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Let’s Play! Light Cycle

It’s been an age since I had a Friday Let’s Play! Before I’d even heard of Tron, or seen another one of the 8962398146238 game clones of the Tron Light Cycle sequence, I had this – Light Cycle (Light Cycles … Continue reading

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Pound-a-Mile Update – 500 Miles!

I’ve not done an update on this for a while, but since I hit a milestone last night I thought I should. Yesterday I passed the 500 miles cycled so far this year mark! OK, so I managed 200 miles … Continue reading

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32GB should be more than enough for anyone

You'd think that having 32GB of RAM on your PC would be enough to run Chrome and iTunes, right? Apparently not. Posted via email from deKay’s posterous

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Xbox.com’s broken psychicness

On the Xbox Rewards site at the moment there’s a section where you can get a “user type” created, depending on how you use your Xbox. It’s here, if you want to do it. It is, of course, completely broken. … Continue reading

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I made the news

A few weeks back I did an Interactive Fiction “thing” at work. And for some reason, it was reported in the local press! (I’ve removed the picture because it had kids in it).

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Restricting who an Exchange 2010 user gets email from

At work, we have an IT Helpdesk (as part of Spiceworks). Staff can email the helpdesk, and the helpdesk creates a work ticket and the IT staff get notified. It works well. However, the system is locked so that only … Continue reading

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How I hate PC gaming

Ten years ago, I used to play quite a lot of PC games. Sim City, Tony Hawk, GTA, Rollcage, Half Life. Some of the Tomb Raiders and things like NOX too. I forget the rest. The last PC game I … Continue reading

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Kid Icarus: Uprising is nearly here!

This is a sponsored post Kid Icarus: Uprising brings the action and adventure of the beloved series to new heights – and new visual dimensions – on the Nintendo 3DS system.

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2011: The Games

It’s a little later in the year than usual, but, as is traditional, here’s my list of the best games of 2011. Also as previously noted, this is a list of the best five games I played in 2011, not necessarily … Continue reading

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Johnny Kung Fu

This might just be my most favourite 3DS game that isn’t out yet. Just look at it and tell me it’s not yours too.

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