Eve Online (PC)

Bah. I made the mistake of paying attention to something someone at work was talking about. He mentioned Eve Online and I though ‘oh, an MMO that seems to have slipped below my radar’. So, I had a look. It has a fourteen day free trial. ‘Oh well,’ I thought again, ‘nothing ventured nothing gained.’

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An Open Letter to Activision

Dear Activision, Recently, my ten year old son purchased Lionhead Studios’ ‘The Movies’. On attempting to install it, however, he discovered that the DVD drive in the computer he proudly assembled himself would not read the DVD. It reads all other DVDs just fine. He asked if I could try the disk in my computer

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The Corpse Bride

Why is it that the trinity of Danny Elfman, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp can do no wrong? Yet again, this is another triumph of cinema backed with a particularly beautiful soundtrack. The only downside is that Christopher Lee doesn’t get to sing, but we can’t have everything 🙂

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A general update

Ok, so the visa lodgement stuff is hard, complicated, and – well – tiresome. But there’s other practical stuff that needs to be done too. We’ve had quite a bit of change recently – I changed jobs at the beginning of this month and, because of the location of the office, I’ve been getting the

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Mario and Luigi (DS)

Seven hours and fifteen minutes in and I managed to rescue all the Yoshis. Hooray! It involved getting eaten by the big pink thing – which was deliberate, obviously. Ahem. Anyway, I ended up wandering about in its innards on a Yoshi hunt, before defeat0ring a big nasty boss beastie and then being part of

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Mario and Luigi – Partners in Time (DS)

Making some progress. I’m currently dotting around on Yoshi’s Island, following a traumatic experience where a big pink dinosaur had eaten all the Yoshis! Made a bit of a nob of myself but letting loose a cry of ‘no! Don’t eat the Yoshis, ye big stupid pink thing!’. On the bus. Got some strange looks.

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Panic! No Panic.

Well, had a brief moment of AAAAAAAARGHness yesterday. A bloke on a forum said that his migration agent had said that the class 136 visa had been deprioritised and the processing was running eight months behind. We’re on a category 138 visa which is quite similar but fortunately, our agent has reassured us it’s not

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Oops

Not been any updates for a few days now. I’m getting the bus into work these days, so you’d think I’d have plenty of time for gaming joy. Sadly not, though. Thing is, it’s been a very long time since I’ve got the bus anywhere at all, so it’s taking a wee while to get

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Not much happening

And it’s likely to stay this way for a while. Our sponsor has gone out and bought bunk beds for the boys and is busily getting their room ready! In the meantime, we’re really just sitting waiting for things to progress. The people who’re buying our house still haven’t signed the missives, so our solicitor

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Mario RPGs!

Well well, it’s a Mario RPG frenzy! I’ve been playing Paper Mario 2 on the GameCube and Mario and Luigi DS on the bus! They’re both very similar games although, surprisingly enough, it’s the DS version which has the deeper gameplay, certainly as far as combat moves are concerned. In fact, some of the chained

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