Category: Wayback Retrieval
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MMORPGing
A few months back, a friend of mine (Hi Andy!) introduced me to City of Heroes. It’s a fairly interesting game, though I find the concept of shards of the world being wholly independent a bit restricting. If there are people all around the world playing, I’d like to be able to interact with them…
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So long and thanks for all the fish
This weekend, I decided it was about time to do some maintenance on my fish tank. The water hadn’t been changed for over a month, the gravel was a bit too full of decomposing bits, one of my fish had vanished while I was on vacation, and the plants were taking over the aquarium. So,…
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Mid-August roundup
Every few days, I take 5 – 10 minutes to ‘flip’ through BoingBoing and see what odd things are going on in the world. Everything from restaurants in Japan using chairs shaped like toilet bowls to an article on Sam Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb. It’s certainly an interesting read, and so much…
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Area contest time!
Avatar MUD is celebrating its 10th anniversary – complete with multiple HoGathons (it’s a MUD thing), area building quests and trivia contests! So, what does a bored Immortal do when the announcement about the area contest comes out? Write the core of a nifty little area in 2 hours. It draws some inspiration from the…
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Upgrading the house
For the past few weekends, I’ve been working on the house, with the help of my parents. The first room to go under the putty knife is the bathroom – we’ve ripped out the old, tired wooden panelling, patched multiple holes in the wall, given the radiator a nice coat of gloss white paint and…
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Avoiding the hoopla of an iPod
As mentioned previously, having played with an iPod, I’m quite impressed with where the technology is. However, I rarely jump into a new tech gadget without doing -some- research first, and man have I been doing research on portable media players. One of the better sites I’ve found (commercial wise) is Advanced MP3 Players. They…