Grab it at ifcomp.org. And leave your BT client going while you play. By my count there are 44 games this year, and exactly half of them are Z-code games. The rest seem to be more split than usual between the other gaming systems, with TADS losing its 2nd place…
What's up with Weird Al?
OK. So I got the new Weird Al album from and I've been listening to it for a few days. This album is better than previous WA offerings, and some songs are really good, but there are some lingering niggles. First, the good. The lead track, White and Nerdy had…
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Thank $deity that's over for another year, and I missed it at work because I was on holiday. Quite apart from my dislike of the pirate meme, I think Edmund Blackadder said it best: “Yes it is” not “That it be”. You don't have to talk in that stupid voice…
RotateAVI
Your new digital camera takes great videos, right? And you have a nice 2GB flash/SD/whatever card in there so you can take plenty. But there’s one problem: you have lots of movies in portrait format, where you were holding the camera on its side, because after all that is how…
Flagrant System Error
I don't know what you did, moron, but you sure screwed everything up good. What's going on with Livejournal lately? I'm warning you now, LJ, if you go “Best viewed with Internet Explorer” I'm outta here.
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On this day in history…
27th August, 1883, 10:02am local time. This was when Krakatoa last erupted – and what an astonishing event it was. I'm currently reading Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded and it's a fascinating read. Allow me to share with you some quite astounding details of the event. The final explosion…
My CV, dateline 1995
Dug this up from an old CD archive. As strange as it looks these days, this document, a short cover letter and an hour's interview with Peter Molyneux (we talked about Isaac Asimov and Edward de Bono, ISTR) got me into the games industry. And yet my old CV is…
Line from a dream
“It shoots a chimp when they think [ ] are the bad guys.” I can't remember what word was in the [ ]. Do you have a good suggestion? AOAP.
Nausicaa Perfect Collection is complete
Having bought vols 2 & 3 at the local library book sale last week, I picked up vols 1 & 4 online from Amazon marketplace and Alibris. So now I have the full set.