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pumpkins and glory

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:37:58 +0000

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game addiction and music

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:08:32 +0000

I couldn’t help chuckling when I listened to Extralife’s podcast #141, listening to Scott Johnson tackle a potentially silly issue like game addiction. I mean, come on, game addiction: something a non-WoW player will never understand, I suppose â€“ though I did have this period way back when, spending almost two ...Continue

potty over harry potter

admin — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:13:53 +0000

I was planning on getting in line at 7.00am sharp in Carrefour, but I had other responsibilities (namely, pubbing of sorts) with a few pals. So it was at 5.00am yesterday that I thought I’d be able to get my copy of the seventh book in a month or two. I woke up twelve-ish and thought, why not give it a go? See if there’re still copie ...Continue

review: nikolai gogol’s shorts

admin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:44:45 +0000

I’ve been delaying this review for almost 8 months, now, mostly because I didn’t quite know what to say about this book.

I’ve always wanted a collection of stories by Gogol to call my own, ever since I read The Overcoat off a book I borrowed from a dear friend. I counted myself lucky, therefore, when I found a gre ...Continue

what would i major in, eh?

admin — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:25:09 +0000

Saw this quiz over at Alvin’s blog and thought I’d try it “after the fact”. Ha! This quiz sounds like one of those things you’d take to torture yourself over “what might have been..”! Heh heh.. but I’m happy to say my major is one of the top five picks.. ...Continue

review: silverfish new writing 6

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:02:54 +0000

I picked up this collection of short stories while hunting down hunting down appropriate English workbooks for a colleague. I was in a bookstore, so I was in a trance, almost. I spotted copies of the ‘Silverfish New Writing 6′ collection of short stories on a sparse shelf while looking through other bits of local fair, flipping throu ...Continue

Syed Akbar Ali’s ‘Malaysia and the Club of Doom’: first impressions

admin — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:08:10 +0000

I put off reading En Syed Akbar Ali’s second book, and when I did start reading, I found that I should’ve done it earlier. I’m about half-way through the book now, and I’ll start over again once I’m done reading it, just to let some ideas percolate a little. What’s brought me out to write my first impressions a ...Continue

being a game developer must really suck

admin — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:14:52 +0000

I say this after spending a few hours last night trawling through the Neverwinter Nights 2 forums. Iâ€™ve been following the development of this game for years, now, and Iâ€™m still waiting for my Amazon-bought copy to arrive safe and sound. In the meantime, wading through the forums is like wading through a hellacious mass of barely-st ...Continue

yes, minister..!

admin — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:34:35 +0000

Heh. Does anyone remember Sir Humphrey Appleby and the Rt. Honourable Jim Hacker, MP? A choice bit of dialogue from Season 3 of “Yes, Minister”:

Sir Humphrey: What’s the matter, Bernard?

Bernard: Oh, nothing really, Sir Humphrey.

Sir Humphrey: You look unhap ...Continue

my buggy setup, and going open source

admin — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:58:37 +0000

I’ve just installed OpenOffice after my disastrous run-in with the Autopatcher bundle of updates for WinXP. Which means, yes, I’ve had to bloody reinstall everything, and it’s taken me most of the afternoon and, as it turns out now, much of the night. Besides losing everything, I’ve lost all my previous documents as well.. ...Continue