The Temple of Bague Wasting bandwidth since 1997 - Now in our 27th wasteful year!
Ramblings / 2 April 2008 / John / 0
This is just the most wonderfully mad thing ever. Basically, it reads in a song from your music library and turns it into a track with coloured blocks which undulates in time with the music. You zip along the track hitting blocks to get combos or three or more of the same colour. That gets
Game Diary / 31 March 2008 / John / 0
First stage of Campaign mode complet0rised! The Pirates are defeated and Bague’s Avengers are victorious! Now I’m up to my eyes in bi-plane flying World War 1 Germans! With the stupendous amount of coins I earned, I’ve unlocked the dreaded Concrete Donkey and the wonderful new Buffalo of Lies! I’ve also discovered that by pressing
Game Diary / 30 March 2008 / John / 0
Despite being somewhat disappointed with the horrifically buggy and, frankly, unfinished Open Warfare a year or two ago, the lure of mass invertebrate extermination on a handheld console was reaching fever pitch when I spotted that Open Warfare 2 was getting better reviews. Imagine my discomfort, then, when discovering that it was sitting for a
Game Diary / 29 March 2008 / John / 0
This game is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. And it’s still miles better than many other titles available for the PC. It’s just stupid, funny, ultra-violent and, well, daft. So I’ve created a team called Bague’s Avengers and am working my way up through the ranks in deathmatch mode, cos it’s just got to
Geekery / 24 March 2008 / John / 0
For all those wierdos out there who have the closing song from Portal stuck in their head, prepare to have it replaced.
Geekery / 23 March 2008 / John / 0
So, you know how it is. You have a CD collection going back god knows how many years, you buy some tracks from amazon or itunes, you have the whole lot ripped on your PC to stick on your portable device. And then you realise you have over sixty gigabytes of music, most of which
Geekery / 22 March 2008 / John / 1
After a fairly lengthy compile (hey, it’s a KDE app) I had 99% of my concerns addressed as soon as the application booted. Right there, on the home page, is exactly the information I was looking for – not just my current balances, but what they’ll be in 5,10, 40, etc days. I quick rummage
Geekery / 22 March 2008 / John / 0
One of the few things that keeps a windows VM lying around for me is Microsoft Money. It’s one of the few applications that Microsoft have actually made a pretty good job of. My judgment of this, though, is pretty superficial. Money provides a nice pretty cash-flow graph that lets you see, at a glance,
Rants / 18 March 2008 / John / 0
The Ministry of Defence have announced five days of depleted uranium (DU) weapons-testing on its Dundrennan range in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Despite numerous scientific studies proving the health and environmental damage of DU missiles, as well as growing international criticism of the weapons, the MOD continues to stick its fingers in its ears and repeat its
Geekery / 17 March 2008 / John / 0
Well, according to El Reg, BT have been Baaaaaaad Monkeys and have finally owned up that they carried out secret tests of the Phorm system they’ve “not decided to use” well over a year ago. Without telling the people whose traffic they intercepted. Something tells me they’re going to get a little bit sued. Full