Be Excellent To Each Other

Shit! That reminds me, I owe you An Regaling

Advocacy assessment today. Time to slip on the Civil Suit and go get a default judgement.

Life imitating Chaplin film:

"Conservative councillor mistaken for BNP leader at Tory conference"
< http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... bnp-leader >

I don't understand what the issue is with the IE "monopoly". We don't pay for browsers, do we? So how is Mozilla losing out to MS?

Sinister - a regal what, chap?

And they're all worse when you're doing it behind your spouse's back.

Imagine walking in after a hard days work to find your missus eating sprouts.

Urg.

It allows Microsoft to pull dick moves with web standards, which is bad for the market.

Soooo, best do that every Saturday from now?

Is Mrs Trousers and the Trousette ever going back?

People knock Bruce, but this strikes me as a reasonable assessment.

What are AAA games then?

Popular franchises, in a nutshell. The big games, like Final Fantasy, Call of Duty, Forza, Gran Torismo, MGS, etc.

I haven't really followed this business with Bruce Everiss, but that link alone seems to confirm his venerable position as An Mental.

So, can someone quickly sum up what's been going on and why Bruce appears to be on some kind of personal campaign against some Chinese dude and his family? I know it has something to do with a Chinese MMO called Evony, but I know nothing else about Bruce, the Chinese dude or the game.

Ta muchly!

He does appear to be An Mental, but the first time I'm actually starting to feel more on his side than usual. Not to the extent of donating to his sue fund, obviously, but enough to read the article at least

When you have an internal bulletin listing who is on holiday each week that is sent to all sites, why do those sites suddenly take it upon themselves to ring you more often during your holiday week than at any other time?

In brief, Mr Everiss said some things about Evony that they did not like regarding the game, and the company and ends up facing a court case about it in Oz. Mr Everiss then decides to do some research and publish things about the firm and the owner that makes it on his website. He gets letters about this and possibly faces MOAR COURT in the UK now, after his case in Oz at the end of the month.

I see. So, in a nutshell, Bruce has basically tried to tell the world that Evony are, at best, cheeky fuckers and, at worse, fraudalent. They've then got cross and tried to sue for defamation. He's then posted intimate details of people behind the game and their familes.

Seems like a noble cause gone a teensy bit batshit insane, that does.

FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

The name of the solicitors who have been instructed in the recent matter makes me chuckle every time I read it. I bet they fast tracked the final partner into position.

Also the guy who is claiming to be an ex employee and posting comments on some of his articles is not very convincing to say the least.

Still good entertainment as always, I will have to bookmark it so I don't miss further developments.

I take it he vets those comments? Has anyone tried calling him a nutter?

Speaking of entertaining: The appstore is a broken business model!

Didn't Stu try that a fair bit? Yes, it's vetted.

Indeed, all those zillions of sales are fictional.

He may have a point about the pricing collapse though. I'm not sure the sub-£2 pricing of almost everything in the app store is good for the market, long term (although unlike Bruce I'm not sure it's bad for the market either).

His piracy position is way off, though. It is trivially easy to pirate any App Store product on a jailbroken device, but jailbreaking is a lot less common these days, and anecdotally people don't bother pirating 69p apps.

Ooh! I had a question about the app store! Why do some things you read say there are around 120,000 apps on it, when I thought there were a million?

[edit]Because they're confusing downloads with applications. Carry on!

That's exactly what I would've said too.

And the "underpricing" trend will surely self-correct if it really has a negative effect.

Afternoon all

Had a real hectic morning. My friend from Guildford is coming (surpise visit) so now I gotta have a shave and clean the house. Good though, I haven't seen him for about 8 months

I would need a bib!

Ziggy Piggy!

The idea of sharing food in that fashion makes me feel sick.

So, er, one for just me, please!

I'll see your dessert and raise you a main.

Is that from the Heart Attack Diner or whatever it's called? Those uniforms look familiar.

Bit of culinary cockup yesterday. I was making chili, and Mrs Metal decided to help and so she was browning the mince while I changed out of office stuff (and fighting with my fucked Play N Charge cable). She then decided to help further by adding Dave's (Insanity Sauce) to it.

The thing is, I put a DROP of Dave's in to give a slight kick. I don't liberally shake the bottle over it. She couldn't understand my alarm and encouraged me to serve dinner already. "You'll see," I said.

Sure enough, she gulped down several drinks and didn't even finish her portion! Oops.

"I've learned my lesson!" she cried as she ran off to stand in the shower with the water cascading into her mouth.

She's a fucking hero.

I think that would kill me.....

"I'm not paying £7 for some ice cream! Oh..."

It looks like a good portion of the secondary browser choices there are IE-based, and some of them are so obscure they're barely listed anywhere on the Internet. I find the choices listed there to be dodgy to say the least.

edit: 5 of 7 secondary browsers use Trident, it seems.

edit edit: the random sorting is JavaScript-based, too. Running the page with JavaScript disabled sees IE in the top spot 100% of the time. Surely they could randomise server-side?

Second day of lush weather in a row, took the bike to work today for the first time since... January? Tires still properly inflated, started first time, bless those clever Japanese!

Why load their servers? 99% of the people who this is aimed at have never heard of "javascript", never mind gone to the effort of switching it off. Hell, 75% of the remaining 1% still have it enabled.

That's not a burger, Mr Coffey. THIS is a burger. It's from some place called Denny's in America.

If you've disabled Javascript, you don't need help to know about other browsers.

I don't recall any Denny's ever serving a burger that big. But then, one tends to avoid going to Denny's.

All probably true, aye. I still think they're trying to play this a bit, though.

I like Denny's because you never quite get what you ordered, so it's always an adventure.

It's probably a one-off World Record attempt. Or possibly a fake picture.

I'll settle for this:

You want a big black guy?

Yes. He looks like he has a good strong handshake.