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Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks your mailbox

Put away your photo edited Hoff pics and make way for the latest internet retro-celebrity glorification. It’s Chuck Norris and he’s roundhouse kicking his way into mailboxes across the world! For those outside the loop (or who don’t receive a lot of mail) there are lists going around of Chuck Norris “facts” describing the most outrageous things about Chuck Norris mainly focusing on his killing ability. Examples include “The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain” and “Chuck Norris counted to infinity...

It's All Thier Fault

Have a look at this article “ It’s All Their Fault ” from The Escapist (Thanks Miktar for the link) and enjoy. Even if you’re not a game developer you’ll appreciate the extreme views in this “customer/supplier” rant. I wish this article was true because I feel I could handle the flak of producing bad games while driving around in a fast car with a faster woman, my nose powdered by Peruvian Marching Dust. Anyways, back to my slog. I owe everyone an update of Elevator Action but at the moment it’s...

Get your comics on an RSS Feed

Do yourself a favour and lighten up your day by reading your favourite comics through your RSS Reader. Go to Tapestry Comics and get the links to official and unauthorized feeds (unauthorized meaning someone’s managing a feed where each post contains the image url to the official website) for a host of online comics like yester-year’s Peanuts to the illicitly funny Sexy Losers I can recommend: Alien loves Predator , Ctrl + Alt + Delete , Dilbet , Peanuts , Sexy Losers and Sinfest . Leave a comment...

Monkey Island Movie

Ah, but to wish that this was true; unfortunately it’s just part of a collection of “games to movie” photo manipulated posters from Something Awful . While Gabbahead (thanks for the link btw) thinks the movie would suck (based on the normal mess ups the movie industry makes of books and other stories this would be true), but with a good cast and a crew story writers who’ve actually played and finished the game, I don’t think it could be that bad. I’m still waiting for someone to produce Sierra’s...

South Korea: A step towards a digital lifestyle

So in South Korea the justice system is taking a step towards engaging in people’s digital lifestyle by notifying its citizens of legal notices, fines and penalties via text messages. You can read about it in this news article from IOL . While the thought of receiving any legal notice (because they’re never good news) electronically doesn’t cause me to jump with glee, I am happy to see social services and governments move towards the new medium of engaging with people as it definitely makes everyone...

Gmail Mobile now available

Again and again, Google just keeps getting better. This time it’s Gmail Mobile which works absolutely brilliantly on my i-mate JAM. To get to the mobile version of Gmail, use http://m.gmail.com Google already provides its search pages in mobile form if you need to look up something while away from your computer (I’ve already used it while trying to convince the barman what goes into a Flaming Lamborghini); and Gmail was the next much needed step. I wonder when we’ll see other great sites provide...

Forum post makes the news

Wow! I can’t believe how an article can go from forum to email distribution and then to a newspaper; and what’s more, the instigator is none other than an old SA Developer Lead, Stuart Gunter from Durban! Stuart’s post “ The true cost of Telkom ADSL ” on the myASDL forum points out how it’s cheaper to fly to Hong Kong to download 100GB than to use Telkom. But now he’s in the news about it! (You can read the article here from IOL ) I have received 3 emails from my various joke contributors with a...

CANSA Shavathon 2005

Just a quick post for you to see Ruari ’s head being shaved and spray painted for the CANSA 2005 Shavathon yesterday at Sandton City. His wife, Coral, and I also went under the shears and his 2 kids got their hair coloured. Despite the scandal around the use of the money, and the road to hell being paved with good intentions; charity is good karma , a lot of fun and Does benefit its intended recipients. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Slurge's Birthday

I completely forgot to mention Slurge ’s birthday party last Friday! Vagabonds might not know how to serve a Flaming Lamborghini but they score 10 points for getting someone drunk! On stage were: Scizzor Wrist, Nil by Mouth and Choking Hazard. None of the bands this time seemed to have websites this time *frown* but check out you can check out Scizzor Wrist at Roxy’s on the 16th November 2005. So until next! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Google Print

Google Print has been launched and it’s pretty cool! I typed in Bildo as a search and got 5910 pages with the word. Some of the pages require that you sign-in with your Google Account but most seem to be freely viewable. Read more about that they're up to on IOL Anyways, happy hunting! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Be Happy or you're fired!

This is just dumb! Nutzwerk , an IT company in Leipzig, Germany, has implemented a good mood policy as part of their employee’s contracts. It is a fireable offence to be in a bad mood, be grumpy, moan or complain. This draconian enforcement is a scary sign because it probably means they’ve already gone down the route of team building sessions, desk re-arranging, employee-of-the-month awards and team restructuring. And if those “management pleasing” mumbo jumbo methods didn’t work their problems run...

The game development industry and Bollywood

When I talk to some people about my ideas for growing the game development industry they try to drown me in reasons why I won’t succeed. These people will never achieve anything worthwhile in their lives with that defeatist attitude; and while their advice is welcome, their cynicism is ignored. But one comment stuck, and the fact that an evident alternative was available didn’t hit anyone. It was said that the game development industry is like the movie industry; besides needing lots of money to...

"Chopping off a man's fireman is NOT cool!" - Eric Cartman

You know, society can really find some fucked up things to get excited about! The latest in South African parliament is the proposal to ban male circumcision . Now I’m not going to get into the fight about whether we should, shouldn’t or need to have circumcision; nor am I going to go into the “sexual abuse” that these people are claiming that parents inflict on their 8-day old sons which leaves emotional scares all through the child’s life. I don’t even want to...

Microsoft's Halo to be turned into a movie

Now I’ve seen the trailer for DOOM Movie starring The Rock, but have you seen the news that Peter Jackson is Executive Producing Halo! I don’t think the concept of basing a movie on a game is exactly new, but focusing on First Person Shooters, especially a game with a minimalist storyline like Doom must be a challenge; although they’re going to score 10/10 for action and explosions. Personally, I’d like them to make a movie on the adventures Roger Wilco from Sierra’s...

I'm back, baby!

Yes, it’s been exactly a month since I last posted, and I’m sticking with the excuse that my old job tried to get every last drop of ability out of me before I left. I spent most of my time at customers without internet connectivity. A lot has happened in the last month; from learning “Beer Good, Fire Bad” playing fire poi with my friend Peter (you can see he’s much better at it than me) to Microsoft sponsoring me to run an SA Developer event in PE , which rocked. There...
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