This says it all really
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Black uniformed, faceless police  preventing a peaceful rally at  the Democrat convention, surely the Democrats are supposed to be the good guys? Come to think off it so are the police.

I cannot remember ever buying a limited edition game, let alone pre-ordering one and for an MMO, not a hope. Well up until recently, when I slapped my €15 down on a pre-order of Warhammer Age of Reckoning (WAR).

The limited edition promise me access to the Open Beta, although as I have been playing the closed beta for months was not really a bonus. It also allows me early access to the game, giving me a few days head start on the great unwashed masses. To further aid this head start I get an in game item that provides some XP bonuses. Other in game bonuses include a portable campsite and the option to choose character head models only available to pre-order customers. The real reason I jumped at the pre-order was the free Games Workshop miniture and the books, as I have been nuts about Warhammer since the age of 13 (oh so long ago), when I went to the very first Games Workshop in Hammersmith.

You can view or download a better quality version at Warhammer Age of Reckoning website here.

What do I like about the game that I am planning to dump most of my free time during the winter on?

Well it is World of Warcraft , but with better graphics, for me a better art style (it’s original Warhammer style for crying out loud).

I find (so far) the gameplay much more enjoyable than in Warcraft, the Public Quests are natural meeting places for players to join up ad hoc without having to form parties and usually you are completing personal quests whilst doing the public quests. Even in the Beta there is a vibrancy and a certain urgency to what you are doing.

People band together naturally to take on the PvE stuff and can suddenly find themselves choosing to take things to a PvP level (RvR in WAR speak).

The actual RvR areas I have wandered around but have not been able to get time to carry out the big RvR

battle (looking forward to this) and I really can’t wait to get stuck into some seige warfare.

To top it off I can even dye my Dwarf engineers boots purple, oh the joy, roll on my exam so I am free to spend my evenings battling in the Warhammer World for hours on end.

YouTube – Jeb’s Job “Technical Support”.

My life on film! From Tech Support to the user, we love you.

Apple is more of an innovator. Thinking about side the box. They can do things that have never been done

Digg – Apple vs. Google: How Will They Stack Up in the Future?.

God bless this guy for his misunderstanding of the phrase, it’s worse than “Excuse me while I kiss this guy” (oh look it up)

As the title says… amazing

Half Moon Bay Lighthouse ISO 200 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Iwo Jima for the now

Sad but true, brave and committed troops from the U.S. (as well as those from the UK and the rest of the EU) fight and die to secure oil.

Why wouldn’t the Russians feel they can do what they like in Georgia?

Oil Drilling

Tags: Politics, oil, war, photos, sad

I would like to add my thoughts and prayers to those that still live with the legacy and to those who wish  to never see the like of it again.

For those in Dublin I found this;

A ceremony will take place in Dublin later today to mark the 63rd anniversary of the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945.

The Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is holding the event in Merrion Square at lunchtime.

Between 130,000 and 200,000 people are believed to have been killed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.

Another 80,000 were killed when the US dropped a second device on Nagasaki three days later.

The atrocities, which brought an end to World War II, remain the only nuclear bomb attacks to be carried out in the history of mankind. (from breakingnews.ie)

I thought that I had everything rigged to auto publish, obviously not. Better go and give the tech guy a kick.

“I need to understand the message that the Irish wanted to convey in voting No to a treaty signed by the representatives of the 27 member states,” he said.

But the French premier has made it clear that he believes Ireland will have to vote again on the treaty which No campaigners say disregards the expressed wishes of the Irish people and is contrary to the rules of the European Union.

SF to tell Sarkozy there can be no repeat vote – The Irish Times -Sat, Jul 19, 2008

As we like a good wake in Ireland , we should start planning a great big one, because I think democracy is on its last legs and we will be putting it in the ground sometime soon.

There seems to be confusion about the status of the Lisbon Treaty, now that the Irish public have voted no. Some are of the opinion that without Irish agreement the Treaty is dead in the water, whilst others seem to believe that the other 26 countries can proceed without us.

The British Government said ealier that Taoiseach Brian Cowen must come up with a solution to the crisis and dismissed calls to abandon the treaty. Britain’s Europe Minister Jim Murphy insisted that the vote in Ireland did not mean that the treaty was dead.