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Monthly Archives: January 2005
Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope [Revenge of the Sith parody]
SEQUENTIAL Pictures \ Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope [Revenge of the Sith parody] Courtesy of MrLithic, a quality parody of Star Wars – definitely worth a watch. mrBen
Doing the Samba
Well, this weekend I managed to do 3 things that I have never done before: create a software RAID, utilise Samba, and install Windows XP. The last version of Windows that I can recall actually installing was my Win95 upgrade. … Continue reading
Movie Review: The Punisher
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, got a wee bit carried away there… This is another comic book adaptation, this time focused on Marvel Comics’ “The Punisher”. It’s the story of Frank Castle, a FBI chap who loses his family to those pesky organised … Continue reading
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Future-proofing and other techie ranting
I’ve had a busy couple of days with computers, what with 2 machines going done in the space of 24 hours to mysterious symptoms. That, coupled with an interesting interview on The Linux Link Tech Show stimulated a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Linux, mrBen
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Anyone want to buy some comics?
…Because that’s what I might be selling in a few months time. I’ve had the idea in my head for a few years now that I’d like to set up my own comic shop and it’s only now that I’m … Continue reading
Posted in BigAl, Books & Comics
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New feature
I decided to be on the ‘cutting edge’ again and implemented a new feature into the blog. Gravatars are globally recognised avatars, where avatars are the little pictures that you have next to your name on forums and the like. … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, mrBen
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Review: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (part 1)
Given that I am coming into the last few levels of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RtCW) I thought I would begin my review of the game now, and then write the second part once it is done. For those of … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Games, Linux, mrBen
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All trained up
Well – I’ve had my fill of trains in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday night my train was delayed because of a points failure. It was bad enough that it was delayed, but what made it unbearable was the … Continue reading
Evil people
Unfortunately someone has taken it into their head to post _loads_ of spam links on the site via the ‘Trackback’ option, as well as normal comments. I am fairly sure that 99% of the comments are being caught, but as … Continue reading
BigAl’s Wide Wide World of Comics
So what’s happening on the comics front this year? Do you care? Do I? Well, of course. Apart from being an avid fan of all things comic-related I’m quite passionate about encouraging it in others. In Blighty it is an … Continue reading
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How the web has changed
In mid-1997 I took delivery of my first PC from a friend – a speedy 486, with 8MB RAM and a whopping 1MB Orchid graphics card. (Oh, and Windows 3.1) A couple of other friends, and a quick mail order, … Continue reading
Finally getting an answer
As many of you will know, I have been playing Enemy Territory for a few weeks now, and thoroughly enjoying it. So much so, that I decided I wanted a copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the single-player game upon … Continue reading
Some footballing thoughts
I reckon January 1st was national ‘Hand Ball’ day, given the number of controversial incidents involving hand ball during the days football. But, like the Murphys, I’m not bitter I thought it was high time I pontificated on one of … Continue reading
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