Hosting is now...... renewed!!! it was on my mind for ages, but now it's done and out of the way for another year (I got my hosting almost exactly a year ago). Anyway, I have just had dinner, I am showered, shaved and shitted, I just need to get dressed. Yes, we are going to Jilly's Rockworld! I can relax when we get into town and am holding a cold beer! Not much else to say except see you later guys, let's hope I see in 2009 alive!

I am sat here listening to Metallica (The Four Horsemen) and drinking Jack Daniels from the bottle. Merry Christmas and all that. Anyway, I want to rant tonight about the Krauts(Germans) of BF2. For some inexplicable reason, they seem to think they are exempt from the ROE that all BF2 server admins have to abide by. I was on one server a couple of days ago called =SOW=, it was a vehicle Karkand server, yet you were kicked for stepping into an APC, tank or anything which wasn't a a car. Of course, being a German server, C4 and claymores were verboten, as were commanders. Another thing... this 'GGC', the German players of BF2 have resorted to creating their own 'Aryan' master ban list used by many German servers, they seem to think they are above Punkbuster/PBbans etc, perhaps this is an indication of a deep, intrisic desire of Germans to control everything they can, much like some certain events which happened between 1939 and 1945, anyway....

I'd also like to stick two fingers up to our Yank friends at ICANN, yes, I am sticking two fingers up at their policy of insisting those who register domains under their jurisdiction are up-to-date with genuine WHOIS contact details. I think that sucks for people with .com/.net/.org domains who want to keep their name and address details private, we have laws in this country to keep that sort of stuff private, and with .uk domains you do have the option to hide this information, thank you Nominet, USA take note! Anyway, speaking of domains, my invoice is ready for my next year of hosting, I am very pleased with my current hosts and will be renewing for another year for the bargain price of £60.

Looking forward to 2009, good times are ahead, I can feel it! It's amazing, it's been nearly a year since I first registered HWDN, I remember having so many plans for it, although priorities have now changed, but HWDN and Hellwrath are as relevant as ever! I am now at about 35,000 points in BF2, I look forward to getting to Sergeant Major, I'm about 15,000 points away, you can usually find me in EAF or uKm Karkand servers ammo whoring away! Anyway guys, this will probably be the last post of 2008, happy Christmas and see you later, I've got some whiskey to drink!

Currently listening to Floorpunch....

Hmmmm Friday, which means beer and BF2! I am now in the top 100,000 players in BF2, had a damn good game with RtK and =EAF=TomFoster in the EAF server (Karkand). My next goal is to get in the top 10,000 then the top 1000, 100 and ultimately the top 10!

In other news, you may have heard that YouTube are putting in place stricter rules on content, most notably 'profanity' (Awful Americanism) and 'Sexually suggestive' videos. Basically, any video which has 'profanity' or sexual content will be demoted, think about this, this is American Puritanism in action, but hang on one second, let's remember that YouTube LLC is a private company, they aren't a public service, which I think is a fact many people seem to forget, YouTube can restrict or delete videos however it likes, YouTube has become such an important part of our online lives that it seems we have forgot this fact.

<rtk> "01:17 - RTk leaks the lizard!!" /U

So yeah, don't blame YouTube or Americans, YouTube is an American site, but it's also a private business, I say to anyone, if you wish to create a truly 'free' and open video sharing site, then do it, the Pirate Bay equivalent of YouTube might be interesting, although then again it may just be filled with porn and hate, who knows!

Dudes... I have three fucking beers left - yooooooooooooosh!

The things you can come across on 43things....


Anyway, got some 1664s in for tonight, hoping to enjoy some BF2, music and general chillage! Was on EAF before with Embed101, JinHit and the others, damn GG guys, very close to my 30,000 goal now, I can almost smell it! Argh I'm already adding inline CSS bad, bad, bad, still, there's much to be done, I need to think out how I'm going to deal with images in blog posts, I mean images are vital but I want to be able to upload images and not worry about resizing, I might use a PHP script to generate resized images on the fly, I think I'll also have a look at Mootools and those other JavaScript kits to add a bit of functionality to the site and have those cool 'Lyteboxes' when viewing images.

That reminds me, this site will only use JPEG and PNG images - no GIFs! Just having a nice cuppa, some home-made biscuits and quite possibly a packet of Flamin' Hot Monster Munch in a minute, an episode of Father Ted is on BBC 2 at 11, yes, Father Ted on BBC 2, it's being aired in tribute to producer and writer Geoffrey Perkins who died in August.