I really need to get my ass in gear and write some decent DirectX related tutorials. I'm getting fed up making posts like this one, where I spend most of the post pointing out errors in the original tutorial. The point in a tutorial is that it's easy to understand, and most importantly it's correct, and I really don't believe that a tutorial should sacrifice correctness to make it slightly more readable. That's what comments are for.

Anyway, rant over. I'm back from Alton Towers, and it was pretty epic. Pictars below.

Alton Towers do this "Fast Track" system, you pay an extra GBP8 to get into a shorter queue for three of the main attractions, or an extra GBP30 to get into a shorter queue for any attraction - however, you can only fasttrack on a ride once.
The fast track queues are still 10 or 15 minutes long, if the normal queue is 45 mins though.

They also do a "Single Racer" system, for people who don't mind sitting next to a random. A lot of rides have carriges of 4 or 8 people, and if there's a group of 3 or 6 people or whatever, there's often spaces left vacant. So they grab a single person from the Single Racer queue, and put you there.
If the queue for the ride is 45 mins, the single racer queue is usually 5 minutes - on Oblivion (two, 8-person rows per carrige), there's a 2 minute wait, and you don't pay anything.

So, don't bother with fasttrack, it's a rip off.

Anyway, pics:

Me in the pub, looking somewhat manic


A group photo under Rita - Queen Of Speed, with me hiding


Boob (Left) and Heather (Right), with Oblivion in the background


Another group photo, minus my sister this time


My sister and I on Spinball Wizard, going at a billion miles an hour



Me halfway up the knob tree

More pictures possibly to follow...