Archive for February, 2010

BioShock 2 : Review

As I sit here looking at my notes and eating my breakfast, I’m reminded that I don’t get to do this often. No, I’m not talking about guzzling down an early morning meal, I’m talking about writing a review for game that has only been released only very recently. It’s a cost cutting exercise, and [ READ MORE ]

Wanted: a new way of advertising on the web

I hate adverts. Even at the best of times, 95% of them are irritating, badly made and most importantly are not relevant to me. Today I visited a website to gain some information. Had I known how badly I was going to hate myself afterwards, I wouldn’t have bothered. To be honest, this particualr time [ READ MORE ]

Mom I did it, I passed my Internet Driving Test

This story grabbed my attention today. Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer is calling for the creation of something called the Internet Drivers License. Now, this isn’t and entirely new idea, it has been mentioned several times before. The real question is, whether it would actually have any benefit to the Internet as a whole. [ READ MORE ]

But I don’t wanna use my head….or do I?

  • February 3rd, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

All this talk of full body motion capture and second generation controllers sparked off a thought process yesterday. It happened as I was sat in my chair and picked up my PS3 controller to turn on a DVD. I mused briefly on what it would be like if the PS3 had full motion capabilities. I’d [ READ MORE ]

Booting ISO images with Grub2, among other things

The other day I bought myself, at the great expense of £12, an 8Gb USB stick. My idea was to try out several things. Create a persistent BackTrack Live CD Create an encrypted USB partition, for all my secret things Try booting ISO images using grub2 I feel that before I go any further, I [ READ MORE ]

Lamest phone stand in the world – but hey, it works

So in an effort to make the geekdeck recording sessions even easier I figured I’d need some kind of tripod or stand. Instead of shelling out for something in the shops, I went for the more “student” approach. Using two business cards stapled together, and a little bit extra for a cross brace, I fashioned [ READ MORE ]

Video Games inspiring new tactics

I saw this tweet today by our good friends “Wired” wired For years, the sophisticated play of pro teams trickled down to colleges & high schools. Videogames are reversing that. http://bit.ly/9GNpaB It piqued my interest and off I clicked to have a look. The article in question was discussing an incident that happened in an [ READ MORE ]

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