A lot of us really do need to just RTFM sometimes.
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If there’s one thing that I hate about large supermarket chains — and there isn’t, but let’s just narrow it down to one for the sake of simplicity — it’s that despite all their efforts to persuade us of the contrary, they just can’t help but act dishonestly.
Fagin working on this week's Price Knockdowns
One whole zilch!
Well, it seems that spambots have found an easy way around the SI Captcha plugin for WordPress…
What a pain in the ass. I swear, if I ever catch someone to runs a spam operation, I’ll kill them. It’s the most pointless and annoying blight on our generation since reality TV.
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I just finished watching a recent movie depicting exorcisms and exorcists. I won’t mention the name for fear of spoiling the ending for people, but let’s just suffice it to say that pretty much all possession-based films end much the same way: with “the Devil” getting his ass handed to him by way of some lame, happy memory. View full article »
Merlin - A Top Bloke
The moral of the story? If you were a female in Camelot and couldn’t bake a decent pork pie, you were doomed.
Don’t get me wrong: I love Google. Not to the extent of some raving fanboys, but I do have a soft spot in my heart for our increasingly powerful friend from Mountain View, California. If I’m going to have to sell my soul (read: personal data, genetics, history of movements) to a massive company, I’d rather it be Google than Yahoo, Microsoft, or Facebook.
There’s one thing that niggles me, and a lot of other people, about Google though and it’s nothing to do with privacy, monopoly, or power; it’s their complete inability to provide decent customer service or timely bug fixes.
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I swear I didn’t just play L.A. Noire for 3 hours.
A) Truth
X) Doubt
Y) Lie
…but seriously, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s really not a very good game. The missions are repetitive, the story ridiculously linear, the game mechanics are dated, the player interaction is trival (it’s like watching a movie but being forced to twiddle a joystick every 15 minutes until something beeps).
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I picked up L.A. Noire from EB Games this morning, much to the chagrin of the store clerk who wanted the day off to play it but got called into work regardless.
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I thought I’d do the right thing and buy one of those $70 Jackson 6 plug “energy saver” PT9778 powerboards that have a master socket and a number of slave sockets. The idea is that you plug your computer or TV into the master socket, and when you flick it to standby mode, everything plugged into the slaves is instantly turned off — saving you money.
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