2007–2026
Writing
Two decades of notes, mostly about Magento, Rails and the web of the day. Kept because some of it is still useful, and the rest is honest.
2026
The football games I used to play with friends have quietly turned into a different genre. LOWBLOCK is my attempt to build the one that went missing.
The thing everyone is looking at
Group chat gives everyone a different scroll position and no shared referent. Covert Mission puts one thing in the middle instead — and the threads turned out to write themselves.
2022
Ignore the Chaos. Britain's System Is Working.tremr
In times of crisis, Britain's arcane constitution seems absurd-often because it is absurd. Questions emerge to which no one ever seems entirely sure of the answer. What if, for example, Boris Johnson had not resigned last week but instead sought to cling to power by asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament to hold new elections?
What Wordle is actually leaning on
My daily dungeon game failed because the paper got too busy. Underneath that was something I hadn't seen: the simplicity of Wordle, crosswords and sudoku is borrowed, and a dungeon has nothing to borrow it from.
2021
This troubles me. It feels like the tip of an iceberg that somebody needs to start thinking seriously about.
2020
In 2020 I tried to build the RPG version of Wordle — a solo dungeon crawl on one printable page, published daily, with no dice and nothing to set up.
How a great power falls aparttremr
To know how great powers end, one could do worse than study the last one that actually did.
The Prescient Power of Anime?tremr
Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, one of the most groundbreaking and influential animated films of all time, opens with an iconic motorcycle chase through the neon streets of Neo-Tokyo, a beautiful cyberpunk Metropolis built on the ruins of old Tokyo.
Code Generation with OpenAItremr
Ever since its release last month, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been in the news for a variety of reasons. From being the largest language model ever trained to outranking state of the art models on tasks such as translation and question-answering, GPT-3 has set new benchmarks for natural language processing.
2016
Immigration, Brexit, WWIItremr
What this was supposed to be was a blog entry about Britain (really, mostly England) voting on leaving the European Union. Like a lot of things I write, it had been simmering somewhere inside me for quite a long time. The angle I was going to take was based around World War II.
20th anniversary of the original Pokémon RPGs AND an election year - it had to happen.tremr
Creator of the Disney animated series Gravity Falls, Alex Hirsch, has reimagined several of the presidential candidates as Pokémon and they're awesome!
Earnings threshold of £35,000 for non-EU migrants is WAY above the average salarytremr
With the following average annual income for some pretty useful and important jobs falling well below the threshold, what does this say for May's regard for UK citizens in these…
2015
We've become so disillusioned with politics over the years it seems policy makers have forgotten what healthy democracy looks like. tremr
Child protection officials been criticised after warning parents that young people who take issue with government policy or question what they are told in the media may have been radicalised by extremists. A leaflet drawn up by an inner-city child safeguarding board warns that "appearing angry about government policies, especially foreign policies" is a sign "specific to radicalisation".
Need help finding a unique halloween costume this year?tremr
Costumes so good it's scary. Check out Frightgeist, a GoogleTrends experiment.
Let's consider something new: Yuccies. Young Urban Creativestremr
What do we call me? I'm a 26-year-old writer who lives in a gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn. I'm a straight white man with a single-speed bike and a mustache. I studied liberal arts in college, and I have ideas about stuff, you guys. Millennial? Hipster? Yuppie? All of these, or none?
Turkey will ban Twitter unless it blocks a newspaper's accounttremr
The Turkish government's love/hate relationship with Twitter is once again turning sour. A court in the country's Adana province is threatening to ban Twitter unless it blocks the account of a newspaper ( BirGun) posting leaked documents that expose the truth behind a raid on an Intelligence agency convoy.
Razer Unveils Its $100 Android-Powered Gaming Console, Razer Forge TVtremr
Earlier this year, high-end gaming tech company Razer announced at Google I/O that it would be soon be making its first foray into Android-based gaming consoles. Today at CES, that device made its public debut.
Robots are starting to break the law and nobody knows what to do about ittremr
Maybe it's a sign that robots are growing up, and thus hitting the rebellious stage. The Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100 a week in Bitcoin, is programmed to do a very specific task: go to one particular marketplace on the Deep Web and make one random purchase a week with the provided allowance.
Central Asia is full of lands whose names end in -stan. A certain powerful North American country has a related name. How? It's not your standard explanation.
2014
Parable of the Polygons - A playable post on game theory, diversity an the cutest bigotstremr
This is a story of how harmless choices can make a harmful world and arrives at some interesting and not so obvious conclusions...
You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?tremr
Whether it's cucumbers splashing into water or models sitting smugly next to a pile of vegetables, it's tough not to be sucked in by the detox industry. The idea that you can wash…
Well, it’s been a busy year working on tremr, I finally found the time to write a little bit about it here (as a way of avoiding working on version 2!).
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teasertremr
No Jar Jar in sight, have Disney done what Lucas couldn't... let's hope so!
The Case Against Early Cancer Detectiontremr
South Korea has a thyroid cancer problem. Incidence of the disease there has climbed 15-fold over the past 20 years - faster than any other cancer worldwide. South Korea also has a thyroid cancer diagnosis problem. In a study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers identified the cause of the country's alarming epidemic: South Korea's high-tech health care system.
Looks like an expensive way of playing Wipeout to me!tremr
Either that or Disney are taking seriously the idea of using models instead of CGI for the new star wars films!
How (un)equal is your pay?tremr
As part of the crowd sourced documentary on the gap between rich and poor and where capitalism has gone wrong they have released this trailer and this little microsite that gives…
U.S. Law Enforcement Seeks to Halt Apple-Google Encryption of Mobile datatremr
Sadly this was the predictable response from the people we can't trust not to spy on us.
What will the UK do with it's flag?tremr
The United Kingdom is a place of curious tradition. Beyond the formalities of queens, dukes, and baby princes, they also have a parliamentary flags and heraldry committee which has…
Get your NYC Subway Graphics Standards Manual on Kickstartertremr
Every single day, millions of New Yorkers rely on the subway to get around the city, and you can't use the subway without encountering the signage designed by Unimark. Over the…
I love this idea - but maybe not if it lets them squash even more seats in!tremr
An international design agency has come up with an intriguing and innovative new aviation concept that has won them a prestigious award - windowless jets.
A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in Fergusontremr
As smoke hangs over the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, it's important to understand its source. Some of this understanding will require…
New York - not for the acrophobictremr
Take a look at these stunning shots taken by fearless, New York based, photographer Humza Deas.
Interesting article on citizen journalismtremr
A A Amid all the trolling and celebrity hoo-ha that takes place on Twitter and other social-media platforms, occasionally there are events that remind us just how transformative a real-time, crowdsourced information platform can be, and the violent response by local police to civil protests in Ferguson, Missouri on Wednesday is a great example.
Though rye whiskey anchored many fabled cocktails in the 19th century—including the Manhattan and the Sazerac—in the 20th it became known as bourbon’s less suave cousin, the…
Skybridges: seems I'm not the only one who loves themtremr
Last week, I was driving down West 24th Street when I noticed something... They're tearing down the West 24th Street skybridge. Once connecting the two buildings that comprised the now defunct International Toy Center, the southern building at 1107 Broadway is currently being converted into luxury condos.
Google now using HTTPS as a ranking signaltremr
Following their I/O talk entitled HTTPS Everywhere Google have been testing taking into account whether sites use secure, encrypted connections as a signal in their search ranking…
DIY Cold Brew Coffee - How To!tremr
I would write more, but I need to get started on this ASAP because I don't think I can wait the 12-16 hours required!
Feeling safe and secure in your luxury hotel room..?tremr
Shenzhen is the Silicon Valley of mainland China. Situated about 50 minutes north of Hong Kong, the modern city is home to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and numerous high-tech giants and startups. So naturally, the city's five-star hotels regularly host wealthy moguls in their luxury rooms. Last year, one of those hotels also hosted a...
Almond Milk... Dissected.tremr
Almonds are a precious foodstuff: a crunchy jolt of complete protein, healthful fats, vitamins/minerals, and deliciousness. Given their rather intense ecological footprint-see here -we should probably consider them a delicacy, a special treat. That's why I think it's deeply weird to pulverize away their crunch, drown them in water, and send them out to the world in a gazillion little cartons.
If you combine two bizarre, viral things, you are going to get something _even more_ bizarre and viral. In this case, it's _hipster beards_ and _flower crowns_.
The Perfect Margarita [Infographic]tremr
Pre-made margarita mix is for chumps. To keep going strong with the National Margarita Day theme we give you an infographic on how to make the perfect margarita. Summer is fast approaching and nothing spices things up like a delicious margarita on the rocks. Most guys don't realize how easy it is.
The Developer's Dystopian Futuretremr
The problem developers have keeping up with the relentless pace of technological change.
Hong Kong marching for democracytremr
Passions run high as Hong Kong marches for democracy By James Pomfret and Grace Li HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday, many calling for the city's leader to be sacked, in what could turn out to be the biggest and most passionate challenge to Chinese Communist Party rule in more than a decade.
Just how good is Lionel Messi?tremr
In their Group F World Cup match late last month, Argentina and Iran were still deadlocked after 90 minutes. With the game in stoppage time and the score tied at 0-0, Lionel Messi took the ball near the right corner of the penalty area, held it for a moment, then broke left, found his seam, took his strike and curled it in from 29 yards.
Android Watches announed at Google I/Otremr
Want a mini Android display on your wrist? Both LG and Samsung's first Android Wear smartwatches will be available for purchase starting today, June 25 - and yes, Samsung is now making an Android Wear device. Called the Samsung Gear Live, it looks a lot like its Tizen counterparts.
The Story Behind Google’s Cardboard Projecttremr
The surprise hit of Google I/O was without a doubt Cardboard. Google's paper product - or phone-based VR viewer - made…
Van Persie's Equaliser Against Spain - Best Goal So Far?tremr
So often the top players underacheive - in this case I'm sure you will agree that is not the case.
Bushwick: Street Art Partytremr
This weekend is Bushwick Open Studios a great chance to see a bunch of art where it's being made, walk through the many studios in the Brooklyn neighborhood, and probably nab a few…
Northside Festival 2014 Line-upstremr
The Northside Festival is New York City’s largest and most accessible discovery festival. From June 12-19, 2014, hundreds of bands, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, innovators, and over…
Street artist Lady Pink comes to Williamsburgtremr
The famous street artist who's exhibited in none other than the MOMA and Brooklyn's own Museum of Modern Art has just completed a commission adorning the outside of a warehouse…
The NYT's weekly art, music and culture guidetremr
A Times selection of noteworthy cultural events in New York City and beyond, including art, classical music, opera, dance, jazz, rock, pop, museums, galleries, poetry, Broadway, Off Broadway, and events for children.
2013
Derby is one of a new breed of JavaScript frameworks that take advantage of the interesting NodeJS to create a web app framework that runs your code both on the client and the…
2012
Setting up Git, Github and Cloud9 IDE and Pushing to live server
I guess first off I should probably discourage people from pushing changes straight from their editor to a live server. There are obviously projects where that is appropriate and…
Recursive Filesearch using the PHP Glob function
A really simple snippet of code that I tend to use when doing big imports of data into a database system. It is rare that the people preparing the files are perfect at following…
Update: WordPress – Dealing with lots of standard image sizes
This is an update to the blog post and gist I wrote about getting image source filenames from wordpress when all you have is the thumbnail version. It turns out the whole thing is…
WordPress – Dealing with lots of standard image sizes
All this function does is accept an existing image URL and then switch out the current height and width (if present) and place in the specified height and width. So the procedure…
Adding an additional content block to your Magento page
So first things first, find your page layout file. This will be under the app/design folder in your themes layout folder and will be named page.xml. This file contins an element…
Really simply HTTP Authentication on Apache
So, how do we acheive this? The documentation for this is actually split over two pages in the apache docs, one for the mod_auth_basic and one for the specific file based method…
Marketing Ecosystems Presentation
I had the honour of preparing a presentation for the first ever Channel Island-wide digital marketing seminars in March this year and the whole thing has made its way onto the net.…
Adding a CMS Block to your Magento footer
First thing is to create a new CMS Block from Magento’s CMS menu and to add some content, taking note of the identifier that you have entered. Now we just need to pull that content…
Humans Who Made – A directory of humans.txt files
After a few weeks of development I have finally decided to “go public” with a new site I have designed and developed. Drum-roll if you please…
A Look at two HTML5 Canvas libraries – JCanvaScript vs Processing.js
The HTML Canvas element essentially allows you to draw a bitmap image dynamically using JavaScript. You do this by drawing graphics primitives, such as lines, on the canvas – which…
eCommerce and Magento with aheadWorks
Now it’s time for taking a step in a right direction. We live in the 21st century and it’s got lots of opportunities for motivated people. Grab your ideas and creativity and start…
Web standards and why I still really don’t care
Originally published: 2nd March 2009 but before the content gets lost I thought I would republish it here! I really think this view is even more valid now we have HTML5 and CSS3…
2011
One of the basic concepts of a successful business is quite easy – you should be where your customers are. This is the substantive law for every serious business. You won”t hunt…
Add flag icons to your Magento site header to switch currency
The first thing to do is to enable multiple currencies in your store. This is simply done through the Magento admin panel, under system configuration. You then will want to go to…
Sorting UK Date format in JQuery Datatables
I simply create a separate javascript file that I load after the main datatables javascript. The datatables require you define three functions for a new method of sorting.
Can PHP really be missing a way of deleting items from an array based on the key? Seems so, so here am am just sharing a snippet of code that lets you do just that.
UPDATE: Projects go wrong because of poor communication
Turns out this fantastic project management cartoon is actually created from a website that generates them for you, amazingly that didn’t show up on my first google search!
Custom Contact Form In Magento
The normal contact form is a core piece of functionality within Magento and there are several options for customizing it.
Set “ship to this Address” the default in your Magento checkout
The first stage in making this change is to override the default Magento class that handles the checkout. You do his by simply copying the class file from the core folder into the…
Guernsey Agency Poised to Launch Oliver Twist Gin
Very exciting to see the project start with ideas for names and branding, right through to tasting samples of gin from the distillery for them to work towards the perfect flavour.…
SSL Warning on Magento with Facebook Like
To solve this problem you simply need to include the Facebook script using HTTPS – since Facebook also support the SSL version. So your code would look like this…
Guernsey & Jersey GST/VAT Rates in Magento
First of all lets look at the sales tax rules in these three jurisdictions. UK sales tax or VAT (value added tax) is currently charged at 20% and needs to be applied to all orders…
Lite Website Content Management Options
I am really concentrating on what I would categories as “lite” content solutions. Sites that take the pain out of managing your design and content but aren’t going to give you…
Setting new orders to Complete (or any other status) in Magento
Each of Magento’s payment methods are created by the core payment module or as their own modules such as paypal – you can find the core methods in the folder…
First take a look at the System->Configuration options for VAT under the sales section. Here we have loads of options for how the tax should be applied to order and defaults to use…
One-Eyed Willy’s Guide to a Good Game of VGA Planets
seen in the context of an actual game. As Egg Shen would say: take what
So far my online score is 4 wins, and 4 losses – here are some of the highlights…
I look back at the early versions of my jimcode website and I cannot help but ask “what was I thinking?!”. Still, it has been around for a long time in one for or another.…
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Trip
Just returned from a fantastic canoe trip in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota. There really is nothing like this in the UK, or Guernsey, so it was well…
What is a good approach for improting CSV documents to WordPress
You may possibly be seeking to use csv data by some means with your wordpress blog site. It’s possible you are sourcing facts from a 3rd site that supplies csv datafeeds, or…
Using Layout Update XML in Magento
The Magento Designer’s Guide has the following short intro about layout XML and I think it explains it quite well, although I will go through some more detail with examples…
Don’t Make Your Ruby App a Gem as an Afterthought – Do it Now!
My project was a reasonably complex command line program – it was simply arranged into a number of folders and subfolders to logically group different areas of the functionality.…
Magento: Remove the “Customer Login” page title when using a form_login on your homepage
What you need to do is override the module that you use when placing the login form into your template. You can see this in the XML layout used to add the form, probably in your…
Display your Magento store address (from the configuration)
First of all the setting is found in the system-Configuration page under General – Shop Information. Obviously you can vary this for different Store Views etc. Here is a quick…
Adding Debug Messages to a Magento Module
Buried away in the depths of the System->Configuration menu under Advanced – Develop and then Log Settings you can turn on logging. Once you have done this you can use the…
Order product list on your homepage in Magento
This seemed like a promising place to start with the dropdown for “Product Listing Sort by”. There are three values here: Best Value, Name and Price. Name and Price are self…
How to Reorder your Magento Footer Links and A Walkthrough the Magento Layout/Template System
First let me explain where the links are in the Magento structure, so you can add, edit or remove them from the footer links. The links are added into the page in the…
Should your tweet button, tweet the current page or your homepage
I think the original intention was to allow people to quickly tweet about the page they are reading, which is great for them and hopefully their followers. But from a content…
Update: Translations Specific To Your Magento Theme
You can read the original here: [Custom translations file in Magento][1]
Rails – you think it is a POST but really it is a PUT
This all worked when I originally was just creating a new record each time but when I also allowed for users to update the data using the same form I hit a problem. Suddenly when I…
Setting number of columns on Magento search results
I have been recently working on a Magento template that required plenty of changes to the product lists and grids and some way down the line I realised that the search results…
Display Category Descriptions, Tag Descriptions and Author Bio’s in WordPress
The main reason for wanting to do this is simply to provide a little extra supplementary information on lots of your blogs pages – but it may also have some benefit for SEO as…
Javascript Reference/Documentation
I am pretty sure I missed the boat with this one but I feel like I should do my bit to contribute to the worthy cause of getting some decent Javascript documentation at the top of…
Magento enable cookies displayed when you already have cookies enabled
You have been developing your Magento website using Firefox but when you view it in Chrome or Internet Explorer Magento tells you that you need to enable cookies. First thing you…
Kayaking in Guernsey from Rousse to Chouet
A gently paddle around – a lovely way to spend a bank holiday monday in Guernsey. I started out from the slipway at Rousse and paddled across to Chouet, it was quite windy so there…
Rails/Bundler – libxml2 is missing error
This will install the dependencies and you can then install the gems using gem or bundler.
Magento: Setting columns and limiting products shown in grid
Lets start with the basic XML you need to insert products from a specific category into the content block of your template.
Add a new Magento CMS Template
The first thing you need to do is tell Magento that there is a new template that it can use. You can do this by adding to your local.xml file. You can find the file here…
Magento and PayPal payment doesn’t set Delivery Address
Now as soon as I started testing PayPal orders the shipping address started coming back blank. A simple situation to test for and deal with – to ensure you delivery runs smoothly…
Get the title of an order’s payment method in Magento
You can see in the following lines of code, once you have loaded your order you can simply access the payment and the payment’s method object. Unfortunately I still haven’t managed…
How to check if a string contains another string in PHP
This post is another quick explanation on something that is is much more difficult to figure out than it should be. One of the most basic things you would ever want to do in…
Joining a table to itself in Ruby on Rails 3 when you can’t use the Id
First of all let me explain that joining a table to itself normally – i.e. using primary and foreign keys, is pretty simple and can be done using the lovely ActiveRecord belongs_to…
Putting products on a Magento CMS page or Homepage
No matter how many Magento websites I build I never seem to be able to remember the following code snippet to add products onto the homepage or CMS page. I thought I would post,…
Building a website switcher module for Magento
I recently had to build a module for Magento that let you switch between each of the Magento Websites in the admin. I’ve written a short explanation of how I did this below, along…
MarketingExperiments have just released their Quarterly Research Journal
But how much money are you leaving on the table by settling for what worked yesterday? Through our research with consumer and B2B marketers the world over, we have (marketing…
Earth Hour in 2011 is fast approaching, so I hope everyone in Guernsey will do their best to participate in the event at 8.30pm Saturday, 26th March by switching off your lights…
Magento: Limit the address fields to n characters
There are a number of reasons you may want to do this – but primarily I think it is because your despatch system will likely be printing labels and if the lines are too long it…
Magento: Retrieve the store name, inside a module
I thought this would be simple usually that is my first mistake with Magento. As it transpires it really is simple for once but worth mentioning, if only so that when I need it…
Padding a number with zero in PHP
This really should be simpler than it is. Well, that isn’t entirely true because it really is simple – but it took me at least three google searches to find out how to do what I…
Magento: Display the store telephone number
Displaying the store telephone number that you entered into the Magento Admin seems like it should be obvious but it took me ages to track down, here is how.
Magento: fixing a broken pear.ini after migrating server
When you copy files from one server to another the pear.ini file contains some hardcoded paths that need to be fixed. The file format is some kind of PHP serialisation. The file…
Custom translations file in Magento
It is very helpful to create a single translation file for your magento template to include any words or phrases that you add to the basic templates.
Magento Multi Language, Currency & Region Setup
Several options here depending on exactly what you need. Currency can be handled at website, Store or Store level and if multiple currencies are set “as allowed” then the currency…
Read URL parameters inside Magento (for tracking)
You likely want to be able to pass some tracking information about the visitors to your Magento site through to your back-end systems. I usually implement tracking using the same…
Suppress the Magento newsletter (un)subscribe emails
This is vital since there is no way to test email templates. To test I recommend unsubscribing all subscribers, testing and then re-subscribing them. Painful, but at least with…
How to load stock levels into Magento from a CSV file
Create a module and add a method that you call periodically and throw the following code in. To get started [create your own magento module][1] and then you can use the code below…
Run a magento module method periodically
You often want to be able to just write some PHP against your magento system to export, or update bits of data. In the module config file, under the etc folder you need to add a…
Creating your own Magento module
You need an etc folder with config.xml in it containing something like the below. In this case it is expecting at least a Model folder with a php file (with any name) that defines…
Magento newsletters templates don’t work. When you Queue the newsletter the body of the email isn’t brought through from the template. To fix this you need to copy the following…
Magento 1.4 Checklist/Cheatsheet
I’m starting to work on more and more Magento websites and there are so many little gotchas and configuration settings I thought I would start compiling a list of things to make…
Three later Black Ops clips: a semtex hit that refused to count, and the chopper gunner run that won the game and finally earned the Aerial Slaughterhouse contract.
2010
Earning a killstreak in Black Ops is one thing. Actually getting to the care package and picking the thing up is quite another.
Nine clips from the first month or so of Black Ops on the Xbox — killstreaks, a grenade taken personally on Jeff's behalf, and a SAM turret that picked the wrong target.
Magento Order & Product Properties
I’m currently working on a module for a magento site that exports orders as they are made on the site. If anyone is trying to do the same then this list of properties may prove…
Documentary evidence that Thursday is in fact, the new Friday
I have documentary evidence that Thursday is in fact, the new Friday.
What does Google Instant mean for Adwords Advertisers?
The world has had a chance to sleep on the news that the telegraph described as..
2009
Web standards and why I really don’t care
Originally published: 2nd March 2009 but before the content gets lost I thought I would republish it here! I really think this view is even more valid now we have HTML5 and CSS3…
2008
Landing page optimization certification
Landing page optimization is the process of honing the pages your visitors land on to achieve a particular objective – this could be buy something, read an article or give you some…
Jeffxcalibur, a bizarre cartoon that only my friends will understand
I was looking through some old files and stumbled upon an old cartoon I wrote, I can’t imagine anyone finding these interesting apart from those people actually in the cartoons –…
briefus.com finalist in Bright Young Things 2008
Despite the project still being in the early stages of development I managed to get to the final of Schroders sponsored Bright Young Things and received some great advise from my…
Loans Calculator In Javascript
We could see that a huge amount of SEO traffic was navigating to the calculator even though the links to the calculator were not emphasised.
2007
5 steps to get you started with rails migrations
Rails migrations are brilliant. I say this because until now I had heard of them, seen articles about them and like poor misguided VB programmers I had completely ignored them.…
Well the courier has finally taken my red-rings-of-death XBOX 360 away. The machine itself broke just before Christmas – that’s Christmas 2006! After more than 10 phone calls to…
MYSTERY BOX – ebaying for charity!
I’ve entered a charity event somebody at work is running and in a bid to get the highest priced ebay item I’m shamelessly linking to my site everywhere I can.
FPS games are brilliant but I always seem to end up playing on a map I hardly ever use and consequently end up spending the first half of the game wandering around lost. I thought…
Guernplan – A VGA Planets Game
VGA Planets is a brilliant multiplayer turn based strategy game