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 …
OK, so technically it isn’t measuring colour blindness, but rather your ability to sort colours by hue. This is a slightly interesting test, which isn’t completely scientific because it because it can’t take into account your monitor settings and capabilities, but is worth a go anyway. I scored 6, which is, apparently, somewhat excellent. Yay! Test your “Colour IQ” here.
Well, it wasn’t quite as I was expecting. First of all, due to the area we’re in, I thought it was going to be full of 15 year old pregnant girls, but in fact, it was a mix of people, around 6 pairs in all. It was a bit cringeworthy in parts – the “fathers to be get together and talk about your feelings” just felt wrong, and the video we were shown was full of large-mouthed 1980s Americans being …
A couple of days ago, I was asked, again, to download more Teachers TV programmes for staff at work. I don’t mind doing it, and it doesn’t take long, but I did wonder if there was a way of automatically downloading them.¬¨‚Ć Looking on the site, it seems they publish all new videos in a podcast. You can find out more about that here. So I fired up iTunes, and subscribed to the new videos RSS feed. And then the …
When this first came out, I watched it three times in a single weekend, as it seemed necessary to do so in order to make sense of the story. This time around, however, despite not having seen it in more than ten years, I didn’t have to. I don’t know if that’s because I subconciously remembered the bits I needed to pay attention to, or whether I got lucky, but still – you have to concentrate or things really do …
You know that there iTunes, what recently got an upgrade to version 8? I finally got round to installing it this morning. The “big thing” with this release is Genius, iTunes’ way of looking at what songs you’ve got, and using that information to recommend other songs and artists. It’s been well documented that it makes some slightly… confused suggestions. Perhaps recommending Sepultura when the majority of your library is Kraftwerk or something. But I’ve not heard of it being …
I went to use my 360 this evening, and as soon as it powered on and logged in, it froze. Restarted it, and the same happened again. Zomoniac off of ugvm reported similar problems yesterday. After some faffing around, I tried disconnecting my network cable and starting the 360 up again – and this worked. Plug in the cable, connect to Live, and it freezes. Naturally, and following the problems with Live all week, I assumed that it was Microsoft’s …
We went back to the midwife for the 28-week checkup thing this week. Once again they put the baby on speaker-phone so we could hear its heartbeat (and it was more badum-badum than waka-waka again), and they also measuring my wife’s bump – 31cm. Although not really important, they tend to prefer the size to be 1cm-per-week, +/- 1cm, so 31cm was good. Everything else was normal and as expected! Anti-natal classes start next week!
Well, my wrist is. I’m partly blaming it on not fully recovering from Guitar Hero DS, but the rest is possibly due to sleeping on my hand at a funny angle or something.¬¨‚Ć My left wrist and little finger have been hurting for a week or so, but it’s been agony for the last couple of days. And now today, as if it was feeling left out, my right hand has started to ache. Maybe it’s because I’ve been compensating …
…to see the sun for the first time ever. That’s right – Xbox Live is down! And on forums the world over, it’s as if civilisation has collapsed. People are having to do other things! Like go outside! Or play with Lego! Or just get on with it and playing offline like we used to in the Dark Ages.
I’ve realised recently that I have some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. Trivial OCD, yes, but it’s still there. It’s apparent in several ways: I can’t watch people at work use an interactive whiteboard if it isn’t exactly calibrated. Even if the pen and the on-screen pointer are merely millimetres out of alignment, it drives me up the wall. I genuinely can’t watch them operate it, and last week I actually stood up in the middle of a meeting, took …
A deeply religious police sergeant travels to a island village to try to solve the mystery of a girl who disappeared there. On his arrival, he finds that none of the residents have even heard of her. As his investigations progess, he is exposed to more and more of the “heathen” traditions of the island’s pagan ways, realising the girl’s disappearance is somehow linked to them. Although described as a horror, or a thriller, I wouldn’t really class The Wicker …
I don’t even know what it actually does that my current phone doesn’t do, but I still need one. It doesn’t look amazing, but the HTC G1 – the first Google Android phone – is, for some reason, a necessity. It’s not even vastly different in size to my Vario III, although it’s slightly narrower and thinner, and a mite taller:
Wii Samba de Amigo is here! Have can you not love it, with this advert? Shh!! Lets just pretend the “issues” with the controls don’t exist, yes? And this is clearly the best track:
I only subscribe to two magazines – EGM, and PC Plus. In fact, I’ve cancelled my renewal for PC Plus because I don’t actually have a PC any more, but I still have the end of the subscription to run. Imagine my surprise when I opened this month’s issue to find, along with the usual scammy scratchcards and flyers for home insurance, this:
