I saw Reloaded again at the weekend — I still can't get over the amount of energy in the chateau/freeway set piece. From the first shot fired in the chateau to Link's slump of exhaustion over his console, 20 minutes and 40 seconds of non-stop action have gone by. With the stunning music from Don […]
Well, that didn't take long .
Ferchrissakes ... "A woman who is worried her husband might leave her if she loses her looks has insured her face for £100,000 ." I don't know who's the worst here — the wife for doing it, the husband for letting her do it, or the insurance company for taking the cash. Nicole Jones, of […]
"Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas... And the ninjas are all on fire, too." - Jason Jones Bungie Studios Watch the trailer in Quicktime format , or keep an eye or two […]
Today we've had further proof that The Register , aka el reg, is sliding further down the slippery slope into the toilet. Kieren McCarthy has posted a scaremongering article claiming that the .org top level domain has disappeared down a nice big black hole, due to incompetence by the new .org owner, the Public Interest […]
For some reason, the toolbars and menu disappeared from Windows Explorer when I did my usual method of firing it up — Windows+E. Just as it was annoying me enough, I googled for windows explorer "missing toolbars" and found a utility to restore missing toolbars . It says it's only designed for use with IE […]
Looks like some folk have found a way to extract playlists from people's iTunes 4 players, thus letting anyone see what you have in your iTunes collection — but then some other folk have figured out how to let others download your music — voila, instant p2p app. The burning question is did Apple know […]
In some alternate reality, this kind of thing would happen every day. 59 Democratic state legislators in Texas went walkabout to avoid voting on measures to aid their opponents . While the renegades were off in a Holiday Inn across the state line in Oklahoma, where Texas state troopers could only politely request that the […]
Fellow Scottish person Meg Pickard moved recently, and made this IKEA observation ... drove to good old IKEA to pick up a few selected bits and bobs - a TV bench, couple of stools, desk lamp, and the usual extraneous guff. No tealights though, which is a first - as I'm sure I've mentioned here […]