Archive for November, 2004

  • Go, Muriel!

    Go, Muriel!

    “ID cards will make our private lives impossible – [Sunday Herald]: Muriel Gray argues that the introduction of identity cards will not help prevent such atrocities as the Soham murders, instead they will make the lives of law-abiding people a nightmare” This illustrates perfectly the...

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  • It’s orrible!

    It’s orrible!

    Well, constant nelefans will remember that, previously on nelefa.org, we were all up to our eyes in lurgi. Well, we still are, and it grows increasingly unpleasant with every passing day. However, we’re not going to dwell on the lurgi, are we? Course not –...

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  • Go, Oz-man!

    Go, Oz-man!

    BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Police praise ‘courageous’ Ozzy: Rock star Ozzy Osbourne has been praised by police for “very courageously” tackling a burglar who stole jewellery from his house. Hah! That’ll teach the thieving chavs for robbing the Prince of Darkness Must...

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  • Another day, another lurgi

    Another day, another lurgi

    Poor wee Tristan has it now. Fortunately, it had the good grace to wait for his birthday to pass before descending on him from a great height. So, they’re all off school again. It’ll be nice once we move – being right across from the...

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  • Wohlendet, das ewigen werk!

    Wohlendet, das ewigen werk!

    Well, I’ve finally managed to find the time to add what pictures I can scrounge together to the old journal entries. Quite a traumatic thing to do, really – particularly for the August and September 2003 entries. I haven’t looked at those photos in quite...

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  • Torus Trooper

    Torus Trooper

    Now this is the coolest thing ever It’s kinda like a precursor to Jeff Minter’s forthcoming Unity, in a way. It’s a zippy zappy zoomy type thing and more than worthy of a look. What’s more, it doesn’t cost anything. Torus Trooper: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/tt_e.html

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  • Alright, alright, I’ll give you an update!

    Alright, alright, I’ll give you an update!

    I’ve started cutting the images now. Basically, Chris Wild has supplied the original graphics which he ripped as part of his disassembly of the game and I’m busily chopping and converting them. Basically, I’m scaling them by two so I can work in 640×480 without...

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  • Alright, alright, I’ll give you an update!

    Alright, alright, I’ll give you an update!

    I’ve started cutting the images now. Basically, Chris Wild has supplied the original graphics which he ripped as part of his disassembly of the game and I’m busily chopping and converting them. Basically, I’m scaling them by two so I can work in 640×480 without...

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  • Grumbles

    Grumbles

    The worthy Simon Brattel (for it is he) late of Design Design and more recently of, erm, Design Design, has a shiny new web log in which he proves, repeatedly, that his life is at least and order of magnitude more bizarre than my own....

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  • Gah – the boak returns

    Gah – the boak returns

    Matthew and Debbie have a stinking lurgi of some description at the moment. Not happy bunnies. Lots of sore throats and raging fevers and stuff. Yuk.

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