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Month: January 2008

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Geekery / 31 January 2008 / John / 0

This is an old comic strip but, as I refer people (for values of people usually equal to programmers) to it at least weekly, I reckoned it should be immortalised here. Oh – as well as being old, it’s also the Best Cartoon Ever(tm). Well, here it is.

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The World of Smarty Gami (PS2/PC/Wii/DS)

Game Diary / 28 January 2008 / John / 0

Ahem – anyway, multiple entries today. But not really in the order they were played. First off, a bit of “The Thing” on the PS2, which I used to own on the xbox and never got round to playing. It seems ok – some nice psychology things going on, but seems like a fairly basic

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Hoshigami Remix (Cover)

Game Diary / 25 January 2008 / John / 0

This was a bit of a surprise! I haven’t posted anything on it yet because I’m “only” six hours in and I’m still waiting for all the bad things the review sites moaned about to kick in. Which they haven’t. At all. Thing is, gamespot, eurogamer, all those guys, complained that Hoshigami is a bit

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Viviane Reding misses the point

Geekery / 6 January 2008 / John / 0

In a recent report, the European Union commissioner for information society and media made a breathtakingly naive statement in support of DRM, mere days after consumer pressure has managed to convince the mainstream music publishers that applying arbitrary restrictions to users use of the music they’ve bought is a bad idea. The last thing the anti-DRM

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