Tony Blews

Evony, the browser based game which became notorious for its adverts picturing scantily clad women, amongst other things, has gone a step further with its advertising. From stealing images from costume sites, through some really ropey CGI women, using a model who is a gamer, to outright norkage, it seems that they’ll try anything to attract teenage boys and semi-employed 38 year old geeks to their game. The latest advert doesn’t even name the product, yet has all the hallmarks of their campaign.

First though, here are the adverts from times past:

Classy stuff, i’m sure you’ll agree, and cock all to do with the game which is a poor Civilisation clone with no queen to save, and thus no norks.

And so on to the new advert…

Christ, you’d hardly know it it was for Evony if it wasn’t for the “My Lord” catchphrase, and the the familiar looking button.

Still, it seems to work for them. Gullible idiots seem to be playing the game and even paying for it.

So. If it works for them, it might work for me. If you want to volunteer to show a lot of cleavage to advertise a website of mine, don’t hesitate to contact me. Jon, this does NOT apply to you!

Let us face it, everything annoys me all the time. But currently some things are more annoying that others.

DNS:

Arsecakes. Fifteen years ago I could write DNS records in my sleep. Actually, I frequently did, but don’t tell Staffordshire University that, as they may want my wages back. So why is it that now I have no idea what I’m doing?

Ebay:

Okay, so I’ve identified myself using my credit card, and now you want another form of ID. As I don’t have a landline number, I click on the “identify yourself by credit card” link and… HOLY FLASH H. GORDON, you’ve taken another £1 from my card! Well, my auctioning friends, you can sod that!

Guitars:

I have quite a few guitars.  I own probably more than it is healthy for a non-musician to own.  My favourite, for a long time, has been a Spanish 3/4 size acoustic that a mate gave me about 15 years ago.

It survived 3 house removals, but sadly, it didn’t survive falling off it’s stand.

Broken Guitar!

I’m hoping that given enough strong glue I can fix it.

Just found a GPS track of my trip last month from The Shrewsbury Arms in Stafford to The Stanley Arms in Chester. If you zoom in, you’ll see that it is quite accurate, even showing the bit where I missed an exit and went round a round-a-bout. If i’d set the logging to use small time intervals then the “road holding” would have been better.

Here is the map:

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Its time for some more speed tests of 3′s Mobile Broadband, using the trusty old Huawei E220…

Firstly, where I currently live:

And Now, where I will be living in 2 weeks:

Oh dear.

Call it the Conficker Virus, or call it coincidence, but my aged 2003 Microshit Office installation fell over today, killing off my email. After a re-install I found that none of my word documents would open. Hmm.

So, after restoring from Sunday’s backups and finding them still un-openable, I’ve swapped to OpenOffice. Now all is well.

The only reason I haven’t switched completely to something better than XP, like Ubuntu GNU/Linux, is that Live for Speed needs windows…..

And yes, I am current on all XP fixes and twiddles, and my anti-virus software is tip-top.