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Wii, Duck hunt (Light gun), 6/10 When you buy this game you know what you’re going to get. And you get it. And yes, they went overkill on everything, especially the gore and the clichés and the bad language. The story is entertaining if you like Shaun of the Dead. I like the gun shop [...]
PC, Board game, 9/10 I had been waiting for years for a good computer game of Bloodbowl and this is everything I had hoped for. It is a beautifully faithful version of the board game – I’m very happy with the way it plays, the teams, the user interface, the AI, the league system. It [...]
I get annoyed at the branding of these new “LED” TV’s – they are not fundamentally new technology, they are simply LCD screens lit up via LEDs. However it’s branded, it is brilliant! What’s Good? It is so extremely vibrant and bright that it makes our Panasonic LCD look very dull. It only uses
I used to have a neighbour who did photography as a hobby. It was really interesting seeing him set up little things to entice animals so he could get some photographs and I always found it amazing the creatures he could find in and around our houses. There was one particular shot he had been [...]
XBox360,FPS,4/10 – Sep 2009 I loved the TV series called “Firefly” and always thought it’d make a good computer game, so it seems Christmas had come early – Mal (Nathan Fillion), the Firefly captain is in the latest Halo game together with Jane (Adam Baldwin), and Wash (Alan Tudyk). I found the trailer REALLY exciting: [...]
We gave Fred (my father-in-law) a hand-me-down computer because his one is suffering from Windows rot and is unbearably slow. Our one comes with a catch… It has Ubuntu instead of Windows. How do you make a Ubuntu computer easy to use? Turn on Auto login Remove all icons on the desktop, then add back [...]
We have a cool new cat accessory. It’s a battery powered microchip activated cat flap. It works extremely well and I like knowing that other cats can’t get in and eat Cypher’s food. Actually, you are wrong – The internet does need another cat picture.
We got some furniture for our Dining room. We now have a drinks cabinet (and a table, sideboard and book shelves): Before: After: Although, it’s more of an office than a dining room now.
The sight of a frog makes me feel sick so Kix found it funny that we had to edit a blog post that contained a real frog photo for a client of ours. Good phobia therapy?
I have a new machine. He’s called “Butterfree”, he’s German and I rent him for £45 per month from http://www.hetzner.de/en: Specs: CPU: Intel i7-920 Quadcore incl. Hyper-Threading Technology. RAM: 8 GB DDR3. Disk: 2 x 750 GB SATA II (Software-RAID 1). Features: LAMP – Full root access. 24h Reset service via Webinterface – I already [...]
Our first site as freelancers is more-or-less finished. It should hopefully look clean and simple?
Bitvolution is a company I set up to provide freelance web development and consultancy. I have got the website up and running: Let’s see how it goes…
We finished the hallway (i.e. finally got round to doing the skirting board). Before: After:
I’m currently in the process of incorporating a company and http://www.businesslink.gov.uk is my friend, especially the “Business start-up organiser” which is the ultimate “to do” list of things that need to be done. However, I found the site was annoying in that it kept logging me out if I went away for 5 minutes and [...]
The three peaks challenge involves walking 25 miles while climbing 2940m and driving 466 miles in 24 hours. The 3 peaks are the tallest in Scotland (Ben Nevis), England (Scarfell Pike) and Wales (Snowdon). We did it as a group of 10 including a very kind driver who didn’t walk. My legs have never been [...]
