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Lifestream

Yesterday

twitter (feed #2)
#lazyweb query: where the hell does one get passport photos? We don't have a Jessops and I got my last ones from Woolworths... [Beardy]
7:50pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Longest. Reboot. Ever. 5 mins and counting. http://twitpic.com/122zzd [Beardy]
4:52pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
To the small percentage of my Twitter followees who maintained normality tonight by not mentioning that football thing: I love you dearly. [Beardy]
4:17am via Twatter

February 7th

twitter (feed #2)
I appear to be a member of a couple of highly inappropriate Facebook groups I don't rememer joining and am unable to leave. Buh? [Beardy]
10:40pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Tidying done, now to see about killing this crystalline entity. [Beardy]
3:53pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Today will be a fun-filled day of removing furniture and servers from my bedroom before the window company comes tomorrow. [Beardy]
2:08pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
It's been more than a year since I bought any new clothes. This will not do. [Beardy]
1:43pm via Twatter

February 6th

twitter (feed #2)
ST:O downtime is the internet's way of telling me to go to bed. [Beardy]
3:56am via Twatter

February 4th

twitter (feed #2)
Re: Sonic 4, I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of rebooting back to Sonic 3 and forgetting all the 3D crap. S&K was the last good game. [Beardy]
5:30pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
OMG. Sonic 4! http://bit.ly/cq6JlH I have nothing else to say except squee. [Beardy]
5:04pm via Twatter
facebook (feed #11)
GameSpot Video: Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 Teaser Trailer
4:56pm via Facefuck
twitter (feed #2)
I need one more Star Trek Online player to form a (casual) fleet. Any more of you lot play? [Beardy]
1:53am via Twatter

February 3rd

twitter (feed #2)
I am wearing a black polo neck jumper and baggy blue jeans. I look like a younger, indier Steve Jobs. [Beardy]
2:10pm via Twatter

February 2nd

twitter (feed #2)
RT @huckgee: Dear people I follow, I do not care where you are checking in via @foursquare. Disable that shit. [Beardy]
8:46pm via Twatter
lastfm (feed #12)
Listened to Cells - The Servant.
7:50pm via Last.fm

February 1st

twitter (feed #2)
How have I never heard The Servant before? Not bad at all. [Beardy]
9:02pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
ITV is making my brain hurt. This level of blandness is my definition of hell. [Beardy]
5:29pm via Twatter

January 31st

twitter (feed #2)
I favorited a YouTube video -- Star Wars vs. Star Trek http://youtu.be/w8O8YbnworA?a [Beardy]
1:39pm via Twatter
youtube (feed #8)
1:24pm via MyTube

January 30th

twitter (feed #2)
I favorited a YouTube video -- Star Trek Meets Monty Python http://youtu.be/luVjkTEIoJc?a [Beardy]
11:43pm via Twatter
youtube (feed #8)
11:34pm via MyTube

January 29th

twitter (feed #2)
Only four hours late, I'm firing up ST:O. Huzzah. [Beardy]
9:54pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
This is why i'm doing #365films - I've had Dark Star for years and never watched it before tonight, and it's a brilliant little gem. [Beardy]
9:34pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Due to epic STO and Steam fail, I am instead watching Dark Star #365films [Beardy]
8:11pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Oh and keeping the forums offline so people who can't play the game are unable to moan about just how shit this is? Nice touch, asshats. [Beardy]
7:19pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Attn Cryptic: when a game is due to launch at a fixed time, said game should not still be patching at sub-dialup speeds 90 minutes later. [Beardy]
7:18pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Only 42 more minutes until I utterly surrender the remainder of my existence on this earth to Star Trek Online. Unless I get bored of it. [Beardy]
5:18pm via Twatter
facebook (feed #11)
Hitler responds to the iPad
1:39pm via Facefuck

January 28th

twitter (feed #2)
I still love DestroyTwitter, but it's beginning to get on my tits. Where are the updates? Where are the 'new' API features? Come on. [Beardy]
5:14am via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
This, clearly, is why the geeks like the iPad. http://bit.ly/9QNzyQ [Beardy]
1:16am via Twatter

January 27th

twitter (feed #2)
http://bit.ly/aoWrxZ Defective by Design? Fuck off. You want open software, buy a linux netbook. You want simplicity, buy an iPad. End of. [Beardy]
9:50pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Closing Twitter for the night now, before it inevitably crashes under the sheer weight of tabletness. Toodle pip. [Beardy]
6:09pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Oops, I appear not to have eaten all day. Must do something about that. And I wonder why I never gain weight... [Beardy]
3:55pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
I am now uninstalling EVE Online, hopefully for the last time. [Beardy]
3:20pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
2:48pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Just come back from a fun talk with the jobcentre, and found my first birthday card in the post - decidedly early, this one. [Beardy]
11:25am via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Also I may have just paid actual monies for an in-game Wrath of Khan admiral's uniform for STO. There are no boundaries to my geekery. [Beardy]
8:55am via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
I'm awake annoyingly early. This means I'll probably have passed out if/when the tablet is announced. Probably for the best. [Beardy]
8:53am via Twatter

January 26th

facebook (feed #11)
The 3 Phases of Owning a Computer - The Oatmeal
11:28pm via Facefuck
twitter (feed #2)
My dad's just arrived back home after his stint in the hospital. Can't remember when I was this glad to see him. [Beardy]
4:39pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
I do like Trivial Pursuit for iPhone, but the music it plays is either lift music or a bad early 90s porn soundtrack, I can't decide. [Beardy]
3:10pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
I assume there's only so many twitpics of starships you lovely people can tolerate... [Beardy]
2:22am via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Holy crap, Star Trek Online has Twitter and Facebook connectivity. Very nice idea, but think I might just turn that off. [Beardy]
2:21am via Twatter

January 24th

twitter (feed #2)
Huh. Countryfile (on TV in the next room) has played at least three songs by The XX as incidental music in one show. [Beardy]
6:55pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
Getting back into the swing of #365films now with 28 Days Later. Fair amount of catching up to do here, thanks mosly to STO. [Beardy]
12:30am via Twatter

January 23rd

twitter (feed #2)
Dear Channel 4, Why not make a celebrity version of Celebrity Big Brother? Yours, Mrs Trellis [Beardy]
10:18pm via Twatter

January 22nd

twitter (feed #2)
Left masses of data ghosting to one of three shiny new 1.5TB drives while I go visit my dad in hospital. [Beardy]
6:50pm via Twatter
twitter (feed #2)
RT @RichardBooth: Have not long woken up from a dream where the Predator was singing about Reggae Reggae Sauce [Beardy]
2:08pm via Twatter

January 21st

twitter (feed #2)
RT @The_B: Jedward & Vanilla Ice are releasing Under Pressure - anyone fancy some mining? Freddie's spinning so fast in his grave we don ... [Beardy]
4:23pm via Twatter

January 20th

twitter (feed #2)
Feel compelled to say how much I bloody love @johimself's new profile picture. [Beardy]
6:50pm via Twatter

Older Entries



365 Films – a project for 2010

Apologies for another post that isn't even slightly on-topic. I've a new pet project for this year and needed somewhere to document it, and I'm sure as hell not running a second Wordpress install, so here it is. Every day, for the whole of 2010, I will watch a film I've not seen before. Not very taxing, or original, or worthwhile. But amusing (at least to me), and a good way of burning off the pile of movies I've never watched. More importantly, an excuse to get around to the worryingly large number of culturally-significant films I've missed. I decided to do it simply...

Ay Pee Bee

Now that the first phase of beta testing for the long-awaited APB is almost at an end, I thought it was high time to share my experiences with it. I've had a whale of a time testing it, so much so I've been shunning other commitments – gaming or otherwise – to make way for the limited play windows. For those of you who haven't heard of APB, it's an MMO from Realtime Worlds, the relatively new software house founded by the chap who invented Grand Theft Auto – and the lazy but somewhat accurate description I've often heard of APB is that it's GTA: The...

Don't cross the streams

I'd been meaning to pick up a copy of Ghostbusters: The Video Game for quite some time, but had never quite got round to it – until I noticed it as part of Steam's recent 5-day long 1-day only spectacular sale, where at £7.50 it would have been rude not to buy it. So I did, and three days later I'd completed it. Finishing a game at all is an incredibly rare occurrence for me, never mind within a few days of buying it, so I just thought I should mention that and perhaps attempt to explain why. Just to be clear, this won't be a review – partly because I don't...

When this baby hits 8.8GHz…

After rather more false starts and cockups than I'd have liked, and seven years of having the idea to do this in my head… Ladies and gentlemen, may I finally present the Delorean time machine PC, complete with flux capacitor.

We need new techies

The recent Guardian article by Tom Watson on why MPs need to play videogames to understand them got me thinking. If you haven't already read the article, go read it then come back. Done? Good. This sparked a conversation on a messageboard I visit, specifically regarding the comment that kids aren't taught programming any more, they're taught Office. This is sadly very true, and something that led me to another realisation – at one point, kids *were* taught programming, but not by their school. I can only speak from a British perspective on this, so if you're an American...

Mods I've played

Mods are something I've seldom played with, historically speaking, but more and more lately I'm stumbling on interesting-looking conversions for games I own that are too compelling to pass up. A case in point, and the mod that prompted me to raise the subject, is the superb tech demo for Ashura: Dark Reign, a Sonic the Hedgehog-themed total conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004. Having played this for only a few minutes, I was amazed by the technical achievement and attention to detail – had I not known it was a mod, I could almost have believed I was playing the latest Sonic Adventure...

Who do you think you are?

I just wanted to write a quick thing about Left 4 Dead 2. I know this isn't news, nor is what I'm going to say particularly original, but I still think it merits saying anyway. So the first (stellar) Left 4 Dead game came out late last year. It's only really had one bit of DLC so far, the impressive Survival Pack, which added some very fun new content to an already immensely fun game. And naturally, given Valve's past tendency to release new content for its online games, especially TF2, people expect the same for Left 4 Dead. Which is a reasonable assumption, I guess. But then,...

Welcome

Hello and welcome to my new blog, SmokesWithWolves. Some of you may know me already, or some of you might be backreading old posts at some point in the future, in which case I've prepared a little introduction below. I thought I'd start by explaining the idea behind this site. I've loosely maintained a blog in some form since early 2003, initially on LiveJournal, then through Windows Live Spaces and ultimately Wordpress on my former website – and if having a personal blog about my life for six years taught me one thing, it's that nobody gives a shit about reading tales...


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