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More games from MS
jawapro
Tue 27/11/2007 02:09 PM

Ok - I got the rest of my games from Microsoft yesterday. Apparently the first shipment got lost somewhere - so they resent them (minus original packaging).

So I now am the proud owner of Project Gotham Racing 4 - which isnt a bad racing game. I also got a game called Crackdown - which is a bit like a GTA game - but thats not too bad.

The disapointment was the fact that I was originally promised Dead Or Alive 4 - and I ended up with Dead Or Alive Extreme 2.

Now - DoA4 is a fighting game. You control a character on the screen and attempt to bash up the other player before they can knock you uncounsious. Not much to the game - but it can be fun - especially when played multiplayer (I've played it in Harvey Norman on their demo machines).

The annoying part about DoA4 is the anime chicks. I hate anime - so that dosnt appeal to me. There are a lot of... um... rather well endowed anime chicks in the DoA games. But even with so much anime influence, it can still be fun to bash your friends up for a while in the multiplayer mode.

But instead of DoA4, I got DoA:E2.

Now - obviously some people played the DoA games just because of said anime chicks. Because in the Extreme games - that's all there is to it.

You have the chicks from the games (and none of the guys) and you play Beach Volley-ball and jet-ski games and so on.

So unless watching anime chicks in bikinis running around a beach is your cup of tea - the game is rather pointless. And as someone who detests the anime style of drawing/animation - I dont fit that category at all. I've been a member of the Anti-Anime Society for years. Granted, I'm the only member - but that dosnt matter.

I'm sure there will be some people reading this that'll think I'm nuts - and that the chance to watch these ladies play volleyball with their boobs bouncing all over the place would be fantastic. But not I.

I should point out though - that this isnt a criticism against MS. They didnt make the game itself - and the person who emailed me actually thought that it was just the newer version - and therefore a better game. And they said they would look into seeing if they could do something about it (swap or something). Dont know what will come of that yet.

Sadly I'm not sure if EB will take a trade-in without the original packaging... Shame, there are a couple of interesting games out of the Xbox now.

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Halo 3 Arrives
jawapro
Thu 22/11/2007 06:37 PM

Finally I've received one of the Xbox games that Microsoft promised me.

It's Halo 3. I still havent played Halo 2 yet - so I'd better find a copy of that somewhere to work out the story that's taken place between the first game and this one.

MS thought the other games had already been sent - so they are chasing them up at the moment to work out where they've gotten to.

And in other news - my Mo still isnt very impressive, and the month of Movember is running out. I'm probably in the running for the Lame-Mo award at work.

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The Legendary Klutz Returns
jawapro
Mon 19/11/2007 01:44 PM

Good news from Mount Isa!

My cousin (and one of my best friends), the Legendary Klutz, plans to return to Tasmania.

He's spent the last year in Mount Isa in northern outback Queensland, practicing his sword-craft, slaying dragons, saving money, rescuing rabbits, and drinking rum. And now, after his year of preperation, he is comming back to Tassie.

Well - ok, so I made that list up. But he's definatly been doing at least 2 of those things, maybe three.

Klutz rang me up last night to let me know he'd finally gotten into the uni website (Utas has been having problems) and he has an offer to attend Utas (University of Tasmania). Not that I had any doubts he'd get in. The School of Computing is pretty desperate for people. And that isnt meant to be an insult either.

But what makes it more exciting for me - is that, depending on how things unfold, I might be acting as his co-pilot for the trip to Tassie.

If that happens, I'll be flying to Mount Isa, and driving back with Klutz over about a week.

But that all depends on his parents, my ability to get holidays, and a number of other things. But it's still something to aim for.

And even if I dont go up north, at least Klutz will be comming down here, which will be good as far as I'm concerned. Someone to test out my Air Hockey table with!

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The non-existent Mr Dent.
jawapro
Thu 15/11/2007 12:41 PM

At work we recently disposed of a number of old computers. Some we sent to an e-waste specialist to dispose of (they had faulty heat-sinks) but a few of the better ones we sold to employees.

We sent an email out to offer people the computers, and we got a lot of responses. We had two sorts of computers, older ones for $50, and not-quite-so-old ones for $80. We only had a handful of $80 ones, but we had over 30 people ask for one.

So we ended up drawing names from a hat.

My boss (Clinton) had basically put me in charge of the sale process, so I’d recorded most of the names – but one or two had contacted Clinton directly, and he’d recorded the names.

And one of them won a computer (or more accurately, the chance to buy a computer).

His name was Mr Dent.

Which of course reminded me of Arthur Dent from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (see photo).

Our Mr Dent doesn’t hold a position where he can be contacted directly, so we sent an email to his superior and asked him to pass it on. And yes, I’m not saying his job, just in case it’s a break of privacy (same with his first name).

Anyway, we sent the email to Mr Dent’s boss, and waited for him to collect the computer.

That was a few weeks ago.

All the other computers were collected, but this one is still sitting on Andrew’s desk. He’s been on leave, but is about to come back, and will probably want to use his desk again.

So we decided to chase Mr Dent up and see where he was.

But a trip to the crewing office didn’t help things. They didn’t even have a Mr Dent on their records at all.

Turns out Mr Dent doesn’t exist.

So I had to then get Clinton to call someone else who’d originally introduced him to Mr Dent and ask what his name really was.

Apparently Clinton’s handwriting is like mine, and barely readable. The correct name was Mr. Dart.

So with the correct name, I was able to track him down. He won’t be able to collect the PC for a while yet – so we’ll have to move it somewhere else in the meantime. Although, I’m tempted to replace Andrews new PC with this old one, and see what he says.

So that's the tale of the non-existent Mr Dent.

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No-one mention the power!
jawapro
Wed 14/11/2007 03:57 PM

At work, Clinton (my boss) has been collecting details about various pieces of equipment around the place. Network gear, patch records, etc.

This morning we were talking about the UPS (battery backup) and the generator that starts automatically when the power goes out.

I mentioned how much more reliable the power is in Devonport than it was back in Exeter (where we’d have power flickers quite regularly).

Tim told me not to say that, because I’d put a jinx on it and we’d lose power today.

Well, at lunch I went over the river and finally bought a battery for my personal UPS (which is going to be part of my server mod) and priced some new batteries for a spare work UPS.

I came back, and found Clinton taking photos of equipment in the computer room, and went to tell him about the prices for the UPS I’d gotten in town.

As we were talking, Clinton was looking at a set of fuses in a cabinet on the wall – and had just shut the door of the cabinet when….

The power went out….

Immediately I though we’d done something to the fuses – but people appeared from all over asking what we’d done – which meant the problem was more wide-spread than the fuses we were looking at.

Tim appeared and said “I knew it – you shouldn’t have mentioned the power”.

And after a quick check, we discovered that power was out for all of Devonport and some of the surrounding towns.

How much coincidence can you get?

At least it was a good test of the server room UPS and the generator backup – which worked flawlessly. The only problem was a couple of important modems that weren’t on the UPS, but we quickly fixed that problem, and waited for the power to come back on – which it did after a while.

So just remember – no one mention the power….

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