As my reward for cooking and washing up throughout Debbie’s exam marking season, on Saturday I bought an Xbox 360. There are reviews of the 360 all over the place, so I’ll keep my first impressions brief.
I got the premium pack - with a hard drive and a wireless controller included. The Core alternative [...]
Coming in late September, this one’s looking smashing. Emboldened ones mean “John approves strongly”.
Air Supply - All Out of Love
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Anastasia - Left Outside Alone
Avril Lavigne - I’m With You
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall
Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your [...]
Since Debbie was occupied with exam marking on Saturday, and I was at a loose end, I strolled into town with Steve. In Boots, they had a pack of ten disposable cameras for £20. An idea popped into my head.
So, I’m going to clothe them all in printed paper wrappers, with my address, a [...]
Gary and I filled Gary’s car with consoles and controllers and stuff, and went down to Sony Stratford, Milton Keynes for a day of game playing with like-minded Internet people. Highlights included:
Two player Guitar Hero 2, with big speakers and a projector
Various Wii games on the projector, including 9 player survival mode Wario Ware
“Pacman [...]
Good idea, JC.
Twelve months, twelve questions. Answers can be found either in hartnup.net blog entries from the appropriate month, or from pages linked therein, or from vaguely tangential sources.
Email your answers to me — decoding the spamproofed address ten.puntrah@puntrah.nhoj can be considered a qualification stage.
All entries must be received by 5pm GMT [...]
Wow, this one’s going to make New Year’s Eve go with a bang!
“This Charming Man”, “Life on Mars”, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Daydream Believer”. Fantastic.
Aretha Franklin-Respect
Barry White-You’re The First, The Last, My Everything
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Blur-Parklife
David Bowie-Life On Mars?
Depeche Mode-Enjoy The Silence
Dusty Springfield-Son Of A Preacher Man
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong-Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
Elton [...]
Flickr begets community based games. For example, I know Ruth is a member of the “Guess Where London?” group, in which people post pictures of bits of London, and group members try to guess where they are.
My Bloglines search feed for Leamington alerted me that someone had posted a picture of Leamington onto Flickr [...]
Another Code: Two Memories — known in other countries as “Trace Memory” is another Nintendo DS game, which Paul bought and I borrowed.
My Mario Kart DS Badge - (Flickr user ukslim).
Have you been racing me? If your opponent was called →slim� and he had an orange Dreamcast badge like this one, then you were. I expect you beat me.
Subversive, huh?
I was in town, and I was supposed to be buying Debbie a birthday present — and I did — but while I was there I had a peek through Game’s pre-loved games basket, to see what was on offer, and I came away with a copy of Project Rub for the DS.
Known as [...]