Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
The autopilot's warning that I was entering a low-sec system should have been... well, a warning. I have loaded the cargo hold of my Drake up with useful systems that I don't want to buy again when I reach my new corporation's base of operations and am slowly jumping ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
I took a short trip, travelling on a Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel before being picked up by the tour operator in Lille and driven by coach on to Bruges. The journey was pleasant and uneventful with relatively little fuss crossing the borders. A quick wave of ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
In my overview of portable EVE Online skil tracking last week I mentioned how I wasn't able to get Capsuleer running, only trying EVE Tracker as a result. I will point out again that it was only because I had shut down my computer and didn't want to power ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Back when I first took on The Blockade I noticed that some of my modules appeared in the HUD in different positions than expected after installing them in the fitting station interface. I was expecting them to increment on the HUD from left to right as they were fitted ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
I am now a member of a corporation in EVE Online, one that isn't state owned even. After all the drama when looking for a corporation previously I log back in to find I hadn't previously exited from a couple of the recruitment channels, remaining in them by default. ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
My agent is happy with the Green Arisite ore I was able to acquire, particularly as it meant a different faction was denied the ore resource as a result. Now he wants me to find a particular scientist, saying something about him being an AI specialist. I probably ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
I recently downloaded EVE Tracker to my iPod Touch to be able to keep track of my character's skill training in EVE Online on the portable device. I'm not entirely sure of the application's utility, because if I'm not near a computer when the training completes there is little ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
My agent asks me to mine some Green Arisite, a variant of the Gneiss mineral, for a new research project. There a catch in that the ore can only generally be found in low-sec systems. I ponder this for a minute, as going in to a low-sec system ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Continuing her questing in Hellfire Peninsula in the Outlands Sapphire finds out just how starving some Hellboars are when even the merest sniff of meat sends a dozen of them hurtling in her direction at once. It is a little irritating, because it means a path has to be ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
I have reached the fourth series of Mission: Impossible now, and Leonard Nimoy has taken over the role of the man of many faces and sleight of hand. Martin Landau, as Rollin Hand, left the programme, going off to star in Space: 1999.
I was hoping that when Jim Phelps ...
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