The Stoke-on-Trent based games shop Shire Games holds regular gaming sessions in their shop on Thursday evenings. I decided it would be worth going there and enjoying myself. So I went yesterday. Shire Games provided a good gaming experience in a friendly atmosphere.

The two games that I played were Wildlife and Formula Motor Racing which is long since out of print.

Wildlife took a couple of hours with 6 players. It seems to be a well balanced game which requires strategic thinking to achieve multiple routes to overall victory.

Having been a player of postal games for many years followed by a long lapse, I’ve returned to the world of play by mail and have joined my first Middle Earth PBM, as the Elvish faction in a Battle of Five Armies game.

Over the last couple of days, the blog spammers have been trying to comment on the Japanese interest rate changes.

Various IP addresses are being used, which suggests a botnet, but as they are all trying to push links on the same page to the same sexually explicit, and probably illegal sites, it is fair to assume that they are linked.

The IP addresses of these attacks so far are:

24.199.119.150
24.22.218.231
24.230.136.95
87.245.109.208
75.27.187.192
88.6.79.188
172.192.85.173
200.185.242.156
201.13.92.43
216.76.227.127

Additional compromised IP addresses which try to add their spam to the Japanese interest rate article for 24^th April 2007

24.14.156.99
69.1.40.80
71.63.151.152
75.57.135.91
75.52.255.169