32 Mb USB Memory Watch – 20th March 2004, birthday present from Kix
Contains 32MB of Toshiba flash memory USB cable securely integrated in to the watch strap Water resistant, Shock proof and Anti-static Oh, I don’t have a floppy with me… hang on I’ve got 30 floppies permanently on my wrist! I think it is amazing cool to carry around a backup of my most precious files […]
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
War time Fiction, 8/10 – Jan-Feb 2004 The book starts before the war in Amiens, in 1910, when Stephen Wraysford has an intense love affair with a married woman that comes to an unsatisfactory end. The novel then shifts in time to 1916, when we encounter Stephen enduring the nightmare world of the trenches. The […]
Colin Mcrae Rally 4
XBox,Rally Driving,7/10 – January 2004 I’m into racing games like burnout and as a consequence I initially found Colin Mcrae impossibly slow and difficult due to it’s realism – It simulates the driving of a real rally car so well that you have to be an expert rally driver. The reason I stuck at it […]
Panzer Dragoon – Orta
XBox,Flight shoot-em-up,4/10 – December 2003 This game reminded me of “star fox” on the N64 but with considerably more complex controls and hugely stunning visuals. The graphics are why I got this game, I wanted to see what an XBox was capable of and the weird alien landscapes provide a good jaw dropping demonstration. The […]
Renting in Egham (Dec 2002-Dec 2003)
We rented a tiny one-up-one-down house in Egham near Stains. The novelty with this house was that it had stairs! we’d never had stairs before because we’ve lived in a London flat. Living in Egham was nice because I could cycle to work at Heathrow airport. Upstairs Downstairs