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Anyone here know anything about Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)? I'm trying to get a handle on them and it ain't working. I'm at that awkward stage where it keeps dopplering between looking absurdly simple and absurdly complex.

Of my friends who buy premium games I made sure all of them bought it. My copy of NWN2 lets me shoot lasers from my ears. It is not nearly so useful as you'd think.

Ponderous thought: To what extent can a developer really shape the player experience of an MMO? Surely it comes down to the players, and with an open player high income policy you'll get mainly fools.

*awed genuflection*

Well let's just agree you're made out of stern - if revolting - stuff. Rusty iron, beaver toenails, elm bark etc.

How about post-apocalyptic barbie horse adventures using the SPECIAL system?

If you're right then I know how we're spending summer...

Elk sperm. Not spit, sperm. I can't work out whether I'm trying to ignore that as a moderator or simply as a human being. Ick ick ick.

HA! I remember an occasion like that when I was teaching. I came into school with this huge Prussian style duelling scar thing on my face (not an actual scar). My kids were all "How did THAT happen?", and having no idea and a huge hangover I opted for honesty. I still don't know if this raised or lowered my stock.

Made me wonder suddenly about what kind of games will she get to play?

All hail Czar Vladimir the Second!

I think you're bang on there. The problem as usual is a lack of common language. Systems engineering TO THE RESCUE!!!! *KA-PWING!*

One of my classmates in college (working in the same field of study, no less) was a German woman named Meike. When she first came to the country, she went to a party where a mutual friend gave out presents to everyone. She became very alarmed when the host gave her a box and told her it was a gift. Jonestown city!

I don't know, but is anyone else scared by recent developments over there?

Ow ow ow! Enough with the piercings! And not all of us are flinty men of the frozen north like you, mkreku. Forged of blood and elk spit.

Congratulations! *off camera* Like the Jesuits we will get them while young!

I really really must agree with Gromnir's post except I've always been of the (possibly daft) opinion that doing nothing is worse than a gently increasing something. I speak as someone who due to possessing a stronger willpower than body has two partially torn biceps, busted knees, and a wedge-shaped dent in my right shin*. Take things slowly and keep in mind that so long as you make a regular thing of exercise there's no practical way you aren't going to feel better in the long term. You've got the whole of your life, so take it easy. The other thing I'd bring up that Meta already mentioned is stretching and warming up/warming down. These are essential, not optional. *kickboxing

I'd like to point out to alla youse who are out of shape and know it that after barely a month of really quite gentle exercise I've lost a lot of fat, and feel a hundred times better day to day. It really is worth getting out there and working up a sweat every couple of days.

33 minutes today in three blocks pinishing with a 200 metre sprint and a triumphant whoop. As good as learning to fly.

Quiet, you. Or they'll realise we're onto them.

I think we should get him back. We're only, like, racist to Australians an' stuff now.

May I henceforth suggest we refer to Putin as 'Vlad the Irradiator'?

Fenghuang's on the money. I too objected to a lack of decisive action, and I hope we will never have a recurrence of such behaviour. For it will be met with extreme sanction.

I used to get a really bad reaction to doxycycline (all purpose bug-nuke) when I took it on an empty stomach. Made my stomach so acid I got throat ulcers.

Nuts.