LANtastic day

Just had a long day at a friend of a friend's place at a gathering of people with xbox 360s and a desire to shoot each other senseless while wearing bright primary colours. Great fun. Exhausting, and a two hour drive back afterwards, but a much needed change of pace I'll look forward to joining in with again in the future.

Now, if my ISP could just sort out their DNS server's timeout problems I'd be a happy bunny all round...

Planes, Trains and, well if you live in West London you know the rest

I seem to have been one of the last people in the Heathrow/Hounslow area to know about the plane crash landing this afternoon. I mention this only because I work under the approach path (though not as close as my wife), and because my youngest brother was heading that way to see his girlfriend off to australia (long story).

So you can imagine the *hmph* feeling of calling out to the wife when she got in from picking up our daughter from her after-school art club only to get a dismissive "oh that, yes - not really a crash that."

Its like throwing a Schadenfreude party and finding you haven't invited yourself...