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Game Diary / 4 June 2007 / John / 2
Call me jaded, but it’s been a very long time since my first reaction to a new game was one of shock. Yes, shock – Viva Pinata is a strikingly beautiful game. Sure, it’s derivative – Rare have taken the best bits from a dozen Nintendo titles and rolled em together to produce a gardening/breeding/animal
Game Diary / 4 June 2007 / John / 0
OK, so you’re a photojournalist, right? And there’s been a town completely cordoned off by the military. With me so far? Right, so you decide that you’re going to fly into the town in a helicopter, get dropped off on the roof of a shopping center, and arrange to be picked up 72 hours later
Game Diary / 29 May 2007 / John / 0
I’ve really not been playing very much recently – I just don’t seem to have the time these days. I haev, though, had a brief session on The Third Age, which I never did complete. I seem to remember I got as far as a stupid frustrating bit with loads of cave trolls before giving
Ramblings / 23 May 2007 / John / 2
Our old grey moggy passed away today. She’s been with us for near enough twenty years. She was a friendly, gentle cat who doted on the children, even when they yanked her tail. She was very cuddly, very affectionate and will be missed very much. She has a special place of her own now, between
Geekery / 16 May 2007 / John / 2
At last, I’ve settled on a mail configuration that I like, blocks viruses, is fast and has outstanding spam filtering. There’s a few bits to it, but essentially, it works like this: Mail arrives on port 25 (port forwarded through my firewall) where ASSP is listening. ASSP is, on the surface, a bog standard SMTP
Geekery / 13 May 2007 / John / 1
My daughter has a teddy bear called “Socket”. It’s unclear where he’s an RJ11, RJ45 or – god forbid – a straightforward ball-joint socket. I’m trying to encourage her in the direction of RJ45, but only time will tell.
Geekery / 9 May 2007 / John / 0
There’s nothing I love more than badly translated manuals and websites, and the homepage of KWorld is the best example I’ve seen in ages. Apparently: Want to have high quality digital TV, but not be able to give up analog TV? Annoyed by your big and ugly IT hardware which can’t fit in your stylish?
The Tube / 7 May 2007 / John / 0
What an absolutely beautiful movie – right up to the point where it suddenly has the most miserable ending in movie history. I’m now thoroughly depressed. Bah.
Geekery / 30 April 2007 / John / 2
Well, it always does really. I generally class the honeymoon period of a new job as the period of time between walking through the door for the first time and the moment where I type vi munge.pl. So, that halcyon period of belief that every single person around me has clue has ended horribly. A
Geekery, Ramblings / 27 April 2007 / John / 0
I love it when bloggable things happen at work. Due to a bizarre experiment involving a wall, a whiteboard, all the blu-tack in the universe and an infeasibly large number of natural language programmers, systems bods, and developers, we’ve managed to prove exactly what it says in the title. Technically, I suppose, it wasn’t the