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This is my opinion on the topic of a bill outlawing the possession of “extreme pornography” which is set to become law next week. Here’s the BBC article
Why does porn get a different set of standards? It’s perfectly legal to show non-pornographic films which contain “an act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s [...]

This week I decided to splash out a bit on a new PC for my parents. Their previous PC was a painfully slow decrepit Windows ‘98 install which took about ten minutes to boot and often the mouse would freeze up (meaning that I would have to save whatever document they were editing using keyboard [...]

I’ve found the secret to defeating songs in Guitar Hero III on expert mode… and it is more entertaining than watching someone else play i.e. if you’ve only got one guitar controller.
You need three people, one for the strumming and whammy bar, one for the top three buttons (green, red, yellow) and one for the [...]

Don’t try to IRC directly after playing “Through the Fire and the Flames” by DragonForce on Guitar Hero III
The result comes out much like this:
“I ahve been mostly playing Wii gmaes agianst my family
and i ahve been playing guitra hero
whcich has maed my fingres num”
An MP3 of the track is downloadable from the Official DragonForce [...]

Panoramic Pics

Welcome to the new shiny website, I had a craving for rounded corners and gradient fills.
It was a nightmare to get it working in Internet Explorer.

For the past month I have been working for a company called Pulse8 in Totnes as a Web Developer and Linux Sysadmin.
It was kind of a surprise for me getting the job, they emailed me saying they wanted a chat with me. As my parents were using the cars for work I had to go [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6301301.stm
“A large-scale breach of AACS could be a threat to the $24bn DVD industry and dent hopes that high-definition discs would invigorate the market.”
There is usually increased spending on a new format after it’s released as people re-buy their collections (this is what they are referring to with the “invigorate the market”) but eventually this [...]

The position was a C# Developer in a company called ALD Automotive, the job description said they’d provide training on for people who knew Java. So this Friday I travelled by train to Bristol for the interview. The interviews were in 2 stages, the initial interview which I was going to and then a follow-up [...]