Blogcoven

I see cut price everything for sale these days – and some of them are frankly amazing – buy a space shuttle! Buy a missile silo! Buy all the cold war surplus modules that you need to build your own bond supervillains lair. Not that you’d want to, frankly the HR issues those Bond villains must have had would be enough on their own to put me off. But – you could have your own Tracy Island type base full of toys and I don’t know do good things? Build some sort of giant relic to confuse people who come afterwards? Read the rest of this entry »

The perils of blogging and generally sending information out of the shadowy damp ecosystem of ‘within’ to ‘the general public’ has been reiterated to me by a tale told by one of the contractors. In the incestuous world of the corp consultancy jet set (I’m not part of that, I’m oilfield) there was a girl in London who worked for a couple of banks during the boom and wrote a column for the papers. After the bust, she turned her columns plus bonus material into a tell-all book and now can’t get hired. Full stop.

Effectively all her time since college has evaporated – she has no work experience despite being 6-10 years in (not sure exactly). Rumour has it she’s working these days in a field that requires no higher education and given that my appealing physical attributes are nil, this for me would be bad.

Thus, the ongoing embargo of truly interesting stuff goes on. Apologies to all. Invite me over some time and I’ll tell you a story but I’m not putting anything online.

Over Christmas, my brother and I exchanged our traditional XBox 360 games. I got him Assassin’s Creed 2 and he got me Modern Warfare 2.

In both cases, these games demonstrate really nicely how developers should create sequels. the best sequel keeps the core feel of the original game, and adds new depth and interesting features.
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The book is more done now. It has an ending and better pacing and more focus. Enough of all the above? Unknown, to be confirmed through external channels. Though now I’ve found my endings I think I can more happily tweak the middle to point it in the right direction and lop off the bits that are just distractions.

Onwards.

Where else do you see someone threaten Warren Ellis, espeially when the one issuing the threat is Wil Wheaton?

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