Archive for the ‘Misc.’ Category
Monday, August 18th, 2008
In Europe at least, Twitter was unable to come to an agreement with mobile phone operators to continue to send incoming Tweets to mobile phones via SMS, at least one person thinks that SMS is a deceptively profitable service for the network operators. Surely services that use SMS are going to generate more revenue as people pass funny Tweets onto non-Twitter users.
After all, all of those jokes that zip round like wildfire whenever something happens in the news aren’t just the creative juices of the masses expressed in a short message, they are written by the networks to encourage people to send more messages (by passing the jokes on).
All is not lost however, I have been using jTwitter for a long time and it does a great job of keeping me up to date on the move. The Twitter API seems good enough to allow anyone too interface with the service without extensive programming knowledge - I suspect we will see more services that allow access to Twitter from a mobile phone.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Bought the game last week, finished the single player campaign a couple of days ago. It plays more like being in a film than a game, which for me is great, as a cinematic experience it is superb, the game play is better than any other game I have played before (which doesn’t say much really - have been out of touch of the FPS market over the past few years).
The multiplayer is great fun too. I had some initial issues connecting in the first place due to PunkBuster connect issues, resolved them by updating PunkBuster manualy with PBSetup.exe then running the game as Administrator under Vista 64.
All in all, great game - well worth the spend, and brought a lot of enjoyment to my Christmas.
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Seeing as Catherine and I finally bought our own house and it looks like we might be staying here for much longer than we have ever stayed anywhere else, we are looking at options for home networking, our current solution involves a 802.11b Wireless Network for laptop connectivity and a cable for my PC, that has to be removed each night to close the living room door.
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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Looking at getting myself a new computer so I have come up with a setup which looks good, we will have to see if I can afford it however.
1x Abit AN8 SLi nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) £102.17
Reasons: SATAII RAID for future proofing, SLI for future expansion
1x ThermalRight XP-120 £39.89
Reasons: Never faulted previous models
1x Vantec SF12025L Stealth 120mm fan £9.34
Reasons: Quiet yet fairly high (59) CFM
1x AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) £149.17
Reasons: Good “bang for your buck”
2x Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200C2PT £187.88
Reasons: 2GB for MMOGs, overclockable
1x Lian-Li PC-60 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case £93.94
Reasons: Looks Good (dumb reason)
1x Tagan TG430-U15 430W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU £56.34
Reasons: Pleanty of power for future proofing, detachable cables
1x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 NCQ 160GB ST3160827AS SATA 8MB Cache £62.22
Reasons: Seagate’s quiet and fast in my experence, NCQ
1x Leadtek WinFast GeForce 6800 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI £146.82
Reasons: Good “bang for your buck”
Total: £847.77
Any comments appreciated
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
I am listening to the BBC Radio 5 Live feeds from the house of commons about the London Transport Blasts, it seems very little is known a unknown islamic group seems to of claimed responsability for the blasts however no one is sure if they can be beleived.
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
Excited dosn’t even begin to explain how I am feeling about the climax of the current series of Dr. Who; I am not going to be able to watch it on the night so that is going to get to me even more knowing that I am going to have to wait an extra day to see the end of the series.
The thought that this episode explains how Christopher Eccleston comes to an end as The Doctor? how the Daleks managed to survive the time war? are the time lords still in existance? Aaagh so many questions.
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