Tom Fotherby
Wii Sports
Wii,Sports,7/10 – April 2007 Wii Sports comes bundled with the Wii console – It has Tennis, Bowling, Boxing, Baseball and Golf. It is completely amazing how intuitive it is to use the Wiimote to play the game. You really don’t need to explain the controls to a new-comer, whether they are 6 or 56. I’m […]
We created “the Flood”
We’ve been trying some new recipes recently. Last night we made a dish for supper which took about half an hour to prepare and cook. When we had finished and it was on a plate, we both stood looking at it. After 10 seconds of silence Chloe said “Oh my God, we’ve created those little […]
Replacement wedding ring
On Kix and my 8 year going-out anniversary I ordered a replacement wedding ring. I’ve spend more time without a ring than with one on 😥 . I lost my original ring 3 months after the wedding at the Oktoberfest in Munich and it was honestly a pretty painful experience – The sharp realisation that […]
Nintendo Wii – 18/March/2007 (Birthday present from Kix&Edd)
The Wii is physically very small and quiet and understated which demonstrates it’s philosophy – It isn’t trying to do everything, it is simply trying to be be playful. The controller is natural to use but very clever. It can detect where your pointing it, whether your tilting it and it’s real forte, it can […]
Donkey Konga
Game Cube,Bongo Rythm,8/10 – February 2007 An excellent game where you have to drum to the beat of on-screen music. A yellow dot means left, a red dot means right, a pink dot means both and a splash mark means clap. There’s 3 difficulty levels which have the same songs but different beat speeds. It’s […]
Love And Other Near Death Experiences (Mil Millington)
Fiction, 6/10 – February 2007 If you can get past how ugly the site is, www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com is pretty funny. So funny in fact that I randomly decided to buy this book by the author. ‘… You, for example, are stupid and self-pitying, but what civilised observer would censure me for mentioning that you have a […]
Parsley (22/Feb/07)
Chloe’s company, Panasonic gave away their old PC’s and she managed to bag this machine: CPU: Pentium 4 2Gz RAM: 768MB DDR SDRAM. Inside it is very organised but not very expandable, there isn’t room for more than one harddisk and I could only just fit our TV card into a pci slot riser card. […]
Tree nation
“A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down” – Buddha. I bought a tree called Woody from an interesting initiative by a website called tree-nation. They want to plant 8 million […]
Mended Garden Fence (15/Feb/07)
The strong winds blew down 5 panels of our fence. After winds After fix I don’t like doing unscheduled DIY – spending time doing this has meant less time to spend on the bedroom.
Keeping Quail
When I was a teenager I used to keep Quail and collect their eggs to pickle or to put on baked pizza. Quail eggs are beautiful and although they are fiddly to peel, they are the perfect size for pickling in glass jars. I used an incubator to hatch new chicks. You can imagine how […]
Updated website (Jan 2007)
I got bored of my old website and moved it to a blog. Blog’s are better for personal websites because once an entry is written it does not have to be kept up to date like a static page needs to. The entries don’t go out of date so much as become historical like a […]
Someone has blogged about VISSIM! (Jan/07)
I got an email from a guy that’s using my Uni Individual project (VISSIM) to model road traffic in his local area. There’s a screenshot on his blog. It’s good to know VISSIM has still got some life in it. It’s interesting to know that it’s still working after being archived 5 years ago. They […]
JellyPhish Mood lamp – 25th December 2006 (Christmas present from Grandpa)
The Jellyphish is a tabletop lamp that can be “tuned” to any colour or can gradually scroll though the colour spectrum, blending seamlessly from one to the next. The technology in this lamp has only just hit the market so it’s the first time I’ve seen something like it. It must contain a million LEDs […]
Seriously out of place!
We set up our new TV in the bedroom which has been de-wallpapered and the sharp contrast between grim and beautiful is quite shocking: As you can see, we weren’t really ready to buy a TV! I’m pretty embarrassed that we didn’t finish the decorating before we bought the TV but Chloe’s Panasonic staff shop […]
26 inch LCD – 11th Dec 2006 (Panasonic staff shop, £395)
For Christmas Kix and I bought each other half a 26 inch Panasonic Viera LCD TV (TX-26LXD6A). It’s a stylish HD Ready TV with integrated freeview and speakers – perfect for the bedroom. We plugged it into our freshly installed upstairs coaxial socket and switched it on to find that it automatically tuned and ordered […]
