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Wii Super Mario Bros (Christmas present from Fred, Charlie & Rose)
I didn’t play much single player but we found this game really fun in multiplayer mode, especially 4 player – you have to work together otherwise it’s chaos. I liked the “bubble mode”, it’s like a get out of jail free but without making it feel like cheating.
Pointless advert
If you can spot what I find annoying about the following screenshot of an advert I keep seeing whilst browsing around, then you are fabulously geeky (like me): Google is trying to teach me to suck eggs. They obviously know what Operating system I’m using so I thought they would be clever enough to detect [...]
A song a week?
A friend of mine is planning to write 52 songs in a year. It sounds extremely challenging but I love the first three. He’s releasing them under a copyleft license. Go for it Rob!
Foot print in the snow
Yes – I went outside bare foot in the snow. I saw the cat catch a Robin in the garden and rushed to the rescue. The nice thing about working from home is that you don’t need to wear any shoes.
Sandisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player
For £30, in my opinion this is MUCH better than a iPod because it can play ogg vorbis files. I use it to listen to podcasts at the gym and it’s ideal – it remembers where you got to so you can easily listen to hour long files and the fast-forward is perfect. The clip [...]
Reminder to self – report bugs and ideas
I need to remind myself that there’s no point whining about a shortfalling in a piece of software unless I can be sure the author is aware of it. To that effect, I filed a bug with the Chrome team: #31833. I also submitted a tiny patch for the Jodometer JQuery plugin.
Logitech MX Anywhere Mouse (Christmas present to Kix)
I spend half my life with my hand glued to a mouse – so the best one on the market will offer a good return on investment. This one can track on glass (we have a glass coffee table), which demonstrates how accurate and precise it is. The sensitivity is flawless. Wireless mice are good [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 on a Sony Vaio VGN-AR51E
I recommend the new Ubuntu 9.10 release (Karmic Koala), it works well on a Sony VGN-AR51E. Karmic Goods: It includes a new piece of software called “Ubuntu One”: Ubuntu One currently gives you 2GB of free cloud storage via a folder called “Ubuntu One” in your home directory or via a URL (https://one.ubuntu.com/). Ubuntu One [...]
House of the Dead: Overkill
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 [...]
Bloodbowl
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 [...]
New TV (Samsung UE40B7020W)
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
Good things come to those who wait
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 [...]
Halo ODST
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: [...]
Making Linux friendly
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 [...]
