Archive for May, 2006

If This Is True…

Date May 25th, 2006 Comment No Comments

…then it’s pretty much game over. It seems that Sony is planning to adopt a licensing system that will mean gamers won’t own the PS3 titles that they’ve paid money for. Instead, they will only be purchasing the licence to play the game and that the software itself will still be Sony property – meaning [...]

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It Just Gets Better

Date May 23rd, 2006 Comment No Comments

In an interview with UK games industry weekly MCV, Macguire said: “The lower-end, 20GB version of [the] PlayStation 3 has no Wi-Fi, no HDMI and none of the other slots in it, so it’s really a question of where we would position it. It’s more likely that we will only launch the 60GB version.” [Via: [...]

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XBox Live Gamer Card

Date May 22nd, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

I’ve added my card to the bottom of this blog, as it’s the only place where it would fit.

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Windows System Reqs. 1990-2006: More For Less

Date May 21st, 2006 Comment No Comments

I read an interesting article on Yahoo! News regarding the ever changing system requirements of Windows since version 3.0 (the first semi-decent one) was released in 1990.

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PS3 Update

Date May 19th, 2006 Comment 3 Comments

Sony has officially announced the U.K. price of the Playstation 3 as £425, representing the fully featured PS3 which comes in at $599 in the U.S. and 599 EUR in Europe. [Via: Joystiq] From Google today: 599 U.S. dollars = 317.552881 British pounds 599 Euros = 405.737316 British pounds Looks like we get humped again. [...]

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Our First Anniversary

Date May 18th, 2006 Comment No Comments

…was today and is, of course, paper (take that any way you like; Racing Post, winning betting slip, etc.), so because Laura enjoyed it when she went with a few of the girls rom the Ladbrokes where she works, we decided to go to Perth Racecourse for the day. It was Ladies Day, and there [...]

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Do You Care if Your Website is W3C Compliant?

Date May 17th, 2006 Comment 3 Comments

“Do W3C standards hold any importance to anyone and if so, why? When you finish a website, do you run it to the validator to laugh and take bets, or do you e-mail the results to the office intern and tell him/her to get to work? Since Opera 9 is the only browser to pass [...]

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Sony & the PS3

Date May 16th, 2006 Comment 1 Comment

“Honestly, they’re asking for a lot with the PS3. $600 for a console is too much, and most of the people I know could honestly care about the additional features. It can play blu-ray? Great…except I can’t afford a TV that the movies will look good on, and I’m not too keen on replacing my [...]

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Time for a Change

Date May 14th, 2006 Comment 4 Comments

Recently we’ve been upgrading our customer’s web sites to WordPress. I’ve been looking around various theme sites looking for starting points which can then be customised to suit each customer’s needs. I started looking back at my own theme and decided it needed to be simplified so I plumped for the Umalas theme by Didats [...]

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Adoption of WordPress

Date May 11th, 2006 Comment No Comments

Our company, through some gentle but persistent persuasion has adopted WordPress as the standard for websites where the customer requires some degree of content management ability. It’s working out really well so far, so keep up the good work guys.

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