Year: 2009
Fillum review: Snakes on a Plane (2006)
It was never meant to be a serious contender for any sort of awards. Samuel L Jackson pretty much only took part “for the lulz”. Even the name is stupid. But the film? Stupid. And rubbish. But watchable, for some reason. Nobody in it can act. The special effects are simply “special” (the green snake’s POV? Rubbish), and the plot doesn’t make any sense. There are holes all over the place, such as needing to know which snake bit who, …
The Wii’s invisible eyes
Imagine my surprise when I happened to notice these though my camera. You can’t see them on the Wii’s sensor bar through just your eyes, but the camera managed to pick them up. The Wii wasn’t even on! Now I know they’re there. Burning into my face all day.
The second year of Famousness
Not to be outdone by Jim, I thought I should point out my recent forays into fame and glory. Last summer, a company called TV Choice contacted me after finding my website. They wanted to come and interview me for a day, and film me for one of their educational documentaries. When they turned up, they filmed some of my old computers, and asked me about games “back in the day”. Because I’d told them I work for a school, …
Stalking Jim
Fellow newsgroup person, ugvm magazine contributor and Citizen of Norwich A Fine City(TM) whom what I know through t’t’tinternet and a mutual friend (but separately until I realised it was the same person – the internet is the smallest place in the world) Jim Taylor is famous! Sort of! There’s a gallery in Castle Mall displaying photos of Norwich, taken by people who are on Flickr. And Jim is one of them. Today, I was in Castle Mall, so went …
Fixing 441 invalid header error in Pine on OS X
I finally figured out how to fix Pine on my Leopard box! For, well, ever, it hasn’t let me post any news messages to my local leafnode server. Every time I tried, I’d get an error stating my post was rejected due to error 441, which is an invalid error. I eventually tracked down that the actual invalid header was the message-id header, which was being generated as something like: Message-ID: Pine.OSX.4.64.098263998623986.75543@myimac Which is wrong. The bit after the @ …
How to play import Wii games
Thanks to the mysterious (and sexy) The Goat Keeper, I’m now the not-so-proud owner of a US version of the Wii stinker “Heatseeker”. Of course, I knew it was going to be rubbish, but that wasn’t the point. No – I needed something to test if my UK Wii could play imports. And, of course, it can: I show that the disc isn’t recognised by the Wii, then fire up the Homebrew Channel and from there load Gecko OS. One …
Changing your name tag on Acrobat
I’ve recently started using Acrobat (yeah, about 14 years late) to annotate PDF files, and it has been irritating me that whenever I highlight something, Acrobat decides to add my Windows logon name as the “author” of the highlight. Since this logon name has no resemblance to my actual name, it’s effectively useless. Helpfully, Adobe don’t make it easy for you to change it to read something else. After much playing about, however, I figured it out: Firstly, you need …
Lego Batman (360)
Yesterday morning, I turned on my 360 and bought some Microsoft Points so I had enough to buy the GTA IV expansion “The Lost and Damned”. I then bought the expansion. Then set about downloading the 1.8GB it takes up. At about 70% through the download, I had to go out to the shops. While I was out, I saw Lego Batman cheap in the shop and bought it. And that’s all I played all weekend. Lost and Damned be …
Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People – Episode 3 (Wii): COMPLETED!
Hurrah! I’m winner! This episode was, in general, easier than the previous two. I don’t know why, unless I’m just more closely tuned now to the way the logic in the game works or something. Anyway, second best episode so far. With the order being 1 > 3 > 2. But they’re all ace.
Lots of Homebrew Wii Stuff (Wii)
I checked the Homebrew Downloader today for the first time in ages, and found all sorts of new stuff on there. WiiLander was great – it’s an old game, sure, but with the Wii’s controls (tilt left and right to steer, rotate remote to provide more or less thrust) it plays very differently. Giddy 3 is a Dizzy clone, and although it looks nice the only item I could find to pick up was a tub of lard, and I …
Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode 3 (Wii)
I’ve actually had this installed on my Wii since before Christmas, but hadn’t played it as I was goingt o use it as a baby-in-one-hand, controller-in-the-other last resort sort of thing, since it only requires one hand to play. I started it on Friday, and it’s nice to play Strong Bad again. It’s funny, like before, and each episode so far has been vastly different, so although all the characters and locations recur, it’s not a rehash of the same …