Yep. Most evenings for nigh on three years. To be honest, it's now largely a social community thing, on the nights I'm not actually playing, I'll log on and keep the occasional eye on guild chat, whilst I watch TV or surf the net or something. So I can't say how much of that is actually playing. But it certainly gets enough use to justify £7 a month.

Well. I'm still playing WAY too much (I hit 200 days played on my main on Friday night) ! I'm also in the WotLK beta, but I've only just hit 71, although my day time job means I've playing a lot less recently. The guild I helped turn from a social guild into a raiding guild has now going 4/5 MH, 4/8 BT and we got Vashj (a rare thing on our server), so I'm rather proud. If anyone fancies giving it a go, let me know, there are some rather sweet recrtuit-a-friend incentives just launched and as this is the slack time before a new expansion, NOW is the perfect time to join us as the newbie zones are teeming with level one characters again.

I was just going off the recommendations in here, but after a quick google, The Long Hop looks just as close. Your local by any chance ?

Well, I sorted a hotel part way between the bottom of gardens the Eiffel Tower stand in and The Luxembourg Gardens, nice and handy for the metro down to exhibition and a nice walk through the gardens to the Bombadier.

I'm off to Paris for a convention at the end of the month for 3 nights (Fri/Sat/Sun). I'll be spening the days at the big convention centre (handily next to the convention metro stop, that's a stroke of luck) but the evenings will be out and about. I've done most of the tourist stuff in my younger years, so I'm not caring about any of that, but I'm after suggestions on (most importantly) an area to get a hotel in and also suggestions for good areas to eat and drink in. Over to you Eddie ....... (or anyone else).

Drove up to Glagow to see a two-off 10-year-since-we-split re-union of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine at the Barrowlands. BEST GIG EVER ! Admittedly, a 30-somthing (age, not the album) mosh pit felt kinda odd, but it was awesome all the same. The worrying thing was it took four days for my ears to stop ringing !

Ok. The rates being advertised are the theorectic maximum offered by the ISP from where the signal hits their kit, which is normally your local BT exchange for the 8mb stuff. There are two common reasons why you may not get this speed, the line quality from your house to the exchange and your house's internal wiring quality. Now, in this country, for most people the last part of the loop (from the green box to your house and possibly the exchange to the green box) is made of copper. Copper is very poor for high speed comms and the fact the most people can get 2mb is a miracle. But nobody want to spend the money upgrading this bit of the system to fiber (or digging everyone's gardens up). So currently, to get anywhere near the 8/12/14/20mb offered you have to live almost on top of your exchange to get a decent speed. There is a bt site somewhere (possibly linked off upyourstreet.com) that showed you your theoretical max speed based on distance from the exchange. However, often the biggest factor with dsl+ (i.e. speeds faster than 2mb) is your house wiring. It's much less tollerable of cheap or long phone extensions, MUCH less, than old ADSL. Only trust speed tests done with your DSL box plugged directly into your BT master socket (i.e. where the phone cable comes into the house), remove all phones, all phone extensionsions, all microfilters, just try it with your adsl router and nothing else. Most people see massive increases. You can also remove the ring line of your phone (which isn't needed for modern phones) at the master socket, which often reduces electrical feedback and improves line quality, however, BT might not be overly happy at you doing this. I'm guessing the guardian artical above is the Zen Internet blaming the worlds second most common dsl modem chip on poor connection quality ? I wouldn't read to much into it at this stage, one of the modems listed is the awesome netgear DG834 which I've used dozen and dozens of times with no problem (in fact, they are also used by Sky for their broadband package).

It depends if it's news that can be considered "in the public domain". So and So has moved to such and such a club is fine, taking actual content (i.e. cutting and pasting sections) isn't. There are greyer areas in between too. But thanks for the squad details, keep up the good work

Yep, the problem is not everybody will bother updating the wiki, so it's nice to have somebody take responsibility for checking it's up to date .......... Just like ...... Thanks Groo Of course, I'll update it too when I can (and hopefully so will others) so there should be very little work for you to do. BTW, As the wiki is now up and working, here is the Where Are They Now page

I'm the other anti-drumming person on the FF. However, I think people should start to make a distinction be drumming and "the drummer", then realise that the drummers are real people who genuinely believe what that are doing is for the good of the club and referring to them as retarded or wishing them dead (or even worse, sent to Burnley) is no more acceptable than if they'd been a poster on here. That said, I like Bill, he's a nice bloke, but I hate his bloody drum and he knows exactly how I feel about it. But just becuase he chooses not to post on here, doesn't make him an acceptable target for very personal insults.

This is fantastic work ! Keep it going guys. If would be brilliant if so somebody (Groo ? FLB ? Dillo ?) would volenteer to update this info on the new wiki we're working on. In that form it'll be far more easy to both read and update.

Mine too. Well actually it's kinda broken, the rally stages are stupidly hard and the non-rally ones stupidly easy .... or maybe I just suck at rallying

Scouse. Named after a long forgotten food (well, Anfield do sell scouse pies, but I'd imagine that it's 99% marketing gimick rather than pandering to the locals tastes). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouser has an excellently detailed write up.

Got my epic flight form, downed the Prince in Kara, working on Netherspite and Nightbane and looking at trying Gruul. Things are moving nicely.

Ever since that day down a the valley, a small and select group of us have been known to sing ..... & i would walk 500 miles & i would walk 500 more I was at the Valley, I was there when Friedal scored At Charlton, At Charlton, At Charlton, At Charlton. Tada-lum-tida-la-la-la At Charlton, At Charlton, At Charlton, At Charlton. etc

I had a moment like that. That was when I decided to regulate my play much much more and the second it starts taking over my lfe again, it has to go. Since then I've been much more moderate in my play. That event btw was the opening of Ahn'Quiraj (or something, it long since beceame AQ20 and AQ40). I've also never quite worked out why people would pay such stupid amounts for accounts. To me the fun is leveling a char, buying one off ebay is just limiting that fun massively.

As I was going on about it in the pub before Man Utd ....... Kermit's career after Jim Henson dies. Includes a fantastic music video of Hurt (NiN / Johnny Cash) and audio of him covering Radiohead's creep. My not be safe for work (contains bad language and some very adult imagery that is just wrong wrong wrong if you grew up with the green one). Needs audio http://www.sadkermit.com

The numbers refer to the game engine, VC and SA were just additions to the existing engine rather than starting again. So it's GTA 1 GTA 2 GTA 2.1 (London) GTA 3 GTA 3.1 (Vice City) GTA 3.2 (San An) GTA 3.1.1 (Liberty City Stories - Uses the 3.1 engine) GTA 3.1.2 (Vice City Stories - Uses the 3.1 engine) GTA 4

Worth it ? Well it costs me a lot less than Sky and gets a lot more use (I think in the US it's about $12 a month). I wasn't keen on the monthly subscription idea either, which is why I didn't play until about 10 months after my mates started. But I gave the free trial a try and after about an hour decided I was subscribing. The game is all about the mass-multiplayer aspect (especially as you progress), there is no offline equivalent. You'll find that after you've got past the initial learning stage that the whole social side of it becomes more important. M-K does make a point, it's not called WarCrack for nothing, you need to be very disciplined not to lose every spare minute of your life to it, very much like Footy Manager.

I never got to BWL, ours is a pretty casual guild and we only just managed to drop Raggy in MC before TBC. Tomorrow is our first guild only Kharazan run. I view my guild pretty much like my mates are Rovers. When it's all going badly and you start to wonder why the hell you bother it suddenly becomes more about having a laugh with your mates than the actual game. Then soon enough you find the game start mattering as much as it ever did. I'm told Saturday's Torygraph is giving away free WoW 14 day trial account CDs. Incoming noobs, I'm almost tempted to roll a new char on a PvP server

Woah Pugg. That's some serious kit you have there (or at least was pre-TBC) ! Almost complete Dragonstalker's set and both Hakkari Swords ! My wife's Huntard would be so envious. I'm guessing you used to play a lot, had a break and have come back (becuase that kit is near impossible to get nowadays, unless you have a very odd guild and if you'd been playing much since TBC then you'd be 70 by now). Well, having got The Black Morass to a point where it's almost on farm, we're now gearing up the guild for our first trip into Kharazan. As everyone is now giving armoury links, here is my healbot cow - cliky clicky FOR THE HORDE !

The attention to detail and in-jokes in that episode gives it away that one of the writers (is it still just Parker & Stone ?) is a BIG fan of the game. They also did it with a big chunk of help from Bliz (that in-game bits were shout on closed-beta servers). It's a top top episode. BTW (for those playing). I dinged 70 a while ago and just healed in the Black Morass without a single pot. I just need to get my arse around to getting my Kharazan key. My Armoury Link

... and now you've dinged 70 (and I'm guessing have a flying mount), GRATS ! Our guild has an influx of new firends-of-friends who have just hit 60, so instead of spending yesterday in the Mana Tombs as intended, I spent it back in ZG teahcing people how to raid. Still, helping get a group with 6 first time raiders in it and the rest in around tier 1 level kit to Hakkar without a wipe was quite fun (even with three 70s).

Value is an odd thing to judge with WoW. £7 a month sounds a lot but it doesn't seem much when you compare it to a sky subscription (and I put way more time into WoW that I do Sky). As for they "I've paid for once argument", even though Bliz have just released their first "paid" expansion, they have constantly released new free content over the last two years, so I don't begrudge them it too much (I did before I started playing). Anyway, I can't stay around here too long, I still have this fellow to get to 70 I see you're now 69 ! I've not had much time to play since TBC and I'm still pottering around Zanagamarsh. Unless you've not slept since the release, then it looks looks like you're a bubble boy playing easy mode (sorry, I mean alliance). Where were you guild upto before TBC ? We'd just downed Hakkar and Jin'Do and were almost ready to head into BWL. Shame that it's never likely to happen now. 8 Million Players now. A guy I used to play Diablo II with posted something on a non-gaming forum asking if Blizzard were still around (WTF!). Somebody replied that they were last been building a life size replica of Stormwind out of $50 bills. The reason Bliz charge for them, is fools like us rush out and buy them.

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