Category Archives: Opinion

11/2009: Postscripts 19

I’ve just finished my November 2009 book – only a couple days late. I had chosen the latest edition of this unfortunately irregular anthology. I say “irregular” as since I’ve resubscribed the editions appear to be coming out less often – in fact I think there will only be three this year rather than four. [...]

raww.orgy 2008 report

On February 15th 2008, the fourth raww.orgy began. Pronounced “raw dot orgy” (in a similar fashion to my main website being pronounced “raw dot org”), it’s one of only two demoparties to take place in the United Kingdom, the other being the multi-format, and much larger Sundown. Prior to the first raww.orgy, which took place [...]

The perils of online translation

Here’s the thing – I don’t read Russian. Like many non-English languages, I simply don’t get it (if it were a programming language I’d have learned it in about a week). However being a ZX scener there are a lot of websites with news and comment in Russian (or a variation of it). So I [...]

Large Storage, uhm, storage

Ok, this is a bit of a techie article that will interest only a small handful of the people who view this site. Basically during an afternoon coffee-break (and a quick read of the WOS forums), I got to thinking about the influx of large capacity storage solutions for “old” computers such as the ZX [...]

Steamed – Vampire Bloodlines

Shortly after my hunt for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines in the shops (I like to have legitimate versions of games where possible), and having purchased a copy and started playing (I chose to go with the Malkavian clan, in case anyone cares), I now see that it’s been brought out on Steam, Valve’s content [...]

LanDisk Network Drives

The other day I was ambling around the local Maplin when I spotted something that I’d been considering getting for a little while – a NAS kit. For those not in the know, a NAS kit is an external hard drive that attaches to your network and acts as a standalone shared drive. Previously I [...]

Happy Birthday

Thanks to a blog-entry made by work-chum Ian over on his blog, I just checked and realised that my own blog is today 1 year old. My first post was on the 6th December 2005. A whole year… see, even on the ‘net I’m retro, what with most people having moved over to MySpace or [...]