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Month: January, 2008

What Do I Listen To?

In the latest instalment to the continuing series Shit No One Cares About Except Mike, I thought I’d bring you all up to speed on precisely what podcasts I’m listening to. I’m not going to go into a lot of depth here, just a brief description of what the podcast is about and why I [...]

Shameless Plug for My Wife

Rui had been bugging me for quite a while to make her a web site and so over the last break I did my best to hack together something with WordPress that would suffice. The result is now live at rubikus.net. What’s there? Not a whole lot at the moment. Rui’s put up a couple [...]

Heads Up, Hardcore: You Don’t Matter

Wired’s gaming blog, Game|Life, canvassed their predictions for the upcoming year in terms of gaming and the issue of the hardcore gamer, particularly vis-à-vis Nintendo, came up. Whenever this issue is raised I pray someone will say what should be plain for anyone to see. Namely that the hardcore demographic vastly overrates their importance and [...]

Leaving Outlook

Of all the Microsoft Office products it was Outlook I thought I was most attached to. It was the first program I started and the last program I closed. I used it for my email, my calendar and my contacts. It was my friend. And a few days ago I left it. I left it [...]