Christmas list, but by magic

Apparently, I always wanted all this for Christmas.

You can try it too, and maybe post your list in the comments. Similar lists, strangely way out stuff, or maybe things you already have?

The Wi-Fi Bunny, I really DO want, as it's probably the most tech-but-useless thing I know of. However, the cutlery, er.. not so much.

Oh no, it's that time again soon!
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Broken screen

Not a pretty sight, and no it's not mine, but this is what you get without the magsafe power supply. A probably slow motion, drama filled nanosecond of disbelief. You can't help just staring as your HED* crashes down onto the ground (after hitting six other things along the way). Keyboard keys zooming out like little escape pods from a space ship, and the whole thing coming to rest in a room filled with awkward silence, moments away from figuring out just if you can be annoyed or not.


Sorry about the quality of the picture, but it had to be gotten fast, so it could be remembered for ever.

A moment of silence please

*Highly Electronic Device

Vongo and HP, one annoying combination

Thanks goes out to the dingleberry that made the Vongo installer that HP have decided to put on their new laptops. Not only have you made a usually flawless sort out of junk, (uninstalling all the useless crap that people who don't know how to use a computer would be even more frustrated with) a real pain. The endless looping and failing of the installer makes the computer unusable until it's removed! WAY TO GO! WOOHOO!




This is your brain on Vongo installers

PS3 tryout at Target

Managed to get a go on a PS3 today, at a Target store. There was a demo disk in, with a few games on. I tried the off road racing game, MotorStorm, which you may have seen in the promotional footage for the PS3.

The front end of the PS3 was simple black, with the same menu style as a PSP. I moved the D-PAD around to get to the demo on the machine, and pressed X. The load times seemed a little long, but perhaps it was because there was simply nothing to see on the screen during loading.

The game itself looked great. Everything seemed a little slow, but not in the sense of lacking frame rate. Just an overall sense of slow. The cars bounced around, along what seemed to be a clifftop course, and zinged off into the sky over ramps.

The controller looked just like a standard PS2 one, with an extra shiny button in the center. It did feel a LOT more substantial than previous controllers.

The game was good, although I didn't see anything as yet, which stood out from my Xbox 360 experiences. Sony will have to go some to convince me to get one of their machines too, and I am someone that needs very little persuation on such matters.



My crappy camera phone image of the PS3, all alone in the case