That’s me that is!

December 15, 2005 | Links, General

They didn’t have my brand of glasses but otherwise this is a pretty much how I look. I don’t know if anyone’s noticed but I added a photo of me to the about page as well.

You can get your own photo here - [via]

Chuck Norris - the facts

December 13, 2005 | Links

Chuck Norris - the facts.

Choice excerpts -

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
Chuck Norris defines love as the reluctance to murder. If you’re still alive, it’s because Chuck Norris loves you.
There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris.
There is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live.

Someone in the comments points a blog post he she made where he she links too some random facts about Chuck Norris

Regulus 2.0

December 11, 2005 | Regulus

Regulus has been far more popular than I ever imagined it would be. So popular, in fact, that I have already created version 2.0

Changes

Version 2.0 has been created specifically for Wordpress version 2.0 (hence the name change) and features a number of new features. From the outside it looks the same, with the exception of the 4 new header images and the extra colour scheme, but underneath it uses the new theme system built directly into wordpress 2.0

• rebuilt admin panel from scratch for wordpress 2.0
• fixed list item colour in content
• fixed get_sidebar not called twice on page.php any more
• fixed search function
• fixed errors with certain plugins that messed up the about box content
• fixed message label repeating css bug in IE
• added reset button to admin panel (for easy uninstall)
• added screenshot (used in wp2.0 only)
• added some fancy little javascript doobries to let you preview style options in the admin panel itself
• added white colour …

The Ultimate Man Cave Couch

December 8, 2005 | Links

Like your creature comforts? Always fancied a Lazy Boy armchair? Got $30000 burning a hole in your pocket? Why not get the Ultimate Man Cave Couch

Ok - I’m not actually sure if it’s for sale or not, but Dominos (the pizza dudes) are claiming that’s how much it’s worth.

Don’t worry though, you get plenty for your money!

• Two flat panel screen televisions
• DVD player
• Mini refrigerator
• Xbox with three controllers
• Electric Red MP3 player
• XM Radio with one year of free service
• NEXTEL cellular phone and a NASCAR headset
• Two Domino’s Pizza Heat Wave hot bags to keep your pizzas warm
• Coca-Cola beverage cooler
• Remote control caddy
• Bottle opener

The best thing though, you can actually win it. You have to pay $5000 shipping, and it’s probably only for US people but still, you’d never have to leave the house again.

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Acclaim offers publishing rights to their back catalogue

December 6, 2005 | Video Games

Since Acclaim have now officially been announced bankrupt there is a bankruptcy auction to sell off all of the publishing rights to their games.

I’m not sure what the publishing rights entails, or how much money there is in them, but they all seem to be going pretty cheaply and there are a few cool games in there (Extreme G, Burnout, Smash TV)

King Kong - Woahh

December 4, 2005 | Video Games

This weekend, I bought, played, and completed the new King Kong videogame.

It rocked!

As with all Ubisoft games it’s visually stunning - I went for the GameCube version and it has to be one of the prettiest games on the console. The water and fire effects in particular are very cool.

In gameplay terms it doesn’t disappoint either. The game is primarily played through the eyes of Jack Driscol, with the occasional Kong based encounter. The gameplay mechanics are very simple, there is a small selection of weapons, and a limited amount of interactivity within the environment, but these have been combined in clever ways. Broken down the game is basically kill the dinosaurs and find the key to open the door, but it’s done in a way that rarely frustrates. Ammunition is hard to come by and you can only carry a single gun at a time, but there …