Friday 13th (1980)

1! One single Larry! I’m shocked, to say the least. This film stands up much better than I expected it to, and for some reason is a lot more entertaining than I remembered.

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Breath of Fire II (Wii Virtual Console)

Whenever anyone mentions RPGs (Japanese style, rather than, say, Neverwinter Knights) conversation rapidly moves to Final Fantasy. As a result there’s little or no talk about the other awesome RPG franchises on the SNES. Foremost of these is the Breath of Fire series. This goes for me as well – I hadn’t played a Breath

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Ubuntu media server – reprise.

OK, so some of you will remember this article where I was babbling on at great length about setting up a media center using mp3, jinzora, and so on. Well, I hit a small snag a bit down the line and thought I’d share the adventure with you lot. Basically, the problem is this: mpd

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

It’s unprecedented! OK, so I’ve just defeated what turns out to be the penultimate boss and it used irritating and unnecessary gaming cliche #1: The SuckySuck(tm). But hang on a minute – it was easily the best, funniest, and most entertaining boss battle in the game so far! Essentially, the bad guy warped to half

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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Well, I have to say that the Sky City is the most annoying Zelda dungeon I’ve ever done. Thankfully, though, it was pretty short and was saved by having a fun (if a bit easy) boss at the end. So, now I’m through the mirror and off on a rampage to hunt down the Big

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess

I think I’m on final approach now. After a mad scurry about the landscape finding random stuff, I arranged to have myself shot into the sky from a giant cannon and ended up in the Sky City / Castle / Whatever. In this place, I expect I’ll find a miniboss, a boss and the final

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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Rail services hit by festive work

Right. Now pay attention while I make something completely clear. It’s  not “The Festive Season”. Neither is it “The Holiday Season”. It’s CHRISTMAS. That’s right, CHRISTMAS. With the word CHRIST in it. If you don’t celebrate Christmas, well, then that’s a shame but we’re all entitled to our beliefs. Just as we are entitled to

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Legend of Zelda – Twilight Princess (Wii)

So, there’s not been much postage done lately (nothing to do with the postal strike, but more to do with not much playage being done). I have had a couple of wee goes of Twilight Princess, though. Despite being not as pretty as Wind Waker, I think it’s a pretty good contestant for Best Zelda

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