Over the last few weeks I’ve been becoming more and more frustrated with Google’s search. It’s only really one complaint, but it’s a pain. In the olden days, when you searched for words that Google thought you may have misspelt, Google would provide all the matches for what you typed in with, additionally, a link to a search for Google’s spelling correction. That is to say, if I searched for the word ‘stuipd’, it would show me all the matches …
More complicated than the other episodes, and full of retro game in-jokes and homages. Sat and completed it in more or less one sitting. Amazing! The only bad thing is that there are no episodes left now 🙁
My wife bought me this for my birthday yesterday. Doesn’t she realise I lost three months of my like to the Gamecube version, and a whole year to the DS one? Surely that means I’ll be old and dead before the Wii iteration relents? Anyway, I moved in, met everyone, got my mortgage, went to the city, watched Dr. Shrunk, and entered myself into the fishing competition. As I left it, I was winning with a Black Bass of 27 …
In an unwanted return to the “My 360 RIP” series, my lovely 360 Elite has just died, with the E74 one-red-light error. Bah. It seems this error is covered for repair even though my warranty expired only a few days ago, so I’ve sent off a repair request to Microsoft. Watch this space!
Apparently, it was broken. But now I’ve fixed it! Thanks @jaytay 🙂
Today, the new search engine come encyclopaedia come scientific calculator Wolfram Alpha became available to the public. Sadly, virtually everything I’ve asked it so far has come up with “Wolfram Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input”. In one case, though, it managed a nice diagram: The question I asked was “Who is the richest?”. I don’t know what to make of the answer. You can try it for yourself here.
Downloaded all the downloadable weekly puzzles since whenever it was I last played it, and then set about completing them all. There was one that was a real pain, as I was convinced I had the answer right but it wasn’t. Then I realised it was a trick question!
I got another one of those read-it-or-fall-for-it domain name expiry scam at work emails today. Like the last one, it relies on you panicking when you read it and think your company’s domain name is due to expire – today – and you hurriedly send off your pennies to this company in order to keep your site running. Of course, that isn’t what’s happening. This company are actually selling you a search engine submission subscription. Something which is pretty useless …
Haven’t seen it on the TV yet. Also, I think I may actually prefer the components over the final product, but anyway.
Just about the only game series in Japan to come close to the popularity of Pokemon is Monster Hunter. And a new installment is heading for the PSP. Look! Video! The blurb: Are you ready to be part of the social gaming phenomenon that‚Äö?Ñ?¥s gripping Japan? The Monster Hunter world is always changing and you will need to be ready for anything – but killing and trapping monsters will always be most important part of your duty. Monster Hunter Freedom …
A friend of mine bought my daughter some soft play blocks recently. You know the sort of thing – with numbers and pictures and the alphabet on them. Only one block had a couple of mistakes on them: In fact, two of the other sides had “Water-melon” and “X’mas tree” on them, both of which I’d say were also incorrect.
I actually bought this when it came out a couple of weeks ago, but haven’t mentioned it here for some reason. So far, I’ve got most of the jiggies in the first world, and two in the second. And opened the third. Not really enjoying it as much as the original. There’s too much back-tracking and jumping in and out of worlds. I know there was a bit of this in the first one, but, like the collecting, it’s taken …
No sooner had I said “I never win anything”, I then go and win something! Again! This time I won a copy of the Xbox 360 game “Rise of the Argonauts”, as well as a matching Xbox 360 faceplate! Amazing! I have no idea what the game is like, however, and my previous prize of “three Xbox versions of board games” was not exactly something to get excited about.