From Neil : Neuro ordered pizza with his credit card over the phone in a room full of geeks and gadgets. The expiry date is 06/03. [ ... ] Luckily I have four Switch cards along with a couple of Visa s and Amex s to choose from, no-one really heard the card number and […]
I decided to glance at the referrer logs this morning and found that BBC Scotland's Scotblog has listed me as a "tasty" weblog. I dunno about the blog itself being tasty, but the haggis † I had on Monday at McPhabb's with bri and genghis was — as always — pretty damn tasty :) † […]
I saw Reloaded again at the weekend — I still can't get over the amount of energy in the chateau/freeway set piece. From the first shot fired in the chateau to Link's slump of exhaustion over his console, 20 minutes and 40 seconds of non-stop action have gone by. With the stunning music from Don […]
Well, that didn't take long .
Ferchrissakes ... "A woman who is worried her husband might leave her if she loses her looks has insured her face for £100,000 ." I don't know who's the worst here — the wife for doing it, the husband for letting her do it, or the insurance company for taking the cash. Nicole Jones, of […]
"Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas... And the ninjas are all on fire, too." - Jason Jones Bungie Studios Watch the trailer in Quicktime format , or keep an eye or two […]
Today we've had further proof that The Register , aka el reg, is sliding further down the slippery slope into the toilet. Kieren McCarthy has posted a scaremongering article claiming that the .org top level domain has disappeared down a nice big black hole, due to incompetence by the new .org owner, the Public Interest […]
For some reason, the toolbars and menu disappeared from Windows Explorer when I did my usual method of firing it up — Windows+E. Just as it was annoying me enough, I googled for windows explorer "missing toolbars" and found a utility to restore missing toolbars . It says it's only designed for use with IE […]
Looks like some folk have found a way to extract playlists from people's iTunes 4 players, thus letting anyone see what you have in your iTunes collection — but then some other folk have figured out how to let others download your music — voila, instant p2p app. The burning question is did Apple know […]