Category Archives: Rant

Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Xbox 360) first impressions

March 8, 2010 – 08:57

Some initial thoughts halfway through my most anticipated sequel this year… The story’s poor. What am I doing really? You find this guy, now this guy, oh here’s something different: find this place! Whilst you’re doing that random people will pop up like something out of Time Crisis 2 and try and kill you. Oh [...]

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Favourite Quote: “Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence. Simplicity does.”

December 5, 2008 – 09:52

This excellent phrase was coined by Lawrence “Larry” Bossidy, the retired CEO of Allied Signal. What I find particularly interesting about this quote is that it’s so eloquently structured and an example of what it’s stating; the statement is simple yet intelligent. Here it is in all its wonderful, quoted glory: “Complexity has nothing to [...]

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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex/8.10 Is Ruining My Hardware

November 9, 2008 – 18:44

I’m a long time user, advocate and all-round fan of Linux. In particular, I’ve used Debian or variant distributions and have never had any major issues (well none that weren’t PEBKAC). I’ve been running Debian Sid on my Thinkpad X31 for around three years now, and out of curiosity I thought I’d try out Ubuntu [...]

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jQuery.com – Those Mouse-over Tooltips are BAD

September 6, 2008 – 22:33

jQuery is a good thing. It allows you to minimise the amount of Javascript you write, while maintaining elegance and ease-of-use. jQuery.com has recently relaunched with a brand-new design. Feedback from around the web was initially quite negative due to a bizarre decision by someone who thought it’d be great to apply a ‘rockstar’ ethos [...]

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