Category Archives: General

Everything in one big rolling beauty, was gonna be an option to put posts on the homepage, but naything not in quirks ahould go on to the home page anyway

Microsoft 5000 bluetooth mouse on a macbook sometimes fails to pair after update

This is just a quick post on how some folks have made their microsoft 5000 mouse pair with their macbooks again after updates 10.6.6 -8 or at all, i just bought one and where it worked on the bootcamp windows … Continue reading

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Minecraft whats coming up, notch recaps whats been leaked so far

We know that notch has got a lot on his plate at the moment, the fellas getting married in August, he was cake tasting earlier and met a fan according to his tweet, but in his latest blog post over … Continue reading

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Happy 15th Birthday NiGHTS into Dreams

Hurrah, 3 cheers for NiGHTS, the original Sega Saturn NiGHTS that is, it was 15 years ago today that the inovative flying platformer by Sonic Team was released over in Japan. Lead by Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic the … Continue reading

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Steam daily sales are goooood, magicka, super meat boy and half life and valve sets on the cheap

The steam summer sale is now on hehe. Those of you with a steam account will no doubt know there’s a good deal to be had most days, but today is a particualrly good day, there’s a valve pack of … Continue reading

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Toot toot, Sonic worrier!

‘I take one step forward, I take two steps back.’ So go the lyrics derived from the wisdom of countless ages that will transcend the generations and that great theologians will muse contemplatively over for years to come (Paula Abdul, … Continue reading

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Fixing html 5 validation errors on a self hosted wordpress blog

So it was bout a month ago when suddenly the validator at http://validator.w3.org/ decided that it was going to be picky about the values in the “rel” attribute. Although i fixed this for grigorig back then i didn’t have time … Continue reading

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A re-Volt-ing SF4 cash-in?

Hey, did you hear about the new Street Fighter 4 that just came out? Oh, you did huh? Well hold your horses my dear Griggers, for I speaketh not of the disc release of SSFIV Arcade Edition that’s just hit … Continue reading

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Minecraft beta 1.7_01 is out with pistons and sheers

So the adventure update is a little way off yet, put back to 1.8. but there’s still a few good introductions to 1.7. Pistons for one, though there is a piston mod out there, it is now part of the … Continue reading

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Xbox 360 and/or PS3 sucks! Come to us fanboys!

Two programming boffins have reportedly broken through Sony’s veil of falsified good graphics as the XBox 360 and PC square up to the PS3 while declaring ‘Anything you can do, we can do better!’ The team of two have enabled … Continue reading

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Old is New, and some of the New is just a guess

Ok, so we’ve got some old classics being re done for the xbla psn scene, two of which are saturn titles that are valueble on the bay, like Guardian Heroes and the japanese only release radient silvergun. There was also … Continue reading

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