Planet Calypso - Mining Trip #1

I went on my first Mining Trip last night. Not a big one, I only had 12 probes.

It was with moderate success in the sense that I actually got 3 deposits (2 x Tiny(II) + 1 x Very Poor(III)) just north of Port Atlantis. All in all I extracted 240 barrels of Crude Oil which does not cover the expenses but at least I got something.

I recorded the position of each deposit and I am pondering whether to publicise the coordinates to the general public, as all mining guides I have seen have been missing some hard facts about positions. I will make an update to this post if I decide to publicise the positions.

Now I am without probes and broke. If I sell the Crude Oil at the Trade Terminal that will give me 2.40 PED - almost enough for another 5 probes. I could get lucky and get one big deposit but I think that is unlikely. So it is back to sweating in order to get some additional funds.

Happy Mining, Folks!

Planet Calypso - First time back with a new computer!

Once upon a time ....   well sometime back in 2007 - I registered an account in the MMORPG called Entropia Universe, which is now called Planet Calypso. I played a bit for a little while but never went far. Then for different reasons I have not really been logging in and thus I got a warning not too long ago that it was now more than 300 days since I had logged in and if I did not log in within 450 days from my last login my account with all items would be closed and deleted.

So I thought, maybe it is time have a look at it again. Unfortunately (for me) in my absess the developers (Mind Ark AB) had changed the 3D Engine used to CryEngine2. The requirements for this 3D Engine was too hefty for my old Acer TravelMate 2490 (onboard Intel Graphics, 1.5 GB Ram and a single core Celeron Processor).

Just last week I was lucky enough to get my hardware upgraded to an Acer Aspire 5738G with a Radeon HD4650 GFX card with 1GB Ram, a dual core Pentium T4500 (2.3 GHz) and 4 GB of Ram running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Thinking back at the graphics in 2007 and then looking at the newly redesigned Port Atlantis things have really come far! And now vehicles are being introduced too. Back in the old times we had to walk or run to go anywhere. This will probably still be the case for new recruits - unless they are lucky enough to get a ride - as these vehicles seem rather expensive.

I did my very first mining run this evening - but more about that later - probably tomorrow.

Spam, Spam, Spam ....

I just noticed that I have neglected to look through my spam folder on GMail. 545 messages marked as spam by Gmail in month. That is close to 20 spam mails a day! I know that I may have part in receiving them myself but still....

In the past I have pruned the spam folder from time to time, just checking that no important messages went lost in there and deleted the rest but today I think I will go through mayb 100 mails or so and unsubscribe them if possible. Maybe that will leave me with a smaller spam folder in a months time? I hope so but am not holding my breath!

Yer Hotel - a web based hotel builder/manager game.

A funny little web based game: Yer Hotel: You manage a hotel and through visits make money to upgrade and build bigger hotel(s).

This is my hotel in Yer Hotel : Kaddu hotel, Torquay, United Kingdom

Amazing Love!

"Blessed be your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where the streams of abundance flow
Blessed be your name

Blessed be your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be your name"

Amazingly how we can be in both of these places at the same time. Even though life is hard and we struggle through our lives, both the daily worldly domain as well as the spiritual domain, every moment we decide to spend in the presence of God as his child, there is an abundant stream of love flowing from his throne!

Down-sizing?

I know that we are in a recession and a lot of companies are downsizing, cost cutting and adjusting their product portfolio. But perhaps this is a step too far, British Airways? ;-)

Photo taken June 11th, 2009 on the Jinja-Kampala Highway in Mabira Forest, Uganda