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  • HP Lovecraft 120 years old today

    HP Lovecraft 120 years old today

    H.P. Lovecraft was born 120 years ago today and to celebrate I purchased 3 volumes of his works I read some of his stuff years ago (and I mean years ago!), but I decided I wanted to read it again. I’m reading Pet Semetary by...

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  • Tron Legacy & Playing a Tron-like RPG

    Tron Legacy & Playing a Tron-like RPG

    It’s weird, I’ve recently been thinking of running something other than 3.5 D&D and have been picking up some of the d20 Modern books. One of the ideas I’ve been toying with is running a Tron-like game, where everything occurs inside a computer. So I’ve...

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  • Me, Myself and I (2010)

    Me, Myself and I (2010)

    Last year (2009) wasn’t a good one. My sister-in-law, Sally, was murdered (stabbed in the neck by a total stranger who was angry with the world) and my dad nearly died (he had a heart op, during which his heart actually stopped 3 times). There...

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  • Toy Story 3

    Toy Story 3

    I went to see Toy Story 3D with my son today. It’s pretty much everything you’d expect from a Toy Story film, so if you’re not into the franchise, then you won’t like this either. If you are, then it’s pretty much what you’d expect....

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  • Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas!

    Well, the title says it all really. I hope everyone has a good Christmas and New Year and I hope 2010 will be a good one. 2009 has not been a kind year to me and my family – in fact, it has to go...

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  • Windows 7

    Windows 7

    Windows 7 is out. I pre-purchased quite some time ago, so picked it up pretty cheap. I’m still running XP at the moment on my PC and don’t see any great reason to change it. Vista was known to have problems with driver backwards compatibility...

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