Month: February 2007

Came across a survey that was floating around the blogosphere, which attempts to challenge you to think about the tensions in your own personal life philosophy. It's pretty simplistic, and it doesn't seem to have been designed to tell you your beliefs are wrong or hypocritical so much as to make you think about the …

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Over the last few days, I've mostly been distracted by Armadillo Run, a fabulous little shareware game (Windows only... for now) somewhat reminiscent of The Incredible Machine. It's great fun, and the download is under 2MB, which makes it a reasonable download even if you're on a modem (who does that, these days?).

Each level challenges …

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As you might have seen, the new version of abnib went live this afternoon. Just so I don't keep getting the same comments over and over:


Right now, it's a little fixated on the PST time zone. I'm not sure why this is, but I'll fix this soon.


For …

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Last time Matt visited, he left his mobile phone charger. It wasn't all bad: it gave him an excuse to come back again.
This time, he left his razor and a can of deodorant. That's all we've found so far; but we're convinced that he's trying to move in by installments. This gives him …

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Wind conditions were better the second day, but not on Cairngorm, so we took a drive out to The Lecht where we were at least able to get some skiing in. We booked my sister's friend Jemma and Claire into ski school, which gave Jemma her "first time" taster and gave Claire the confidence …

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I'm posting this from my mobile phone from a youth hostel in Scotland. I'm sure you'll forgive me for any predictive-text-based typos!
Snow conditions are reasonable, but gale-force winds closed the mountain so we haven't actually managed to do any skiing yet. Instead we've spent today cantering about the countryside on horseback, firing …

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Claire and I are off to Scotland for a spot of skiing while there might still be some snow left. We're leaving tonight and we're back at the weekend (probably on Sunday). In the meantime, we're leaving The Cottage, Mario, and Luigi in the capable hands of Matt (Hat variety). We'll be in Preston Wednesday …

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I guess it makes me pretty much the geekiest person at Troma Night to have, when watching Daredevil, been pissed off mostly not by the shoddy acting or the over-obvious CGI or the physics-defying abilities of the sight-deprived... no; what ruined the film the most for me was that the main character was able to …

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Just a reminder about this weekend's events at The Cottage:
Poker Night / Geek Night
As already announced, Poker Night / Geek Night (at which you can either join the poker table or play the usual selection of geeky board games) is tonight at 7pm. I haven't a clue who to expect.
Troma Night
This …

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Thanks are due to my Mum, my Dad, and my Aunty Anne for the lovely birthday cards I've just received from them. Also to my mum for my birthday present (some Wii nunchucks), a christmas card, two forwarded letters from Nominet, and a copy of Hoodwinked. Additional thanks go to my dad for the two …

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This Friday (9th Febuary) there'll be a combined Poker Night (run by Claire) / Geek Night (run by me) event at The Cottage. We'll be kicking off at 7pm. I'm guessing (check with Claire) that the poker will be a pittance-stakes (pennies, maybe pounds) game of Texas Hold 'Em, tournament-style, with gradually increasing blinds: safe …

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