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Ramblings / 21 September 2005 / John / 0
“so what?” you ask. Nowt. I’m just saying. I’ve added a ‘Books’ category to the blog. Given that I spend more time every day reading than playing games (no, really!) and I finish more books than games (even the bad ones) I thought I may as well. I’m not going to attempt to populate it
Ramblings, Rants / 15 September 2005 / John
Five men arrested. By 500 policemen. That’s 100 policemen each. They must have really expected a struggle. Imagine my surprise at finding that the five men were neither Jedi who had fallen to the dark side, nor mutants with terrifying supernatural powers but were, in fact, some young lads who happen to live on a
Game Diary, Ramblings / 27 August 2005 / John
There’s just too many! This is silly. There are 185 (that’s one hundred and eighty five) games on my shelves, for various platforms, and I’ve only completed a dozen or so. Doesn’t represent very good value for money really. I stuck em all into Delicious Library (and ace application – you can find it here.
Game Diary, Ramblings / 21 August 2005 / John
The more absorbent among you will be able to hold much more fluid than the rest of us. The more observant among you will perhaps have noticed that a “Completed Games” (‘completed’ is a deliberate misspelling of ‘complet0r4t0red’) has materialised down the right hand side of the page. I’ve set this up as a secondary
Ramblings / 5 August 2005 / John
for me to clean out my mailbox. Do I really need 40,000 emails dating back to the tail end of 2002? I think not. Another thing – if there’s one thing I hate it’s blog comment spam. I enabled comments at 5:30, before leaving work, cos I’ve had a lot of requests. By the time
Ramblings / 4 August 2005 / John
The BBC are running a competition which involves people submitting cool photographs fitting into various categories. Debbie has submitted some photographs she took on a sunny day in Edinburgh (one of them is called Timeless Edinburgh). The quality of the entries is wonderful. Please go have a look. The url is http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/gallery/ Have fun!
Ramblings / 18 July 2005 / John
At long last, nelefa.org has returned to its spiritual home, on the server of Yoyo Internet Services. This illustrious collective have been around since, ohhhh, way back when, and it’s all their fault that I’m in the Internet industry. Gits.
Ramblings / 13 July 2005 / John
Popped the keys off and shoved em in the dishwasher. Gave the board itself a dose of wirebrush and dettol and it’s as good as new. i can see the letters and everthing! Shift key was a bit sticky, but it was just a little clippy thing which wasn’t bedded in properly. So, hooray!
Ramblings / 13 July 2005 / John
My Mac keyboard is filthy. Really. It’s beginning to sprout legs. So, I’m about to rip the keys off it and stick them in the dishwasher. Oh yes I am. Muhh