Twitter: first look According to their front page, Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Kind of sad, but I don’t have that many fiends, errr, friends, but I’ve still taken to Twitter […]
GA-EX58 Extreme review Thrice cursed upgrade this year, I tell ya’ On top of the thousands I spent upgrading my computer this year I got two more slaps in the face, one, well two from Gigabyte and one from Antec, adding yet another £125 to the cost. For a start, after waiting weeks for Dabs
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Online shopping hassles You wouldn’t believe the hassles I’ve had this past week to order parts for my latest upgrade. Credit crunch or no, I like to shop around for computer parts to get the best deal; after years of experience in the computer trade I have an aversion to paying full or even average
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World of Warcraft stole my life! Lots of fervour in the press about WoW lately, largely surrounding some Swedish teenager that put himself in hospital playing beyond the point of exhaustion. Tabloid headlines aside, it IS horrendously addictive for many, myself included. The headlines are just a wake up call for what is an insidiously
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Fable, The Lost Chapters. First look If you are thinking of buying this for the PC, be aware that the developers – Lionhead Studios and Microsoft – are clearly aware of a several problems*, many graphics related, and as yet, years later, still show no interest nor intention to fix them. That said, it is
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Warhammer Dawn of War II: first look This is only a first look and, I have to say – bearing in mind I’ve only played an hour or two – a rather negative overview of the latest Warhammer game. (Addenda: It did later grow on me, with better hardware to play it). For a start
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My wife passed puzzle this to me to solve and I thought I’d share: My life can me measured in hours. I serve by being devoured. Thin I am quick. Fat I am slow. Wind is my foe. Who or what am I? I said fire and got it wrong, you have a go.
Microsoft mess up This tickled me so I had to copy it here. I read it and sat here chuckling to myself as an executive manages the art of stating the bleedin’ obvious: Speaking at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, senior vice president for Windows Steven Sinofsky conceded that Vista had not
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