Two Days Off

It's been far too long a week. I've got two days off work now and by God I need them. Absolutely shattered.

The events of the past week or so have just sort of drifted by. I decided to cancel my PC subscription to Final Fantasy XI, then buy it for the 360 minutes later. It looks to be a lot better, despite being almost exactly the same. This is not to be questioned.

I bought a PC for my brother David. It was from a company recommended by my friend Dante, who I'm sure I've mentioned before. Cost about £450 or so, of which he's paying about £380, the rest being from me as an early birthday present. He's managed to pay quite a bit of it so far, which is impressive. It should be here within the next week or two - I'll be sure to post pictures of the machine when it arrives.

After a lot of procrastination, I hoovered my room. I can now walk around barefoot without accumulating... well, mostly more of me. Old bits of me, like hair and whatnot. It gets everywhere. I realise that none of you wanted to know that, but you don't exist, so be quiet. I also bought Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for the DS, and have subsequently become semi-addicted to Sudoku. I'd managed to avoid the whole game for so long, too. Now I can't get enough of it.

Been trying EVE again; might even get a subscription this time, although it's seeming less likely now. This is linked to me playing WoW a lot more, with the 2.1 patch bringing some nice new changes. I might spec back to being a Resto Druid from my current Feral build, but only after I've done a lot more quests. Being a healer and trying to grind just don't mix well when you solo a lot. Oh, and I really need to play some more LOTRO. It's sort of lost some of the "shiny new MMO" value and is fast becoming simply mediocre in my eyes. I hope to hell that I find a second wind for it - I'd really like to like it.

In other news, Dante, Jaszon and I should hopefully be getting together for some more LAN Gaming sometime soon. Dante is getting home from Uni in a couple of days, and I shall convince them both that they like C&C3 more than BFME2. Might be able to play some WoW there as well, get my Horde Hunter alt through a couple of dungeons. And of course, I have two days off! Followed by a short stint of work, then more days off!

For the next two days, mornings are what I stay up until the early hours of, not what I get up in.

Semacode!

Just a very short post to explain the strange new addition to the info panel at the right-hand side of the blog - it's Semacode. It's a new-fangled type of barcode that phones can read by using their cameras and some nifty software. My Nokia N95 comes pre-loaded with Barcode Reading software of its own, but it's available free from here as well (just choose your phone type - Java, for most phone models, I should think).

"Why are you posting this on a website?" you might ask. Well I might ask who you are in retaliation, because no-one reads this, ergo no-one should care by default. My main reason, though, is that I think this might eventually take off and I'd like it documented that I did it early. It's also there just in case anyone wants to use it for linking to my blog. I don't expect anyone will print it out or anything, but someone (again, imaginary readers) might be looking at this blog on a laptop and want to subscribe to its feed on the phone. Easy way of getting straight there without having to bother with typing out the URL on the phone - just point your camera at the screen. Doesn't work so well on CRTs, however.

Those are my reasons and I'm sticking to them. Oh, and I also think they look cool. Yeah, that too.

Mobile Blogging

This post is the first of hopefully many that I will make from my shiny new Nokia N95. Using the email client, and the handy Moblogging service available on this site, I can just snap a picture and send it to my blog. It might require a bit of editing afterwards (this text, for example, was typed on my PC after uploading). But the theory is that I'll see something, Moblog it, then have an incentive to come back later on and edit it. Let's see what happens.

Also, enjoy this snapshot of Forres that I took earlier today. 5 megapixel cameras win.