Some of us from www.freelancers.net have just come back from a great couple of nights in Brussels. I’ve never been to Belgium before but it was a great laugh. We stayed in the ‘Hotel Catalonia’, which was a pretty good place, somewhere in the Art Nouveau quarter. It was pretty short on art nouveau, however… …
“Spider-man Reviews Crayons” is hilarious. Definitely worth a read of the whole thing… X-Entertainment – Spider-Man Reviews Crayons! Part 1 of 3. Basically, Spiderman has signed up to a deal to review a full set of Crayola crayons. The pictures are absolutely superb… I don’t know how they managed to get a plastic Spiderman figure …
I had the good fortune to visit a South Indian restaurant called Kerala, near Oxford Circus, last night. Located in an unlikely place for an original restaurant it was a real surprise. I’m a big curry fan, and Kerala is certainly a treat. The menu is nothing like the majority of Indian restaurants (read ‘Curry …
Okay, I’ve been playing far too much Medieval Total War lately. It’s only my first campaign and I started playing as the Italians mainly because: It didn’t seem too hard, or too easy Being English seemed to easy, and too obvious I had delusions of being able to start my own in-game renaissance So, having …
My business partner, Darren, was in the midst of some hard-core Unix techiness in the office yesterday (trying to get our two adsl connections to work with the network) and I had to take this photo
Okay, I’ve been playing far too much Medieval Total War lately. It’s only my first campaign and I started playing as the Italians mainly because: It didn’t seem too hard, or too easy Being English seemed to easy, and too obvious I had delusions of being able to start my own in-game renaissance So, having …
As part of a stag do yesterday I had a go at paintballing at Effingham in Surry. There’s a £5 deposit which gets you equipment and a very small number of paintballs and then you have to buy extra ammunition at £6 per 100 pellets. The place seems very well organised when you arrive, but …
I’ve found that the adventure game I wrote for the ZX Spectrum when I was 17 got a pretty good review in Your Sinclair. I never noticed at the time as I went off to University (and there certainly weren’t a flood of royalties – it was the end of the Spectrum heyday). The game …
I went to see “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at the Gielgud Theatre, with Christian Slater as McMurphy, the other night. It was extremely good. The whole cast were excellent, the actress playing Nurse Ratchet being the best of all; certainly topping Christian Slater, who was still very convincing. Having seen the film version …
Microsoft have recently launched a new programmed for Independent Software Vendors. Basically, as long as you’re commited to developing a saleable Microsoft product over the next two years then you get an excellent deal on an MSDN subscription. It’s similar to the Action Pack, so there are licensing restrictions on the software, but still a …