.
What is interesting it also the specific pictures that seem to be top viewed in the last 24 hours:
Almost no external referals too. This means these are people browsing my work photo set on Flickr itself. They must have gotten there somehow though, and I dont publish that particular set on the front page of my Flickr page.
I should have installed a plugin to track hits on WordPress, cause I am sure they are up to. Someone has been Googling me, this much is certain. What I am wondering is what they are hitting first. The first result on google is my Sysadmin blog, it seems. I guess this must be the entrance to the set itsef on Flickr. Though Geekswithblogs is not showing up as a high referrer for the last day. its a mystery.
Anyway.. next blog post will be my CV
I identify as a gamer. I have played a lot of games in my time. and ones “collection” that has been built up over the years, can be a matter of pride.
The thing is, I never actually show of my collection in any sense, nor is my collection even worth showing off really.
Now that I am making some tough decisions on what to keep and what to throw away, I find that making these choices about my games it not as hard as I thought it might be.
Obviously, there are some practical matters to consider. For example, the older games will simply not work on todays hardware, without some serious fidling at least, and even then nothing is certain. I remember a few years ago trying to get Jane’s Longbow 2 to work on WindowsXP, and it was simply not possible to make it run stable.
The other, most obvious factor is hanging on to games for Nostalgia’s sake. I too am not immune to this, and this “feeling” has actually been a pretty good guide to filter out what I am throwing away. It also confronts me with my own opinions that I was not aware of: what where my favorite games.
To summorise, my decision making process boils down to 3 questions I ask myself in each case, or order of importance:
1. What is the nostalgic value to me personally. (overrides all other considderations) ?
2. What is the change that I will ever install and play this game again in the future?
3. What is the change the game will run properly on today and tomorrows hardware and OS, and would it be worth the effort?
The following three foto’s are the games I have decided already to throw away.
As with the game-manaul pic, you can get a good sense of where my gaming preferences have laid the last 10 years.
The Final Picture is the collection of games, all more resent, that I am considering throwing away. Also, these games may be valued by my friends, so I am holding on to them for now, while I circulate this picture to see if anyone is interested in receiving some of them.
Spent this afternoon going through draws and throwing out loads of junk. Mostly cables and computer components of which I had way, way to many.
Some items of interest turned up though, and even though I am throwing them out, I wanted to record them for posterity 😉
omg.. my old analogue camera. There is still film in it! I should get it developed!
The booklett people could get for free as an introduction to the Euro coin, when it was introduced in 2001. I never finished the collection 😉
Some nice stuff. The wach is acutlaly rather cheap, I threw it out.
Brave Laptop. You served me well. A shame we could never fix your power supply problem.
A 3DFX Voodoo II card, gosh that brings back memories
Books, lots of books. Who wants to come rummage through this box? Mostly older IT books, Windows 2000/2003 and some cook books.
Not sure what to do with this guitar. Its kinda broke, but its so old as to possibly be an antique.
Time to finnaly throw all these old game manuals out. I kept the blizzard ones and the Privateer II ones. Also the Battletech stuff I am holding on to, together with the rest of my collection. Lots of nostalgic stuff here, but the olders bit was the plastic case they whree kept in, at the top. That was the original manaul box for my dads 8088 Olivetti PC, bough back in the late 80’s. (zoom in).
Give you a good idea what my gaming preferences are. Lots of combat flight sim stuff, shame that genre has more or less died out these days.
This weekend, me and Lia went to visit Gordon down in Oxford.
The place was as one would expect, if 3 (or more, I lost count) gamer, metal, stoner guys lived together. I felt right at home 🙂
We spent most the evening and the next day indoctrinating Nick with Battlestar Galactica, and spent the rest of the second day looking for Disk 2 of the second Battlestar Season, unsuccesfully. Today, me, Nick and Lia have spent cathing up on Battlestar all the way to season 4.. omg what a cliffhanger.
Pics and video below
Lia at her best 😉
Gordon, becoming increasingly more deperate to find the missing disk.
No disk over here
A DVD collection worthy of a geek. Gordon is awesome (and he plays bass)
Spike and Nick
My first ever go on Guitar Hero!!
Everyone still looking for the missing disk!
The Fluffshack 