News Archive 19
Wednesday April 14th
Soz , I got a real shit cold again. I have also been watching my Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Live at El Mocambo" video, as I have been neglecting my guitar for far too long, I was in need of some inspiration. The day this bloke died a great light went out around the world. Soz again, but the other axe nut (Fear, whom I spoke today for the first time :) promised he was gonna go and get this and watch it. I'l try and do another Chimpinators episode this weekend. Apologies again for the lack of any good stuff.Monday April 12th
Smeg 2........... 3F 1..... Well we won last night. It was a nightmare. 2 hours to get through it all due lost cons. If Mr 3fJawZz is reading, I am here to tell you we don't cheat, and dont take kindly to being called cheats either, joking or not. My game with fear was a pile of doo, I accidently entered the game in a Grendal, as you know the old select thingy lags behind a bit. The Finns won there game and me and Fear got the decider, which was the best game of the night for us as Nutters and Hemi are gents. A wee rest for a few days methinks :)Sunday April 11th
This from Up's, some funny windows errors. http://freehosting.at.webjump.com/ps/psychodelic-webjump/Win%20Error/index.h tm I want to see a win tonight too.Saturday April 10th
Well it's the weekend thank God. It's been a long week (all 4 working days of it) Works PC has been shagged for ages and I finally get a engineer in yesterday which keeps me in town late on a Friday. Tremendo. Meanwhile Bang Bang's back in town, he's been crawling around the Paris Metro for ages doing things with CCTV. Perhaps I sould have given him a wave when I was there :) Netherlands server is giving some real good pings (170) last night. Really worth nipping over there if we are just doing a game amoungst ourselves methinks. I should be around most of the weekend. Here's a funny LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (The Times of London)Dear Sir,I am firmly opposed to the spread of microchips either to the home or to the office. We have more than enough of them foisted upon us in public places.
They are a disgusting Americanism, and can only result in the farmers being forced to grow smaller potatoes, which in turn will cause massive unemployment in the already severely depressed agricultural industry. Yours faithfully, Capt. Quinton D'Arcy, J. P. Sevenoaks
Thursday April 8th
I could make some comment about todays events in Kosovo here, but I wont. My opinions are my own, when you get older you become burdensome. IE we grow up. In these dark times of war in Europe and all the other attendant blues that travel the world it is nice to reflect on some of the better aspects of humanity. Here is young Sasha Menzies (Gavner's pride and Joy). kinda restores your faith dont it. Congrats again you 2 :)
Wednesday April 7th
Report form special agent Upuaut. TNT clan were commiting pilotcide last night and when our hero questioned them about this poor show he was told "shut the f**k up". So be aware we have some poor sports here. It maybe they are still smarting from the drubbing Ups and I dished out to them a few nights ago.Tuesday April 6th
Yeah yeah, I know, It's my first day back at work and I aint in the mood for PC stuff. I know the next episode of Chimpinators is late, I know the news needs archiving. I also know I am still shagged form the viral infection I had last week, gimme a break , huh. Now the good news. Uncle Fearie has sorted out his PC and is back in action (when he gets home at the week ends). I really can't be arsed to do any more. PS I didn't get one single Birthday prezzie. Oh IG are organising a "for real " BZ party for the summer!!!! See BZF for details. OuttMonday April 5th
It's our Birthday! So so good. A year old and still going strong. My thanks to you all for making it a fun outfit. From some of the actions and conversations I had with the new guys last night it's obvious that they need to go read the ettiquette guidelines on our joining page and the BZF recommended rules of conduct. One simply does not keep ejecting and shooting up empty tanks! Further if you don't know which weapons you are being hit with and how to drop navs, then you aint ready for ladder matches yet. Any of the more experienced players will be pleased to help out. I repeat go read the guidelines. If you must go in and make a prick of yourself, DO NOT use the SMEG jacket. I am not interested in "It was n't me it was me mate" It's your responsiblity to look after your "Handle" Remember I did say that membership is not irreversible. Thats all I am going to say, now lets get back to the fun!Sunday April 4th
A rare picture of The Guardians of the Great Temple Of The Shoe taken as the Great pointy Magga wards off a VC Great baller. The vain attempt to employ the red field and Phantom VIR fools not the keepers of the Shoe.
Saturday April 3rd
3F Ladder match is postponed due to lack of 3F bodies. Provisionally it will be on Sunday 11th April 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST). Unless I hear otherwise Wahay look who's just come back.
{SMEG}~Crow
has fixed his PC so he moves back into the "Active" roster. He is another
founder member. Good to see him back, he says hi to all.
I also got a message from
{SMEG}~ShenazzyAsking me to put a link to his
site, there a link to his pages on his member's page
Bearing in mind the nasties that have got some of
us in the past year I am going to put this disclaimer on relevant pages
as a reminder. Says it all really.
Note from TAZ. I accept no
responsiblity for any content downloaded from my site and any sites linked
to my website. There are no direct links individual files at with "active"
content or exe files etc. This is for the protection of all, as you are
aware. files can be intercepted, infected and/or corrupted.
This might interest some of
you guys who want to keep ahead of the nasty ppl
http://www.cert.org/contact_cert/certmaillist.html
I got a message from Fearie. HIs PC got shagged by
the Marburg virus, thats one that infects .exe's . Anyway, he's on the road
to recovery and for all the folks who helped him out he asked me to post
this:
BLACK MONDAY 22/3/99
Twas the day my computer ran faster than ever b4 -
straight into a brick wall! seriously i have had some major problems but
thanx to my m8's I am hopefuly on the road to recovery
BIG cheers to Jaks, Ups, Brum ,Claymor, Blitzwing
and esp. TAZ
Without u lot my techno-fear would have swamped me
and left me drowning in a sea of despair
Pass the tissues coz im gonna cry
Luv ya all
F&L
Well Np, thats what mates are for Friday April 2nd
Smeggie Easter everyone. I am told when women get pregnant they become forgetful. Well wifey forgot to take some bath towels out of the washing machine. It was the final load she did last Saturday. Eeeeuuwwwwww. They smell like a municiple changing room at the public baths. Uncle Fearie tells me he's broken his PC, doh BZ withdrawal, eeeeeek. Heh just for a wee break I've been playing the ol' Dune2000, funneeee.Thursday April 1st
Happy Birthday BagPuss. Weather's too good to be a mouse potato, hence no news yesterday. Def a day for the rag-top :) Mind you I stayed at home until after Midday today. There's a whole load of ppl who would like to catch me out with an april fool. I mean, it's not as if I'm always taking the piss.... Ha ha ha.. Ohh yes indeed. I got a new bio from Up's today and it reminded me why I lobbed my copy of Front Page in the bin. Loads of redundant inserts cluttering up the code. Anyway all better now. Nice amusing pic of the awesome ¿ Bluntblade "1.0" in action. If any of you want me to update your pages just email me the text and I'll paste it in. Small point about the ladder matches. I have always said I the guys that did n't play in the previous matches shoud get first place in the next games. That does n't mean however, that if you hav n't been around for weeks, or even months, that you can just show up for ladder matches and take priority over those guys who have been faithfully "flying the flag" day in and day out. Just trying to keep a balance. It's difficult to keep everyone happy. What I am trying to say is there has to be a bit of give and take here. Lately I have seen very little of Bang Bang, Deathmaster, Crabber and Marky. No mail for ages either, just gimme a shout nd let me know if your OK, pretty please. Alternativly the "AFK" list could get a little bigger and the "Active" list a lil shorter :)Tuesday March 28th
3F Ladder match will be this Sunday 4th April 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST). Ok here's a couple of useful URS's. First from BagPuss and Jaki the news that there is a new version of battlecom out. Get it from http://www.shadowfactor.com/betadownload.html. Secondly there's a useful bit at http://www.joolz1.freeserve.co.uk This gives details on how to get a freeserve account with out using the CD. This way there's no potential problems stuffing up your IE, etc etc.You only really need one file on the CD and you can get it from here, it's only 0.6kb too. I actually did it this morning. I did n't run the dial up script, I just used the info in it to manully configure a DUN. Mind you I could n't get the BZ servers to show. I'm just off to do my mail client now. Typical, I just finished the site overhaul today and now Ups tells me he's gonna send me a new Bio. Well you know Uncle Tazzy'll do anything for abit of attention.Monday March 29th
Arrrrgh. I got competition. Brum Brum has started his own website!!! http://freespace.virgin.net/david.houghton/index.htm The Brumhole So I thought it was time to spiff up the pages again.
Sunday March 28th
God so much going on today I hardly know where to start, so I 'll do the items in the order they came in. Ahem, er we came second again last night in the DVX ladder match. It was one game all, Fear and Upuaut won theirs and me and Mo lost. ( I got disconnected too, bugger) The final game with Gavner and Alien was a 20 - 19 win to DVX. Close eh ? 3F want to have a go next and as soon as we agree on a date I'll let you know. We are back up to 20 "active" member again. Our old chum Fungu has decided to jump in with us at last, and before anyone who is waiting jumps at me, this spot has been reserved for ages, so booo to you. So if you see
{SMEG}~Fungu , it's for real. Flag is in the smegflags
directory.
I received the following mail from BZF HQ today. Looks
like Col F. loves a lot of work :) best of luck to him.
Gentlemen,
Thank you all for your participation in the BZF. To
those of you I have faced in combat, thankyou for not hurting my boys too
badly, to those I have yet to face, make some challenges, play some matches.
As you are probably aware by now, I am hoping to organise
a tournament for BZF members in the (nearish) future. My thinking so far
is that we make it open to as many people from as many BZF members as possible
and run it like this :
Running the competition at an agreed time, for a fixed
period, we will open 2 rooms on US2 (or wherever, as long as it is fairly
empty) the first room will contain three officials of the BZF (volunteers?)
who will keep the scores and arbitrate if need be. The second room will
contain everyone and anyone who wants to play (as long as they are BZF members).
Any type of game would be permitted, and people can
challenge each other at will in the second room. Then, following the end
of each match the result should be reported to the officials, the combatants
may then go and play another match if they choose to.
Obviously large clans are going to play more matches
than lonewolves, but that won't make a difference since we will be scoring
the whole event on a percentage basis - so a clan that play 10 games and
wins 5 will come out below a lonewolf who plays 3 games and wins 2.
After the event has finished we grade the participants
according to their percentage, with the top ranked lonewolf or clan getting
+5 added to their current ladder streak, the lowest ranked getting -5 added
to theirs, with a scaling number of "streak" points added to all those in
between.
This system would mean that all participants, be they
clan or lonewolf, only need one person to show up in order to compete, and
people can come and go as they please. It would make for a fine evening's
entertainment.
The above system is only my idea of how to run such
an event, and anyone with a better idea is more than welcome to submit it.
However, please reply to this invitation so we can get the event organised.
Thank you
Colonel Failure Vacuum Clan
PS I am happy to work on the referees/score keepers
panel if need be.
I got this mail from Jaki
and Bagpuss, which explains why JC superstar has n't been around all week
Jaki here :) - We've got this
Celeron 450 up and running with a Riva TNT gfx card. I guess you'll see
Bag around before you see me, as after buying new parts and a new case for
my machine- it transpires that the motherboard is shagged. It wont run at
100mhz bus without really stinking. Its gonna be checked out next week and
hopefully replaced for free.
I will see you when I see you.
Pass on congrats to Gav et Wifey.
Bag wants to know if you have any clues why the fonts
appear chunky and cropped on BZ with a TNT
card - weve got the latest drivers and upgrades -
wierd one that !
Sounds like a job for Super-Ups. Coming soon from a phone booth near you.
For additional help see http://members.aol.com/spoons1000/break/index.html
The perpetrators neck muscles stretched to breaking point. I mean he's really going for it!
Food (tachos?) particles preceding the copious fluid emission.
Failure of the nasal safty valve.
Saturday March 27th
IT'S A BOY Brilliant news! To Craig (Gavner) and Nastasia a healthy baby boy. Alexander Thomas Menzies. Congrats from us all, you beat me and Paula to it. We still have another 4 months to run. I forgot to mention that the DVX rumble is on the American server tonight. Pity. As usual firstcome first served and those who did nt play last time get 1st refusal.. Also, remember BST starts tomorrow.Do n't forget this is your clan too, if you have got any contributions send them to me!
That's all for now, drop me a line
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