Archive for September, 2006

Crunch Time Theatre Part 2: Shine on, You Crazy Kojima

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Yet another movie after the fold.

Crunch Time Theatre: Lets Go Out To The Movies

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

There is yet another crunch time movie after the fold.

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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

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Scratch-Off

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Both Guild Wars and all Xbox “card” items (Microsoft Points to buy XBLA games, subscription cards, etc) use this scratch-off method. Guild Wars hides the cdkey with one, and Microsoft hides their long number strings which are essentially cdkeys for a different purpose.
You might have bought Guild Wars, or an Xbox Live 12+ month subscription [...]

Sometimes It Isn’t Maybe So Much The Tester’s Fault

Friday, September 8th, 2006

A few follow-ups about previous posts.
Back in August I wrote about how my iBook headphones port wasn’t working. Turns out, this has happened to other people. A fellow I know purchased an Apple computer some. time ago, and then had the exact same issue, with an Apple computer shipped from the factory set to output [...]

Dead Oxen and Dysentery Here We Go!

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Sorry for not posting much, busy with paying work lately. On a more amusing subject I went to install a copy of “Oregon Trail 5th Edition” I got from goodwill for 4 bucks. The following horrible design is what it offered me for choices on installation location:

Click it for a larger version if you like, [...]