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Like most everybody who is vaguely artistic, I've got one of those wooden mannequin dolls. While it's a public secret that they're terribly proportioned and nowhere near as poseable as most mass-produced action figures, they're cheap, available at your local department store, and look nice sitting on the shelf. On rare occasion, they're even useful ( Read more... )

The other day I went to the movies, in particular Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Which is an entirely amusing film, I can recommend it heartily to my mainland brethren. And it's actually showing now, so go already.

The theater itself was Odeon Guildford, and save for some typically British signage, it could've been a multiplex anywhere in the ( Read more... )

So, two weeks ago my laptop broke, which at the time was my main computing device. I've been making due with my 360 and my Android devices but while appliances like that are amazingly capable these days, it's just not the same.

I tried to do research on what would met my needs without breaking the bank, paying special attention to stuff like ( Read more... )

So the other day I was playing some Reach when I hear this short weird sound coming from my laptop sitting on the coffee table behind me.

I turn around, and the screen is dark. Huh., I thought. Something crashed? That usually only happens when I'm running the Second Life client, making the poor integrated video card melt. The fans are still ( Read more... )

If you're thinking about buying Halo: Reach for the Xbox 360, and you're even slightly interested in the series and setting, get the Limited Edition.

Normally, special editions of computer games come in a crappy box that doesn't quite fit on the shelf and they have some crummy extra that couldn't have cost more than two euros to produce and looks ( Read more... )

In a fit of insanity, I decided take a look at my LiveJournal friends list. Always a bad idea, I know. But removing folks that I've lost contact with and/or haven't posted in ages cleaned up things a bit.

Most of the people that are LJ Friends with me I can place. There's my amazing local friends, varied and sundry interesting people I've met on ( Read more... )

So I have this nifty Android-based mobile telephone that I can write apps for. And I mentioned that I was thinking of uploading the apps I wrote to the Android Market so that other people can download and use them.

The other day I finally got around to that. The sign-up for a Publisher account is a bit scary. First you find out it costs US$25, ( Read more... )

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