Last night was quite productive, in that I discovered why my friend's computer kept blue-screening when she was playing games
I had my suspicions to begin with, so i cracked open the case and turned the computer on, out of 3 fans on the computer, 1 wasn't spinning - The graphics card.

I made sure that this wasn't a power saving feature, so I ( Read more... )

I've always been a fan of Pokemon, although i do have to say they could have designed this generation's better.

I got my copy of Pokemon White a day before release as my internet-ordered copy arrived a bit early, but no complaints from me. Even though I got it early there are still people I know that have already beaten the elite four; my excuse for ( Read more... )

Although it may not win brownie points with many people, the first MMO I ever played and still do to a degree, is RuneScape ( Read more... )

Amongst all the necessary things I've had to do over the past 2 and a half weeks, I've only had time to use LJ to check the Precure community, which is why I haven't posted in that time (unless you count last Sunday when I spent all day watching "Negima!" so could have done this then).
( Another long one, but then I'm probobly going to make a habit of this )

 Having been at Derby for coming up two-and-a-half days, I thought I’d better write an update.

( Yes, This is a long one. The rest is under the cut. )

Simple title for a simple-ish event ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I'm leaving to go to Derby, where I'm to study Computer Games Programming ( Read more... )

I'm going to say it straight out: my best mate, Dale Welsby, fucked up when he tried to organise a trip to the cinema to see Toy Story 3
I got a call from Dale at about 5pm asking if I wanted to go and see toy story tonight at 8:40. I said yes. When it actually got to the trip it's fair to say that things could have gone better.

I went around to his ( Read more... )

If you know me well enough you'll know that when it comes to computers, I absolutely hate Vista
I loathe the User Account Control, as although its good when a standard user wants to do something more advanced an admin can pop in their password to allow it (which to my knowledge wasn't possible, or easy to accomplish in XP and below). But it's a ( Read more... )