Another brief stint on this, as someone else was after my remaining animals. My gardens are somewhat bare now, and even more so after I pimped up a Roario, called him “Keith Chegwin” and sent him off to Nils Tanner. I seem to just have whirlms and mothdrops left now!
For my job I often do – testing things in Excel or in a database, providing data for students to work on, that sort of thing.¬¨‚Ć I stumbled across this site this morning when searching for something to create random (but specific) data – and it does exactly that. You just choose fields (such as names, postal codes, email addresses, etc), fill in any specific ranges, and decide how many records you want. It then provides the data for you, …
Luigi slides all over the place, jumps higher (and seemingly further) than Mario, and says “Yoshi” every time he uses a launch star. He also makes a noise that sounds like it’s taken straight from Pretty Fly for a White Guy when he gets a power star. Oh, and he looks stupid in a bee suit. Aside from all that, it’s the same so far. Well, except for one thing which I’m not sure if I’m imagining or not: the …
This is so simple, but makes you wonder why you’ve not seen it done before. Or perhaps you have. I haven’t, and that’s the point. Anyway, it’s a post about how to make Sierpinski Gaskets out of Fimo. Of course, you could also make them out of rock and then eat them.¬¨‚Ć Mmmm, sugarfractals. MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make Fimo fractals
Would you believe it – the Wii’s disc slot actually takes games that aren’t Mario Galaxy! I’m shocked and amazed! Although technically, I suppose, Endless Ocean isn’t a game, as it’s more of a diving simulator. I played it for about an hour, and found around 15 species of fish. Also found a dolphin medal, have acquired a pet penguin, chased a dolphin, took some old bloke for a swim to look for wrasse, and found a bit of a …
With the last of the stars collected yesterday, all that was left was to defeat Bowser again. For some reason, I had problems getting to him this time – losing several lives (all regained through mushroom collection) on the way. He was just as easy as before (of course, he was exactly the same, that’s why), and then the end sequence with a bit extra. And then! “You may now play as Luigi!” comes up on the screen, and Luigi …
120 STARS! Amazing! I came to it today with just four stars remaining – all of which were actually comet stars, it turned out. First up was a Daredevil Comet on the Deep Dark Galaxy (killing the big Magikoopa without getting hit – easy!), and then I braved the Luigi’s Purple Coins star, which drained a good 8 or 9 lives before I nailed it. The last two (another purple coin one, and Fast Foe one) were both waaaaaay easier …
I think it was around this time last year when I saw the last purple sky. And it’s back!
Due to popular demand (that is, one guy on Rllmuk), I’ve taken a few more pictures of the EeePC, in (hopefully) much better quality. And there’s a video of it’s graphical prowess too – a quick clip of it running TuxRacer. Yeah, not the best example… anyway! The photos! And that amazing video: See? Amazing.
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Because my connection has all gone to pot again. Actually, it was up and down for most of yesterday afternoon.¬¨‚Ć One minute, I was getting 350Kbps upload, the next nothing.¬¨‚Ć At all. I’ve posted a message to the Virgin Media support newsgroup, and it seems that I’m on a congested channel (whatever that entails), at least, judging from the problems other people on there are having anyway.
So close to the end now, with 116 stars complete. Just three more comet ones left, including what seems to be the hardest of all the stars by seven million miles – Luigi’s Purple Coins. Gah! Oh, and I finally managed to find the hidden star on Deep Dark Galaxy. It turns out it was under the wreck of a boat (well, it wasn’t, but the route to get to it was), where I’m pretty sure I’d looked at least …
With apologies for the rather obvious headline. Since Wednesday, my internet connection (4Mb cable, ex-NTL now Virgin Media) had been playing up.¬¨‚Ć I’d not really had time to look into the fault, but on Friday night with the arrival of some new networking kit (ordered before I started getting problems, ironically) I decided to get to the bottom of it. After some testing with various speedtest sites, it became clear that the problem was my upload speed.¬¨‚Ć On a Virgin …
Did a bit of catching up with the last few weeks’ XBLA releases. Screwjumper:NO. Shrek ‘n’ Roll:NO. Undertow:NO. Asteriods:Not bad, but it just doesn’t feel right in these days of twin-stick shooters like Geometry Wars.
I’ve been having internet problems this week (a man from Virgin came and fixed them a short while ago), and I’d also, before any problems, bought some new networking kit to replace my aging stuff. I was hoping all this would fix any lag issues I’d been getting on Xbox Live. And they did! Played two full games, with a load of Americans, and barely a glitch or jump in the action. Excellent! Not that I managed to do particularly …