Dell to launch ‘Eee PC beater’ today
And still the netbooks keep coming! They previously concentrated on cost, but now they’re adding style. See: No word on specs or price yet, though. Dell to launch ‘Eee PC beater’ today | Register Hardware
Geometry Wars Evolved 2 (360)
Many, many, many attempts to beat my Pacifism score this evening, but I only managed a feeble 27 million. Of course, 27 million is higher than certain other people’s scores. People I have mentioned here before. But, it’s nowhere near the 373 million the guy at the top of my friends leaderboard has.
Wall-E (Demo) (360)
Oh. My. Word. What an awful, awful game. I mean, I know licences can be bad, but this… oh my.
Ticket to Ride (360)
Three games tonight against my wife, and three wins. I finished two of the three games using all my trains too. Also managed my highest score so far – 176, which included 10 destinations!
How I fixed my iPod nano
Please note: this fix requires doing things to your iPod that you wouldn’t normally do. Even though I’m certain they’re safe, I can’t be held responsible if you knacker it following these instructions! How frustrating. After almost a year’s loyal service, I went to charge up my 3G iPod nano before a trip, only to find it wasn’t working. It would turn on, but after about 5 seconds of showing the menu, it would reset itself. Over and over again. …
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (PSP)
I was away for the weekend, and this is the only game I thought to take with me. And it’s very good. Sadly, it isn’t quite as good as its predecessor, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, mainly for menu and display reasons, but a decent SRPG is a decent SRPG, and very soon I’d plowed over 6 hours into it. Difficulty is all over the place at the moment. The first couple of battles were reasonably easy, and all of the …
Fillum review: Batman Forever (1995)
No, I haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet. But this’ll do, yes? Sort of. Unlike the first two 1990s Batman films, which were a bit dark and "grown-up", Batman Forever doesn’t pretend to be much more than a film based on the 60s series. It’s a comedy. The baddies, The Riddler and Two-Face, are maniacal in the same way the baddies in 60s Batman were. It’s all bright colours and puns and silliness. The plot doesn’t make much sense. There …
Writing a speech
My baby brother is getting married next weekend. Again. He actually got married a couple of months ago, eloping to Canada with his then-bride-to-be, but he’s having a wedding blessing with vow renewal ceremony in this country on Saturday. I thought they only renewed wedding vows in Neighbours, but it would appear I was mistaken! Anyway, I’ve been asked to be his Best Man. After all, I am a Man, and I am Best, so it makes sense. It’s not …
Braid (360): COMPLETED!
Well, I don’t know what happened, but everything I was struggling with last night clicked today, and bar a couple of head-scratchers, I didn’t have any real problems completing the rest of the game. It was very lovely, and there is some “find the stars” thing I could still do which is completely impossible without a guide, but at just over two hours long it wasn’t really the epic puzzler I was expecting. But is it art? Oh yes, definitely.
What are they planning?
I came home yesterday to find the council marking the pavement behind my Allocated Parking Space(TM) with yellow paint. They’d done the same down the street. What are they up to? On a related note, why are half the roads in Norwich currently, and somewhat suddenly, being resurfaced?
I’ve just made my first ever music download purchase
That’s right. I bought a music download. OK, so technically, I’ve done this before (Virgin Media gave me ¬¨¬£50 credit at Music Choice), but that doesn’t count as it wasn’t my money. And what did I buy? This:
Braid (360)
Brane! Hurting! So… very… confusing. Braid is a 3D platform puzzle game. Only instead of depth being the third dimension, time is. So you go left and right, up and down, and forwards and backwards in time. But not just that – each world changes the rules a little. F’r’instance, on one world, when you reverse time a shadow of yourself re-does whatever it was you just reversed. Example: You need to get through a door, but the switch to …
Fillum review: The Fly (1986)
Jeff Goldblum only seems to fit a role if he’s playing a slightly strange scientist. In The Fly, he’s a physicist who develops a teleportation device. Having met a journalist who initially wants a story, but eventually falls in love with him, he manages to work out how to successfully transport living matter. Without turning it inside-out like the baboon it didn’t work on… He later gets drunk having jumped to conclusions about his new girlfriend’s relationship with her boss, …
More “netbooks” on the way
Lenovo, them folks what make the ThinkPads these days, are about to release their own machine into the EeePC/Aspire One/MSI Wind/HP Compaq 2133 region of the mini laptop markets. The IdeaPad S9 and S10 have slightly higher specs than the Wind, but with similar price tags. All these netbooks can only be a good thing for the prices of the things, yes? Lenovo heralds netbook PC duo | The Register