That could come in handy…
test post from mobile
Okay, I tried blogging from the mobile before, somewhat unsuccessfully. So I’m trying again from Vodafone Mail. Let’s see…
Update:
Hurrah! Free Moblogging is mine!
Resident Evil 4, Rodin and Gaiman
A chilled out weekend that began with a few hours of playing Resident Evil 4 on the PS2, acquired by trading in some of my older games that I don’t play anymore.
RE4 is slightly less horror and slightly more FPS than previous incarnations, but I think it does so well. The interface seems slicker, there’s less really annoying, pointless puzzles and more story. I’m actually interested in what happens next. So I can see myself keeping myself amused with this in the odd moments of spare time.
On Sunday penny and I went to see the Rodin exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which we enjoyed immensely. My favourite piece was the Burghers of Calais, rather than the more well-known piece, The Thinker.
Monday, yesterday, Penny had a busy day. She had her first introductory driving lesson, a preliminary to her intensive course starting soon, and then went in to London in the evening. The purpose of her visit was to go to see Neil Gaiman announce, talk about, read from and sign his new book, Fragile Things. Apparently she enjoyed it immensely.
Test post for new Blogger features
So I finally got converted to the Blogger Beta over the weekend. Hurrah!
So I’ve converted my template , which is now much easier to edit and move things around in (though the editor is still a bit, well… beta). And I’ve started tagging my posts and stuck a tag listing down the side. I wish they’d make it a tag cloud like in del.icio.us, rather than a list, which would save some page space.
And this test post is just to check the posting from Writely to the Blogger Beta.
Watch this space!
Update
Right… Writely does not support blogging to the Blogger Beta yet, which is a shame. It also still does not support the ‘rel’ tag in links for declaring them as embedded tags.
Posting from Blogger though is very, very much fast now. The dynamic posting means you don’t have to wait for HTML to be published, which is nice.
The Sony press release says it all rather concisely: ‘Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Announces New March 2007 date for European Launch of Playstation 3.”
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that it would revise the launch date of its Playstation 3 computer entertainment system in the PAL territories of Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa and Australasia from 17th November 2006, as previously announced to March 2007.
Bastards!!!
Update: Now they’re taking the piss:
Sony is to cut the Japanese cost of its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console by 20%.
The price for the North American and European launch will stay the same.
To be fair though, an XBOX 360 with the new HD-DVD add-on will cost exactly the same as the non-Japanese PS3. This is all just a tactic to try and stop MS garnering any significant chunk of the crucial JP market.
But still…
I want my PS3 now!
tag: ps3
Three Little Words
There are three words that, while individually bad, become truly awful when combined. In the right combination those three little words are the bane of any IT implimentation. What are those three little words that send shudders up my spine?
User
Acceptance
Testing.
May the gods have mercy on what remains of our blackened souls…
Well stone me… Actually don’t, but I am surprised.
When doing a random web search I was sent to this Belgium Gallery on europe-cities.com, where I found one of my pictures from my Flickr account! Second Antwerp photo down, nicely tagged with my moniker and a copyright symbol on the picture.
I seem to recall some months back giving permission for them to use my image as long as I was credited and it seems they’ve kept their promise.
It does raise a question though… Can you copyright something to a pseudonym?
Seek beer, will travel
Bryce has described the bulk of my weekend out west fairly well, but let me fill in the gaps.
Getting to Cheltenham from, well… anywhere, can be a bit time consuming and First Great Rippoff don’t seem to allow any discounts of any kind. I never thought I’d find my opinion of South West Trains improving! But eventually, after a three and a half hour journey from work to Cheltenham involving three changes, I made it to ‘Nam just after haf past four. This left just enough time to dump bag and head off on a trek in search of beer; a local pub crawl if you like. The main destination was the Rising Sun Hotel, up on the hill. Naturally, as it was a decent trek, we needed refreshment on the way. The last leg of the journey was through a field of (unworried) sheep but at the end the wedding party filled Hotel was worth it, particularly for the view from the beer garden at sunset. Annoyingly I once again didn’t have my camera with me, but this is the closest picture I can find of the view. On the way back, past more sheep, we of course just had time for two more pubs on the way home, before witnessing the return of the Overfiend.
Tewkesbury was nice on the Sunday, the meeting point of the Avon and the Severn and home to the Abbey. A very pleasant little town, though I did think the Olde Worlde pennants on all the shops were a bit pointless.
In the afternoon, it was into Cheltenham proper for a mooch around (pub crawl) which was much enjoyed. As opposed to my journey home. A bus driver with all the time in the world made me miss my train. I still made it home in good time, but I had to take a lot more connections and cruise a wave of later trains and dodgy connections to make it home. Quite stressful.
Penny’s computer, Albert, is coming together nicely. There’s still a lot of music to copy between computers and strip out the duplicates and there’s another couple of hardware and software tweaks to go, but he’s up and running. Soon I’ll be able to upgrade my computer, as soon as I decide whether to go the AGP or PCI Express route.
Anyway, although I started this post almost immediately after returning from Bryce’s, it’s now over a week and a half afterwards so I’m going to leave it there.