Cav's Place

Some three weeks ago, I was wondering whether not returning my new mouse was the right choice. Well, as of yesterday, I know it wasn’t, as the scroll wheel pretty much gave up on me for good just as I was writing the previous post. One moment it was quite fine, and in fact I […]

After the significant changes implemented on August 27, the regional-pricing floodgates truly opened on GOG.com. In fact, at least two dozen games that used to be flat-priced before those changes suddenly became regionally-priced as of that moment, without this being announced or explained in any way, a couple of GOG.com employees merely apologizing for it […]

Considering the new developments, what I should be writing today is another post about GOG.com, stating what my attitude towards them is now and making some more suggestions that will go nowhere, and perhaps also mentioning a couple of potential alternatives, though they could hardly count as such. But I’m not feeling well and there’s […]

After adding WP-SpamShield in late August and seeing that it didn’t let anything through in all this time, I have now decided to stick only to it and get rid of Akismet completely. Of course, the amount of spam received also dropped significantly, from that spike of over 1000 such comments per day when I […]

Largely for personal future reference, I’m taking this opportunity, at the end of a 2014 during which we had three rounds of elections and which followed a 2012 during which we had three others, to post a list of who and what I voted for at each round of elections ever since I turned 18. […]