Rugby

Posted on Mon 25 February 2008 in general

After sofa shopping we settled ourselves down for a nice afternoon of Rugby. We were joined by Mark, who had been abandoned by his wife for seats in the Stade de France, and Anne. The most impressive game was the Wales vs Italy one - there where tries a-plenty as the …


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The slow stiffling of the soul

Posted on Mon 25 February 2008 in general

The weekend has been full of many wondrous and varied things. However the main thing that stick in my mind have been sofa shopping, securing socrates, and the rugby.

We went out to DFS on Saturday morning and sat in a series of sofas trying to decide if they where …


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Impossible!

Posted on Fri 22 February 2008 in geek

So the government want to punish the ISP's if they don't do the impossible. The spokesman from ClaraNet on Today this morning (somewhere around here I think) was fairly direct in his rebuttal. It was apparently "impossible", even if is wasn't impossible technically it would be legally. Well technically it …


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Cute

Posted on Fri 22 February 2008 in general

There is something inherently heart warming about watching one of your favourite childhood movies being re-told by your favourite childhood toy.


Blu-Ray and CoD4

Posted on Tue 19 February 2008 in geek • Tagged with bluray, cod4, games, ps3

I see that Sony have "won" the battle for physical high definition media. Unfortunately since the last firmware update my Japanese PS3 has rather taken against playing Blu-ray discs. It does however play DivX files quite nicely (better than my ageing Cello DVD player). Given current trends I'm unlikely to …


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