Archive For October, 2011

BF3: It all started out so well..

Battlefield 3 was finally released in Ireland and the UK and elsewhere yesterday. I had a few games early in the evening and then later played with a few of the guys. Yes, stats aren’t everything but looking at a killcam all the time isn’t fun either!

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Sanctum and other indie games all for $2 cheap!

The Indie Royale bundle is offering Sanctum, Ares, Nimbus and Gemini Rue for a knock down but slowly increasing price. It started at $2 but it’s currently showing as €3.67 here. The more people pay the minimum the higher the price, pay more and the price goes down. I already have 3 of the games [...]

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The 2011 Irish Presidential Ballot

Today Ireland goes to the polls to elect a new president. The job isn’t as important as in other countries, but one of the primary roles of the President is to veto new laws if they are unconstitutional. Nevertheless the election campaign has been downright dirty and negative as the hopeful candidates can’t really attack [...]

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Batman Arkham Asylum Combat Tips

I’m still at the stage where I just mash the attack and evade buttons in combat. The first video above shows a simple but better technique by evading enemies with jumps and the second one is the “Perfect Freeflow 2.0″ achievement showing how to do the following moves in slow motion. 1 – Standard Strike [...]

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Preload categories and custom post content

The never ending journey to WP Super Cache 1.0 continues. Go grab the development version of the plugin on the download page as there have been a few changes since my last post (where I announced support for mixed https sites among other things). Some of the changes: The cache preloader will now preload tags [...]

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The latest Battlefield 3 trailer makes me wish…

The latest Battlefield 3 trailer makes me wish the game was out right now and that I had a PC fast enough to run it. PS3 and Xbox 360 for me!

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Citibank Proud?

I honestly have no idea what’s happening here. Were the customers inside there closing accounts? Is that reason enough to close the branch and lock them inside? Why would security guards drag a woman into the bank? Was it because she was attempting to take names while she was outside the bank? Can they be [...]

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Man hit in the head with a basketball

Poor Phil, star of his own Youtube video, “Man hit in the head with a basketball”. Sore head? Yes, I just watched that episode of Modern Family. Great show. I hope they got their stop sign …

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Prince of Persia for the C64

Prince of Persia, an amazing game released in 1989 on the Apple II and ported to most platforms of the day but not the Commodore 64 for some reason. In 2 days time the game is due to be released on the C64 in EasyFlash format, a cartridge format for the C64 but luckily Vice [...]

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Ubuntu 11.10: Be wary of Compiz Config Settings Manager (ccsm)

Have you recently installed Ubunty 11.10 and are you marvelling at the Unity Desktop? Not many are. Marvelling at the desktop that is, but it’s growing on me. I said that last time too so we’ll see how it goes. Anyway, the point of this little rant is to tell you to avoid or be [...]

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