Cav's Place

As you should be well aware, there’s a war in Georgia. But it’s more than that, it’s the best chance the EU and NATO will have to resolve the “Russian problem”. Or at least it was, since they have already wasted it with meaningless talks and the moment is now lost. Of course the Georgian […]

Reading doesn’t seem to come so naturally to me anymore. I have Black Powder War in front of me on the desk for the past few weeks, after starting it and then stopping after just a few chapters. Meant to continue a few days ago, read one more chapter and then left it again. Until […]

I just finished Final Fantasy VII Tuesday. Despite being no less than ten years old, retaining the console controls and relying on a system that doesn’t suit my playing style (I’m mainly talking about materia), I found it really enjoyable. The things I didn’t like made me not focus too much on character development and […]

As a next step in the international plan of bringing the iron fist down over the Internet, the British government wants to block pro-suicide sites. They’d also like ISPs to automatically redirect those who want to access such sites to organizations who try to prevent suicide. I won’t rant about the right to die again, […]

I have a problem with awareness campaigns for already well-known causes, even very “catchy” ones. They cost a lot of resources of all kinds, be they money, time or manpower, and that reduces the chance of something actually being done for the cause they’re trying to raise awareness about. I think that, at least when […]