Recently I installed the Castles of Europe theme for Windows and was impressed by the images, wondering about the locations of the castles.
The two posts that list the image locations are here and here.
In relation to that, Wikipedia contains a page with the list of castles in Austria (here) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (here).
One of the most impressive castles is Hochosterwitz Castle (link). Here is its location on the map (link).
Enjoy.
Just encountered a bug in Skyrim where, if you come nearby a city guard anywhere around Markarth, they would hunt you and start the dialog in which you can't pay your way out. The problem is that, even if you select to go to jail, you can't go there either and the dialog simply restarts. The only way out of the dialog is to start a fight. There's also a glitch in a glitch so sometimes you can just close the dialog by pressing Tab and guards would continue their way. However, this is not a solution in case you need to pass through a passage guarded by a couple of guards.
Fortunately, there is a solution. Sounds more like a hack but, since it resolves a bug, is not that bad. There might be other solutions with quests that set/reset status but this one was the first one I tried and it worked. The glitch is caused by helping the Forsworn during the prison break, after they get out of the mines. So, here goes the solution for the PC:
1. Travel to Markarth
2. Walk up to a city guard and begin the "You've committed crimes..." dialog
3. Do not select any dialog options
4. Hit the tilde key ( `/~ key above the tab key) to bring up the console
5. Using either the game pad or the mouse position the cursor right in the middle of the guard's head and click on his head. You should now see a hex code in the console. It is important that it is the guard's head - not his body.
6. Type paycrimegold into the console and hit enter
You'll hear the gold "cha ching" sound and the game will teleport you somewhere random in Markarth. Hit tilde again to exit the console and the glitch will now be fixed. You can interact with Markarth as per normal. This is not cheating as the bounty on your head cannot be cleared by normal means and the bounty should have been lifted at the end of the quest so you aren't breaking the game.
Source: forum
Jagged Alliance for PC is back! There is a new version "Jagged Alliance: Back in Action" that is supposed to come out in February 2012.
Have a look at the preview on GameSpy: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/jagged-alliance-back-in-action/1214074p1.html
The latest Mercer survey of the world's best cities to live
http://www.mercer.com/qualityofliving
has seen Australian cities completely removed from the top 10. Sydney has fallen to 11th place and Melbourne is way below at #18.
As CNN noted, half the cities in the top 25 are located in Europe, with Vienna being the #1 for third year in a row.
Here is a very useful notes/tabs-equivalent notation for interpreting notes. Quite convenient as a reference when playing music from scores (like this, for example).
Found using Google Image search. The original source is My Guitar Solo web site (link). They also have nice guitar tutorials, scales, etc.
Playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I have reached a point where the cause of all the chaos (in the game) is established to be the Illuminati. I knew it! :) Similar to famous quote by surrealists in former Yugoslavia - "nema bitke, nema rata bez Jasera Arafata" - there's no real conspiracy without the Illuminati.
Here's an interesting link in that regard: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/
Kulla's ride on a new Kawasaki, with a new camera:
http://contour.com/stories/olsfors-bollebygd
Nice features on the site include following the actual location on a map overlay, average speed, altitude and other GPS information.
