deKay's Lofi Gaming

Emails from the Dawn of Time #1

Today, I decided that having a 1GB Outlook .pst file with all my emails in was a bit of overkill, and decided to archive some. I’ve kept virtually all of my emails ever since I left Uni in 1999, and even forwarded on some from there, so I’ve got a few from 1997. Anyway. In the process of doing the backing up, archiving, and then checking the archive, I had a read through some old messages, and here, for your …

Vista: Worth the wait?

And I don’t mean how long it took to come to market, either. Today, I took delivery of an Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi (yes, all them letters), that comes with Vista Home Basic. It’s a cheap (¬¨¬£255) and cheerful laptop, but it’s only for internet and office use and replaces an older, heavier, less powerful laptop that had an accident involving a flight of concrete steps. I didn’t actually want Vista, but they don’t have any other OS option, so I …

Manhunt

I’d played this last almost exactly a year ago (7th August 2004, according to the saved game), and spotted it on my shelf when looking for something new to play. I’d left off just after the second level – “Doorway into Hell”, so continued from there. My stealth skills have suffered. Severely. I managed to work my way though to “White Trash” (level 4) by startling every single thug along the way and gaining no “proper” kills whatsoever. It doesn’t …