Ikariam

I just joined a free online game called Ikariam. The best thing about it ? Its web based !



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which means - if you can browse, you can play this. I am actually logged in on linux !

Now, there are many online browser based games, and most of them follow the same philosophy - you expand your economy by gathering resources and researching technologies, build up a military and go and rule the world ! However, most of them are quite boring games - with simple html pages. Nice concept - ugly execution.

Ikariam on the other hand has finally done something about the way it looks. It shows you the world map, and you can zoom into your city wherein it shows the different city plots available to build up. Its kind of like Civilization, if you have played that game, but in a much more relaxed way - things takes minutes and hours instead of seconds to build. Check out the small tour that they have up , so you get an idea about the game.

If you have freetime, and you can access this website , create a login. My city is called Brahmapolis, and is at 21.44 loction in the Delta server map ! send me a message if you log in !

You can register for free by clicking here . Try to create account on Delta world.

Google Doodle

This is a cool video of Denis Hwang drawing a Google Doodle. I wonder what is the system he is using for it ? It looks like a cool piece of software !

Broken Internet

Last week saw some frustrations in the office with the internet going for a toss. Initially I thought it was something wrong with our network, and just a week before I had raised the issue of the net being slow. However, by evening info trickled in about the fibre cut near egypt. The news channels picked up the info, but then quietly went silent with India losing miserably to Australia.

Today, digging up a bit found out an article on what happened, along with a fabulous map of the wired connections across the globe.