We Will Rock You
A couple of nice people on the OcUK forum have made a single player mod for Half-life 2, which I’ve just finished playing. It’s called ‘Rock 24’ and it focuses around the famous Gordon Freeman’s mission to save Richard G Newell from a combine prison installation. It’s obvious that a fair amount of work has gone into making the mod, and this makes it very entertaining. The playtime is about an hour and a half and there are some interesting elements and puzzles added in to make it more interesting.
CSS Reboot
So, the November the 1st CSS Reboot has taken place with 426 rebooters producing some pretty good designs because of it. If I had my arse in gear I would have submitted my own, but I didn’t realise it was happening at the start of November – I think I would have been scared to do so anyway.
Long Winter Nights
About the only thing I don’t like about winter is the long dark nights. It got dark here at about 5 o’clock and the fireworks instantly kicked in. I was sitting at the computer and out of the corner of my eye; I noticed that the sky was an incredible pink colour. I raced off to get the digital camera and started to take pictures of the sky. Unfortunately, the battery died after I took two pictures, so I had to charge it for five minutes so I could take some more. I managed to take two from the garden and several from my skylight, I quite like them. Anyway less of my chitchat, here are the best of the pics I took:
Listen to This
More and more recently, I have started listening to the radio online via my PC instead of the little black box that is my radio. The only two radio stations I use to listen to were Radio 1 and the local Radio Wyvern, which coincidentally use to be located just around the corner from where I live. There are many reasons for this, one of them being that I like the BBC and have some sort of misplaced loyalty, which stops me listening to any other radio station with DJs. And also becuase I get annoyed with adverts, particulaly ones that tell me washing machines last longer with calgon.