There's a game coming out on 11/11/11 called Skyrim. It's the fifth game in a series of role-playing games (RPGs) called the Elder Scrolls series.

I always used to hate role playing games with an unsually passionate loathing, until Ms rhapsody9 showed me how they worked. It was at that point I started to enjoy the sheer richness of the content of games like ( Read more... )

Strewth, it never ends... Why do I have so much shit? A rough estimate gives me nearly 2,000 books (fewer than I expected, admittedly), thousands of CD-roms from magazine covers, 300-odd DVDs, just over 500 music CDs and a bunch of other bunkum.

I have discovered some serious chod in there too. Flyers from outside nightclubs, bottle lids, old ( Read more... )

Filofax

A discussion with Ms rhapsody9  about generally getting one's sh1t together and 'being organised' prompted me to recommend the Filofax.

Those of us who grew up in the 80's, to the sounds of the Pet Shop Boys and the braying of yuppies gently wafting through the still Surrey air from a local wine bar, will recall these ingenious things. To many they ( Read more... )

If you want a hard-as-nails, stat-soaked, Olde Skoole RPG, then you could do worse than check this out:

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Demo here. I haven't given it a go yet because I have had the day from Hell, in which:

• My colleague leaves, and I discover that the rascal has taken the instant coffee and sugar cubes with him
• ...A new colleague arrives, whom I have to train. Thus, ( Read more... )