Monthly Archives: June 2007

Doctor Who Season 3 Finale

I’ve deliberately stopped myself from commenting on this series of Who until the end.  And now that we’re here I’m struggling to find the right words to say about it. Poor.  Lacklustre.  Uninspired. Hmmm,  I’m in the right direction but … Continue reading

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It Is Finished

Back on May 8th I began my LugRadio listening marathon. Well – 49 days and 80 shows later, and I’m finished (apart from the to-be-released-on-Monday Season 4 Episode 22). It’s been an interesting experience, cramming it all in in such … Continue reading

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Cool things

Sometimes you come across a cool new thing, and you wonder whether or not everybody else already knows about them, but never bothered to say. Well – I’m going to say, but if you know about it already, keep quiet … Continue reading

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ET Redux!

A while ago, I used to play Enemy Territory a lot. It’s a great game, and I miss it at times. Me and some of the guys on the #lugradio IRC even setup a server to run every Sunday and … Continue reading

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Snowball

Well – having posted only 48 hours ago about my QuickURL, and thanks to lots of prompting and suggestions from the guys on the #lugradio IRC channel, I now have LinkPot.net, for all your URL shrinking needs! Finding a good, … Continue reading

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Myst: As good as I remember

I recently picked up Myst: The Collection for Ruthy and being a bit bored of Guild Wars the other night, I decided to indulge in some classic point-and-click. Sure, the graphics are dated and the gameplay is as straight-forward as … Continue reading

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Comments down

There’s a major problem with the table in the database which stores the comments. I’m working on it – apologies for the downtime.

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QuickURL (TM)

TinyURL is great. It’s a wonderful service that replaces a really, really long URL, with an itty-bitty URL. For those of us who live online in IM, IRC and forums, it makes life a lot easier. But. (There’s always a … Continue reading

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Galaxy Galaxy

A good proportion of you will be reading this site via a webpage that is powered by the Planet Planet aggregation software. Now, I’m told that Planet Venus is a better aggregator, but I have no real plans to change. … Continue reading

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To all you Django people

OK – if you’re not into Django (the Python webframework), or you don’t know know anyone who does, look away now. Otherwise, I really need your help. Hell – even if you know nothing about Django, but know some database … Continue reading

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The Jeremy Kyle Show

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! BigAl

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Geek Career Choices

I suspect that I am a good few years later than most people in arriving at this point, but I hope that I’m not the only one who has struggled to make the decision: admin or dev? Do I turn … Continue reading

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Don’t Listen Alone

LugRadio Live 2007: be there! Following on from their first video, Freedom March, the LugRadio team have released this second promotional, “viral” video, which is a bit less serious Enjoy. mrBen

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Dreamblade vs. D&D

A rare gaming geek post here… Can anyone tell me what the fundamental difference is between Dreamblade and the Dungeons and Dragons miniatures game?  Or are Wizards of the Coast, the makers of both games, conning the kids by producing … Continue reading

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Scotland ranked ‘worst small country’

I pissed myself laughing when I saw this headline on an article in The Register this morning. Finally we’ve been found out. The BBC News site has more about it here. They use the same headline. Excellent! BigAl

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Freedom March

In what is, frankly, a surprisingly sober and thought provoking video, “Freedom March”, the 4 large gents of LugRadio have announced that the registrations for LugRadio Live are open here. You should be coming, really. (Ya Rly) mrBen

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Urgent appeal

This is kind of urgent. I inadvertently watched some Lorraine Kelly on GMTV this morning and I seem to have reacted by plunging a knife into my eye. Could anyone come round here as soon as possible as I’m losing … Continue reading

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Live in the US?

Then go out and buy a Dell, with Ubuntu preinstalled. (OK – I realise that this is not particularly new news, but there you go.) Currently they haven’t released these in the UK – part of me hopes they do, … Continue reading

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