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Lets talk about Saints Row the Third

2011-12-29T02:50:00.000Z

As I'm sitting here typing, I'm actually trying to convince myself that writing this blog post is more productive with my time than playing Saints Row the Third, and while no where near as entertaining, it can be quite nice to spit out onto electronic paper (if you've seen Blogger's new layout, then you'll know what I mean). Unfortunately, I'm actually battling with myself as I'd rather just play

Bulletstorm

2011-12-04T10:06:00.001Z

Bulletstorm is weird. If it was composed of it's central core gameplay element, which is the many ways you can kill someone, there would be literally no excuse for putting off getting this game. The many ways in which you can murder enemies is strangely satisfying and is basically a vital element for the player to get upgrades and ammo for their weapons - if the player performs more varied types

Doctor Who - Season 1

2011-11-21T20:33:00.001Z

A year ago I'd thought you were insane if you suggested I'd even manage to fully watch a whole episode of Doctor Who, let alone complete the entire series. Yet, here I am about to type away my thoughts of Season 1 of Doctor Who. It seems that being the working man makes you far less inactive than you were as a student, and as such, one needs to keep occupied. Well alrighty then... When I

So... L.A. Noire...

2011-09-21T22:25:00.002+01:00

I've just completed L.A. Noire, and while it is still fresh in my head, I just want to talk about it... Well... When I mean talk, I mean gush over it. The game is unbelievably good. Well... actually at times it isn't, but it is... OK... Let me dissect what I loved about this game, and what kinda irked me. First of all, for anyone who doesn't know L.A. Noire (and if you call yourself a gamer,

Sucky desktop environments

2011-08-15T19:52:00.000+01:00

Recently, Linus Torvalds voiced his opinion on GNOME 3. If you don’t know much about Linus Torvalds, he is, in short, the guy who invented the Linux kernel and open sourced it under the GPL license - which has made Linux what it is so far. He is also known for disliking GNOME as well, although when things went a bit belly up on KDE, he did move to GNOME. So when he announced his disdain for

New stuff about kreggsy

2011-07-18T20:02:00.001+01:00

Yes, I haven't forgotten this old chestnut, I've just been incredibly busy doing life things. Life things that will be divulged below:I've graduated! I got a BSc Computer Science degree with a 2:2! I'm ever so slightly miffed that I got a 2:2 as I know I could do better and get the 2:1. But regardless, I got a degree - I survived that bloody university, and if I could help it, I'd probably never

iCloud, Apple, Android... not this shit again

2011-06-24T04:51:00.001+01:00

I actually detest Apple. Not because they make overpriced crap products, yet get away with it because of their humongous marketing budget. No, funny enough, I understand people like different things, and often they completely differ from what I like (and Lord knows how many people have opinions that differ from me, sometimes I believe I'm not even human). But no - that isn't the reason. I

Portal 2, Mafia 2, something something new Android phone blah blah Social networking

2011-06-09T21:16:00.001+01:00

My brain is doing it's absolute best to not co-operate with me on telephone interview on Monday, which is a shame since I drank tea, so I'll be wide awake all night. And this isn't the first time my brain has been uncooperative with me, constantly persuading me that five hours of gaming the desktop gaming PC is acceptable once I've spent 15 minutes preparing myself to job hunt. In fact, after

Too many games :C

2011-05-29T13:46:00.000+01:00

My exams have finished, and before I had exams, I was looking forward to playing some games. Now, I don't want to play the majority of games I own because I have too many. 81 games to be precise. This does file under the category of first world problems. Not only that, but my brother was nice enough to buy me an Android phone and has given me his Xbox 360. Sadly, it isn't connected to the

Secret Diary of an Undergraduate Computer Scientst

2011-03-23T02:32:00.001Z

If I'm honest, it feels almost a lifetime since I've written anything on here. So it stuns my balls when I find out that my last post was exactly a month ago. Which was on Paul. A movie...... Let me reiterate that... If I'm honest, it feels almost a lifetime since I've written anything about myself on here. Ahhh yes. That's more like it. I wanted to talk about my own life as I move into the

Paul review

2011-02-24T00:54:00.000Z

Today I managed to see the film Paul, which features Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and that green alien dude, or as I call him, Seth Rogens. I'll be honest now, the film was, by a massive margin, much better than what I initially expected, but then again I took one look at the trailer and thought it was going to be shit. Well, it starts off badly, but makes up for it as you go along. By the end,

You got to love 3G technology...

2011-02-05T16:27:00.000Z

You do. I'm being deadly serious. You got to love 3G when it's being hailed as the prime technology aimed at streaming media that needs high bandwidth, and at its current state, it can barely load a simple fucking HTML webpage unless it's one "optimised" purely for the mobile handset. Yes, because we all know how much feature and functionality those fucking websites have. And goddamn, they got so

Stupid Steam, can has my monies

2010-12-27T15:54:00.001Z

I have to be quite honest, this year’s Christmas for me has to be the best Christmas I’ve ever had. I’ve had a nice Christmas day with lots of food and good entertainment (watched new DVDs and stuff), but I feel like I’ve ruined it by blowing £55 on Steam. Yes. You heard, £55. This wouldn’t be so bad if I bought them with the intention of playing them. Let me explain – I bought them knowingly I

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2010-12-18T01:32:00.001Z

I am such a nob. I was in the middle of watching Red Dwarf, which was playing off my external hard drive, when I felt thirsty. This is half 1 in the morning with the light turned off by the way. So I get up and walk to the door right across the USB cable that connects my external hard drive to my laptop. WHAM! The external hard drive falls onto the floor with such a massive impact that it woke

iPhones as an innovating gaming platform?

2010-12-13T00:31:00.003Z

I think last week I watched Yahtzee’s Zero Punctuation in which he was going on about how games are driven by innovation on the iPhone... hold on a second there, say what? The iPhone (or more generally, the smartphone) gaming market isn’t anywhere near innovative.Half of the games I see on smartphones started off as a flash game on Newgrounds/Kongregate website, like for example, the extremely

Time for a vent and my opinion of 3 films

2010-11-27T00:56:00.000Z

Since this month has basically been pretty shit, I feel like loosely glossing over/bitching about it, then I want to talk/bitch about some films I’ve seen recently. My life this month Warning: pretty gloomy stuff. So, my month so far has been utter shit, although when I think about it, it is kinda glorifying it a tad bit – i.e. venting. Long stuff cut short: My dad goes to Pakistan to go

What I think of Futurama, season 6!

2010-10-19T09:00:00.001+01:00

NOTE: For those of you who wanted to edit on my blog before, I completely forgot I added the Disqus commenting thing. I was going to mention about that, but then I thought of taking it off, and then I forgot to take it off. Whoops! Well, it is off anyways, let me know if you want it back and I’ll add it back with anonymous posting on so you can feel free to post anonymously to my blogs. I got rid

Me, my coding skills (or lack of it), and my retarded mistakes

2010-10-16T09:00:00.000+01:00

I often whinge at other people and other companies at their incompetence, but I’ve never really bothered ragging on about myself. It’s not because I believe I’m perfect (which, by the way, I am perfect), but mainly I don’t bother noticing my failures that much until they are so bad that I just prefer to not talk about the topic at hand, but I WILL CHANGE FOR THIS ONCE! The stupidity on my behalf

My thoughts on stupid gaming news

2010-09-23T01:19:00.000+01:00

I've been dying to talk about these things for quite a while, and well, due to being really ridiculously busy, I haven't had much of a chance to do so, and have been putting off blogging. However, now I'm a bit ill, and since I can't be arsed to do anything else, I'll write about gaming news that has amused me, all from Kotaku.First of all, Kotaku have published quite recently an article that

My adventure in using the E71

2010-08-31T22:52:00.001+01:00

If you've been reading my blog, you'll probably know I've been interested in my brother's Nokia E71 for quite some time, and that, to be quite frank, I'm getting a bit fed up of these modern phones trying to dumb down every fucking thing on their phones all at the expense so their users can use their phone... which is fine, but when half of the decent functionality has been thrown out of the

‘Bad Boys I and II review’, or ‘How Bad Boys II needs to die in a fire’

2010-08-23T02:07:00.002+01:00

My parents have been obsessed… no, that’s putting it too lightly… hmm, no matter how I seem to pull it, it doesn’t seem to do it justice – my parents have become massively engrossed, like imagine the words “massively engrossed” in 10000 ft concrete with a steel core – about this news about two brothers in Sialkot, Pakistan who were massively tortured and brutally killed by a violent mob in front

Stupid smug ubuntu user

2010-08-14T01:26:00.001+01:00

It’s rarely that I get annoyed by Linux users, because I don’t try to find the time to piss myself off, but usually there are 3 main things guaranteed to piss me off as a Linux user: General assumptions that Linux is better without reason (yes, Linux is better than for some reasons, but it doesn’t wipe the floor with all OSes, and that’s coming from me who adores Linux)

This title contains the word “sulphur”

2010-08-08T14:41:00.001+01:00

If you know anyone who knows Top Gear on TV, I can safely say that 90% of these people will love Top Gear. For those of you who don’t know it, as of now, it is three old men pratting about in supercars and given challenges on “how hard can it be?”, such as “how hard can it be to build a caravan?” for example, leading to disastrous results. It never used to be like this, however. It used to be (as

Inception and HD/3D TVs

2010-08-03T01:46:00.001+01:00

Well bugger! For the first time, I’m sitting here dumbfounded and struggling to criticise what is possibly the best film I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Anyone who knows me will know my deep love for deep, complicated, and intelligent plots in my films with a liberal sprinkle of action; Terminator 2 is my best example of such a film since it deals with so many genres/points(?) in one sci-fi

Apple iPad, part deux!

2010-06-04T23:56:00.002+01:00

Today I had one of those days. You know, that day when everything just sucks balls? Yeah. Let me explain: I left an hour before my journey just to get to London on time. Upon a certain point of my journey, first train got cancelled and the second got delayed by 16 minutes. I was late by 5 minutes to this lecture. Which wouldn't be so bad if the lecture itself wasn't such a crock full of shit.

Avatar, and what I think

2010-05-29T02:39:00.000+01:00

I do believe that James Cameron is a brilliant director and script writer. This is the guy behind Terminator 1, Terminator 2, Aliens, and as much as I hate to say this, he was the guy who made Titanic. Now, I may not personally think Titanic is great in my opinion, I can accept the plot and the settings are pretty good, and it captures the drama of the Titanic pretty well. But Avatar... it isn't

Some new changes!

2010-05-29T02:09:00.000+01:00

OK, First some news - no you haven't gone nuts. I am actually going to give my opinions and rants on this blog from now on, regardless of topic. Before I had this idea that you guys only wanted to hear me rant on the techie world (which is probably partially true), and while that did many favours to my sanity in terms of technology, in every other area, I'm getting annoyed, and well, nobody seems

What's happening to smartphones?

2010-05-10T00:47:00.002+01:00

This afternoon, I was sitting there thinking to myself how cool it'd be if I managed to get my brother's E71 so I can finally keep myself bloody organised for once (lack of any real organisation is a massive flaw of mine), and so I was asking my brother if I could see the Wifi on the thing. Sure enough, he gave me the phone to play with, and at first it does feel awfully confusing to use at first

Today's Gaming Fail News

2010-03-29T12:46:00.008+01:00

I'm really annoyed with Sony at the moment, because they've decided to get rid of the Linux option in the PS3 after George Hotz managed to get lower level access to the PS3 via a variety of hacks, and because Mr Hotz released the information, this means pirates will use this means as a way to play pirated games on the PS3. So to stop piracy on the platform, Sony are closing that option. Now let

Apple iPad

2010-01-27T20:53:00.001Z

Has anyone seen the Apple iPad recently? If you haven't, then it's no wonder since it just got released this afternoon, and man, let me tell you - this is the one. This is the one that is the polished turd. This is the one that contains so much fail that it is even hard to comprehend. Of course, it will sell, as all Apple products will sell, since Apple has a retarded fanbase, but anyone with an

Conflicting thoughts

2010-01-23T15:08:00.002Z

I have to admit, I'm in a sort of weird mood - i.e. I have recently turned on things I used to like. Two examples are the Angry Video Game Nerd video episodes, and social networking sites. It's so weird, because it's not like I don't want to like those things, it's like I've outgrown them. Everybody has gone through this, even I have myself with the old Beano comics when I was younger when I

Apple, you cunts

2010-01-18T02:33:00.002Z

I hate Apple. I hate anything Apple, I hate everything Apple. I just hate Apple, no matter how hard I try to like them. Whether it is their shit products or their fucktarded policy of screwing the market with their stupid patents and keeping an iron fist up the sphincter of every developer, I just hate those bastards. And here's the thing; it's not like I want to hate Apple, nor do I want to

Happy new year everybody!!

2010-01-01T01:06:00.002Z

Sorry about the lack of posts, but I haven't thought of anything to really have a full deep rant about, so here goes my mini rant on last year: Dear God!! Trying to find "the perfect linux distro" for my laptop and for my computer was an absolute bitch! For my laptop, I needed something "Ubuntu-ish" without it being Ubuntu (don't ask why, university complications), and in the end, I found and

Google, Google, Google

2009-12-09T15:41:00.003Z

Oh Google, how I love your services. *Ahem* And also I love your products. Yes... Products... *cough* OK, let's start that again. Oh, Google, sometimes I love your products/services (not that service... o_O), but recently you have been letting me down. Allow me to explain. A long time ago, I was growing tiresome of Microsoft. I was 17; I was young, I had opinions, and goddammit, I wanted

RIP Modern Warfare 2 PC

2009-11-12T01:25:00.001Z

So if you've been following this blog, and indeed anywhere else on the internet, you'll know that Modern Warfare 2 is a pretty raw deal for PC gamers. In fact, I'm gonna go out and say Infinity Ward are doing pretty much all they can to alienate PC Gamers. But before I carry on, I will concede that if you have no interest in multiplayer gaming, almost none of this will affect you. Having said

Browser cockups

2009-11-10T13:56:00.001Z

Don't you love it when a browser cocks up? Especially when it cocks up on the website of the organisation which basically made the browser? But don't you just love it ten-thousand times more when it works much better on a competitors website? Maybe I am a true arsehole, but who cares, I found this far too amusing than what is considered healthy. So here we have BeSpin, Mozilla's take on a text

Fucking Java IDEs

2009-11-09T18:30:00.001Z

Whoever fucking made fucking Netbeans, fucking Eclipse, or any other fucking IDE should be fucking nailed to the fucking ceiling with a fucking nailgun and should be fucking left there to fucking bleed to death hanging on their fucking testicle or fall into a fucking pit of nails, which when the fucking idiot lands on the fucking pit of nails, shoud fucking snap shut on the fucker. OK, I feel

A stab at Apple again

2009-11-05T21:25:00.001Z

Since I am currently ill and generally feeling useless, I've decided to moan about something which is extremely old news. Yes! I'm talking about Apple products! The first one I want to whine about is the new iMacs. Why? Because although I hate Apple and the way they deal with things (i.e. keep everything a secret, and then announce it in the knowledge that their fan base will act with complete

What's the point of COD:MW2 for the PC?

2009-10-30T16:27:00.033Z

If you remember my last rant on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (COD:MW2), you'll remember me saying it is the most expensive game that will be released. It doesn't help that the franchise has a loyal fan base, a fan base which will see the game as a "must-have" purchase. Well, that's not the only issue I have with this godforsaken game. It seems like even the makers of the game, Infinity Ward,

Killing Floor mini-review

2009-10-24T02:00:00.003+01:00

I just played Killing Floor because 1. It's free for two days, and 2. It's the cheaper version of Left4Dead 1/2, but it's not as cheap as the Zombie Panic: Source mod for Half Life 2. I wanted to see where it would stack up, since I've played both, L4D quite briefly, but I still understand the gist of it and how it differs from anything ever offered in the playing field. First of all, let me

When gamers get the wrong end of the stick

2009-10-07T18:09:00.003+01:00

Tim Buckley is a person whose webcomic has the characteristics of Marmite - you either love it or you hate it. Despite the webcomic being quite popular among audiences, it has received a lot of stick from gamers and general webcomic artists. Mainly to do with the comic lacking in teh lulz department now, and partially to do with Tim Buckley's first ever webcomic mistake as a humour based webcomic

My god how technology has changed!

2009-09-28T02:38:00.004+01:00

Seriously, has anyone sat down and actually thought this through at the technological advancements so far? Allow me to explain my point. This was my very first website. Ever. The point? It was purely a server I used so I could avoid bringing in a floppy disk into secondary school. Secondary School in the UK is the school we go to between the age of 11-16 for anyone who doesn't live in the UK. At

Hello World!

2009-09-27T23:58:00.002+01:00

Hello World!! Yes, as you may have guessed, either from the title or Kregg's last post, this is the new guy posting! Some people call me Tj. Others call me, Tj. Having said that, I post as cncplyr. As this is my first post I guess I should say a bit about myself. Who am I?! Well, I'm a guy who does comp sci in uni, uses computers, does random programming, plays TF2, etc etc. Pretty much your

45 Posts! Woo!

2009-09-25T02:42:00.007+01:00

OK I have to be honest, this really isn't so much of a techie blog post as it is letting you guys know what's going on with my blog so far... OK, so as of now, you probably notice my blog undergoes plastic surgery every so often. First I had the black looking blog, but then I changed it to the white blog, and now after many changes, I've settled for this. One of the reasons being that I think it

Bad marketing and my thoughts on Metal Gear Solid

2009-09-23T15:09:00.007+01:00

First of all, I just want to say this: Microsoft, what the hell were you thinking?? I have no idea if this is Microsoft's own rick-rolling, but this has to be the worst idea for any sort of party... ever. Even as a geek myself, I would never go to a party knowing its existence is purely to celebrate the launch of an OS. I mean... how old do Microsoft think I am? 12? Talking about OSes and

Any game will do!

2009-09-21T12:25:00.012+01:00

Until quite some time ago, I had this stupid belief that old games would never be as good as their later counterparts. My reasoning behind this stupid prejudice was that the games were old, the controls may have been awkward to get around, and most importantly, the graphics would be terrible in comparison to the newer games. I could not have been more wrong. If we take the first part of my

Handheld games consoles

2009-09-15T18:16:00.011+01:00

(BTW, it helps to listen to this while reading the first two/three paragraphs) I have to admit, over the summer holiday, my room has grown a TV, two games consoles, and a set top box overnight right in front of my bed, making my room the best bachelor pad in the whole entire house. And naturally, over the summer holidays, since I have now got my very own consoles (yes, this summer, and no, they

*** Think before you do!

2009-09-14T23:34:00.006+01:00

*** Not technical-related. Might want to roll eyes over this post if you aren't interested on my opinions of the whole Kanye West/Taylor Swift whirlwind. I am pissed right now. Well, it's from the fact I've just read about the whole Kanye West/Taylor Swift fiasco that has happened at the MTV VMA awards. And for once, I actually give a damn about this sort of celebrity news. Not because it

Are Sony afraid of success?

2009-08-28T10:16:00.009+01:00

10 days ago, Sony offically announced what everyone who read Engadget by now were waiting for - the PS3 Slim is going to be up for sale. It was a nice moment for people like me who were thinking of investing in this potentially great console, but there was one thing at stake - one thing this new console had to deliver, and that was backwards PS2 support. So the console was announced, and sadly,

What is the point of smartphones?

2009-08-26T13:59:00.003+01:00

The more I think about smartphones, the more pointless they seem. Don't get me wrong, the idea of a mobile phone with full internet capabilities is an exciting idea, I mean - THE INTERNET... in YOUR POCKET!!!111 But in seriousness, it is a pretty sweet idea, and with more developers making apps for smartphones, the idea of smartphones gets better and better. But does anyone actually look at the

Firewalls and Antiviruses

2009-08-18T18:08:00.003+01:00

I was talking to a good friend of mine today when we both talked about two interesting topics; Antivirus software and Firewalls, and about why people would actually pay someone instead of using the internet to find answers instead. Lets talk about the first one, since it is quite an interesting topic: who actually still uses anti-virus software and firewalls? Well, for one, I don't. You may have

Blogging and microblogging

2009-08-06T02:06:00.007+01:00

If there was anything I'll probably miss if the internet died would be the abillity to share my thoughts on the internet, the abillity to share my opinions/views on any topic to a potential gigantic audience knowing that at least one person out there can relate to my views. This is why I blog. I have frustrations, I have views, and most importantly, I want to share them. I'd be lying if I said

Don't do it Activision! Don't make a dick move!

2009-07-27T23:09:00.004+01:00

I find it quite sad to announce that the higher bosses at Activision thought it would be a wise idea to charge an extra £10 for the new game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. When I say it like that, I can forgive people for not understanding the problem with this. The problem is now that the game will cost £55. Usually, the good games sell at about £45. To be quite honest, I feel even that is too

Piracy concerns can kill a game

2009-07-17T11:40:00.016+01:00

This morning I had managed to get hold of a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4 from The Pirate Bay. I must admit, after all these months, I was actually getting really curious about whether I wanted to give the game a spin, and eventually, caved into the voices in my head. What I had found out was simply Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PC is abmysall. Awful. A mutation. Don't get me wrong, it could have been

Google are releasing their own OS?

2009-07-09T13:55:00.007+01:00

I was (and still a bit, I have to admit) baffled yesterday when Google announced on their blog that they were going to release their OS - Google Chrome OS. I have to admit, I am quite annoyed at Google. Not for the reason that I think they will do a bad job - somehow I think they will do a fairly good job - it's just that they can either end up doing a fantastic job (like Google Mail), or they

Memory cards are bullshit

2009-06-28T09:03:00.008+01:00

As it stands now, I am officially sick and tired of the way we have a memory card implementation. So far, it's like this: every manufacturer has their own memory card favourite, and unless you buy from the same manufacturer, and then there are different types of memory cards off that flash card. Lets take for example the MicroSD, in which I only bought this bastard to get it to work on my R4DS.

2 reviews since I am bored senseless

2009-05-20T13:08:00.011+01:00

Since I am bored up to the nucleus in my brain cells, I'm going to "review" about two programs I've been using. One I've been using for about over 2 weeks, and one barely 2 minutes. The first one is Spotify, and the second one is the Flock browser. First of all, I'll give you some insight into Spotify. Spotify is basically a p2p music streaming program with the plus points of it giving you

Sigh Society has hit a new low...

2009-04-26T00:01:00.012+01:00

I just read this BBC Tech News story now, and I'm absolutely stunned. What the fuck?? A Baby Shaking game? On the iPhone, utilizing the motherfucking accelerometer?? People are just fucked up. I've also seen the Guardian news and other blogs as such about this story, and you end up seeing two types of comments on any article/blog about this news: Ones who actually realise the distasteful nature

Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak

2009-04-21T22:21:00.009+01:00

Now usually I don't post anything that isn't techie stuff so to speak, but this video caught my eye whilst I was watching TV (a very rare occasion for me to do so). The video itself... it's so strange to actually describe it... it's like the Quicktime developers were having an acid trip and decided to listen to Kanye West on iTunes. If you are thinking that the video conversion is bad, just hold

Woo! The iPhone 3.0 software has copy + paste!!!

2009-04-04T01:10:00.003+01:00

Welcome to 8 years ago, MacTards.

Laptop Hunters

2009-04-01T14:06:00.003+01:00

How many of you have seen this video? How many of you knew it existed? Three days ago, I was the one saying no, until I saw this comic by Joy of Tech: Understandably, I had to check out this video just to see why it warranted such a bitter comic, and when I saw the ad, I saw a very cleverly done advertisement which Microsoft should have done ages ago. Cut the bullshit with those Gates and

Technophobes

2009-03-24T00:26:00.003Z

I cannot understand it. I really fucking cannot understand it. Why, in this day and age, do we still have people so fucking resilient to change?? WHY?? It's really starting to piss me off. Seriously, I mean, why can't these people stop thinking about themselves and actually think about other people who'd benefit from the change. If you don't know what I'm on about, then you're very likely one of

Worm in the Apple

2009-03-15T19:13:00.001Z

I have this relationship with Apple. It's quite complex... actually, that's a bold face lie. It's a simple relationship - I don't buy their products, and they can fart in their cage, flinging poo at other manufacturers, and boasting how their poo is far better than everyone elses. But every so often, Apple actually releases new products, and then I actually go to their website to see what new

Windows 7

2009-01-17T20:43:00.004Z

Sorry about the delay, but the show must go on. Since I've installed Windows 7, I've got the following things to say about it: The UI is OK. Not great. I don't really like the taskbar, but it isn't really the worst thing I've seen in an OS. I just don't like how they completely ripped off Mac OS X's idea. Other than that, there are some few UI tweaks here and there which makes 7 that bit more

Facebook vs Mothers

2009-01-09T13:30:00.002Z

First of all, Happy new year everyone. Yes it is late, but then when am I ever on time... ;) While I am waiting for Windows 7 to appear as a download from Microsoft, I cannot help but notice one of the most stupidest tech news of 2009. Get this: Facebook is getting an uproar from mothers who have had their breastfeeding pictures removed from Facebook because Facebook deemed the pictures so

When User Interfaces go wrong

2008-12-09T16:16:00.002Z

Just recently spyware has attacked my sister's computer, rendering it useless to use for the internet. And since I know my bits from my bytes, and I cannot live 5 minutes without the internet my family and I decided that I would be the heroic (?) person to resuscitate the laptop (no, not literally). So I do the usual - download a couple of antispyware tools, scan the bugger for viruses and

Is open source software == good quality software?

2008-11-19T23:17:00.004Z

I live, breathe, support (and probably shit) open source software. I love free stuff. Who doesn't, right? And when software that is open source software is produced, you can safely assume that most of the time it will be produced to quite a high standard. Well, most of the time... And when I mean high standards, I mean it's good enough that it does something that you would not think the

China vs Microsoft

2008-11-19T23:17:00.003Z

Now do you remember last post I had a good rant over how a few minority Chinese people can get their knickers in a twist suddenly when Microsoft impose new pirate prevention software on their OSes in which these minority have the pirated versions installed on their computer. Admittedly, this has made me think that maybe there are two sides of the coin, and I’m just being ignorant looking at

Microsoft vs China

2008-10-23T17:48:00.001+01:00

I just saw this news today that some people in China (note I say some - I don't believe all or the majority of users really give a toss. Even if it may be the case that the majority of Chinese people who use a pirated version of Vista, but I like to think that humanity is really better than this) dislike the way Microsoft anti-piracy tool behaves when it catches a fake. The new WGA tool,

Machoist coders

2008-10-18T23:05:00.001+01:00

Since I am a newbie programmer (newbie, not n00bie, kthx!!11), I tend to want to know as many programming languages as possible. I have my reasons (which I will explain), but for the life of me, I cannot understand those coders who solely place all their faith in one programming language, and continuously bash the others. I honestly don't see the point. Now, I do visit a programming forum (which

Youtube: The Rant

2008-10-17T21:10:00.002+01:00

Now I know I have been delaying this for quite a while, but why? Was it because I was busy? Was it because I didn't really have any issues with YouTube? Is it because I have suddenly stopped laughing at LOLcats? Hell no. Man... I really don't want to talk about YouTube. YouTube is, in many ways a gift and a curse. When it's a gift, it's a Ferrarri. When it's a curse, it's HIV. I feel so awkward

The iPhone - So what?

2008-10-08T14:01:00.002+01:00

Ok, hold your horses. I'm not going to talk about the Youtube pillocks just yet... I want to have some inner peace for christ sakes! And for me to do that, I just want to express my views on the iPhone (specifically, the 3G version). First of all, I've heard all sorts of things like this phone is massively intuitive. No it isn't. The only reason why it seems like it is because it's a well

Youtube idiots rant on hiatus.

2008-09-29T23:16:00.001+01:00

I remember doing a rant about YouTube idiots before, but I want to attack a certain group of people - Fanboys on Youtube. That's like mixing coke with morphine. While I'll try to get some decent examples, let me keep you entertained with my edit of one XKCD comic. The reason why I made a minor edit is because I simply believed that XKCD made the YouTube commenter(s) in the 4th panel too clever

Angry Video Game Review Nerd

2008-09-24T22:32:00.001+01:00

Now it's becoming quite rare for something to irritate me, but now that I have ventured into the past of really bad games (from the plain irritating to the plain, downright disturbing), I tend to look on YouTube for gameplay videos and reviews. Seems reasonable, right? It would be if amateurs took a lesson or two on how to make a decent review. Honestly. Here are the most irritating things that

Give me the definition of HDTV

2008-09-01T01:53:00.001+01:00

I'm going to get major flak about this blog entry, I know, but who gives a monkeys. The only reason why you are here is to here me whinge and shriek like a tortured pig. So on with the show. I've had a good friend trying to wow me over online with his new HDTV. Even though I must admit I wasn't exactly kind about his new treat, but it's all the same thing: what is so bloody special about these

GTA IV on PC

2008-08-13T00:01:00.001+01:00

Hurrah! I am back! Sorry to those who have been patiently waiting for me to write another blog entry. The reason why I haven't made another post is because I've been frantically slashing my wrists like no-ones business over someone putting a vote in disliking my blog. It took me a long time (and some carbonated, caffeinated fizzy drinks) to gain the strength to come back here. I've never felt so

Browser wars and the browser's fanboys

2008-07-14T00:03:00.001+01:00

This topic is a hot button to push, simply because there are a few browsers out there, and not only that, there are the fanboys, and to be quite honest, it's pathetic that it has came to this - nerds online fighting over compiled code. At the end of the day, they are there to do one thing, and one thing only: render modern web pages. So why on earth are we having sites that moan about how crap

Why GTA IV got 10/10

2008-07-04T15:48:00.002+01:00

WARNING: Bad language and bad temper ahead. Read at your own risk. If you are like me, have played GTA IV, and ever thought to yourself "Now why did GTA IV get 10/10? I mean sure, it's a brilliant game and all, but it's far from perfect," now here is the answer. Let me repeat this one more time, I like GTA IV. It's a good game, but far from fantastic. For me, the multiplayer wasn't exactly

Why I like Wikipedia

2008-06-30T12:42:00.001+01:00

I have been in enough forums that if I count how many forums I have been to, it would probably be more higher than my age. And the worrying thing is that that number is growing at a proportional rate to my age too. And one of the most common things I'm starting to see when I refer stuff from Wikipedia is people criticising Wikipedia as an untrusted source. Now I don't exactly blame these people

Dumbarse Mactards

2008-06-29T01:28:00.001+01:00

I was reading about Microsoft Works being released as an ad-supported version, and I couldn't help one pure and plain-obvious dumb-arse post. The news about Works being shipped with a sponsor version wasn't met with warm arms by one mactard - if you read the first post, you'll see what I mean. Then when you read the third post, it becomes more clearer than a pane of glass cleaned with a bottle of

My Linux doesn't works. So that must mean single Linux OS suck, naturally.

2008-06-22T21:50:00.001+01:00

No matter how much I try to avoid seeing posts like these, I always see them. What really broke the straw on the camel's back was this video on YouTube by a guy called DJ Wheat (1st of all, on the video, it sounds like he says "DJ Wii" and yet he is using a PS3... I won't say a word) who probably thought he was some hot-shot know-it-all when he downloaded an ISO from Linux without even installing

OMG PS3 is teh sux0r!1 No wai RROD ftl!!11 n00bz Wii pwnz all!!11

2008-06-20T12:08:00.002+01:00

Unless you've been living in some kind of cave that prevents you from hearing about the console wars (and might I add if you have been, please give me directions to this place. I'm sick and tired of this shit), you might have heard or be involved in how every single console fan boy is trying to strap themselves up with ammunition so they can pump hot lead insults into anybody that dares takes the

Desktop environment wars... for the love of God..

2008-06-20T11:47:00.001+01:00

I was talking to one of my colleagues today, and we were just discussing about the desktop environments on Linux. For those who wouldn't dare touch Linux with a 10 metre pole, Linux supports a various amount of desktop environments, like Explorer in Windows, or Cocoa in Mac OS X. These are all default desktop environments in Windows/Mac OS X and aren't likely to budge unless you try to hack up

Damn you Kubuntu!

2008-04-14T23:57:00.001+01:00

NOTE: This blog was made while Kubuntu was in Beta. I've only posted to comment on how I felt at the time. Right now, I am trying out the latest beta, and so far, my god does this OS feels awful. Right now I have a resolution of 1024x768 when I should be having the 1280x1024 one. I had the same problem with the Ubuntu beta, but shortly after installation when I booted into the desktop, it

Time for the Ubuntu users to act smug...

2008-04-01T16:54:00.001+01:00

If you checked my first blog, it was the same time last year. Also, I had a bit of a rant. Not today. If anyone ever met a MacTard that keeps throwing in your face that Mac OS X is much more advanced and much more secure than Vista, tell them to eat this security showdown report. For those who are lazy to read it, Mac OS X got hacked through their own browser (evidence that Safari really

C'mon! Let's give Vista a kicking^∞

2008-03-28T17:38:00.001Z

Watching the progress of Vista is now like watching George Bush - literally everyone is waiting for some kind of slip-up so they can kick Vista in the groin repeatedly. Mac fans have always been all over Windows products, always claiming how much better off they are than Windows fans, but now even potential future Window customers boycotting Vista, it seems to me like they've multiplied from

The iMactardsᵗᵐ

2008-02-22T22:23:00.001Z

Go on YouTube, go on any video (I really do mean this, any), and you'll see nothing but morons; The xkcd comic nicely illustrates this in one comic frame. There are dozens, and there will be further more as soon as people who moderate comments on forums, youtube, etc. will allow "free-speech". Since when did anyone have the right to give their opinions on the internet. Yes, you can talk on the

Arrgh! Live Messenger!

2007-08-01T13:56:00.001+01:00

Just as it's the 1st of August, I've decided to produce a rant post of my worst enemy: the Windows Live Messenger (WLM). If there was anything in the instant messenger world I wish would be different, I wish it would be the main instant messengers. Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo MSN Messenger, AIM (I admit, I've never used it, but seen a screenshot), them all. Horrible monstrosities just thriving