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Gerald Ford Is Dead

I may be slightly late, but former president Gerald Ford has died aged 94. Now, I’m not one to pass up an opportunity to cheapen a death, so I’d like to share with you a video of an SNL sketch by Dana Carvey about the late Gerald Ford.Read More »Gerald Ford Is Dead

Spam Begone!

Just a small note to the effect that this blog has been weathering a fair spam storm over the past 10 days or so. It would appear from the range of IPs that someone with a nice big botnet is doing the spamming. May they die a painful death. My plan had been just to let them roll in (just about everything is moderated) and delete once every few days. However, after logging in one day and seeing that there was about fifteen hundred spams in two days, I had had enough!Read More »Spam Begone!

Crysis

  • Kenny 

In case you didn’t know, Crysis is to be the next game from Far Cry developers Crytek – using their new CryEngine2. Far Cry pushed the boundaries of what PCs were capable of when it was first released, and also managed to pack in a brilliant and open ended single player campaign as well as a (admittedly a bit uninspired) multiplayer system. Crysis looks like it will be doing the same thing again.

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More on the Battlefield 2142 “Spyware”

  • Kenny 

This has been a hot topic as of late, with most people seeing this as another EA money scam, others as a blatent invasion of piracy and a few don’t see the big deal. I have come across an article which explains the motives behind the ads and what they actually collect.

UPDATE: The official word from EA has also been posted where they confirm what has already been said.

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IE7 Released

  • Rob Hallam 

Just a quick post to let anyone who hasn’t heard know that IE 7 has officially been released as a public download after one and… Read More »IE7 Released