Author: John

Chewbury’s Xbox – 6/7/2007

Chewbury showed up yesterday ready to dominate. Total gamer score stands at 120. He rallied Viva Piñata, Geometry Wars Evolved, as well as stared off into space… thinking about the one that got away.

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Chewbury’s Xbox – 6/6/2007

I heard someone tell Chewbury to go play outside and he was like ‘screw that!’ so we did some gaming. Our gamerscore is currently 120 points. He played Defender, Worms, Geometry Wars Evolved, Catan, and then he had to stop because we both couldn’t take it anymore… we were spent.

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Chewbury’s Xbox – 6/5/2007

I told Chewbury ‘Hey man, it is time to play games’ and for once he listened. Gamer score is 120. That is a profit of 55 points over last time! He rocked out to Hexic HD winning 1 achievement, DEAD RISING, Viva Piñata winning 2 achievements, Geometry Wars Evolved, and then he had to stop

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Chewbury’s Xbox – 6/4/2007

Chewbury showed up yesterday ready to dominate. Total gamer score stands at 65. That is a profit of 45 points over last time! He played Geometry Wars Evolved picking up 1 achievement, Jetpac Refuelled, Viva Piñata adding 1 achievement, DEAD RISING gaining 1 achievement, and then Chewbury had to stop for a bathroom break or

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Gone but not forgotten

Our old grey moggy passed away today. She’s been with us for near enough twenty years. She was a friendly, gentle cat who doted on the children, even when they yanked her tail. She was very cuddly, very affectionate and will be missed very much. She has a special place of her own now, between

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Message for you Sir!

At last, I’ve settled on a mail configuration that I like, blocks viruses, is fast and has outstanding spam filtering. There’s a few bits to it, but essentially, it works like this: Mail arrives on port 25 (port forwarded through my firewall) where ASSP is listening. ASSP is, on the surface, a bog standard SMTP

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Geek Girl in the making

My daughter has a teddy bear called “Socket”. It’s unclear where he’s an RJ11, RJ45 or – god forbid – a straightforward ball-joint socket. I’m trying to encourage her in the direction of RJ45, but only time will tell.

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KWorld promise you the double multimedia happiness!

There’s nothing I love more than badly translated manuals and websites, and the homepage of KWorld is the best example I’ve seen in ages. Apparently: Want to have high quality digital TV, but not be able to give up analog TV? Annoyed by your big and ugly IT hardware which can’t fit in your stylish?

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The Bridge to Terabithia

What an absolutely beautiful movie – right up to the point where it suddenly has the most miserable ending in movie history. I’m now thoroughly depressed. Bah.

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It had to happen.

Well, it always does really. I generally class the honeymoon period of a new job as the period of time between walking through the door for the first time and the moment where I type vi munge.pl. So, that halcyon period of belief that every single person around me has clue has ended horribly. A

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