Leveller

I know BMW and Porsche offer this service, and a few folks locally in the BMW owners club have done so. It's not a huge saving as you say, but if it makes for a great reason to make a trip to Europe and drive some of the best roads in the world (Southern Germany has some outstandingly beautiful areas and great driving roads). It's a completely US spec. vehicle, just delivered in Germany, if you buy a Z4 or X5 from BMW you would have to collect them from the plant in Spartanburg, NC (even if you were from Europe buying one and wanted the "plant pickup"), but if it's any of the other models it would be European delivery to collect form the plant, it's purely where they finish the manufacturing process.

I've got a level 48 Berserker, I've also got a Defender, Commando and Bio-Engineer in the works all at different levels, but haven't finished a play through with any of them. I'd actually agree with you about more people playing it, I did get Too Human on release date and have persuaded a buddy to get it, he was really not convinced after reading a load of the reviews but is now hooked.

I pre-ordered it about 5 minutes after I watched the gameplay videos last weekend. This is a game I'm really looking forward to, oh and Too Human has far exceeded my expectations...

Having seen him in the Departed I think he could certainly do the role justice.

Woolen mittens at 30 paces it is.

Well, only if you're making it out of me as well

If it's not directly relevant to what you're looking to do, keep it very simple, there's no reason to completely remove it (as you say it can account for lost "missing" time), but summarize it as a title and perhaps 1-3 bullet points if there's anything particular you were proud of achieving there. People are often told at college that 1-2 pages as a maximum is fine, that is true, but as you get more experience don't be afraid to stretch beyond two pages. When you're fresh out of college if you're writing more than 2 pages there's little doubt that you're waffling but if you're in the running for a CEO's role it's probably safe to say you've got a lot more experience to talk about. I'm recruiting manager for a large consulting company so I spend most of every day reviewing resumes and interviewing, I can say with a degree of certainty that most recruiters/hiring managers rarely go beyond the third or fourth page of a resume with any degree of depth, but there's no reason it shouldn't be 3-4 pages in length if you feel your experience merits it. I have seen several people who've treated their resume almost as a covering letter, with 6-42 pages (yes, you read that right) of "additional information". If you strike the right balance a 1-2 page covering resume is great with some additional information available in an extended version. Ultimately your resume is there to get you an interview, no one will hire you on a resume alone, but they'll certainly reject you based on it. If you want someone to review what you've got, PM me. SJ, I'd agree with some of what you've said above, but I know for a fact we've hired people based on experience 5-15 years old, it's easy to get too engrossed in the "here and now" and you can miss out on interesting hooks/relevant past experience that'll get you an interview which just your recent work experience may not highlight. We are a technology company so obviously that experience may not be "day to day" relevant, but as a consulting company challenges someone faced on a global implementation 8 years ago, could well be just as relevant today. You're also making an assumption with covering letters, more often than not if HR get the resume before the line, it's unlikely that the covering letter will get to the line, all they'll see is the resume regardless of HR reading it or not. Often our most successful hires are through referral, as you gain more experience there's very little which is as likely to get you a good job to being well networked/well respected in your field regardless of the quality of your resume.

I discovered yesterday that there is an achievement for dieing 100 times. Not necessarily something I should broadcast...... Finished it yesterday, I think it had taken about 13 hours to get through, I'm not on my second playthrough with the same character (Berserker) and at level 30. I really enjoyed the game, but I would say that a game which seems to "expect" you to die so often, as it's simply near impossible to survive, probably has some balance issues..... I've noticed that the "angel" doesn't appear everytime you die, but I could safely say I'm now sick of seeing it.

Cough, tidying up a presentation for a conference call I have in 15 minutes, well, that's what I should be doing, I'm actually browsing the forums, Newegg and BBC news.

Thoughts and prayers with you and their families.

Seems like our server is running 1.5 and 1.6 is out, makes Lev sad when wife is away for 6 days and he has time to play.................................

$72.60 worth of premium when I filled up last Friday night, I was wondering if I was going to have to swipe my card again, since apparently the maximum "at the pump" payment is $75 on my card at this gas station.

The secret is out.

There's a great family owned brewery in Blandford about 50 miles east of Exmouth (although it's not no a train line). Hall and Woodhouse, their signature (my normal pint when growing up) is Badger Best, Hopping Hare used to be their Spring ale and it is superb. They also brew Tanglefoot and Badger Golden glory. They have a brewery shop there and I know they operate tours. I'm going to biased though, it was my local brewery and I was at school with one of the owner's sons, so we never went short The other side of Devon (on the Bristol Channel) is Bideford, I remember going there for a geography/history fieldtrip as a kid and there was an open brewery there, although the glass factory in Torrington was the history part and flooding was the geography part. Unfortunately I don't know of any really close to Exmouth, but there are several microbreweries across London.

Bath? only one way to pronounce it surely (maybe it's just because I'm English). Exmouth's in a beatiful area, I grew up about 70 miles East in North Dorset (about 40 miles South of Baaaaaaath). Be sure to head out West and have a look around Dartmoor, again beautiful scenery although there's not a huge ammount to do if you don't like scenery. If you want to take a day trip along the coast, head East out to Abbotsbury (stopping off at Beer for a beer, and Lyme Regis), they have a wonderful Swannery (?) there, and if you continue East towards Bournemouth, stop off in Weymouth/Portland, I think they've started developing Portland Harbor already for the 2012 Olympics. Just West of Portland is Chesil beach which is about 20 miles of a pebble sand bar type thing, which is quite impressive. If you head north from Weymouth through Dorchester (old home of Thomas Hardy), stop off and have a look at Maiden castle, which is I believe the largest Iron Age hill fort in Europe (and a favorite field trip for schools) then if you follow the road north towards Sherborne, you can see the Cerne Abbas giant, which is great for encouraging the wife to have a giggle. The Strand or Manor gardens are really nice in Exmouth in the evenings (although I used to head down in the summer, I'm not sure I'd recommend them if the weather isn't great). Lympstone's just north and apparently walkable, although I've not done the walk. It's a nice little village (the Saddler's Arms is a great pub for food in the evening, and the village is home to the Royal Marines). A favorite pub of mine in Exmouth itself is The Beach, it's down on the marina, I think it's on Victoria Road but I've not been back in a few years now so I could be wrong. Just a few ideas, oh, and Stonehenge is obviously a must, but if you go about 20 miles south of Stonehenge to Salisbury it's a beautiful old Cathedral city and worth a visit. Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest spire in England or Europe, I can't remember which.

Update: On the 10th of May we are transforming the entire Open Beta into PvP MAYHEM, while at the same time giving you access to all which Hyboria as to offer! That is right, as we take down our servers for a short period we are at the same time changing the entire server rule-set to Free For All PvP carnage! Your servers will ALL become PvP! Participate if you dare, or make a new character and stay in the safety of Tortage!

Blowhole

Flange

Fileplanet also. DX9, 75% of folks I know who've taken the vista plunge have gone back to XP (I also run our work VPN at home and the client doesn't support XP currently, and I don't always want to boot up the laptop).

I wish I could add more to Penty's thoughts, but I spent an initial 30 minutes of game time with it on Friday and haven't started it up again...... There's a limit to how much fun I was going to have killing Crocodiles or "bandits" when Liberty City was begging to be explored. I know it's hardly a fair overview, but I wasn't bitten by the WoW, Guild Wars etc. bug so I can't really provide much of a comparison. However from what I saw, loading wasn't overly quick, but the game world does look pretty good, and despite a lot of people in the beta forums finding it hellishly slow at times, I actually had absolutely no noticeable slow down anywhere, it seemed to be whipping along quite nicely, and I also liked the combat system. If the beta hadn't been released the same week as GTAIV I'd probably have spent a lot more time on it

Lol, nope, I did the cubed one myself, takes about 10 minutes and did it first try (I probably have to thank my wife for this though as her obsession with "puzzle" games has no doubt honed my skills a bit ) Not a big fan of either darts or bowling, pools a bit better. Guessing by conversations above, I'm not a huge way into the game, I've just opened the second island.

I can provide a review: After 4 more downloads and file verification last night, I got it up and running. I did the character creation piece, and I must say it looked great and ran surprisingly smoothly. So, did that, clicked join game and got a black screen. Retry this 3-4 times, same deal, didn't save the characters either. So I verified the game files, did a defrag on my hard-drive (the 13 gb download and subsequent install appeared to make a hell of a mess) but I haven't tried it since then. So....... having decided to go play some GTA IV instead last night, I'll update over the weekend if when I next try it, I get past the black screen stage I got to last night.

Just had the following email, so I guess I know what I'm doing either tonight or tomorrow: ACTIVATE AND PLAY NOW! The Age of Conan beta has begun. If you've received a key, be sure to activate your account and download to start playing immediately. To activate your beta key and create an account, visit Funcom's account creation site.

I'm on there, I think I did about 5 status updates before I realized both the lives of those I was following and my own working life is really not that interesting.