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Image via WikipediaChess... the mere word might invoke disdain in most people."What a boring game!""Only old people play it in parks!"Yeah yeah. Chess is one of the first games that got me in contact with COMPUTERS, because back in the early 70's, my dad would buy some "Chess computers" and play against them (as an aside, my dad was the National Champion like for 6 or 8 years …
In a followup to my earlier post on the Versa Stick, I mentioned that I thought it was a good idea, and that I'd jury-rig up my own "Versa Stick" alternative to my Bodylastics kit, and see how it works out.Well, before I go into more details, here's a pic of my jury-rigging:Yeah I found a metal bar in my home, leftover from a renovation I did a long time back. I never …
Yesterday being a Saturday, I couldn't help but to go get a new game. Seeing as the current "hot" title appears to be Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, I got that. Remembering how pathetically Assassin's Creed ran on my 5 year old rig, I had some reservations. However, after reading the requirements, I got it anyway. My rig still passed the "minimum specs" and was slightly above it.After …
Image via CrunchBaseAlmost everyone nowadays use a web-based mail service of some sort. Many people don't even know that email can be "downloaded" to their own computers and then read/replied at their own leisure without being online and connected to the Internet in the first place. Mention the word "email" today and many people immediately think of "Hotmail" or "Yahoo" or …
Almost everyone knows by now, that the expansion pack for Mass Effect has been released on 29 July 2008.Almost everyone, except me. I didn’t know about it till a couple of days back, when I thought I’d just pop by the Mass Effect website and have a look-see. When I saw that the expansion pack ...
Everyone who reads this blog knows my configurations. It’s an old, single-core, Pentium 4 PC, 3.0Ghz Hyper Threading. It was cutting edge at the time I bought it. Five years later, it’s still kind of okay for playing games. I’m glad it’s not “minimum spec” yet, but naturally I’m not satisfied with the performance I’m ...
A comment by Aronil here in one of my recent blog posts reminded me of more horror-stories that are found in Facebook. Strangely enough, again in older social networks, these kind of stuff hardly happens, if ever. But, in Facebook, with all its apps, it seemed to facilitate stalking.Facebook has this "feature" which all other networks do not have. Or, even if they did, not to …
Ok this one took a lot longer to get it ready.Most of the problems weren't even mine to begin with. The production was smooth, and everything was ready on time.... mostly. Well yeah there was the one day where I wasn't home early and production got delayed by a couple of hours.In any case, here it is!For the uninitiated, this machinima is based on a blog entry by Miss Loi …
Image by sean dreilinger via Flickr With recent announcements of price increases from Singtel on their fixed line subscriptions, I just had to stop and review the situation. Now, adding 0.1 cent per 30 secs (or 60 secs off peak) is a very very small amount. Tiny, in fact. In total it's just $10 per year, the price of one pack of cigarettes.Being the lazy-assed bum that I am, …
I have completed Mass Effect, after about some 30 odd to 40 hours of gameplay. Throughout the game, I encountered some really weird bugs which I hope they fix before they release the new content for it.BugsFor no reason, sometimes the elevator doors do not close, and I cannot proceed further. I can’t exit, I ...
Wow it's been almost a week since I last wrote in here.As usual, Chinese New Year Day 1 was the usual gluttony day. Bah Kwa, pineapple tarts, love letters, all manner of traditional junk food were consumed. The problem is compounded by the night before - the "Reunion Dinner". This year my brother decided to host it at a restaurant instead, so we got an 8-course dinner instead …
On a couple of occasions, I have been asked how to solve the puzzle that is presented to you when trying to get Mira (the station VI) back online when you’re on Noveria.Actually this puzzle is pretty old. I first heard of this back in the early 1980’s, and it was called “Towers of Hanoi“. ...
I’ve been using something that’s very simple to convert videos for quite a while now. Some readers may know I make machinimas, ie, movies using games. Sometimes, the final prod …
Firefox 3 is released today (US date - 17 June, Singapore date, 18 June since we're 1 day ahead). If you didn't know, Mozilla is trying to set a world record today for the "Most Downloads in 24 hours".Usually, it is with trepidation that I download a new browser on the actual release day itself. The main reason is the add-ons. I have come to rely on certain extensions and …
It's just so weird.I've been with Xfire since 2004, when the service was first started, and since then, every game I've ever played has been with Xfire running. Hence I know exactly how much time I spent on each game.Examples - Xfire told me that I only played COD4 for 5 or so hours. That's how short the Single-Player campaign is. It's all over in 5 hours. Even Half Life 2 …
Remember when I wrote about Digsby the multi-protocol IM wonder?Well the devs have outdone themselves this time. Just about a week after Facebook launched its "chat" feature, Digsby now is able to chat with your friends that are on Facebook! This feature is available with the latest version, just released yesterday even, on 1 May.So that means you don't have to put up with …
Here's your chance (and mine too!) to win US$500 in a blog contest.The blog Business+Directory, is organising this contest. They are doing this as part of their launch and promotion effort …
You know... I have been asked this MANY times by many younger friends. All they know is "clubbing" and "having a good time", be it at DXO, MOS, Double-O, Dragonfly or any other "happening places".Well, us older folks who have already passed that phase of "cheonging" now mellow out and chill out at pubs. And for all my friends who have been asking me "Pubs so boring! What goes …
Image via WikipediaI was just mucking around on the various gaming sites as usual, and came across this piece of saddening news - Tabula Rasa is shutting down come Feb 28, 2009. Now, I’ve always had a soft-spot for sci-fi MMORPGs. In fact, after I left Everquest 2 in 2006, the guild told me if ...
Yes I know, old news. For those that are clueless, catch up here. Today I received an email from a company claiming to be Virtual Map's PR firm. The funny thing is, I wonder how they got my email address. I never published this particular email address anywhere. Or at least, not anywhere public. Just as a precaution, in case it was spam or fraud, I did a series of WHOIS and …
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