You gotta fight

I got all my important KoL items back the other day, which is quite a relief =) Now I can go back to having them sit in my inventory, unused. I don't know how I would have survived otherwise... >_>

I've just finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which I enjoyed. Rather sad at the end, and I'm curious to see how she handles the (alleged) last book. Personally, I wouldn't be too sad if it transformed into a massive series of books, but then it would quite possibly lose its cohesiveness, which is part of the appeal.

The Guy Fawkes party, organised by Jean, was a total success =) The burning man was brilliant, especially when the (incendiary) shirt burnt away and the flawing straw-maggots were visible on the inside. He was very reminiscent (to me at least) of some pyre zombie. Jean was being a total party pooper, and wouldn't let us light the firework that had the 50m warning, or the 50 rocket-pack one. I totally wanted to make like a Jenner and stalk around the grounds with my LRM pack. Okay, not really, but it looked cool, if a little crushed. Crushed fireworks... safety first! Candice ended up having quite a few of my Smirnoff Storms (which were quite nice, actually), and I ended up driving her and Julie (who was also quite sozzled) home (Al went home early).

We started watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on Saturday afternoon. It's got a very modern-day western crime/detective TV series feel to it, like CSI or Homicide, since each episode is usually pretty separate from the rest. It's quite cool, but nothing like GitS the movie. Kinda like the way GitS II: Man-Machine Interface (the second graphic novel) is nothing like the first one.

I've just come across a very innovative No-CD crack system, while looking for cracks/keygens for Black and White 2. All it is is a stripped-down CD image, that you mount with Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%, and it contains just enough information to fool the game into thinking that the correct disk is in the drive. DTools or Alcohol has already taken care of all the SecuROM emulation, so why go to the extra trouble of fixing an exe =) This will also mean that the game is perfectly patchable. Go team! Arrr!

EDIT: A 'great' little late-breaking news item I came across, it seems that Anne Rice has found Jesus, and has now written a book about the boy Jesus as he travels across Egypt. She is quoted as saying something along the lines of 'Give Jesus a chance, he's also a supernatural force, an outcast', obviously likening him to her previous subject matter of vampires and the like. Funny/Scary stuff.