Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Wednesday, October 08
Crap
My server costs have risen
nearly 50% in three months.
Some software and font purchases I was planning for the next version of Minx, which I'd put off because I needed the funds for moving house, have increased in price by 30%. (Those ones are in Euros.)
Bleah.
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I for one would be happy to pay for my hosting! Not that it's a drop in the bucket next to server costs, but still.
Posted by: pam at Wednesday, October 08 2008 10:12 PM (l6NIn)
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Thanks Pam.
I bought one of the software packages today - it went up another $20 overnight.
It's a suite of graphing/charting/mapping modules in Flash. By buying one developer license I can put it into Minx and all of mu.nu and mee.nu can use it. It cost me €450 for the unlimited license, but the alternative is for each user who wanted to set up maps or graphs paying €85 themselves, so it makes a lot of sense for me to spend the money once.
Should show up in the next version of Minx.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, October 09 2008 11:02 AM (PiXy!)
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One saving grace is that now that mee.nu is officially a business venture (we have a company, mee.nu pty ltd, and I'm a director), all my expenses are tax-deductible. Saves me a small fortune!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, October 09 2008 11:05 AM (PiXy!)
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Well, if you won’t let us contribute to expenses, how about putting up a wish list?
Posted by: Old Grouch at Friday, October 10 2008 07:49 AM (IcH0W)
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Shipping.
Online stores in Australia suck. And international shipping on small items can be 2-3x the price of the item.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, October 10 2008 01:08 PM (PiXy!)
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Sunday, October 05
Dear Electronic Arts
Die in a fire.
Sorry, that was rude.
Please die in a fire.
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Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, October 05 2008 03:45 PM (xC579)
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That's what I'd bet on.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, October 05 2008 04:13 PM (+rSRq)
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I got it working.
Not a bad game. But EA appears to have put together a separate team of developers just to fuck things up once a games is finished and ready to ship.
Spore has copy protection (you must have the original disk in the drive to play it, and the software that controls this is essentially a rootkit), an activation code (you can only activate it three times - now increased to five), and you must register for an online account.
If something goes wrong with your online account, you get a message saying that an unknown error has occured. If you click on the help button, you get thrown out of the game, and sent to a web page that doesn't exist.
Way to create a good first impression, guys.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, October 05 2008 11:34 PM (PiXy!)
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Unfortunately at this point you've rewarded them for bad behavior. You bought their game even though you knew something like this was possible, even likely. Complaining about it
now is futile. They have your money, and they aren't going to give it back. With the exception of MMOs, I haven't bought a PC game in (checking wikipedia...) 2 1/2 years (Oblivion) because of exactly this sort of problem. But I probably shouldn't really get started on this, or I'll tear out a Shamus-worthy rant on the subject, and if I'm going to do that, I really ought to get my own site for it.
Posted by: Morpheus at Monday, October 06 2008 02:56 AM (2uM7B)
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