Michael S. Clark

I’ve just completed the transfer of all the websites I host to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. For as little as $0.25, you can set up web sites at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, the original home of only pay for what you use hosting. This is the penultimate service that this server provides as I have already transferred email to Google Mail [...]

Why does loading take so long between legs of the “Duel” events? It’s the same course and the same cars, so why does it feel like it loads everything all over again? Have they never heard of caching? </$0.02>

Why? Why do I have to be signed in to XBox Live to use a media codec? I was trying to watch a programme last night with was encoded using the ISO-MPEG4 compatible XviD codec, but I was having trouble signing in, so it wouldn’t let me. Why can’t they add it to a dashboard [...]

I’ve now successfully migrated my amalgamated my two existing servers to a single Windows Home Server, allowing me to host websites and clickonce applications and stream media to my XBox 360, all from a single box. The changes are listed below: Upgraded PHP to 5.3.0, which provided a few challenges, as it doesn’t support ISAPI [...]

There it was. A quiet, thoughtful moment, right in the midst of our rat-a-tat assault. There’s not much room for unnecessary thought during a drive-by shooting — aim and pull the trigger, aim and pull the trigger — but this one provided an odd moment of stillness and clarity. As time slowed to a crawl [...]

Here’s a crossover that I didn’t expect -  Ricky Gervais in GTA IV: One of the most anticipated games of the year has to be GTA IV, and will be a huge hit once it is released. The game has been written about to death now and we all assume we know all there is [...]

I came in this morning to be greeted with the following headline: Sony claims Wii and Xbox 360 overpriced and I thought I’ve got to have a read of this. Obviously, Ephraim is living in a tiny little world of his own. [Via: The Inquirer]

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

W00t! / phew. I’ve got a working XBox 360 and it’s great! I’ve just finished a marathon sess on Call of Duty 2. I was a bit worried though, as the XBox, which was a new one complete with protective wrapping on the IR receiver panel, gave the original E67 “there’s something wrong with the [...]

I phoned up Microsoft XBox Support yesterday to find out where my console was. The American-sounding chap on the other end of the phone told me it had been despatched from the service centre on Monday. “That’s funny, ” I said, “I got an email last time telling me that it was received ok” Nothing. [...]