Archive for November, 2009
I’ve mentioned them plenty, but seriously their debut album is miles ahead as my album of the year. There’s not a single track I don’t love. Don’t be put off by her at times miserable look in the videos (the latest one is better), the music is pure genius. I really can’t get enough of it still.
BUY IT!
I read a fair lot of blogs and I do it through Google Reader (Or NetNewsWire when on my Macbook). It’s a fairly clean interface and I like it, but how hard would it be to add the ability to add comments directly from the reader? A huge number of blogs are powered by WordPress or are on services like Blogger with standard forms to fill out. Even if you need an account with the website to post it’d be nice to be able to tie it to your Google Account and then comment directly, and have the ability to load up others comments from Google Reader.
Yeah I can understand the counter arguments. Centralising everything to Google creates a monopoly, less visits to the actual websites means less revenue from ads etc. But still, it’d be cool. Perhaps make the feature optional? Commercial websites could make it a perk of being a paid subscriber? I don’t know.
In other news, I’ve got my MAC code from Virgin and going begging back to Zen Internet. I got pissed at Zen when I went over my limit and they charged extortionate amounts for additional bandwidth. After months of shitty pings and streaming video using Virgin I’d gladly pony up the extra £10 for top quality service. Despite the price, I always had a great connection with Zen and they have won multiple awards for it.
This should mean more time for WoW, rather than the roll a 6 system I’m going through. I don’t get huge amounts of free time (even less as the work from my OU course picks up soon) and when I do I like to play WoW. There’s nothing more annoying that logging on to see a ping between 1000-20000ms before being disconnected. I’m really enjoying playing my druid and I dinged 75 last night making this the highest character I’ve played. I’m about 500g off Epic Flight Form (despite having to wait to lvl77 and another 1k to use it in Northrend) and really enjoying the lore in Northrend. I’m looking forward once I hit 80 to taking my time to find read all the little interesting books and doing missed quests, fishing in Dalaran for coins and doing all the obscure achievements.
Warcrack indeed 
Two notable things for October. Firstly, the WoW addiction has really took hold. I love the game more than ever. Me and Rob started characters together in September, Tauren Druid for myself and Blood Elf Paladin for him. For quite a while Rob was ahead of me, but recently he’s taken a break so I’ve managed to soar ahead to lvl 72 while he’s at 65. This past week I’ve also joined a guild, Feel Good Inc. Seem like a nice bunch.
A little bit of druid love then. I love this class. You can do pretty much all the main play types with one character (with dual/re-spec anyway). Want to be a ranged DPS/mage? Normal or Moonkin form. A warrior/tank? Bear form. Rouge/melee DPS? Cat form. Healer? Tree form. Added to that the greatness that is instant cast travel, flight and aquatic form and you have what is pretty much the most versatile class in the game. I spend most of my time in Cat Form doing PvE, and have dual talent specced as a restoration druid that I use mostly in instances.
So the second notable thing, and of course the best, is the fact that Hannah can now walk! Nursery phoned one day to say Hannah was projectile vomiting and needed picking up. I was off work with the same illness so was the one that went to pick her up. When I got there they asked if she was walking at home, to which I said no of course. She had taken 6 unaided steps at nursery that day! Then at home she did it again, all the while being ill. As opposed to me who was a useless lump on the sofa most of the day. She usually walks for at least a little bit every day now and she’s building up confidence. It was brilliant that first time we saw her do it, both myself and Kat got very misty eyed when she did it! It’s amazing how proud you feel at each milestone they meet.
So that was October then. We’re now just a month away from Hannah’s 1st birthday which is unbelievable. That year has gone REALLY fast and she has changed so much. It’s been a fantastic year because of her, and the first of many.