Every Sunday, I get retro. I boot up some emulators (or even the real thing if time allows) and replay some of the more obscure games of yesteryear. Transformers (1986, Ocean) When I was younger, I was obsessed with Transformers. I watched the cartoon, had a lot of the toys, even the sticker album with […]
My first brush with trouble from using the Internet came in the winter of 1995. I was a 15 year old student and, arriving home from school, found my mother and father brandishing an official-looking letter, barely able to contain their shock. My father bellowed “You’d better have a good explanation for this!” as I […]
This is the first in a series of stories that highlight new world concerns but in an olde world setting. Kwumbo entered the ring of light, his huge muscles accentuated in the glow of the fire. He frowned at the assembled tribe. “Where is Majeka?” The shamen stood on the other side of the flames, […]
Retro Sunday Every Sunday, I get retro. I boot up some emulators (or even the real thing if time allows) and replay some of the more obscure games of yesteryear. Zoids (1985, Martech Games) Zoids were an embarrassingly transparent attempt to tick a lot of boxes in a single toy – wind-up robot dinosaurs with […]
Every Sunday, I get retro. I boot up some emulators (or even the real thing if time permits) and replay some of the more obscure games of yesteryear. Shackled (1986, Data East) Shackled can be considered a dumbed-down version of Gauntlet; it’s the same viewpoint, is a multiplayer (although only two players compared to Gauntlet’s […]
I’m a believer in the paranormal. I think ghosts, psychics, ESP and so on are all related, but hard to prove using traditional sciences. I think it’s all to do with our brains and “soul” operating in the huge magnetic field of the earth, which captures the soul after death. There’s been some strange ghost […]
I’ve just come back from a two-day fiasco that is every IT department’s worst-case scenario; a data server crashing with 100% loss of files. If it wasn’t so serious, it’ll be funny. On Wednesday morning, I was about to leave the Bristol office to go […]
In this “End User” IT world, viruses are more feared than ever. People value their Facebook and Twitter accounts more than their bank accounts, meaning that a “hacked” FB account can cause some serious emotional pain to the victim. In industry, the boundary between corporate and personal machines and networks is blurring, with employees using […]
On November 28th 2009, my friend held a birthday party at Mangotsfield Rugby Club in Bristol. Since it was the weekend before Hallow’een, everyone dressed up in suitably “ghoulish” attire. I dressed as a jester for some reason, but I did grow an enormous jack o’ lantern and take with me as my vegetable plus […]
Procrastination, eh? Who’d get round to doing something about it? Strangely, me. And it’s not about being lazy. No, I am easily distracted. It’s not all my fault though; at work, I might be busy doing Thing A when someone asks me about Thing B. Since it’ll take 5 minutes, I help them with Thing […]
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