From Neil: Neuro ordered pizza with his credit card over the phone in a room full of geeks and gadgets. The expiry date is 06/03. […] Luckily I have four Switch cards along with a couple of Visas and Amexs to choose from, no-one really heard the card number and they also don’t know the…

I decided to glance at the referrer logs this morning and found that BBC Scotland’s Scotblog has listed me as a “tasty” weblog. I dunno about the blog itself being tasty, but the haggis † I had on Monday at McPhabb’s with bri and genghis was — as always — pretty damn tasty 🙂 †…

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 Bristol,…

“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 JonesBungie Studios Watch the trailer in Quicktime format, or keep an eye or two on the news…

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 Registry.…

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 and…

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…