I'm setting myself up for abuse simply by writing this, but I've just finished reading the Dune series of books, and I found the ending to be a real let-down.

There has been a fashion recently for games to offer moral choices, well in reality they have done this sort of thing for years but only recently has the trend become fashionably such that they make a big deal about it. I quite like being given the option and will often play the evil path because I am a sadistic bastard.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMPSON!

...well, maybe just a little bit...

I'm meeting Gill's parents tomorrow. Unfortunately the only thing that I can think about is that bloody Dr. Pepper advert.

A very important warning to anyone with an Asus board - particularly Baron, as I know it has the same "feature"

One of the selling points of recent Asus boards is the ability to put your own boot logo on. This sounded like a good idea at the time.

This is an explanation and a confession. For those that don't know, a Model View Controller is a software design pattern. It has there parts, a Model controls the data and logic, a View draws the data to the screen and a Controller links the two together.

About a month ago I swapped over to using GMail as my primary email account. I've been very impressed with it, as I've ad bad experiences with web-based email before.

Its time for an upgrade,

Last saturday I took delivery of:

many stuffs. [There's a whole gallery of pics of lumps of computer over there ;)]

Time to see what this chip can do...

Roadrunners again last night, and a fairly brutal set it was too, made all the harder by the wind and rain. We were doing 4 sets of 4 x 600m, with a pace increase in each set. By the end of it my legs were tightening up nicely, and my hobble was coming on a treat.

Nintendo have recently started doing their equivalent to xbox live arcade or playstation network which they have titled wii ware. They have of course been doing virtual console for ages or as I like to think of it selling our otherwise worthless back catalogue to people who may already own it.