I just typed up a review of last weekend. Took me, oh more than 20 minutes. Hit save. ‘Sorry you have timed out. We have thrown your work away. Do not try the BACK button it will not work. Muhahahh’
BASTARDS!
Went looking for a fix to my housemate’s dicky playstation problem. We (he) bought a new widescreen TV last week and we plumbed it in. Everything’s fantastic except (a) his VCR is mono and (b) his playstation imports don’t work any more. They run, but the display is black-and-white and jumps up and down. A bit of fiddling got a bit of colour into it, but with big vertical blue and red bands down the screen, and still skipping.
Found a page advertising a ‘PSX RGB Scart’ lead for 6 quid… that could do it maybe… but he’s now talking about not bothering and just bringing the PS downstairs… looks like I might be on for picking up my GT3 career again where it left off!
A spot of web free-association from there reminded me that I have a once-beloved atari 2600 lying around with a dicky display driver. Found a few pages on modding them but nothing concrete yet. This will go on hold again for a long while I think. The fantasy is to fix it up, then build a TV into a coffee table and have it running tanks (combat) , with one joystick at either end of the table… It would be even better to do this 4 player but there we go. Might happen one day…
K so I changed my blog template. Lots of Microsoft Script errors from the server. Then I couldn’t “post & publish” cos there was nothing to post… Well here’s something to post. Confounded machines!
note to self: this may well be the thing I need to get myself a site up and running. Looks like I’ll have to redesign the home page at some point (not least because I’m still hosting Jen’s CV 9 months after we broke up :-)
Kay so that clearly works. Just read in the Grauniad how everybody’s doing this blogging thing and it’s revolutionised the web again. This time I thought I’d go with the revolution and see what it had to offer. Just as well I’m running IE on a windows box I guess. The blogger service looks on first appearances to be very activeX, therefore windows-specific. Apart from a slight note of dismay from my linux-friendly half, I will withhold judgement until I’ve been playing with it for a while.
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