Year: 2009

Phantasy Star Universe (360)

Hasn’t been much point in updating my Game Diary of late as I’ve not really been playing very many games, with the exception of PSU. I’m a long-standing fan of the Phantasy Star series and managed to run up a bit of a monster phone bill playing the DreamCast incarnation. The 360 version is just

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The times they are a changing

Just a quick post while I’m waiting for a CD to burn. Here’s the thing: back in, ohhh, 1994 or 1995 – I don’t recall exactly when, but the first build of Slackware Linux had just been released – I had this idea that, as I was fortunate enough to have dial-back internet access from

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Shakespeare in Ned

A brief google appears to indicate that no one seems to have taken the time to translate any of the works of William Shakespeare into the dialect of Neds. This is a crime. If only I had the time or energy to put it right.

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Wonderings and Ponderings

I wonder if using a garish and hideously bright wordpress theme could consitute an actual act of assult. See, I like this one – I munged it many years ago when the intertubes were less slick that they are now, and it reminded me (at the time) of serial consoles, blurry crt displays and nice

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ACE Lyric #9

“His skin’s all covered in slimey lumps, with lips that slide across his cheeks, his twisted limbs like rubber stumps, slubberdygullions on squeaky feet.” Genesis – The Colony of Slippermen

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Who Knew?

This post was made from Windows Live Writer and it’s actually surprisingly nice! And that’s the only purpose to the post. I have nothing more to say about that.

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Grr!

One of the FAILpods in my office has just suggested it may be time for me to “update my Desktop Environment”. I may have to stab him to death using a broken Vista install disk….

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