I’m upgrading the site to WordPress 2.5 so things might be a little bumpy for the next while. Pray for me, pray for the immortal soul of my database, for if it doesn’t make it, I know not what I will do.

Everyone say hello to Deviation, he’s going to be chiming in every so often. He’s much smarter than I am. I figured he’d class up the joint.

Ah christ. I come on here to post that I won’t be around for a week and I’ve already not been around for a week. These blog things, they can really get away from you. Anyways. I’ll just quote Douglas Adams: “I love deadlines, I love the swooshing noise they make as they go hurtling [...]

When you’ve got insomnia, and you are a Wipeout fan awake at 4am, too tired to fly at 850KM/h, what do you do? You obsess over a custom skin using wipeout-game.com‘s unbelievably clunky Shockwave-powered online skin editor. Which requires you to run your Mac browser under Rosetta emulation of all things, because almost no one [...]

Away till Monday. Topic for discussion in my absence: fatal hilarity.

(I’m going to be trying these big compilation posts for awhile, see if it works better. If you’d rather I did the old format, by all means, hurl fruit in the comments section, kthx.) Ah, but these minor delays do tend to pile up, don’t they. I looked upon that little calendar on the right [...]

Doing some moonlighting over at The Bits Bytes Pixels and Sprites, or more colloquially the BBPS. Be sure to venture over if you’re looking for more gaming news. They’re much more “together” than I am. Podcasts and fancy badges abound. It’s like fucking Vegas, you should see it!

I’m off to Cuba and even stranger parts of the world for the next few weeks. Have a good holiday. And please, try not to kill yourself. Statistically speaking, you’re more likely to in the next little while. Probably around 3pm.

My second dead Xbox 360 has returned from Microsoft in record time, at least compared to the original trip: Dead 360 #1: 6 weeks Dead 360 #2: 5 days Of course this is a refurb again (sorry; the literature that accompanied my becoffined console informs me in a rather authoritative manner that is a Microsoft [...]

… but rumours of my database’s demise are not greatly exaggerated… …think I got it figured out now. Expect normal transmission schedule to resume this aft. Also, if anyone knows of a way to somehow decapitate a lookup table header, bronze it, and nail it to my wall, I’d love to hear it. Thanks!