Author: John

Paper Mario (Wii VC)

So I’m attempting to finish some games that kinda fell by the wayside after The Great Falling Out Of ’09, and Paper Mario came top of the list. One thing I discovered along the way is that Wii Virtual Console purchases aren’t tied to your Nintendo account, they’re tied to the hardware. This means that,

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A Conversation with Dave

Dave: I hate this f*cking place. Me: It’s a hell-hole. Dave: If Buffy came in here she’d turn around and walk straight back out. Me: Faith would get right in there though. Dave: Yeah. She’s…. dirty. Me: …..

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Finding Jesus in my soup

David stared into the bowl of soup where the face of Jesus had materialised and wondered why The Man looked so much like a serial killer. “I mean, if you’re the Son of God you can look like anyone, right?” The face widened its eyes a little, rivulets of Heinz Cream of Tomato streaming to

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Star Trek Online

Ok, so after spending a while playing World Of Walkcraft and watching it effectively kill the MMO, I was surprised at my interest being rekindled by the introduction of an MMO based in the Star Trek universe. So I gave it a go. I’ve only played for a few hours so far, but here’s my

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An email conversation with Scottish Hydro

7th January – Me Dear Scottish Hydro, please remove account numbers xxxx and yyyy from my online portfolio as they are not and never have been my accounts. 7th January – Scottish Hydro Thankyou for your email. In order to close down your account you will need to provide us with the following information, *The date

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The Holy Grail of .muttrc Colors

Well, folks, it’s taken me a bazillion and eleventy years to finally decide my “killer” Mutt colour scheme, but here it is. Stick this in your .muttrc and bask in the glory. color hdrdefault yellow black color quoted brightred black color signature magenta black color indicator brightwhite red color attachment black green color error red

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Top 5 Albums of 2009

For those of you who may be reading on facebook, you might be better popping over to http://www.nelefa.org to read this. If you’re already here – well, that’s alright then 🙂 Ok, so these weren’t all necessarily released in 2009, but some of them were. They’re albums that affected me in various ways throughout the

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A mini-update

For all you ipod / iphone / mobile users out there, I’ve installed a plugin which should make nelefa.org display a little more shinily on handheld devices – thanks to RedSmartie for the heads up.

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Eek!

Another year draws to a close and this one’s been a little odd. I guess if it was a Victorian children’s novel, chapter 2009 would be subtitled “In which many things long since dead were laid to rest and a surprising new door opens.” So, I’m forty next year. Not yet, but nearly. One thing

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