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I found a good online game the other day; BZFlag. It's basically capture the flag with tanks; you can choose teams with different objectives, but I tend to get blown up before I can do much. Anyway, you can get it at http://www.bzflag.org/. And the best thing? It's free! Good fun too.

I was going to put a link to a blog by a friend of mine, which was quite good, but I've just read his last post and he has announced his retirement from blogging, so that put paid to that.

I have been meaning to build a computer for a while, and am finally getting around to it; Internet sites sell computers so much cheaper, you'd have to be mad to buy them from the high street if you had Internet access; a particular favourite site of mine is http://www.novatech.co.uk/, just on the off chance that anyone cares.

xymphora

xymphora

Here's a great blog. Whilst it doesn't do well at addressing both sides of an issue, it is still good stuff. Should be required reading.

Welcome to my realm...

Hello! Can anybody hear me? No? Does anybody care? On second thoughts, don't answer that...

I, the author, being of quite possibly sound mind (see, I have a piece of paper to prove it, so there, the said I was mad but they lied, ha ha ha ha - ahem) do start writing this blog.

What follows may well appear to be wild ramblings, possibly descending into tangential spirals of eerily twisting logic (despite the topological impossibility of this) and probably is. For now, the only problem I have is; what to write about? There's so much to say, and so little time, and someone probably didn't say.

I've been reading lately (wow, I hear you cry, the fool can read?) about little people. Not as in the mythological "little people" spoken of by snobbish aristocrats regarding us plebs, but actual little people. Also known as hobbits. More formally known as homo floriensis, they were around only thirteen thousand years ago, and were a completely different species of human being. Which set me thinking (oh no, not again...).

What would the world be like if they were still around? Would we fight them, or coexist peacefully. I suspect the former. Would limbo dancing still be around, or would we just have given up in the face of a species that could beat us just by walking under the pole? Would our ideas of beauty be different, affected by what the undersized island-dwellers found attractive? In fact, would the world be a better place.

It occurs to me that they would have been very good astronauts (less weight so cheaper to send into space) and pretty good jockeys too. They'd have been frankly crap at basketball though (unless someone used them as the ball).

What ideas would they have thought up that we haven't? What insights might trike them yet pass us by? I only wish I knew. Maybe one day we'll be able to engineer their DNA and bring them back (like jurassic park but smaller and with less teeth).

For more information, google "Homo floriensis". However, the info isn't as in depth as might have been hoped so I'd recommend a magazine like New Scientist or Scientific American (of these, the latter has more info but the former is more readable).

Till next time,
C.E.M.