Today the rumours got proven true, Ubisoft have green-lit Beyond Good & Evil 2BG&E is still one of my all-time favourite games, and I'll regularly take it out to play, even if it's only to take part in one of the hovver races or to try and finally win a game of 'air hockey' on the table in the pub (yes, I'm that bad at it, but I will get that final ( Read more... )

I was sent a link to synecdochic's post entitled Don't be That Guy, which I really couldn't not link to. It's a definite 'Stop, Read, Think' post, and I'd reccomend spending the time needed to read it carefully.

Having enthused about get_medieval before I had to put this photo I took of the original strip I now have framed on my wall.

...yes, I know I can't take decent photos :-)


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After tripping over an advert for this free MMO that looked like it had a decidedly manga art style for a whole day I decided I'd go take a look... Bad move really. Even though it is very much a typical Asian-market grind-fest, the artwork and how it is done makes it fun to play. I'm not normally one for grinding, but with the silly quotes from the ( Read more... )

There are days when you have to take photos just to prove you weren't seeing things, and today was one of them. On my way back from having a filling at the dentist I did a bit of a double-take when I saw a grass-covered van. Now, this not being a regular occurance I decided a pic was required ( which is underneath this cut )

The current state of the player ( Read more... )

Thanks to Gandy for being my 'me in north america' I've got hold of an OLPC XO laptop via their Give One Get One program that was run at the end of last year. I've been following the organisation from the first announcement of the 100 dollar laptop, and have wanted to get my hands on one ever since I saw the first preview models ( Read more... )

I thought I'd write a little about each of the place we ate and drank during the week in Soldeu, but with a photo of the place to go with each.

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This is going top be a fairly long post, so I've used lj cuts for each of the daily entries that I wrote.

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As promised, my bad wedding photos have been uploaded ( Read more... )