Authorization
21/04/2013
http://xkcd.com/1200/ I post xkcd far too often, but this one made me smile more than most π
my largest Ingress field to date
20/04/2013
Link established! Field established +4117 mind units & with the same click level’d up to 4
Ubuntu Gnome
20/04/2013
[rating:4] I’ve been using linux for quite a few years, and Ubuntu has been my main distro, gnome my favourite flavour. Like any relationship we’ve had our ups and downs. It didn’t start off well, setting up wi-fi was a nightmare in the early days, but then along came Unity. Now don’t get me wrong, Unity isn’t a game stopper, I’m using it now on 12.04 as I find it…
it’s football not soccer
15/04/2013
… that’s why the authoritative body is named FIFA [FΓ©dΓ©ration Internationale de Football Association] I haven’t played a footy game in years, think Konami‘s PES 4 was the last one that held my attention, mainly due to the league we had at lunchtime on an XBOX π Green Street Hooligans, was recommenced to me a while ago. A cool story of the two big London Firms, West Ham and Millwall,…
blister pack solution
14/04/2013
Genius, no more deep cuts for me when trying to open new toys, knew I’d heard of some safe method π
my battle against gillette
14/04/2013
For years I’ve had a grudge against gillette, I resent: payingΒ extraordinary princely sums for disposable razor blades! the reinvention of the razor every year or so with additional blades (front and back), plus the necessity for batteries! a really cool strip of aloe vera, that is washed / rubbed away before the end of the first shave I have tried several different options over the years to try and…
Ingress Portal Attack Simulator
11/04/2013
[rating:4] It does what it says on the tin π Wanna fantasise about taking down a local level 7 portal? This wonderful page, allows you to quantify the dream and help make it a reality. Plug in the resonator stats of a given portal, either individually, or using pre configured options, which are based on level maximums, or max levels across all resonators. i.e. 1 player level 6, all resos…
steam on ubuntu
10/04/2013
I’m shocked, you hear stories, how a steam console could be linux based. An then the day arrives when I can install Steam on Ubuntu. This is a game changer, lets hope the AMD graphic card support gets better
morning out motivated by ingress
07/04/2013
Don’t know if you noticed but I like games π One other ability I’ve been blessed with is a short attention span and to be guaranteed to be wow’d by the next pastime I’ve taken up… this weeks fascination in certainly Ingress. Taking advantage of the daylight saving adjustment and dragging my usually lethargic arse out of bed, to place down some resonators at a local Anglican,dual portal, Church. Puling…
Infintiy and beyond
06/04/2013
[rating:3] I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite on the PS3 over the past couple of days. A quality title, quick summary: Pro’s Having fun Elizabeth & the plot are quite engaging, well presented steam punk style, with good graphics & frame rate huge open levels Cons the battles are a bit same same an average AI side missions, but still linear I can still see myself playing through it to completion…
No Ingress invite?
04/04/2013
Neither has Hitler http://youtu.be/z_H1MZDDJoM
[rating:4] A kindly gent passed on to me an Ingress invite last night π I’m really stoked about it, and have had fun today hacking a few portals. I still think Ingress is one big fact finding tool for Google, although I’m just a tiny fish in a global pond, I’m still a little cautious… crazy eh? Ingress is an augmented reality massively multiplayer online video game created by NianticLabs@Google,…
favourite verticle scroller
02/04/2013
[rating:3] I have early memories of dropping 10p bits, the size of wagon wheels into old arcade machines as a child. before the days of Outrun or Afterburner, this was the dogs bollocks… although back then I doubt I knew what bollocks were & I’m sure I wasn’t au fe with The Sex Pistols. So today I found a PS3 remake of this nostalgic beauty. I doubted it would hold…
retro shoot-em ups
02/04/2013
[rating:3] I know I hadn’t always found R-Type as difficult as the Delta experience, & today I came across the predecessors R-Types (both 1 and 2!) So you can load in heaps of credits & then start the game, I like the arcade touch. The first thing that hit me was the siren noise, swear I’ve heard exactly the same on several phones at work π The game isn’t simple,…
games getting more difficult?
01/04/2013
Memory fading? I read a cool blog entry by Gerard Campbell: Game Junkie this week: Are games harder or is it just me? The focus of it being that he had to downscale the difficulty from normal to easy to complete the latest Bioshock instalment. I tried to procure a copy of the said game today, with no luck; I came back with another sniper shooter… but that’s a different…
Guardian fools Goggles
01/04/2013
Here’s the Guradian‘s yearly April fool. There have been some classic ones over the years, think the imagination has run a little dry? Or is it that people now look for them, that they seem obvious?