Haunting Thunder

An old friend from my 18 plus days is arranging a reunion for Bedford 18 Plus Members at this years river festival (2nd largest event of its type after Notting Hill Carnival) on the 12th of July at the one of our old meeting venues the embankment hotel.

We  used to organize the raft race that forms one of the major river based events. (circa 1000 participents) and  200,000 Plus spectators.

We used to consider the river festival race a warm up for our 3 day 18plus raft race where we took over a large sports center set up a camp site for 1400+ people and ran 3 of days of evening events and a raft race on the Saturday.

A Winner in the best Fancy dress raft from the 18 Plus raft race

Rackham have released some more info about the upcoming AT43 Expansion Operation Frostbite.

The extract of the PDF in CH 92 are:

Civil Engineers who appear to be mobile Battle objectives

Combat engineers can lay minefields (AP and Anti Personnel)

Troop transports

New Combat Routines

New rules for Support Units.

Support units are partly or entirely composed from the contents
of an Attachment Box.
Support units are used to fighting in small numbers. In regards
to Morale rules (see The Rulebook, p. 74) , they are considered
rank 3 units: They only roll for Morale when there is
only one fighter left.

Not exactly much to go on there eh guys where’s my Red Blok 120mm Mortars!

The Full PDF here

Later tonight ie in about 30 minutes i will be doing some recording for This Week in Wargameing   so fingers crossed. lets hope the broad band stays up

Rackham Have a preview of a new model from the Red Blok faction its in the latest Cry havoc  the English version of which which doesn’t appear to have been sent out yet

Note the Winter Camo and in a change from the original writeup in the Red Blok Army Book note the Double rocket launchers “Oh Yes!” as Jeremy Clarkson would say

Tomorrow I will be experimenting with my latest acquisition a BOSS BR 600 Portable Digital Recorder at a local wargame show Campaign 08 doing some recording to see how recording OB segments for later use in a Podcasts possibly TWIW and a new monthly AT43 Podcast. The Damocles Report

I’me also going to try and do a section on my clubs Big Flames of Wargame possibly with a video segment as well as covering the show.

found an interesting  result in Google when I checked some back links on one of my site i saw a snippet from our test blog the one we let new staff try out blogging on.

The snippet looked like this

Look at the Portsmouth ferries one “Bastards” I found hundreds of dodgy links which I traced back to a site hosted in Utah touting immortality cures ! part of me is tempted to contact my brothers in the sates to find out where that ip goes and do a bit of action direct! - “Pour encourjay lays ortras.” as Nanny Ogg says.

Open the right man hole Manhole bit of Derv light blue touch paper and Bjorn Stronginthearms your uncle

Not of course that i am suggesting anything naughty happen to the sub

Finally have decided to do some broadcasting I have volunteered my self for an AT 43 Podcast and as a contributor to a new General Wargames Podcast This Week in Wargames (lets hope we can become the equivalent of TWIT)

I’m also going to do a test run at Campaign 08 at MK in a couple of weeks

Changes to the law coming in May starting  from May 26, when it will become a criminal offense for brands to seed positive messages online without making the origin of the message clear. Looks like this is a EU directive being implemented - wonder if the way its implemented will ave unintended consequences I can see the Sir Humphreys cocking this up or in a worse case having implications for anonymous political comment.

News article at Adage here

Still look on the bright side  does this mean  those GASTLY GASTLY GASTLY BT ads with the Smug Couple will have to have a warning they they are not real consumers of BT products.

Bring back Bob Hoskins  is what I say -  Even Buzby is better that Wimp boy and Smug Miss.

Best LOLCAT evah!

Back in the day when I was a research assistant at BHRA a lot of test and measurement equipment was difficult hook up to computers and often results had to be measured by hand and transferred to computers for analysis.

nowadays the USB interface seems to be taking over from IEEE-488 standard that some of our reassuringly expensive HP gear used.

I blogged before about some USB temperature measurement devices and just noticed that one of my SEO clients has a sound meter that has a USB interface - back in the day we had custom built interfaces to measure sound in BHRA’s anechoic chamber £3000-40000 pounds per channel i seem to recall(oh an that was only 12 bit resolution )

There have been some comments recently  (here and here) that it is possible to attack a third party by a number of methods including redirecting a banned domain to a good domain and dumping poor quality links on a site.

My suggestion to solve the redirect problem is to authenticate any domain to domain redirects in the webmaster console.

So if Black hat A redirects badsite.com to good site.com the good site webmaster B using webmaster tools can repudiate the redirect.

Another possible attack vector is adding links from banned for poor quality domains maybe webmaster tools could display the rate of link acquisition and flag and big changes from the long run or a beta from the normal rate

This would allow a webmaster to investigate if anything dodgy was going on and again you would need a way for webmasters to repudiate links from sites they don’t want – maybe at a domain level in webmaster tools.

A while back we developed a video site for a local (Bedford Uk) TV news site - last week our MD was interviewed about another site we developed footy-boots.com and here is a video from local news TV with Ex-Arsenal footballer Perry Groves who came to Bedford to test some new Football boots for the footy boots site.

Here’s the Video from the Local news TV Site the Embed inst working on wordpress.com

More Local News Videos from Bedford here.

Wow some times i just love the Fracking Internets was listening to Mark Lamarr’s Alternate 60’s radio show and heard this new young soul singer Eli Reed

Very deep soul style hope they come the the UK soon this giy needs to be on Jools Hollands show ASAP!

As the register says Frack! Me! that offer has set the cat amongst the pigeons.

Well If Steveb pulls this merger off it will shut the people up who where slagging him off after he took over from Bill Gates recently.

W00t interesting times for Google

Last Sunday I managed to get a game with my AT43 Company at the first all day Session at the Bedford Gladiators this the first time we have tried a larger game Just over 2k Ap per side.

here we see my Kossak thumping Daves Una Fire Toad Platoon they had also walked into the fire zone of a couple of units with rocket launchers (you can see one in the back ground) so after this turn the unit was almost wiped out even failed a morale test which is uncommon in AT 43.

Daves UNA advancing with the Defender Snake in the background - the Snake is a really difficult unit to deal with I need some more units with long range AT to try to deal with it.

One thing we found was you need to play on smaller tables as it can take to long to get into position 4 by 4 or 4 by 6 and play across the short side.

We also hade a very nice looking winter war game going on on a massive table(the pic doesnt show the size of the table) with some very nice winterized models and terrain.