Day ten of my temporary PC-less existence

I’ve kinda given up all pretex of blogging exclusively via the mobile application. After having used them for several days, there’s no way they are in any position to replace the desktop functions of WordPress. Blogging via mobile apps also excludes me from taking advantage of Zemanta functionality within WordPress as well as WordPress’s functionality [...]

Read Full Post »

Day nine of my temporary PC-less existence

Didn’t blog yesterday – was a rather lazy Sunday… Just spent the day with the Mrs lazing about in the M&S cafe over at Westfield Stratford shopping centre. She spent most of the time snapping photographs, and me, I spent my time as Kid Icarus. Today’s experience of living without my PC will follow later [...]

Read Full Post »

Day seven of my temporary PC-less existence

After recieving yesterday’s warranty replacement confirmation, i’ve now recieved a confirmation note that my warranty claim has been processed. So, I should be getting my PSU back in several more days… Happy days… Watching The Beach as I type this out – a movie which starts out serene and goes bat shit insane towards the [...]

Read Full Post »

About the Wii U controller’s supposedly old-tech resistive screen

When Nintendo announced the Wii U at E3 2011, some tech sites and loads of people commented about the Wii U’s use of a resistive touchscreen (as evidenced by use of the stylus in the demonstration videos). Much of the tone of the conversations centred around the belief that resistive touch screens were last-gen tech [...]

Read Full Post »

The Conduit – the more I read about it, the more I want it

The Conduit at C3 Previews Another positive preview of upcoming Wii shooter, The Conduit, by High Voltage Software. I’m looking forward to this game and the web hype is picking up (though like my previous post on web hype, the hype should be looked at with a pinch of salt and held at arms length…). [...]

Read Full Post »