All (both) the biggest ISP's in Iceland rely on Farice (www.farice.is) to connect this island of ours to the rest of the world. We were so happy when we first heard of Farice, it was going to be the saviour of Icelandic gamers. To make a long story short Farice has proven to be nothing but trouble. There is a failure in Scotland every other week at least.

When this  happens ping (anywhere within the uk for example)rises from 50 to 200 or even 300. Imagine the frustration for active clanners. I am just happy not to be one of them at the moment.

I kept on playing hl2dm last weekend. Mostly alone but managed to drag [SC^2]Vagabond with me for a few maps. It would be nice to get a fortress mod soon, but somehow I feel it (www.fortress-forever.com) won't be released in the next few months.

Q4 is getting annoying. I decided to play it on hard (second hardest of 4 available settings) and there is no way to change it once you have entered the game. All sorts of other small user interface and experience aspects are also getting on my nerves. For instance, when you die you are always sent back to the menu. You can hit F9 to quickload there, but why not just mousebutton ingame to quickload when you are dead?

I doubt I will have the patience to finish it. So many games on the "To Play" list, so little time.