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Archive for May, 2007
Settlers of Catan
In: games
31 May 2007I’ve been playing quite a bit of Settlers of Catan on the Xbox 360 recently. It is a great board game brought onto Xbox Arcade, which as far as I can tell keeps all the board game elements, and then provides you with either decent opponents or the ability to play online. I picked it [...]
On Monday I set out to try and track down a Nintendo Wii. I’ve been pondering it for a while, and having just been paid this weekend, I felt the urge to own one overwhelm me. Could I find one? Not for lack of trying. I hit every possible store in town, to no avail. [...]
links for 2007-05-29
In: diary
29 May 2007Atari – Best Electronics Home
Atari Traders since 1984, Still the best place to find spares and oddities.
(tags: atari retro hardware store)
Yet another long weekend to come
In: diary
25 May 2007Bank Holidays rock. 3 days off to relax, achieve little, and think of what I could be doing were I bothered. Great.
Hopefully we’ll get a wander down by the river in sunshine tomorrow. Weather is supposed to last for us until then. We also have the return of Mrsfb’s brother from the states, our recon [...]
Well, I’ve just been tagged by Emily who writes one of my favourite blogs, Doing it all again. So this means I have to give you all 8 random facts about me:
I’m a distant relation of the godfather of English Football, Sir Stanley Matthews
I have a fascination with the diabolo, and intend that this summer [...]
More like it.
In: diary
16 May 2007Well it seems the weather gods do read my blog, lovely day outside at the moment. It may get wet later, but it’s been nice thus far. I got slightly drenched on the way home last night, despite having a brolly and “the way home” being a two minute walk from the bus stop. Mrsfb [...]
Rubbish weather, where is my global warming now?
In: diary
15 May 2007All cold and wet outside, this is no fun at all. A few weeks ago it seemed like we were in for the longest and hottest of all summers, now those thoughts are relegated to thoughts of should I have waterproofs or an umbrella in my bag (it has been so grotty I’ve gone for [...]
Back once again
In: diary
10 May 2007Good rest, not achieved too much in the past few days, caught up on a few things like reading a Valentino Rossi autobiography, just generally took it all very easy. Had my Xbox 360 break (booooooo) which I’m not happy about, and got a new phone (a Nokia 6300) which I am rather happy about, [...]
links for 2007-05-03
In: diary
3 May 2007Base64 Online – base64 decode and encode
Will convert an image into a Base64 string, useful for building Firefox search plugins
(tags: base64 tools encoder decoder web development online firefox programming search developer dev coding code generator 64)
Happy Thurfriday to me
In: diary
3 May 2007My last day in work for six whole days today. Can’t wait for a nice little break. We have a few plans, hoping to try going to a couple of different places, and possibly take the odd photograph or two. Nothing too extravegant or massive, just lots of nice little things hopefully. We’re thinking of [...]
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