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It’s true, they did and back then I thought it was pretty cool too. Of course, this lot have done it a whole lot better.

There should probably be a spoiler warning in here somewhere…

Lithium Flower

Last Dinosaur

Speedy Marie

Gold Lion

Four ships in a week. I’m aware that losing ships is all a part of Eve, but how frequently are you supposed to lose them?

The first, “Lithium Flower” lasted almost an hour from inception to destruction and could be essentially discounted as the result of naivety on behalf of the “n00b” player.

The second “Last Dinosaur” was seemingly on a roll, managing to rack up a few mission victories before being dispatched in no uncertain terms in a battle that resulted in the loss of a friend’s, rather more costly, battleship.

The third, “Speedy Marie” was a deviation away from the norm in that it was a different type of ship to the previous two, a faster, more agile version. Sadly, like it says in the opening lyric of the song for which it was named, it only “had a bit part”. A quick half hour before being blasted to dust by the same fiends that claimed the “Lithium Flower”.

The fourth, “Gold Lion”, modelled on the third, but with a new tactic in mind was entirely underwhelming, though it faired a little better than its predecessor. Far from being worth its weight in gold, it came out closer to being worth its weight in lions and indeed it burst in the vacuum of space with just about the same gusto as they would have.

I don’t understand how I’ve managed such dismal performances: Eve’s essentially a multiplayer, 3-d version of “Tyrian” and I was great at that…

Ah, Eve Online, how you make me wish that a. I could fly a real spaceship (not this kind of junk) and b. that space was really this pretty.

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…is another man’s treasure.

“Here’s our “must-have X-Box games list“, not of all time obviously, just the ten most “must-have” of the thirty we have in this sack. Did we mention that the sack also contains twenty copies of “Drake“?”

Thanks CNET!

Is it possible to write some code that outputs an exact copy of an image in the form of an enormous HTML table in under twenty lines? Why yes, yes it is.

And just how pointless is such an exercise? Make up your own mind.

Amigo!

Edit: Actually as it turns out, playing with the cellpadding and cellspacing values in that code actually creates some quite cool results, or alternatively go with specifiying the height and width of the cells in ems for a liquid layout that makes firefox cry

I bought this to replace the original discs that have gone walkabout somewhere or another. Buying it again made me all warm and fuzzy and just having it on the shelf will increase my overall happiness level by a factor of 1.6.

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Dear Rockstar North,

You made me drive around in the rain, evading capture by the police, in a car that didn’t handle very well. After that you forced to buy weaponry (in a distinctly shady part of town), asked me to turn traitor on the Mafia family who’d given me a home, demanded I assassinate my mentors and made me listen to “Kids in America” at least twice a day. You then expected me to live with the wrath of the mob, while still being at your beckoned call, and all for a measly £50K. (more…)