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Packhorse bridge - Whetstone

Oh what wonderful time I am having mastering the wonderful world of Cascading Style Sheets(CSS).  I have found that I can only take these for a short time and then have to move off and do something else - usually slaughtering opposing armies in Age of Empires.   Anyway I happy to report that I slowly the information is permeating through my befuddled brain and it is starting to make some sort of sense.  Whether this will stick or not is another matter and really must get back into the habit of keeping notes as to what I have done etc.  Oh the fun of web design and coding.

The Joys of Destruction and Mayhem

This is going to make me sound like a nerd or geek but I have spent the last two days playing computer games - how sad is that?  Well for me not that sad at all.   I have enveloped myself in Age of Empires (AOE).  I am not claiming I am a great gamer but rather someone who enjoys the destruction that the game allows me wrought vengeance on unfortunate colonies that will not do my bidding.  I enjoy stacking the odds in my favour and then '...cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war...' I am sure a psycho-analysts would have a field day.  This really is shock and awe stuff and it is great fun.

On a more serious note I think it is important to find something to take your mind off your other worries.   For me it is AOE and long may it be so.

Age of Empires - a bit of s distraction

Age of Empires III

Well I have decided that I will not have anything to do this weekend with photography.  I was thinking about going for a nice long walk but unfortunately I have a nice blister on one of my toes so that seems to be out.   Instead I have installed a copy of Age of Empires III.  (AOE) I know this is a bit sad but it is a way of taking your mind off things.

The only problem with this is, of course, I still keep thinking about photography.  Am I becoming an obsessive person?  Possibly or just very dull.  Anyway, back to AOE.  The new game is not really as good as the older versions but there are a couple of problems with the older versions.  Firstly, I sold my copies a long time ago and somewhat pine for them now.  However, the second problem means that even if I still had my copy I probably wouldn't be able to play them.  You see AOE will not run on Vista 64 bit.  Well this is not strictly true.  What happens is that when you go to run the program you are told to download a patch from Microsoft.  Why, you may ask this is not covered in a service release I just don't know.  Anyway, once the patch is installed then AOE III runs fine.  I suspect that this may not be the case with the earlier versions.  Such is the way of life.