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Mount & Blade
Someone mentioned way back in news:comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg a game in development called Mount & Blade, a single-player medieval 'lite-RPG' where you can build up a band of troops and journey round the map vanquishing your foes in dramatic cavalry, infantry and archery battles. I put it on the back-burner to keep an eye on whilst it was still in development, but eventually liked it enough to buy a licence.
All in all Mount & Blade is well worth checking out, and has now been released in a final version (actually v1.003 is available from the Taleworlds site).
Stainless Steel Rat
An acquaintance of mine who goes by the nom-de-guerre of 'Stainless Steel Rat' in January started an RSS feed of his own, which I put off listening too as I'm generally anti- the 'podcast culture'. I recently decided to check out his feed whilst winding down from an exercise session and the few I've listened to so far are an introduction to three 'chilled out/laid back' tracks per 'cast, and seem to be shaping into a nice little regular session.
The Random Three RSS feed can be loaded into your usual aggregator, iTunes, etc.
The Chrissy and Brian Show podcast
"Brian thinks Chrissy is a left-wing feminazi British wannabe. Chrissy thinks Brian is a right-wing neo-con slacker. They don't agree on ANYTHING, yet somehow they remain friends despite the verbal bloodbath that ensues every week. How long can this insanity go on before they totally lose respect for each other?"
The Chrissy and Brian Show is a new weekly podcast in the style of a talk radio show with the two hosts holding apposite views on pretty much everything being discussed, and is the funniest 'cast I have heard...ever.
Coming Soon Part 3
Seems they're all getting in on the act :) My mother, who is a registered osteopath, now has her own web site at Postural-Polarity.co.uk.
Delphia.co.uk Domain Spoofing
If you've come here because you are getting spam mail from @delphia.co.uk addresses then I have to tell that you it's not me ! It would seem someone is spoofing my domain and it's becoming rather heavy, I'm getting around 90 bounces a day to my blackhole account, and I have no idea how many might still be going through.
I DO NOT run a mail server, there is no official mail.delphia.co.uk server as the domain is hosted by 1&1 and I use their authenticated mail servers to send mail (to identify legitimate mail from me the first server hop will be mrelayeu.kundenserver.de).
There doesn't appear to be a way to stop such spoofing except to report the spam links contained in such e-mails to a spam list like Mailwasher to get them blocked as quickly as possible. Reporting @delphia.co.uk addresses is not going to solve the problem, except eventually getting my whole domain blacklisted :(
Coming Soon Part 2
My sister's boyfriend is developing his showcase web site JonKempDesign.co.uk. With the tag line 'Design is not about how pretty something may look' Jon promises a stylish portal to his work.
Coming Soon
My sister is developing a new magical web site Faerietrade.com which will be an interactive environment covering nature based craft products and information for people that want to express their magical, creative side. It will have a faerie theme, with each faerie expressing their personality in the products that they make. Please, go take a look...
