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Archive for December, 2008

Here I go again, bringing politics into it. So there’s this woman who’s spent 3 years to make a film. She used music from the 1920s. The music itself is out of copyright but the sheet music is still tied up. The copyright owners want $200,000 – non negotiable. This stuff is 90 years old, [...]

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Baldur's Gate

Great article interviewing the original BG team here. If this series had continued, I suspect I would still be gaming on the PC.

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The Dark Knight

Too grim, over-long and really not very much fun. The Blu-ray transfer is pretty disappointing too, being overly processed and edgy. Maybe I’m just getting old, but I didn’t get very much out of this one. Lucky I paid less for the disc than I would have for a cinema ticket, then.

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Wunder Boner

Title says it all, really.

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Want to win Firefly on Blu-ray?

Try this link, then. It’s region-free, so will work on a Region B or Region A player. Just don’t win my copy, okay?

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I bet this is the sort of thing Crumpet would like me to write for her.

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Something for me to keep in mind.

It’ll be hard, but I gotta try this.

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Hurray for Christmas!

Phew. Just ordered my mother’s Christmas present, overdrawing the old credit card, but I needed to be sure I got it. I’ve already gotten one half of Crumpet’s present and will order the other half on pay day. Then I need to buy something for her sister as part of the Kris Kringle thing that [...]

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Keep Dec 13th free

If you value a free Internet, you might want to join me in the city.

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Thinking. It's so important.

Has anyone tried using the Netgear ReadyNas Duo as a media server with the PS3? If so, can you play .mkv files and other media files not normally supported by the PS3 with it? Really? That’s your question?

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