Idle musings on the world around us
Journal
Odd tidbits of information or news.
The dry spells ends!
Yes, finally, the dry spell on the PC games front has ended. Plenty of new titles out at the moment. Stranglehold, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, World in Conflict and Crysis Multiplayer Beta.
So lots of things to keep busy with. I have added a link to my ET:QW stats on the left hand menu, seems I hadn’t been playing on ranked servers or the stats weren’t working or something. At least that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it! 
i31 Titan Quest / Quake Wars Lan
Back to work already! Man LAN passes by far far too quickly these days. The WCG were visiting the I-series, so it was all about the tournaments this event, plus the comedy security fence. I spent most of the lan playing either the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Beta2 and having recently bought Titan Quest and Immortal Throne from Steam, I played through the entire of Act 2 and 3, most excellent fun, although killing Typhon was pretty difficult, on to Act 4! It sure went a ways to powering up my SteamID and pushing my rating close to 10 
Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core PSP
Available for pre-order!
This game will totally pwn. Really looking forward to seeing what SquareEnix have done with the franchise and it should prove popular with a return to many fans favourite instalment of the series, Final Fantasy 7.
Todays Play
Since City of * starting having some lag issues with their packet carriers in Europe somewhere, I went back to playing some OpenTTD. This game has such massive replay value it’s hard not to just install it when bored. I have started using the replacement GRF files too in order to change the game and give it another new lease of life. You can find a list of GRF files on the OpenTTD wiki, over here, http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/GRF_List
The other decent title out at the moment, similar in play style to Fable by Lionhead Studios, is Overlord. This is a superb game where you play an evil Overlord with a horde of minions with which you wreak havoc among the populace. Fire, brimstone, even your own evil tower! Great game.
New theme
I have been working on a new theme for the site. It probably doesn’t need one, but change can be good, so perhaps it’s time for a new theme.
I decided to modify an existing theme instead of making my own I have modified the Dark Black Theme, which you can find here, http://onemorerevision.com/dark_black_release. Slight inspiration from a banner you might recognise
Todays bandwagon
4 years ago
Having left my ipod at home today, I returned to listening to Sky.fm to find that Internet Radio is going to DIE! OMGZNO etc, que over the top reactions and such. Anyhow the plan is that US congress is going to raise the royalties for internet radio stations. The stations claim that this will push them out of business. On the flip side, they are indeed in business so perhaps they need to change their business model. Also the thought occurs that if this change is made in the USA, will running your radio servers in another country make a difference? Anyhow you can find the site by clicking on the banner.
London 2012
Change it! Quick, please god change it!
Sign the petition : http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/change-the-london-2012-logo.html
and read the thread! : http://forums.multiplay.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50467
Playstation Portable
I got one! Mesarim managed to persuade me that getting a cheap second hand unit from Gamestation for £99 with a game was well worth it. I started on my age old diatribe about how they would be good if they were open and you could actually use them for what they were intended. He informed me that thanks to some dark magic jiggery pokery there is Open Edition firmware to unlock the unit and allow you to use it as it was probably intended by those who designed it before the Sony corporate suits got hold of it. I also nabbed a matt black faceplate from DecalGirl and now have a fully featured and functional PSP
Running 3.40-OE firmware, I am currently playing Final Fantasy 7 (psx version), Zelda: Link to the past (snes) and Wipeout Pure (psp) all from one memory card! I have to say, this coupled with the built in WPA enabled WiFi and internet browser make the PSP a great unit to own! It’s quite shocking the amount of potential that this machine has and that Sony have locked away from all their local fans. Shame on you Sony.. again.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
This is apparently the decryption key for HD DVD. It’s making quite a splash at the moment, with “the entire internet” spamming it all over the place. It appears to have originated over at digg.com where articles pertaining to the key were removed, they have since been reinstated and hit all time highs. Check it out over at www.digg.com.
It appears to be another Internet vs Corporations debacle. With the whole freedom of speech thing being mentioned in many places. Some more stuff over at :
> http://09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com/
> http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/wikipedia_locks.html
> http://blog.digg.com/?p=74?
> http://taoetc.org/69
Me? I don’t even know what it is nor what it’s for, but let’s face it, bandwagons rock! T-shirt anyone?
Scary stuff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html
This is one mighty scary article, well worth a read.
