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.
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 …
It has now been a week since The Great Day Of Moving, when I ditched Blogger for WordPress on this very blog. How’s it been? Actually, pretty good. There’s a few things I miss, a few things I’ve gained, but (most importantly), I haven’t regretted it. I’m now considering shifting my Gaming Diary over to WordPress too, but that’s going to be a bigger task, and one that I’m tempted to avoid until a few things are ironed out. Anyway, …
The first of our EeePCs arrived at work today, and what a lovely bit of kit it is. As is traditional, there was an Unpacking Ceremony, and here are a few pictures of the box and the unit in action. Apologies for poor quality camera scans. It really is a lovely unit though. A bit thicker than I expected (and probably thicker than it needs to be really – especially at the back), and it runs slightly warm (but only …
The guy who wrote the wrote the ending theme for Portal performs it live! Warning: may contain spoilers!
Since moving my blog over to WordPress (more thoughts on that at a later date), I’ve been able to check my blog access logs in more detail than previously.¬¨‚Ć This includes search terms that have led people here. Bizarrely, one of those terms that keeps cropping up is “Gary Wilmott”.¬¨‚Ć Of course, it’s because of this post I made some time ago, but it still freaks me out that so many people are searching for him. If you’re reading this, …
Remember that interactive chicken thing that was an advert for KFC or something? Where you could tell it to jump up and down or die or hop or make cow noises? Some of which it responded to? Well, this Free Your Buddy is like that, only with a purpose! It’s a text adventure, with video. Amazing! Here’s a trailer: And here’s a link to the game: http://www.freeyourbuddy.com/
To WordPress.¬¨‚Ć Hurrah!¬¨‚Ć Maybe.¬¨‚Ć Things seemed to go rather too smoothly, with only my old RSS feed vanishing in the process (I was going to put WordPress’s feed at the same URL as the old Blogger one, but WP doesn’t seem to let you do that). So here it is.¬¨‚Ć Amazing.
This is a trailer for a horror film about teenagers who eat magic mushrooms and then some stabbing happens. Ace! Warning: video may contain scenes of talking cows.
