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Prospero Burns Extract Posted
An extract from the eagery awaited “Prospero Burns” novel has been posted by Dan Abnett himself on his blog today. This, the next book by Abnett in the series is definitely not one to be missed, but being a Space Wolves fan is going to make it much more special!
Almost getting blown up…
How exciting, a week ago I returned home after the regular tuesday night of gaming to find that there was a gas leak in my house. A few days previous we had a new boiler installed, and it turns out the engineer who fit the appliance neglected to weld one of the pipes, and to quote the emergency engineer we had “a significant leak”.
The actions of British Gas over the past few months have lowered my opinion of them again and again. Let’s backtrack even further to why we needed a new boiler in the first place. It was a regular check up being done by a young whipper snapper of an engineer who looked like he was fresh out of boot camp. For around 18 months the boiler had a slight fault, but it was one we could live with. The engineer insisted that he tried to fix the broken part, and suprise suprise whilst trying to do so broken something else which is irreplacable.
Now I’m sure he was only trying to do the right thing, be helpful and give a good service to a customer, an this isn’t a personal attack on him. But his insistence caused us to be without hot water or heating for around 2 months, and in a time where money is tight, a new boiler is one thing you don’t want to have to be spending money on.
Shortly after this a manger visited and offered a measly £200 voucher as compensation for a new boiler. A £200 voucher isn’t going to make much of a dent in a new boiler!
Maybe it’s my view on things, but the suspicion is there that British Gas are not particularly bothered about keeping an existing boiler running, when they can break it and sell us a new one, making a tidy profit.
Fast forward a month or so and we managed to take advantage of a deal on a boiler with British Gas, and this whole new sharade has begun. Right now a letter of complaint is being directed to them, along with Ofgem and anywhere else we can think of. These actions are not acceptable, and could have resulted in disaster.
Outlook’s broken – Let’s fix it
Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
I have spent many an hour in the past trying to create HTML emails to do what I want and this is just going to make things worse!
Outlook 2010 is still in beta and Microsoft wants your feedback. It’s time to rally together and encourage Microsoft to embrace web standards before it’s too late.
If you’re like me, head over to fixoutlook.org and let Microsoft know!
fixoutlook.org
Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen
Last night I went to see the new Transformers Movie. Almost 3 hours sat in a cinema but boy was it worth it!
I was never a massive Transformers fan as a kid, and before the first movie I’ll admit I didn’t really know anything about it, as anything I did watch when I was young had long been forgotten.
I won’t bore you with loads of details, just a great movie. Special Effects were spectacular, and there’s more fight sequences between massive robots than you can shake a stick at. Add to that Megan Fox and you’ve got one good movie in my opinion ;).
Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen
More Modern War Testing
Since my last post on the topic more play testing has taken place with our Modern War system, becoming known as Flashpoint. We’ve sorted the main rules and have a demo scenario that works quite well. So last night I continued updating the rulebook – fluffing it out and making it more readable.
It’s also now time to add in more cool stuff, like light vehicles, more scenarios, unique tactics and Russians! I don’t think it will be long now until there’s a testing version available to download for a select few ;).