Aug
12
Murder Close
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Originally uploaded by Rick Stirling.
A heavily photoshopped image – this was taken on a hot sunny day in 2005
Archive for August, 2006
Aug
10
links for 2006-08-10
Aug
06
biotronic man stickers, 2000AD comic #2, 1977
‘biotronic man’ stickers, 2000AD comic #2, 1977
Originally uploaded by warrenellis.
From Warren Ellis Flickr.
I read Ministry of Space yesterday. Then I read it again.
Buy it now (the UK cover seems nicer than the US one).
Aug
06
EA ends support for much online play
Today Electronic Arts released a list of online servers that have recently closed, or will be closing for some of the their older games. EA explains that servers for the games listed below will be shut down on the indicated dates. Gamers can continue to play the games online up until these dates, but certain community programs may begin to close down prior to the shutdown dates.
I remember EA refusing to join Xbox live for the about 2 years, claiming that they wanted to have full control of the servers and have control of their games. Is this how they exert that control, by forcing players to upgrade to the latest version of their online games?
Technorati Tags: EA, Games, Online play, Servers
Aug
06
links for 2006-08-06
Aug
05
The PS3 isn’t dead in the water
Gamesindustry.biz has a rather insightful article into why we shouldn’t be writing off the PS3 just yet.
Even if Microsoft reaches its 10 million unit target by the end of the year – which does look likely – that’s still not a lead that guarantees dominance in a market where the top-selling console last time (the PlayStation 2) sold over 100 million units.
I’ve not touched a PS3 yet, but I will be of course be buying one.
Technorati Tags: Playstation, PS3
Aug
05
Link statue, and more Google Caledar thoughts
First 4 Figures is proud to present Fierce Deity Link, the first collectible statue in the First 4 Figures highly anticipated Legend of Zelda collectible statue series. With inspiration taken from the official Majora’s Mask Fierce Deity Link artwork, the statue has faithfully recreated Fierce Deity’s powerful and mysterious character and pose. Raising his double helix sword high above his head, he is ready to take on any his enemies. Towering at over 14.5 inches to the tip of his sword hilt, Fierce Deity Link will be in scale with the others in the series.
Cast in high quality poly-stone, the statue is hand finished and hand painted. Comes packed in a foam interior full colored box with a card of authenticity. Highly limited at only 2,500 pieces available worldwide.
One of the nice things about Google Calendar is that it can link the location of an appointment to Googlemaps. I’ve just found out today that you can now ‘bookmark’ locations, name them “Home”, “Parents” whatever, and it will auto complete.
Yeah, it’s geeky to be into this stuff, but useful. I’d never have thought a calendar would be useful to me, but it is. I’ve even started to record work milestones on it. Now I have no excuse.
I REALLY miss the del.icio.us buttons now that I’m running Firefox beta.
I’ve updated a few of my Flickr photos with tags and descriptions.
Other Related Topics:
google caledar, flickr, link statue
Aug
02
Silo 2.0 beta preview movie
Like I said – a Silo 2.0 beta preview movie has been released.
Also, I noticed a post on Lifehacker linking to site showing you how to convert from the 24 to 12 hour clock subtracting 10, then subtracting 2. Have mathematical skills really sunk so low that people cannot subtract 12? And in this day and age, doesn’t everyone automatically know the 24 and 12 hour clocks off by heart anyway?