Spent the best part of tonight fixing my website.
Don’t know why it was broken, but it was. Cleared all the themes out, reloaded them and eventually got it working again.
Phew!
Well it’s working again now and as an added bonus I’ve added a user tracking doo-hickey too! Get in!
How’s this for a slice of fried gold?
The song’s off Boards Of Canada’s first proper album Music Has The Right To Children, and it’s a stonker.
I was introduced to this song by Scott Sinfield of Portal fame, an ex-housemate of mine. It came to me on MiniDisc, ah MiniDisc I miss your highly compressed 74 minutes.
Here it is, the best idea to ever hit the pre-packaged fast food market. Aimed squarely at kids, ladies and gentlemen I present to you…
funions!™
Pronounced ‘fun-yuns’, funions!™ are a tasty snack pack of eight miniature pickled onions, are sold in a resealable little package and are great value.
Cracking idea, huh?
Went to see Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix with ‘The Wife’ tonight. Reasonable movie with a fairly astounding magic fight at the end. Daniel Radcliffe is still a little wooden and Gary Oldman was acting (as in actual acting) fairly strangely, like he’d been had by the Hypno-Toad.
I digress.
As we sat in our seat patiently waiting for the torture to begin, a family came in. Mum, dad and two children gently strolled past to their seats right at the side of the cinema. Of course the two kids had to have maximum Potter exposure so wanted to sit in the middle of the cinema where we were.
It was then I had the thought of offering them the seats beside us. As soon as the thought formed, I panicked.
Images flooded into my mind of the dad standing up and yelling ‘Paedo’ at me at the top of his voice. He’d follow this up by repeatedly punching me in the face. Whilst he was doing this his wife would be yelling ‘Kill him!’, at the point where she was just about to pass out from the exertion of her hysteria, she would spot the sweets we’d brought with us. This would renew her vigour.
‘They’ve got sweets, they’re grooming our children! They’re both paedophiles, kill them!’ she would yell. The rest of the cinema would then descend upon us.
Of course after the crowd had, justifiably, beaten us to death, the police would come to our house. There they would find:
This information would leak out to the press, with photos, and The Sun would run a full page headline ‘Suburban Kiddy Lure Hell Death House’, or similar. They would run this piece over eight pages, there would be photos of us both. We would look evil.
So I didn’t say anything. Sad world really isn’t it…
Don’t you love E3? Ok, it’s a little less grand this year but all the cool shit still goes down there!
Not only do we get the new Halo 3 trailer (jeans creaming optional, thank you Leprekorn) and the Killzone 2 trailer but Sony have only just gone and released details of the new and improved PSP, the PSP Slim. Get in!
They’ve reduced the size making it smaller, thinner and lighter, increased its battery life and also appear to have rounded its edges a bit more. All this and it’s still got the same size screen!
The other great thing is that now it’s slot loading! Great stuff, much better than the MiniDisc style pop up loader it has currently, it always felt flimsy to me, like it was just about to snap off.
The rumour mill has of course gone in to hyperdrive, current speculation is that it’s going to have Bluetooth and maybe even 4Gb of internal flash memory! 4Gb built in would be very nice, though I’m not certain that it’s a guarantee yet.
This redesign is of course is very good news, the original PSP is shit to play for prolonged periods of time, it did have something of the brick about it . Hopefully this redesign may have cured some of those problems. I doubt it though, my main gripe was always that fucking analogue nubbin, which was as much use as a chocolate fire guard and it doesn’t appear to have moved.
Still one can always hope. You know I’m going to get one anyway…
Rachael Bell claimed her web page was hacked into by friends who posted an invitation to a ‘trash the average-sized family house disco party’.
Define hacked Rachael?
Hacked my arse, most likely you were too dim to realise the repercussions of what you were doing when you posted your party invite to MySpace in the first place. You did this, you alone.
The fact that after the event you, and everyone you know, has to pretend that some shadowy one armed man did it, just so your mum will be able to claim on her insurance, doesn’t change anything. You posted the invite and directions and you know it.
What’s more though, seemingly, Ms Bell left this reply on the Wednesday after at 12.38.
haaa i no was’nt in any other photo’s!! ekkk well i hope u liked the party ..was fuckin wild like!!!hmmm another lol???xx
Gosh, those MySpace hackers are really thorough aren’t they. Fucking liar.
The Church Of England’s recent attack on the PlayStation 3 game Resistance: Fall Of Man is without doubt a piece of band wagon jumping of the highest order.
In a time when the media is in a frenzy, desperate to pin every evil of society on video games, the Church Of England thinks it would be a good idea to complain about the use of Manchester Cathedral as a setting in the game. In fact they went as far as to say that it was virtual desecration and that it promoted gun crime in Manchester, how they quite worked that one out is beyond me. Regardless they then proceeded to insist Sony make a ’substantial donation’. Greedy fuckers.
Continue reading ‘Church Vs. Sony’
As anybody that knows me will attest, I’m massively into my games.
It all started when my dad bought me a second hand ZX Spectrum+ (proper keys and a reset button!) in the mid-eighties and snowballed from there, I’ve had practically every console ever made and love the whole scene to bits.
Currently under my telly sit a PlayStation 3, Xbox360, Wii, Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 and I don’t travel anywhere without my Nintendo DS Lite. I’m considering getting a PSP again, as they can link up with the PlayStation 3 and do all sorts of fancy stuff, but that’s a thought for another post it’s the DS aspect that’s cool.
I’ve had my interest piqued recently by DSpec, a ZX Spectrum emulator for the DS, it doesn’t work with my flash cart yet but when it does it’ll be pretty cool. Being able to play the classic games that started my love of gaming when I’m on the train, in bed or when I’m sitting have a coffee in Starbucks is going to be superb. Fantastic stuff this modern technology.
Little known L.A. band Dragster Barbie released one self-funded EP in 2000 and then promptly disappeared.
Demos, Live And Other was its title and it was a belter! The track below is the title track from said EP and it too was a complete cracker!
Listen to it and let me know what you think.
Was watching Orange Playlist the other night, Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters was on and it was great! That is if you can bear to watch a hugely talented individual being interviewed by a thick geordie.
While I was watching Mr Shears (not his real name one suspects) mentioned his love for David Bowie, this lead to a quick montage of Bowie moments, one of which bore the following subtitle.
Compass? Interesting concept, what happened there then? Was he concentrating on traveling North and ended up walking into something? Perhaps the magnetic field of the compass caused some kind of mutation? Or could it be that they’re just really fucking stupid and actually meant pair of compasses?
While we’re at it the phrase ‘enhanced by an unfortunate school accident’ makes no sense, for three reasons. Firstly it should read ‘unfortunate accident at school’ and secondly how can something be unfortunately enhanced, an enhancement suggests good fortune to me.
Finally the whole wonky eye business has been the basis of his look for his entire career, so it wasn’t that unfortunate anyway was it?
Former ‘glamour model’ Middlemiss clearly had a hand in this.
Could you imagine Christopher Walken ever selling you Skittles?
Or how about poor Dennis (and for that matter Hanson!).
I wish I could do a good Walken. Sigh.
Ok, looks like I’ve been co-opted. The stag do is now open to all my friends, ladies included. This means Kate can come, although one hopes after her last trip to Birmingham she will be better prepared for the rigours of The Lash.
Additionally the plan has once more also been revised. Slighty.
It’s Birmingham now. It’s still the 25th of August and the itinerary should hopefully go a little something like this:
Anybody like the sound of that plan?
‘Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That’s a lot of effort in a day.’. Ten points to that man.
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