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Entries from January 2007

Musical False Memories

January 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

The original Tomb Raider for the Playstation (that’s PS1 for the kids) was one of the few adventure type games I ever slogged all the way through to the end. In those days, Lara was a little light on the polygon count, but back then, I didn’t mind.
I listened to a lot of the orchestral [...]

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Tags: Gaming · Music

Praise be to God!

January 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Since I am too bloated with “chocolate, chocolate, chocolate” and a chocolate covered strawberry martini from Jane, let us turn to the Old Testament, and the Book of Job to see how God tests us.
A wonderful link pinched from Chapel Perlious.

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Tags: Funny · Videos

On the small screen, the very small screen

January 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

After poo-pooing the idea of watching video on an iPod, I finally changed my mind and was the lucky recipient of an 80GB iPod for my past birthday. With the help of Handbrake and iSquint, I can rip DVDs and torrented movie files of things that Conny View definition in a new window doesn’t want to watch and consume them [...]

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Tags: Culture · Gadgets · TV

Free inside

January 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

The genius marketing people at Microsoft have decided to try to promote the Xbox with some savvy cross-promotional campaigns. What better brand to work with than Kelloggs!
If you are lucky, you might just open your box of cereal and get a toy to introduce you the excitement and quality of Xbox gaming! Like one of [...]

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Tags: Gaming · Stupidity · Xbox

Interesting

January 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off

These days, if you are not getting at least 5% on your savings, you’re a sucker. For some time now we’ve split our savings among two of the big Internet savings banks: Emigrant Direct and HSBC.
Our first was Emigrant Direct. When we opened our account, their web site was pretty spartan, but really, what do [...]

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Tags: Money · Reviews