May 12th, 2008
Been playing with this demo over the weekend and while I don’t play a huge number of driving games (mostly because I can’t find any I like) this game just has everything I want. Definitely a pre-order :) and for good measure he’s a vid of me winning in the BMW race with my extremely poor driving skills (bad line, cutting corners, hitting the odd car, etc etc…) Because I’m a tad lazy in the mornings you’ll have to have javascript enabled in the browser for this to work, but you can download it here if you want too (and it’s actually higher res then too).
April 1st, 2008
I’ve got a real loathing for wasps and I dare say a lot of other people have but I in particular hate them (in fact I’d go so far as to say I have a definite phobia of them (Spheksophobia). Just the sight of one or hearing that freakin’ scary buzzing noise is enough to send me running for the hills. So imagine my surprise when a month ago, I crawl under my desk to fix something in my PC case and lo-and-behold, there’s a wasp crawling around on the floor right in front of my face, needless to say I opened the window and ran for the hills.(well… downstairs)
That was pretty darn scary (for me), but now, just 15 minutes ago, another of the buggers starts buzzing against my window, I nearly fell off my chair spinning and legging it out the room…
I mean come on, what have I done to deserve this sort of treatment from dear old mother nature?
February 27th, 2008
Holy shit… It sounds absolutely crazy but not more than 30 minutes or so ago we had an earthquake… in Grimsby!? I’m watching the news now and it’s apparently nation wide but so far none of the reports seems to be quite as severe as what I experienced.
The house suddenly started shaking… books came out of my bookcase, clothes fell down in my wardrobe, bricks and slates were falling off roofs. And the noise… it’s the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.
Just down the street a car has been mangled by several pieces of bricks and debri sent tumbling off the roof and apparently there’s been some more severe structural damage in some places.
It’s just crazy…
Update
Here’s a few pictures from outside my house, they’re a bit blurry as it’s still 3am here and my camera isn’t that good but you can make out what’s happening. There’s quite a lot of structural damage down my street and I’m told in some other local areas it’s even worse.
January 15th, 2008
I wasn’t going to write anything but, it’s Macworld and I didn’t join in with the predictions so I may as well post a reaction!
Time Capsule
This is pretty much exactly what I wanted! I have an iMac and an old iBook G4 and it’s a pain having to switch the drive between systems. Having this all in one device is superb and it takes up less space than having a drive plugged into a router, since it’s all in one. So… thumbs up for that.
Apple TV + iTunes Move Rentals
This wasn’t a surprise thanks to all the articles that have been flying around the last week or so, but nonetheless it’s very welcome. I hate going to the cinema and I love consuming my media in digital format (I hate disks, hence why quite a few of my DVD’s are ripped to h264 and stored on a big drive!)
The AppleTV is suddenly worth the money(!) I was semi-tempted when it first came out but it didn’t quite offer enough so I lost interest in it. Now that I can buy music, video and movie rentals right on my TV it looks to be a perfect way to tie all of my media together in the living room. So needless to say I’ll be grabbing one of those later in the year!
Those were really the only two announcements that caught my eye. The MacBook air is nice, especially if you’re someone who travels a lot and no doubt it’s an impressive engineering feat. But it’s just not something I’m interested in currently. And I don’t have an iPhone/iPod Touch so I didn’t really pay any attention to that either.
All in all a great keynote, though I was hoping to get my hands on a 10.5.2 update (maybe it’ll come a bit later!)
January 5th, 2008
Recently, I had a bit of a disaster with Subversion. Unbeknown to me over the Christmas period my repository somehow “broke”, I was unable to retrieve any of my previous revisions and as a result all I was left with was some high experimental code I’d been working on in a branch on my local system. So basically I had lost pretty much everything.
I know what you’re thinking already, I should have had it backed up, I did, but unfortunately not knowing the time it went bad made restoration impossible (since I only have so many backups of my slice).
That’s how I came to try out Git and boy am I glad I did…
