Anybody play "Ikariam"?

Interesting distraction between other events. Its one of those games that asks you to play about 5 minutes every couple of hours.

I was looking around for an alliance to join and didn't see anything I recognised as anyone I knew - though I'm pretty sure the person at FC who got me started on this goes by the name "Hug E. Bear", though I have no clue how to find them now that I've advanced enough in the game to actually be worth anything to a player alliance.