Torrents and Vassal

Friday… each individual day has dragged on this week, but all up I think the week has gone quickly.  Can’t really believe that tomorrow’s Saturday and I have cricket on again…

Will be a bit quiet too next week – it’s a 4 day week and my boss has taken more annual leave to head to Ireland for his father’s 90^th birthday.  Some of my external service providers are also still on leave and its looking very very quiet.

Niki is heading out tonight to her girlfriends and I had offered to download the entire Season 2 of Desperate Housewives for her and her friends to watch.  That was pre-Xmas and I have been downloading this damn 8.5Gb file since then.  For some reason my BitComet client really refuses to download greater than 4kb/sec and despite the odd burst to 12kb/sec it has taken me since pre-Xmas (taking out the days I was away on hols) to get to 80% of the file downloaded.  I have checked all the settings and can’t see why something with 50odd seeds and 2500+ peers downloads so slowly…  Anyone who is a torrent user and has any advice, let me know.

Still on technology, I was playing around with VASSAL last night (http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php) which is a great way to play a variety of board games.  A Java based application that allows you to click and drag around game pieces on a board and is extensively used by war gamers and some other board games.  Has a dice engine and all the other things that go into games and looks very promising.  There is a thread on Vassal in the Lime Kettle forums if you’re interested in playing.