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Game Diary / 24 May 2008 / John / 0
I’ve not played this long enough to give any kind of gameplay description – just sufficient to spot a gotcha which may be helpful to others, and to say that it’s very cutesy. The gotcha – if the game seems to hang on the “Create Save Game” screen and not respond to keypresses, check if
Ramblings / 19 May 2008 / John / 1
One of the nice things about working in Musselburgh is that it’s a lovely place to be on a sunny day. This lunchtime, safely cocooned in my ipod, I went for a wander down to the harbour (literally across the road from work) and sat there for a wee while eating my lunch, then went
Game Diary / 18 May 2008 / John / 0
Death == DEAD. As Deaths go, he was pretty easy really. Only two forms (this time round – let’s face it, he’s not actually dead and will reappear later in the game). Anyway, as I was saying – two forms – a dark and a light. Dark is pretty much invulnerable to melee attacks, so
Ramblings / 18 May 2008 / John / 1
So, the fuel price is calculated (roughly speaking) as the actual price, then the duty, then the VAT (yes, that’s right folks, you pay tax on the tax!). So let’s take the VAT off that price. 102.8p OK, each litre of diesel has 54.68p duty on it. Let’s get that off as well. 48.2p That’s
Game Diary / 18 May 2008 / John / 0
With the news that there’s a new DS Castlevania game in the making, my explorey juices have started flowing again. This always seems to happen, and it usually results in me playing through all the others in anticipation. Having left Portrait of Ruin unfinished last time, though, means I have to do that first. Sometimes
Ramblings / 13 May 2008 / John / 0
Ok, so a couple of weeks ago, some unscrupulous ‘tard nicked a couple of hundred quid out of our bank account and blew it in an online casino. Which leaves us to do all the legwork making and chasing a fraud claim – frankly, it’s a pain in the neck. Well, it just so happens
Ramblings / 11 May 2008 / John / 0
Another run through. Picked up my shiny +4 katana from the warehouse and give it yet another upgrade then dropped it off in preparation for some future über run. I’m on the mountaintop again, after getting past the incredibly annoying evil soldier. Best way to deal with him, as it happens, is to have a
$COW-ORKER: John, my phone’s not working. I was speaking to someone and it went dead. Me: Is it plugged in? $COW-ORKER: Of course it’s plugged in. I was speaking to someone on it! Me: But is it plugged in? $COW-ORKER: Well obviously it’s plugged in because I was able to make a call before it
Geekery / 7 May 2008 / John / 0
Well, as most of you will know already, I got a nice shiny MacBook a week or two ago. I haven’t really said much on here because I tend to turn into a dribbling fanatic when talking about macs, and it upsets my PC-bound wife. But I have to talk about Time Machine. I’ve no