Lights out London
Note: I'm finding it difficult to type this without singing UFOs Lights out. On the evening of the summer solstice, between 9p.m. and 10p.m. Londoners are invite to take part in what will be the...
View ArticleHunting for an ISP
My ongoing exprience with freedom2surf/pipex/tiscali is getting annoying. Until now apart from the occasional blips, the service was fine. But now I appear to be getting slower and slower speeds and...
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Religion Vs Schools
This week you may have read about a Sikh girl that was excluded from school for wearing a religious bangle. I can understand that wearing all that Mr. T-esque bling to school would be completely over...
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UK ADSL Slowdown
Copied with permission from Dok's blog Britain's Broadband internet revolution seems to be grinding to a halt, just a few short years after it began. The vast majority of internet access in the UK is...
View ArticleDesensitised or bored stupid?
In appears that the game Manhunter 2 by Rockstar that was banned by the BBFC earlier this year has won an appeal to get that decision over-turned. Now it returns to the BBFC to either allow the game...
View ArticleA note from Terry Pratchett
In a news item over at Paul Kidby's website, Terry Pratchett has posted a small note about “an embuggerance”. It's sad but Terry's humour shines through in the post. Wishing him all the best in the...
View ArticleOh dear, not Winehouse
I was reading that Amy Winehouse is to be immortalised in wax (shudder) at Madame Tussauds this year as according to the manager she is requested by guests. No I haven't visited Tussauds for many...
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A pint of milk and a new costumes please
There is much chatter at the moment regarding Real Money Transactions (RMT) AKA microtransactions, this is largely due to hints that Bioware could made SWTOR will be driven solely by RMTs and with no...
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I am weak
I read an “interesting” article about MMO addiction, I shall call it an article as I believe that is what it originally aimed to be, before being filled with what at times feels like general malice...
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Reasons to be cheerful
Many games claim to be the best of it’s genre, you will certainly find their descriptions littered with buzzwords like ‘unique’,'sandbox’,'cutting edge’. Of course many of a games features don’t appeal...
View ArticleNo one expects the Spanish Inquisition
Well those reports of Google purchasing the Streaming giant Twitch fall to ash as Amazon appear to have jumped in with a 970 million dollar deal. It was clear that a purchase was on the horizon as the...
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