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Christmas Buyers Guide

Here’s the week 10 Boar article which once again I left writing until the very last second; and then some. Will thoroughly dealt with the first three platforms, whilst I wrote most of the latter three consoles’ recommendations; though I … Continue reading

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Page 56 Meme

Fine. Now that it seems to have made it to Facebook statuses everywhere, I’ll give in and follow the crowd. The amount of money in our pocket will not change as we walk down the street, jostling it up and … Continue reading

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Facebook ads…

Really are rather fail. Failing to explicitly claim to be “interest in women” (rather than simply leave this field blank) results in an overwhelming predominance of gay pickup ads. And then there’re things like this: which are fail beyond words.

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Whoops!

Soo, I’m well back and well rested from a great trip to California. I’ve finally gotten around to uploading all of my photos, though tagging the final 40% of them just became a bit to much of a chore, so … Continue reading

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Holiday blog

There are several things I have learnt this past week: Wireless internet is more essential in a hotel than a colour TV; California suffers from fires; PSP Skype is the absolute win; and July fourth is not a good time … Continue reading

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How not to code an IRC bot

20:46 * pedantic adds white rum, cococunt cream, pineapple juice and ice for Susanita 20:46 -!- mode/#theonering.net [+b *!*@cpe-24-27-57-176.austin.res.rr.com] by Barliman 20:46 * Barliman Is Frowning At pedantic 20:46 -!- pedantic was kicked from #theonering.net by Barliman [banned:pedantic] 20:46 * … Continue reading

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21 Steps from Heaven

Since Perplex City was put on “indefinite hold” a couple of years ago, I’ve been following and adoring the work of Adrian Hon, it’s lead creative developer; mainly in the hope of seeing if he’s working on another ARG, but … Continue reading

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My desk

The “theft” chain is allegedly now rather silly. It’s not as if this was prompted by another similar post, or anything. My desk contains, clockwise from left, my PC speakers and monitor, various plugs and adapters, a Star Wars book … Continue reading

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omgoogle Earthquake

I would have blogged earlier, but we’ve just spent half an hour sitting around hammering refresh on BBC news. That was pretty pretty awesome. I was sitting here, and felt my desk start to vibrate under my knee. I thought … Continue reading

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Good morning, it’s Orange Juice o’clock!

Seriously, Maths>Sleep ∀ maths that has to be in by the next morning. That’s a fact. A pointer also towards Microsoft Dreamspark for being the most awesome student deal since The Ultimate Steal – perhaps better! Free VS2008 was too … Continue reading

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