barely fatal

Okay, real quick, just the basic facts. Maybe I’ll write more next weekend (right now, I’m too hungry. Tired. Hungry & tired).

I just came back from The Hague, where I spent the last four days on a conference. Learned some interesting new things, well, at least got a clearer view on the future of my noble profession. And on what I should do to make sure that it has one.

It was cool, very nice city, kinda November-like (who would have guessed), and yes it’s true, there are a few bikes in the Netherlands. A lot few. And it rains, too.

One evening my colleague and I went to see A Quantum Of Solace. Advantageously, they show movies in the original language versions (most, anyways) in the Netherlands, with sub titles. Overall entertaining, a little shallow in the way it tries to be exactly the opposite, and it helps to re-watch Casino Royale before you go see Quantum, as otherwise the story is a little hard to follow. Or totally inapprehensible. No gadgets, enough story holes and ridiculous stunts though to still feel like a Bond movie. If you ask me, it’s not totally bad, but Bourne’s better, and so is Casino Royale.

I picked up Fallout 3 on the way out, which was slightly cheaper than in the mother country, now I just hope I won’t need the manual, which of course is in Dutch.

Left 4 Dead demo is out, so download started.

Why does it take 8 hours to defrag my hard drive(s)?

Full moon, made a nice picture, maybe for a new skin…?

…….I have discovered the joys of retro-gaming.

Due to the chronic lack of any decent MMO’s I recently dusted off my old copies of Baldur’s Gate 2 along with Fallout 1 and 2. Bloody hell, these were/are good games and suprisingly even the graphics have stood the test of time fairly well, but what stands out is the depth of the storyline, now where did I leave that copy of UFO: Enemy Unknown ?