Archive for July, 2008
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Interesting sights in the past couple of months whilst commuting:
A lorry overturned on to its side on the roundabout, stopping all through traffic;
A car on its roof on a bypass early in the morning, with a police car stopping anyone driving in to it;
A car on fire on the motorway ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
In their latest newsletter, Thinkgeek highlights the Nintendo Wall Graphics product, which is a set of large vinyl stickers that can be reversibly applied to most walls to create scenes from either Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong. I have quite a soft spot for Super Mario Bros., having ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Last night I got my salvager on-line. After training the mechanic skill to level three, buying the skill book for the survey skill and training that to level three, then spending a cool 919,000 ISK for the salvaging skill book itself and training the first level, I was finally ready ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I wrote before about how the keymapping for screen grabs in EVE Online is locked but makes no sense for the Mac version. The only solution I found was a general hint simply referring to the in-built screen grab mechanism in OS X, which is to hit Cmd-Shift-3.
I already ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I find it amazing that a new, professional site has the following message on a main page:
Please ensure pop-up blockers are turned off for this domain.
People block pop-ups partly because of advertising abuse, but I imagine it's increasingly because the popularity of tabbed browsing allows the user control of the ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Penny Ibramovic, space cadet, has been happy dealing with the two agents in Perimeter so far. Quite how I got to Perimeter in the first place is not remembered, and probably simply the result of ending up there after the tutorial agent got bored with me. Despite having ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Company has a flexi-time policy that allows for extended and shortened days, but we all essentially still work on the basis of an eight hour day that includes a thirty minute lunch break.
As such, when someone outside of the department draws up a day's test plan for us to ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I resisted temptation no longer and subscribed to EVE Online over the weekend, after having enjoyed the two-week trial period. Even though I am already playing World of Warcraft and City of Villains I was drawn to being a space cadet and the skill-based system that EVE Online offers. ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Melmoth's keen websense tingled a few weeks back and he pointed me towards the Gelaskins website, which sells 'artist-designed removable skins' for various iPods, portable computers, and gaming devices.
I browsed through the iPod Touch section of the Gelaskin range, which offers a large variety of different skins. I quite ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Having not yet subscribed after my two-week trial with EVE Online I returned to the Rogue Isles, using Crossover Games to run City of Villains on my Mac. Having completed a set of missions I was looking for a change of scenery from Cap Au Diable, somewhere new to ...
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