Here’s my scenario. I ordered a new Xbox 360 Wireless Controller from GAME’s website around this time yesterday, after discovering that they were currently selling them for £19.98. I selected free delivery, meaning it should get sent at least 2 days after ordering and no later than 7.
Imagine then, if you would, my surprise when I got home and discovered that I’d already recieved it? I hadn’t even chosen next day delivery!
Now I’ll get to my point – on Saturday I ordered an R4 Adaptor for my Nintendo DS and paid for first class postage. As of now I still haven’t recieved it, making it nearly 7 days since the order, and 5 days since it was posted. Sometimes I don’t understand how they can be so inconsistent – I know it’s not really their fault, but logic would suggest that something you ordered a week ago would arrive before something you ordered 24 hours ago (remember, I didn’t pay for next day delivery).
When Apple issued the iTunes 8 update to coincide with the iPhone 2.1 software and new iPod range, they included a feature called Genius.
Now, at first I thought “oh, sounds quite cool.” and i first tried it out with some of my favourite songs, only to find out that it “couldn’t find any songs” that were similar, or some such tripe. Also, when i first got it it was when we had our old PC, with a paltry 512MB of RAM, so having it enabled was crippling the system a little bit. So I disabled it, and totally forgot about it, even when we upgraded to a better PC.
Tonight, however, I decided to stick some Pearl Jam on and “chill out”. When Even Flow came up on my Now Playing, I spontaneously got the urge to click the Genius button – against the voices in my head screaming not to, after what happened last time (I didn’t even know I had the Ting Tings and Kate Nash and Duffy on my Library! Stupid brother…)
But Lo! It decided to grace me with…
And I think you’ll agree, that’s some pretty damn fine playlisting. Nice one Genius, tonight you earn Respect +1. Now let’s hope that when I try you on Ego Brain by System of a Down, you don’t churn out some warbling, Brit Award c**t-faced attempt at music. Should be unlikely as I have hopefully cleansed my HDD of the filth…
The other day, I saw the new Cadbury’s chocolate ad after something I was watching on TV.
oh. my. god.
I really don’t think I’ve seen anything more messed up this year (so far, mind). I mean, the ones with the Gorilla were random but I thought the Phil Collins one was pretty cool – and don’t get me started on the godawful plane baggage carriers driving to Queen (seriously – WTF?)
But I really think they outdid themselves with this:
Now, if I was a parent watching some TV with my kids in the room, and this advert came on, I’d check they weren’t eating any chocolate, interrogate them on any chocolate-eating that had taken place that day, and forcefully ban them from eating it ever again. What are they trying to prove with this ad? That all the E-Numbers in the chocolate really do f**k up our children (I mean, speaking of the Gorilla ads, that girl looks a bit ape-like…)?
Cadbury’s, please put some thought into it next time. Adverts piss me off anyway, but when this catches my attention, it really takes the Finger
Every day, there is one way to guarantee that the rest of your morning will be spent pissed off, or utterly flummoxed at the new lows some people will stoop to. The people concerned are the journalists and publishers of the Daily Mail, and once again they’ve astounded me at the utter lunacy of the things they’ll actually waste precious time on reporting about, for the displeasure of the rest of the nation.
Chris Moyles, Radio 1 DJ and genuinely funny guy – the antithesis to all things Daily Fail, was reported to have been in trouble with his BBC bosses after they recieved a whopping FIVE complaints about a joke he made on his radio show regarding Will Young’s birthday:
“He also joked about Will, celebrating the singer’s birthday by singing
to the tune of his song Evergreen in a camp voice. He warbled: “It’s my
birthday, gonna wear my new dress tonight.”
If you’re wondering what other ‘joke’ he said, he mentioned something about everyone who appears on “Who Do You Think You Are?”, a documentary where celebrities look into their family tree, ends up visiting Auschwitz at some point:
“Unlike a lot of the Who Do You Think You Are? shows I didn’t go to
Auschwitz … pretty much everybody goes there, whether or not they’re
Jewish… they always kind of end up there, you know, if they just pass
through on their way to Florida or something.”
unsurprisingly he recieved no complaints about this, because it’s not a joke, it’s an off-hand comment with no offence in it whatsoever. But I’d really like to speak to the moron who thinks that recieving FIVE complaints about some small joke is worth the time and effort to publish in a paper and get us all ridiculously pissed off about it.
You wonder why people think we’re a load of moaners, and we wonder why the UK’s going down the shit. I’m going to buy the Daily Mail tomorrow, just so that I can take pleasure in burning it.
This story posted earlier today on Gizmodo with pictures of what appears to be a new Android handset from HTC. Tentatively dubbed the ‘G2′, it looks to be the successor to HTC’s T-Mobile G1 released earlier this year.
looking at the two side-by-side, you can see that the menu section at the bottom has had a redesign, and the bezel at the bottom of the screen has gone (I think the screen is the same size as the one on the G1).
You may also notice that it looks a lot more glossy and curvaceous compared to the G1. On top of that, they’ve decided to scrap the QWERTY keypad that was present on the G1, and, in my opinion, made it one of the main reasons in people choosing it over the iPhone.
The world of mobile phone technology hasn’t really been the same since that little-known company in Cupertino came out with the iPhone. It sold 4.4m units in the Q4 of 2008 alone, and it has quite an impressive share of the smartphone pie:
It easily claims over 25% of the smartphone market share – despite not having a QWERTY keypad and not even supporting Cut & Paste!
Ever since the phone came out there have been countless copies and some strong competitors, but none have gotten close… yet. This year Nokia are set to release their superb looking N-Series N97, and Palm surprised a lot of people at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month with the announcment of the Palm Pre.
These two new handsets aim to achieve the best of both worlds, by including touch interfaces and QWERTY keyboards. But is that too many input options? It’s not so bad on the G1 because you can use the mechanical buttons for everything if you wish and it doesn’t feature a touch keypad.
Does the rise of touch interfaces on mobile phones mean the end for the traditional mechanical side of things? Will we only see more than three buttons on the high-end/business-oriented smartphones? If this is to be the case, then I think it’s about time that people looked for revolution, or even evolution, as opposed to blatant plagarism of competitors models.
There are rumours abound that Windows 7 will be released as Public Beta later today (Jan 9th). Download will most likely be large, but press members already using the OS say that it’s very stable.
If I manage to install it later today, I’ll put a Hands-On up and maybe a First Opinion.
Let’s face it, we knew Macworld 2009 wasn’t going to stop the earth revolving as soon as we discovered Steve Jobs wasn’t going to be presenting the Keynote. Obviously he felt Peter Schiller wasn’t ready to handle anything massive, so they just presented iLife and iWork ‘09, iTunes to go DRM-free and 3G downloads on iPhone; and a unibody 17″ MacBook Pro. Big deal!
But still…
it’s not even a massive update to the old one, but it still manages to appeal to me. I already have a MacBook Pro, but it’s pre-Penryn so by Apple standards it’s about 3 revisions out-of-date. So I’m really considering saving up the pennies to buy this bad boy.
If you offered me Crysis today, I’d most definitely have to turn you down.
Why? Because having a game that I have no chance of playing on would annoy me solidly for however long it took for me to get a new PC. I’ve had this computer gracing this room with its rather loud fan and sporadic clunking noises for about six years now, it’s too old to run Oblivion but for some odd reason Morrowind won’t even work with it anymore.
More frustratingly, however, is that it’s too ‘new’ to play all the old classics.
Such classics would be games such as Monkey Island, Broken Sword, and the Indiana Jones adventure/puzzle games. You could not seriously consider yourself a gamer until you’d completed any one of these games without any form of assistance (mainly because they’re not THAT difficult). In a surge of nostalgia I decided that I wanted to play The Secret of Monkey Island one more time, just for kicks. But egad!! DOS commands? Floppy Disks? Such technology comfounded my computer and left it clunking more than usual. Naturally I felt disappointed that I would no longer be able to see the early exploits of Guybrush Threepwood and Co.
But then I discovered Scumm VM. Now I’ve installed all of my old games, and I’m as giddy as a five year old while I’m solving puzzles the old-fashioned way, verbal context menus and point-and-click.
So, Mr. Alienware, you can keep your crysis. I’ve got some grog to drink and a date with a giant monkey head.
Just here to break my blogging virginity, please be warned that the quality will be less than adequate, guaranteed (but hopefully no compromising when it comes to being entertaining)
I’m mainly going to write about any news I think needs sharing (or that I want to share), so it’ll probably be a lot of tech & football talk ftw
When Apple issued the iTunes 8 update to coincide with the iPhone 2.1 software and new iPod range, they included a feature called Genius.
Every day, there is one way to guarantee that the rest of your morning will be spent pissed off, or utterly flummoxed at the new lows some people will stoop to. The people concerned are the journalists and publishers of the Daily Mail, and once again they’ve astounded me at the utter lunacy of the things they’ll actually waste precious time on reporting about, for the displeasure of the rest of the nation.
It easily claims over 25% of the smartphone market share – despite not having a QWERTY keypad and not even supporting Cut & Paste!
