Hobbit's really did exist

I knew Mr Tolkien had it right, see this story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm

now it may just be that I love escapism, but how many of our fables are really ancient truths?

Very Excited, Conan and Hawk the Slayer!!

They arrived this morning, just before I left for work.
Now everyone has heard of Conan the Barbarian, (perhaps the first of Arnie's finest hours)?

But Hawk the Slayer, (parts of it inspired Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings), I am sure Dave knows this one!!! Comments Dave?

Rome Total War, those bloody Carthaginians

They just won't be subdued, I conquer their cities, only to have them revolt, I must crush them.

Yep, its still just as addictive!!

Trip to Ghent Belgium

I am officially an uber-geek. Just spent two days at the Apache Cocoon get together, the first of which was a 'hackathon', say no more.

Anyway, free food, free drinks the whole time, (2 racks of ribs, mmmmmm).

The whole thing was fun, second day a bit heavy though, and I could have done with more sleep.

One whinge, do not get the last train to Thatcham from London, I think I entered a wormhole, and lost a couple of days....

More praise for Mozilla

This time its Mozilla Thunderbird, which now has a calendar component you can install, its peachy, whats the point in tying yourself to Outlook, where insecurities arise from the fact that it is tied to the OS.

Give it a go, its quick, easy, and has built in RSS feed accounts, marvellous.

OK, I promised a few friends a blog about Trunk Monkey

Here it is, lets gibber about http://www.trunkmonkey.com/, its great, the most important thing about it of course is the media section half way down the page, some five or so movies.

Enjoy, its bizarre, insane, etc etc.

So, Rome Total War...

Well I lost five hours in the world of the Legions without realising, just a bit addictive, amazing, incredible, marvellous, tremendous, splendid hmm, the list goes on.

Don't like how you are always outnumbered 2 to 1 though, cheating stinking barbarian hordes, oh I will show them...

Rome Total War

For anyone who did not know, 'The Defining RTS game' came out yesterday. I am buying it today, and playing it as soon as I have a chance, (tomorrow).

This game must be bought and played.

Hurray for the weekend!