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Time Commanders review
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No comments on Time Commanders reviewImagine playing an RTS game like Total War (in fact, just like Total War) with three of your friends, on a big screen and a couple of military history advisors. That’s what BBC2’s new show Time Commanders is, essentially. There are a few twists, of course. None of the four players actually got to touch…
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Syberia 2 gets colder
Syberia II pushed back to 2004 – some disappointing news from Microids. Apparently they’re doing it so they can make a simultaneous release on PC, PS2 and XBox – but do console gamers really play adventure games? I suppose I shouldn’t be too bothered, since I have an unplayed copy of The Longest Journey still…
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Article
Well, it took me about a month longer than I expected to finish the first draft on the game article I’m writing. I suppose I could’ve done it a bit quicker but I’ve had to conduct several interviews which took some time; in fact, I’m still waiting for someone to get back to me before…
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Dataglyphs
DataGlyphs – a ‘robust and unobtrusive method of embedding computer-readable data on surfaces such as paper, labels, plastic, glass, or metal’ by Xerox Parc. Dataglyphs use a pattern of forward and backward slashes to represent ones and zeroes, and at 600 dpi you can get up to 1kb per square inch of printed material. Clever…
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Scare Waves
A lot of people are getting angry and scared about new mobile phone masts being erected in their local areas; the vast majority of these masts are for 3G operations, which have a smaller coverage area than current mobile phone masts. People don’t like the masts because they think they might be harmful to their…
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Lack of imagination
Once again we are at that special time of year when the GCSE and A-Level results are announced for secondary school students here in the UK. There’s almost no point reading the newspapers since they always run the same stories. If the results for an exam improve, that’s because it’s getting easier. If they get…
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Reading by the phosphor glow
There aren’t many authors left whose books I’d immediately buy, even if I didn’t know what they were about. I’d say that Neal Stephenson is up there, along with Vernor Vinge and precious few others. So yesterday, when I was browsing around at Fictionwise and saw that the October issue of Analog magazine had a…
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SPV vs. SE T616
There’s an interesting article been written comparing the Orange SPV Smartphone (running Microsoft Smartphone 2003) and the Sony Ericsson T616 (the US equivalent of the T610). The reason I found it interesting is because I’ll probably be upgrading my phone in a few months and I’m in a bit of a quandary as to which…
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Button cameras
Button cameras the size of a penny will soon be on the uniforms of Scottish police, recording with a 20 minute cache – a truly excellent idea that I feel will solve a lot of problems.
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Krait
In Wednesday night’s pub quiz, this question came up: What kind of animal is a krait? After a bit of silence and mulling, I volunteered, ‘You know, that’s the name of a ship class on Elite.’ Someone perked up. ‘Really? What were the other classes?’ ‘Well, there was the Cobra – that was the standard…
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