I wish I was a hippy, gobbing on people.

Coz I know you love to hear what I spend my hard not-yet-earned cash on (roll on payday), let’s have some reviews this early Sunday morning.

A while ago I purchased a 512MB RAM card and a GeForce 6200 512MB graphics card. Probably a deserved upgrade for my computer, although I was only getting them so as I could play EVE again. The upgrade in RAM doesn’t seem to have affected my computer; I still get lags, although of course both upgrades did let me play EVE and probably my other new games too. However, less than a month of EVE and I’ve already cancelled my subscription. It ain’t what it used to be 😉

A diehard Civ II fan from the days of old (and still play it), I bought Civ IV recently. I have to say, don’t bother. I don’t really see the attraction of these populous-style curvy boing 3d cartoony games. Civ II was basic by comparison, but so much easier to use. Civ IV is not intuitive, is very like Populous in graphics (very Round World, if you know what I mean, and as far as I’m concerned, the Turtle Moves). Civ IV I’m sure is very clever and very intricate and a mega AI machine, but I was bored after one hour stint of playing.

Next, or rather, at the same time as Civ IV, I bought a Belkin wireless USB jobbie, for use should one find themselves sans internet in a hotspot. This works, and it’s dead simple and dead cheap. Bargain.

I got sick of my hosting company having problems with the server I was on, and the lack of support (you get what you pay for I suppose), so after 3 long years of loyal customership, I jumped said ship and got a new hoster. So far so good – they transfered 14 sites for me within a few hours, and then successfully fixed all transfer bugs in a reasonable time. I doubt they are perfect, but so far they are doing better than the old one. The only downside is that they don’t offer backup, so I now have to keep my own backups. However, following recent blog loss despite server backups this is perhaps not a bad thing.

A while ago now I wanted Sandi Thom’s new single, and instead decided to buy the album, since I figured I liked both her singles (I Wish I was a Punk Rocker (with flowers in my hair) being the first one – the title of this post is from an observation made by a Virgin DJ; that not many punk rockers wore flowers). The rest of the album is brilliant – if you liked her second song What If I’m Right you’ll love most of these as she has the same wry humour in several of them, and if you love sad songs she has some of those too. Good album.

I also bought I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie, a band and song I’ve never heard of, but someone on a forum posted it as inspiration for some art and I got hooked to the cute but sad video. Very cute if you like soppy snivvelfests. About bunnies.

Lastly, love these guys. Love love love. They are OK Go. I saw their treadmill video to Here It Goes Again, then their dance to A Million Ways, and then I bought their album. Also fantastic, has some stellar toons. Just hearing it makes me want to dance in a very silly fashion! Their videos are a lot of fun and it carries over into their music.

And that is the end of Wot Kai Bort this morning, thank you for your attention.

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