The Life of Wighar Stamfaste

A heavy cold

This years winter was heavy compared to how it has been the last 10 or so years, and I have indeed missed the chill of a real winter season, an oddity though is that I have been struck with a heavy cold this year and its a first for a very long time, last time I had one this bad was when I was like 15-16 years old.
During a cold I will often blend about 1L of hot water with a flavor enhancer or normal household orange juice that upon consumption will increase my inner-body temperature to battle the cold from within, Warm Chicken Soup or indeed most soups for example will do your body good during a cold as it keeps the body hot.

The Games of old

Looking around in my game collection I found my Sid Meier’s Pirates! box, all CDs still in superb condition, so having a bit of nostalgia I installed the game and began to play, to my surprise however the game seemed to have constant loading pauses during play, like it was loading things every 0,3~0,5 seconds thus making the game visually lag, not sure if its my graphics card, anti virus or anything else that makes this behavior, I started to check what I could possibly turn off to make it run smooth as it should, tried all compatible modes and there was no difference at all.

I tried turning off all antivirus and internet security software and apps, I unplugged my computer from the network prior to turning everything off of course.
This did nada as well, So I am currently stuck with a superb game with a constant graphical lag like state… oh well, guess I’ll find a solution for it later.

Dedication and Explaination

Onward to the world of Online Gaming, as many of you may have seen and read in my posts earlier that I started to run a site for Dedicated Game Servers, which are paid for by public donations and the ad revenue from the Google Adsense program that I have on my blog and the community forum here at stamfaste.se

I did get a few question about “what stamfaste.se is?”, questions like “Is Stamfaste.se a Company Name?”, “How many owners does Stamfaste.se have?” and “Is Stamfaste.se for sale”…
Well first of Stamfaste.se is simply a Website I created and is owned by me, and is used as a project platform for various web based projects by me and my friends, I do not see Stamfaste.se as a company or anything like that, mostly cause I have no idea how to run a company and besides I don’t ask for anything in return for usage of the site, as I explained in earlier posts and such all money that comes in to Stamfaste.se in donation or ad revenue are used for Stamfaste.se server payments and such.

A question I got from a friend was “Have you thought of joining a Affiliate program?”, I have indeed thought about it, though I am not sure I understand them enough to consider them, mostly it’s cause I can’t be bothered to read thru several pages of license / ToS documents with a dictionary to join one, and in most cases you need to join the program to get to see what you actual get to utilize or what is required of you…

The Community and Association

Wish I had so much to write that I could type a post every week instead of whenever I get a feel to do so, but that is how it is, other than Stamfaste.se I am also an administrator for Thesecondsun.org as Head Community Manager, thus I take care of the forums and most community management requirements that the community may need or want.

Though lately I haven’t done much as I am backing of my role to basic management control keeping the forum up and as of late fixing so that the forum is a part of the community rather then the base of the community.

The community being a MMORPG player Association means we have guilds in multiple MMO’s trying to keep a stable and friendly community between the games, as of recently I was given the guild leadership of the World of Warcraft Guild “Children of Twilight” by the Game Master as our leader had been offline for a extended period of time and It was noticed that my bank alt that was in the guild still had the most activity in the guild, I hope that I can restore parts of the guild with a council command structure where my character has a central role but I put the overall command to the council.

I don’t have much else on my mind right now but I hope to make a longer post next time, so see you all then and please do visit my webshop Stamfaste.se Webshop

Once again I read something that makes me laugh at the stupidity shown by the anti-piracy movement and lobbyists
I read a number blogs now and then, one of those I often come to read is Brokep’s blog, this time he writes about BREIN and their political campaign against The Pirate Bay, The evidence that brokep mentions in his blog that BREIN created their ”evidence” against TPB is indeed convincing and I cant stop myself from bursting out in laughter at how badly the Anti-Piracy lobbyist have epicly failed this time …again. (there are loads of epic fails in Anti-Piracy just use Google and find them).

To Brokep I say Keep up the good fight man, One day the world might get more logical and fair, in the mean time give them the power of your words, peace!

~ “Now to something completly different” -Monty Python

Candy, sweet and tasty candy, though these days I don’t eat much candy maybe 3-4 times a year not counting buying something on the go when traveling like a chocolate bar with nuts or a pack of salted peanuts.

Why do I mention candy you might ask yourself, well when I visit supermarkets and stores now and then, I take a trip over to Inspect the section where you can collect the candy from plastic boxes into a paper bag, I take note to see if the candy is within a small childs reach height, if the box lids close themself or if there is discoloration or other signs of the candy going bad.

in case I spot any of these I wont buy candy from them anytime soon for myself or others because of health hazards that these things pose, think im over sensetive?

Ponder on this then, I was heading to the store and along the way I see a few meters ahead a woman scolding her child because it had just picked up a dog turd, they went to the same store as I did, after I had collected the items I was in need of I walked over to the candy and snacks section, here I once more meet the same woman and her child which is digging in the various boxes for candy…
I alerted the woman of her childs digging in the candy boxes and she didnt seem to bothered, not even after I asked her “Did you clean her hands after she picked up the dogs buisness”, she then went on over to the registry with her daughter I belive it was, upon her ignorance I alerted one of the personel of the encounter within the womans hearing range which made her hasten her exodus from the store.
The store replaced the candy after the man I alerted smelled the box himself, so now you see why i take causion before buying candy.
Especialy true is it when the candy is in open lid boxes in the middle of the room like a video store I visited when the store clerk sneezed without covering her mouth and the boxes stacked on the floor infront of the counter, the candy they offered was the cheapest as well, now I know why…