Neat video showing off characters from the 8-bit era. C64 and Nintendo fans will recognise some favourites! 1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of them. (via Justin and Retro Thing)
Games
Batman: Arkham Asylum reviews roll in
Oh yes, I remember well the original Batman The Movie game. Bloody good it was, even if I didn’t get that far in it. Amazing music to top it all off. I can still hear the first level beat in my head all these years later. I only played it on the C64 but the Zzap 64! screenshots of the Amiga version had me wishing I owned the more powerful 16 bit machine. Batman The Movie, C64 Batman The Movie, Amiga Actually, I remember seeing the flip screen Batman The Caped Crusader on someone’s Amstrad CPC 464 too but I […]
Web
Jelly pirates walk the plank
I can’t remember how I found this twitter account but Jelly SMS runs a jellysmspirates account listing people who are using a hacked copy of their software. A real time feed of people who are using a hacked copy of Jelly SMS for iPhone or iPod Touch If you use a hacked copy of their software you better watch out. Your info might be listed on that Twitter account! The important question for developers is, “Does it work?” Apparently it does. The developer has even seen increased sales and says, “For me, piracy seems to be a good thing!” I […]
Linux
Upgraded my Dell D630 to 4GB RAM
That was quick: Order placed with Crucial yesterday afternoon around 1.30pm for 2 sticks of 2GB RAM. UPS guy called this morning at 11.30am with RAM. Dell D630 laptop upgraded to 4GB RAM with the help of this tutorial. Only took about 20 minutes, although unscrewing and removing the keyboard was a bit nerve wrecking. Rebooted and found that Linux only found 3.5GB of the RAM but fixing that is simple: # apt-get install linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server Reboot and I see 4GB RAM. Should make running Firefox and Bibble Pro 5 a lot less painful. Both memory hogs. 4GB of […]
Web
How to avoid Amazon Wishlist headaches
If, like me you have an Amazon wishlist you may be missing out on wishes if you’re not careful selecting them. The wishlist is a great idea. Browse around Amazon picking items you like and add them to a public list that your friends and family can use to buy you gifts. The only problem is that Amazon won’t always deliver the goods, but you won’t know until someone tries to buy something for you. The first I knew about this problem was when someone sent me a tweet saying they got an error buying a game on my wishlist. […]
Games
Trials HD is Kickstart for the next generation
Fans of gaming in the 80’s will surely recognise the name Kickstart 2. It was a motorbike racing game, running over all sorts of obstacles. It was fiendishly difficult to control but very enjoyable. The tiny graphics animated well and even supported two players racing split screen. If you enjoyed that game you’ll love Trials HD. I played the demo of Trials HD on the Xbox 360 last night and couldn’t leave it alone until I finished the (unfortunately) short demo. Playing it involved plenty of crashes though, and it can be frustrating, but it’s fun, it’s pretty and it’s […]
WordPress
WordPress MU 2.8.4
WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com. Today’s WordPress MU release is 2.8.4, a security release that fixes an annoying bug that allowed any user to reset the admin password. Your password was never at risk however so it’s more an annoyance than anything else. Oh, thanks to everyone who tested the exploit on my blog. See? You didn’t get my password! 😛 Upgrade automatically from within your dashboard (first fix the upgrader if you haven’t updated to 2.8.3 yet), or download the new release from the […]
WordPress
WordPress MU 2.8.3
WordPress MU is a multi user or multi blog version of WordPress that is used to run sites like WordPress.com. WordPress MU 2.8.3 is a security and bugfix release based on the fixes in WordPress 2.8.3 but also contains many other changes. It’s a required upgrade for security reasons but also fixes a number of annoying bugs, especially #1067 and #1076. Unfortunately the automatic upgrader in MU 2.8.2 is broken but it’s simple to fix: Before upgrading, edit wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php and look for line 697. if ( !$wp_filesystem->copy($working_dir . ‘/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, $wp_dir . ‘wp-admin/includes/update-core.php’, true) ) { See the “/wordpress/wp-admin/includes” bit? Change […]
Ireland
Last Friday we stayed in a West Cork B&B
This weekend we stayed in “Aisling Heights”, a B&B in Clonakilty, County Cork while attending my cousins wedding in the area. It was my first time in a long time staying in a B&B but I think I may be back because it was a great place to stay. After ringing them, we were met in the town and guided back and helped with our bags. All the rooms in the house were immaculate and exquisitely decorated. As (bad) luck would have it I didn’t photograph the rooms themselves but check out the photos of the hallway and living room […]