Nintendo announces the DS Lite. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata today announced Nintendo DS Lite, a slimmer version of the best-selling Nintendo DS.
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Quattro…
Barry tagged me, so…
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
- Convienience Store Clerk
- Working in a Call Centre
- Web Designer
- Project Manager/IMoM
Four movies I can watch over and over
- Chasing Amy
- Office Space
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Lord of the Rings
Four places I have lived
- Glasgow, Scotland
- London, England
- Cumming, GA
- Metro Atlanta (Marietta & Sandy Springs), GA
Four TV shows I love to watch
- Lost
- Family Guy
- Grey’s Anatomy
- My Name is Earl
Four places I have been on vacation
- Florence, Italy
- Oslo, Norway
- Boston, MA
- Orlando, FL
Four of my favourite dishes
- BBQ Chicken and Rice
- Jock & Jill’s Hot Buffalo Chicken Tenders
- Macaroni and Cheese
- Chicken Ramen
Four websites I visit daily
Four places I would rather be right now
- At Work (been unemployable for too long)
- With my wife doing somethig fun
- In a good bar with friends
- On my bike (need to get it fixed)
Four bloggers I am tagging
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Work In Progress
Welcome to version 9.0, which represents a dramatic shift in the way this blog runs…
Inspired from a few sources, it’s stripped down from all the frou-frou that caused so many hassles in previous versions… Where to begin?
The look/layout is a theme I call Nickell 0.1, it’s based around Jake Nickell’s site… Porting it to WordPress wasnt easy. Also, welcome back 800×600 viewers, no more vertical scrolling for you, and hello mobile users, you get your own version all together. The much ignored moblog is brought into the main area under the flickr banner. The archives gets a K2 inspired makeover and, yes, there are shades of Web 2.0 going on in a few places, I caved in…
Categories have gone (more or less) and will eventually be replaced by tags (99.999% of them to be done at a later date) as well as Technorati tagging (though, how long this will stay is debatable)… There are still categories, but they were only used to split this up into 3 distinct areas, so I now refer to them as sections rather than categories.
Other than that it’s business as usual…
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2 Years and 1 Day…
AKA: A Day In The Life Of…
I’ve now been living in this country for 2 years (and 1 day) now, and like last year, I thought I’d document this momentus day… This time on my cameraphone.
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Disney Buys Pixar
It’s a done deal, Disney buys Pixar in a deal worth $7.4 billion. As part of the deal, Steve Jobs will become a board member of Disney, and John Lasseter, the highly respected creative director at Pixar who had previously worked for Disney, will rejoin the House of Mouse as chief creative officer for the company’s combined animated studios and will also help oversee the design for new attractions at Disney theme parks.
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Ron Artest Traded to Sacramento Kings
Indiana Pacers Ron Artest has been traded to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Peja Stojakovic. It’s unofficial right now, but the Kings must be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of Artest. Peja, meanwhile, gets to fill the shoes of Reggie Miller…
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UPN and WB to Close Down
Warner Brothers and CBS Corp. announced plans Tuesday for the creation of a new broadcast television network, called CW, that would replace the WB and UPN networks in the fall of this year. How dumb is this? Where am I gonna get my Reba fix now? So many questions…
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A 360° of an Xbox 360 Game
A 360° panorama of an Xbox 360 screenshot. This is how game screenshots should look… If only more people would do the same.
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Friends to Return?
Seminal sitcom Friends is returning to television after each of its six stars agreed multi-million dollar deals to star in four one-hour specials. In a secret meeting before Christmas, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry reportedly agreed a $5M apiece deal with NBC bosses in Los Angeles and scriptwriters have already started penning lines for the four double episodes, which are due to air next year. So I guess final wasn’t exactly final afterall…
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Kobe Bryant Drops 81
Kobe Bryant drops 81 on the Toronto Raptors, the second highest scoring performance in NBA history. Depending on your point of view on Kobe it’s a fantastic individual performance or it’s proof he’s nothing but an egotistical ball hog who tries to shoot every shot for the Lakers…
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Home Made Video-On-Demand
It’s funny how one thing can lead to something completely different…
Tonight Robyn and I were watching Robots as it came in my Netflix queue, and as we were watching the special features up came a quick interview with Ewan McGregor much to Robyn’s delight, as it was, in her words, the first time she heard him in his Scottish accent… She diggs the accent I guess, I dunno. But I tell her she has had a copy of the Trainspotting DVD for at least 18 months… Put it on then, she says.
But as it was a copy on a DVD-R, it decided not to work, so then came an idea… A golden idea.
Find a way of ripping a DVD for TiVo to use…
Ahh TiVo, god bless TiVo… Is there nothing it can’t do?
So a quick search came up with this tutorial which basically says rip a DVD onto the hard drive, cut and paste the .vob file into the My TiVo Recordings Folder and rename it to *whatever*.mpg…
So using the tried and trusted guinea pig Serenity DVD I gave it a shot, and an hour later it was being transferred to TiVo by way of the TiVo desktop, sweet… So this got me thinking, if we really wanted to, we could buy a big enough hard drive, rip Netflix movies to it as and when they arrive and *boom* we got ourselves a little home made video-on-demand service.
I figure Serenity is an average length movie (1 hour 59 minutes) so it came out with a 4.3GB mpeg file, that would be like having around 100 movies, ready to go… All we’d need to do is start the transfer and wait 10 to 15 minutes so it can playback without pausing, can’t argue with that.
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Whale Spotted in London
Whale spotted in London. Seriously, a Northern Bottle Nosed Whale has found it’s way up the dirty Thames into Central London… How bizarre…
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More iTunes Meme Fun
As I’ve got nothing better to do in the time between now and Battlestar Galactica, I figured I’d steal this from Michael Hanscom.
- How many total songs?
5705 items (24.43GB) or 16 days, 16 hours, 9 minutes and 15 seconds… Though 26 of those items are vidoes (3.50GB) or 11 hours, 56 minutes and 32 seconds (I have the Family Guy movie and Serenity as part of theses
- Sort by song title – first and last?
First: ’74-’75 by The Connells off “Ring”
Last: Zoo Station (Live) by U2 off “Vertigo 2005: Live in Chicago” - Sort by time – shortest and longest?
Shortest: 0:03, Introduction to iTunes Originals by Ben Folds
Longest: (video) 1:59:01 for Serenity, (audiobook) 45:39 for No Cure For Cancer (single file) by Denis Leary, (music) 38:02 for Better Man by Oasis off “Heathen Chemistry” - Sort by Album – first and last?
First: (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory by Oasis
Last: Zooropa by U2 - Sort by Artist – first and last?
First: 10,000 Maniacs
Last: ZZ Top - Top five played songs?
1. Perfect Situation by Weezer off “Make Believe”
2. Flake (Live) by Jack Johnson off “Bushfire Fairytales”
3. The Big Payback by Bruce Springsteen off “The Essential Bruce Springsteen”
4. The Remedy (I Won’t Worry) (Live) by Jason Mraz off “Tonight, Not Again”
5. What I Like About You by Lillix - Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 39
Death: 58
Love: 266
You: 657
Home: 55
Boy: 172
Girl: 75
Feel free to imitate…
- How many total songs?
