I found out today that a friend of mine’s 8 week old baby died last night, in sudden and unexpected circumstances. I can’t even begin to imagine how terribly this has hit him and his family. I know he won’t be reading this, but if on the very, very slim chance he might be, I’m so sorry for your loss, and my thoughts are with you. It’s the sort of thing which is upsetting to anyone, even if they don’t …
A video of a mouse skydiving. OK, so it’s actually an advert for some new Microsoft computer mouse, but it’s still a mouse. Skydiving.
Oh Mr Asda! With these special offers for the mathematically-challenged you are really spoiling us!
It’s happening all over again. It’s Oblivion once more. And, even though Fallout 3 has the OCD-factor turned way down in comparison (there’s no alchemy, no stat grinding, etc.) there’s still waaaay too much to get me hooked. Like gun collection. And paranoid constant equipment repair. And having to speak to everyone and try every possible conversation permutation. And unnecessary, self-imposed inventory management. It’s all horribly, horribly addictive. I’ve played about 14 hours in less than three days. And the …
I was absolutely convinced this film came out this year, but Virgin On Demand says 2007. Not that it matters at all, it just seems too long ago. Anyway. Jerry (Jack Black) and Mike (Mos Def) are left in charge of a video rental shop while the owner goes on a recon mission to figure out how to make more money in order to save the building the shop is in from demolition. While he’s away, a freak accident magnetically …
This week’s fourth and final class was all about “meeting baby”. I don’t really like the term, as we’re not going to be meeting him or her, are we? It’s already there, we just don’t know what it looks like. Anyway. We were told about methods and types of feeding, the various advantages and disadvantages of breast feeding and bottle feeding, which did sort of confuse us as only this week we bought bottles to use with breast milk, so …
I posted earlier that I’d broken the £25 Rule – the self-imposed game price limit I’ve stuck to for over a year – so I could get the Special Edition version of Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360. Well, Good News, Everyone! It would appear that Game have made a bit of an error, and instead of charging me the £32-ish (some of which I’d get back via Quidco) they should have done, my credit card statement shows they’ve only …
This week, we had our third (of four in total) anti-natal class. The theme this time was “Pain”. Basically, we were told all about the pains to expect before and during labour, and the methods that could be used in order to help with them. They ranged from “breathing differently” to “omfg we’re putting needles in your spine”. Nice. Then we were told about some complications that could happen, most of which involved yanking the baby out with some sort …
Using some clever looping and delay kit, Beardyman (human beatbox extraordinaire) puts together an amazing music track – in one take.
Somewhat ignorantly, I didn’t realise this was all in Spanish with subtitles. Not that it matters (and I usually prefer the original language with subtitles than dubious dubbing), but I was a little surprised. I was also surprised by how nasty the film was. I knew it was considered a “fairytale for grown-ups”, but somehow this made me expect something more akin to Stardust, when, in fact, it seems to bear more resemblance to something like Platoon. Sort of. A …
I’ve stuck to it for over a year, but now I’ve had to break it as there’s no option – I must have the Fallout 3 Collectors Edition, and there’s not a chance in hell I’ll ever get it for less than £25, as it’ll be out of stock forever before it gets a chance to drop. But I did my best to minimise the damage. It’s £49.99 at Game. I had £15 in points built up from previous purchases, …
So last Thursday (yeah, I’m running late) was our second anti-natal class. The topic was “what to expect on the day”, and started with all the stuff leading up to going into hospital – preparation, getting The Bag Of Things together, and so on. It then moved on to the pain and contractions and… messyness. Which was nice. Finally, we were shown a video of two births – one “normal” birth (which wasn’t too bad, despite the graphic nature), and …
Our batch of new Inspiron Minis arrived at work today. And very, very lovely (and shiny) they are too. Strange quirks include no F-keys (there are replacements via the Fn button and home row) and some difficulty getting sound drivers working when replacing XP Home with XP Pro, but they’re working now and run pretty fast and cool. Some obligatory pictures: Things of note: The Mini is almost the same size as the 701, only very slightly longer and slightly …
Look. Either do Sonic properly, or just leave his dead corpse alone. Sonic and the Black Knight is all sorts of wrongness.
Of course, I don’t need one at all. My two and a half year old, first generation, bought at launch, Core Duo (not even Core 2 Duo) white MacBook is still my favouritest computer I’ve ever owned. And I’ve owned a lot. It’s still just as nippy as it ever was, and bar a bigger hard drive and an upgrade to Leopard it’s still the same as it was when I bought it.¬¨‚Ć I’ve never felt the need to buy …
