150 years of wisdom

Working on this photograph gave me an oppurtunity to reflect on the remarkably full life that my grandmother has lead. She married my grandfather aged 18 and was a mother before she turned 21. She suffered the heartbreak of watching a daughter die, but has seen the birth and marriage …

Where Have I Been?

I have been on a serious photography trip recently, and the blog has suffered for that. Having seen the efforts of some truly magnificent photographers, I have been motivated to try my hand at it as well. Here are some of my more recent attempts that I judge relatively worthy.. …

links for 2006-08-03

workFRIENDLY – BETA THis is pretty cool – aproxy that reformats sites to look like a word document. Now if they would launch a version that does Excel I’d be set 🙂 (tags: lifehacks productivity internet software proxies) Newsvine – Stephen Colbert Causes Chaos on Wikipedia, Gets Blocked from Site …

links for 2006-07-20

Looking back at Hotwired, by Jeffrey Veen The sad devolution of one of the earliest tech news portals (tags: design history business dead-pool) i knows me some ugly myspace :: voting page If you never knew why people call myspace ugly, this is the page you want to visit. I’m …

I’m not dead (but it was close)

So almost unbelievably, I’m posting again, after a gap of (checks the site) 6 weeks :O. What happened? Ok, in chronological sequence: 1. Oblivion – TES IV sucked almost 3 weeks of my life. Mostly in figuring out how to get it to play on my laptop (Many thanks to asp …

Found my MP3 Player!!!

I had bought myself a Creative Zen MP3 Player in September last year. But heartbreakingly for me, in December last year, after a trip to a shopping mall, I couldn’t find the player in my backpack and despite frantic searching and calls to the mall security, nothing was found. I have …

PC aficionado!

Well since I’ve finally begun adding to my game collection again, I’ve crossed the 50 game mark – woo hoo! 😀 And that means I now qualify as PC aficionado as per Gamespot :D.. check it out: I totally rule 😛

Lottery Winning Scam Letter

This morning when I went to check my mail, I found a letter postmarked Granada. My first thought “I don’t know anybody in Spain, WTF am I getting a letter from there? Is it one of those scam things?” Come back home – open up the letter and guess what? …

Inane Game Review

Unfortunately I can’t provide a link for this post, since this is a review that appeared in a newspaper. A local newspaper called “Today” published a review of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion yesterday and I think it easily qualifies as the dumbest review of a RPG ever written. It started off …