• Lyrics XP

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    Brimful of Asha, Explained – an enterprising member of Kuro5hin provides a explanation to the Indian roots of that classic 90s song, Brimful of Asha. Not quite as good the Annotated American Pie, but still fun.

  • Syberia Review

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    Since my last post, I haven’t made much progress on the article. At all. Between my 21st birthday and playing Syberia, I’ve been kept from doing any serious writing. Luckily, both were a lot of fun. Syberia is a graphical adventure game of the old-fashioned thirdperson point-and-click ilk, and was produced last year by Microids…

  • CTP2 Source Code to be released

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    Call To Power 2 Source Code To Be Released – I’m not fully aware of the story behind this, but it seems like the source code to this buggy yet fun Civilization pseudo-clone is going to be released, as open source, to the online community very shortly. It can only be good news!

  • Another one bites the dust

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    The Sims Online hits $10 at Amazon indicating that things aren’t doing so well at Maxis or EA these days. The reviews at Amazon paint a similar picture of departing players and lack of excitement. Back to the drawing board, it seems.

  • Brief Hiatus

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    I’ll be having a brief hiatus from posting here for the next few days, as I’m about a thousand words into an article I’m writing on an interesting new type of multiplayer online game. I’ve been looking forward to writing it for over a month and so far it’s not looking bad, although it’s finished…

  • Stop the Junk

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    The Telephone Preference Service and the Mailing Preference Service are the UK web’s best-kept secret. These two websites allow you to opt out of almost all marketing phone calls and junk mail, and despite them having existed for several years, I only discovered them a few days ago.

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    I arrived back in the UK yesterday morning after a 24 hour journey from Sydney. Predictably, it was raining. What I tried to do during the flights back home was to time my eating and sleeping so that I could reduce any jetlag I’d have caused by the ten hour time difference. The easiest way…

  • Fourth time unlucky

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    Four times I’ve tried to go hang-gliding in Australia: Wednesday: good windspeed, but in the wrong direction Thursday: too windy Friday: too windy Saturday: too windy The annoying thing is that the weather was perfect when I first got here. The even more annoying thing is that hang-gliding here is almost half the price of…

  • Recursive

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    During dinner yesterday, I mentioned to Andrew Paul and The Official Bear Of The Third Millennium that I’d recently had an MRI scan done of my brain. Someone then said how strange it must be to see the activity of your brain in real time. I was just in the middle of replying that the…

  • Flight

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    For some reason, the term ‘shuttle diplomacy’ comes to mind when I think about how I’ve been zipping between different cities on the Australian east/southeast coast, despite the fact that I haven’t been doing any diplomacy. It’s probably because it sounds so cool. It’s all coming to an end now, unfortunately. I’m leaving Newcastle this…