I can’t remember when I first played with a ZX Spectrum. I know I must have come to the party relatively late since I was only 4 when it was released, unlike Chris who was old enough to have one at launch. This weekend he rescued one from his mum’s rubbish bin, complete in the…
ZX Spectrum nostalgia
By Howard | Published July 15th, 2008Change Windows Live ID for Xbox Account
By Howard | Published December 6th, 2007 At last! With the December update to the Xbox 360 dashboard, Microsoft introduced a feature that a good number of gamers (me included) have been clamouring for.
It is now possible to change the Windows Live ID attached to your Xbox Live account. This means that I can stop using the obsolete hdurdle@hotmail.com…
Graphing Counter-Strike Source FPS/Users in MRTG on Windows
By Howard | Published December 4th, 2007In my last post, you discovered my obsession for generating statistics on my network usage and my use of MRTG to draw pretty little graphs. Writing that post got me thinking about my Counter-Strike server, and what data I could usefully graph from it. A bit of Googling led me to this page…
clan [cnut] photo
By Howard | Published May 14th, 2006The clan, all together for the last time in a while, since our man ‘Slinger is returning to the US for the foreseeable future.
Philosophy majors shouldn't write technology editorials
By Howard | Published April 19th, 2006Richard sent me an email yesterday with a link to this article along with the message “You’ll love this one…” If you’ve followed the Windows on Mac saga recently go and read it now, if you’re anything like me and Richard you’ll have plenty to say on the subject once you’ve finished reading.
I couldn’t believe…
Why my primary Windows XP machine is still a Dell
By Howard | Published April 12th, 2006The MacBook Pro is great running XP; but has several flaws which mean it probably won’t become my primary machine just yet…
No Audio Routing
If you plug headphones into the headphone socket audio continues to come out of the speakers. This is known (and documented by Apple) but is still irritating. If I’m in the office…
XBox360 Backwards Compatibility
By Howard | Published December 14th, 2005Working semi-regularly for Microsoft, I’m now even more aware of when people criticise the company. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it’s not. Here’s a very funny critique of what Slashdot readers make of the Xbox360 and it’s backwards compatibility.
Funny. Rude, but funny.
Woohoo!
By Howard | Published January 11th, 2005This doesn’t often happen, so forgive me if I gloat a little, but: I beat Teech at RoN! I can’t remember the last time that happened.
Here’s a screen I don’t see very often:
Of course the chances are that I won’t be able to repeat it, but victory felt gooood. A swift nuclear strike…
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