http://xander.am0.co.uk Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Didn't win an ebay bidding for a Volcom Top by 11p, not amused. # Call me a geek, but the Star Trek trailer looks fricking awesome. :D # Away from my PS3 ;_; # Doing the washing. Very important, you know. # ENOUGH of the real-life Photoshop advert, see it posted everywhere multiple times ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2008-11-16/ I generally try and avoid writing posts like this with high-popularity videos in them as well, everyone's seen them already, but just as a one off I thought I'd put up Yahtzee's latest as it made me chortle quite a lot. Edit: Turns out that The Escapist's video embed code sucks, ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/zero-punctuation-fable-ii/ Got a 160gb PS3, got MGS4, got Fallout 3, got a new Panasonic 5.1 surround system. You won't be seeing me for a while. :] http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/new-stuffs-for-my-front-room/ Heard about this: http://ocarina.smule.com/ and bought it in the same minute. Soooo awesome. # Hasn't twittered in a while... # OH EE AY TAILSPIN! OH EE OH TAILSPIN! # Loan is through w000000t # Just poked myself in the eye. OW # "We are and always will be the United States of America...because of what ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2008-11-09/ Just updated to the latest Wordpress 2.7 beta, which is very exciting. Figured I'd wait a bit as I'd be using it on my primary blog- don't want the thing crashing on me while I'm mid-sent... The obvious first difference is the new Dashboard, which has a much nicer sidebar layout ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/wp-27-beta-2/ This is partly for my own bookmarking benefit, but thought I'd share with the rest of the class. Ajaxian put up a video from a 2006 (seems so long ago...) WWDC presentation from Adobe. A thoroughly interesting talk in itself, but the fun part is their "Presentation Randomiser" which prompts them to change over ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/the-ajax-universe-the-presentation-randomiser/ "We are and always will be the United States of America...because of what we did this day, change has come to America." Oh yes. Yes yes yes. http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/we-won/ Was watching F1 a bit delayed, just saw Lewis Hamilton win the championship in one of the most crazy races of the year... OH YEAH :D # Just had two guys walk onto the bus, can't decide whether they're fashion queens or vampires. # Currently on the roof of a Kingston block ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2008-11-02/ Quite an interesting video from the guys over at machinima.com, looking at the political opinion of the populous. To be honest I wasn't massively surprised to see Obama having a high percentage. Amusingly they looked at not just Alliance vs Horde but also the different races, which probably means nothing ... http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/11/the-political-viewpoints-of-wow/ Liking this translation blunder in Swansea, Wales- obviously no-one proof read it as it says "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." The sign's now been removed (see the via link), but the fail deed is done... [Via BBC News] http://xander.am0.co.uk/2008/10/poor-translation/